A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 2 scene 2

1. Group Activity: Discuss in your groups what happened in this scene that you have just read. Decide what order these events happened in. Write the number of the order in the box next to the phrase. Use the summaries in the text to help you decide on the correct order.

What has happened? Right Order

Titania gets her fairies to sing her a lullaby 1

Puck uses the love juice on Lysander

Helena wakes Lysander

Oberon squeezes the love juice on Titania’s eyes.

Hermia and Lysander decide to sleep in the forest

Lysander follows Helena

Puck thinks that Lysander is Demetrius

Helena is running after Demetrius

Hermia wakes up after a nightmare about her heart beingeaten by a snake and Lysander not helping her.Lysander falls in love with Helena

Hermia is worried about where Lysander is, so she goes to look for him.

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2. Pair Activity: True or False . Look at the sentences below and decide if they are true or false and how you know this.

Sentence True or False

How do you know this?

Oberon hopes Titania will fall in love with a monster (p. 79)

True He wants her to “wake when some vile thing is near”.

Puck finds Demetrius and uses the love juice on him. (p. 81)Lysander falls in love with Helena. (p. 83)

Helena enjoys the attention from Lysander (p. 85)

Lysander doesn’t want to leave Hermia alone. (p. 85)Hermia worries about where Lysander has gone and thinks he might be dead. (p. 87)3. Pair Activity: Who said this? Match the right words to the right character. Use the page numbers for guidance if you need them.

PUCK

OBERON

LYSANDE

HELENA

1. What thou seest when thou dost wake,Do it for thy true-love take;(p. 79)

2. One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.(p. 79)

3. When thou wakest, let love forbidSleep his seat on thy eyelid.(p. 83)

4. I am as ugly as a bear.(p. 83)

5. The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.(p. 85)

6. Methought a serpent eat my heart away,And you sat smiling at his cruel

3. Individual Activity: Look over the previous activities and use your knowledge of the action of this scene to answer the following questions in your jotter.

What does Oberon do when Titania is sleeping? Why are Hermia and Lysander in the woods (remember back to

Act 1 scene 1 for the answer)? Who does Puck use the love juice on? Is this the person he was told to use it on? Why does Helena think that Demetrius doesn’t love her? (pay

careful attention to helena’s speech on p. 83) Who falls in love with Helena? What happened in Hermia’s nightmare?

4. Individual Activity : Complete the following activity based on the scene we have just read. Write a diary account for Hermia.

Hermia has just woken up after having a horrible nightmare. Imagine that before she went to look for Lysander, she stopped for a little while to write in her diary. What would she say? What are the main things that have happened to her recently?

o Lysander is gone. And she is alone in the woods.o She has had a nightmare.o Think about how she might be feeling.o Give details about what has happened.o Write about her nightmare and worry about what has happened

to Lysander

1. What thou seest when thou dost wake,Do it for thy true-love take;(p. 79)

2. One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.(p. 79)

3. When thou wakest, let love forbidSleep his seat on thy eyelid.(p. 83)

4. I am as ugly as a bear.(p. 83)

5. The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.(p. 85)

6. Methought a serpent eat my heart away,And you sat smiling at his cruel