Such Tweet Sorrow

This lesson is about a performance of Romeo and Juliet carried out entirely on Twitter, using 140-character messages from the characters in the play. (Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service where the user sends short messages, or tweets, of a maximum 140 characters). The lesson provides students with the opportunity to read a short newspaper-style text, focus on vocabulary and to write ‘conversations’ between the main characters using tweets (short messages).