Death Buy Lemonade
"Lemonade" by Rob.Bertholf is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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Death Buy Lemonade (Mors Limonatā)
Animated Short Film by Kyu-bum Lee
(2:00 minutes)
Vocabula:
Vocabula:
Limonata -ae lemonade
Mors mortis, f. Death
Nummus -i, m. coin
Poculum -i, n. cup
Rēpo rēpere repsi reptum - to creep, to crawl
Taberna -ae f. market stall, stand
Umbra -ae f. Shadow
Scriptum fabulae
Scriptum fabulae
(To be read aloud while watching the video)
Puella in taberna fabulas legit et limonatam vendit.
Puella virum videt qui per agrum trans viam repit.
Ille poculum limonatae cupit, sed illa pocula movet a viro.
Puella tabulam digito indicat: “decem nummi.”
Miser gemit et mortuus est.
Illa virum mortuum spectat et commota est.
In caelum spectat et umbra tabernam tegit.
Mors advenit; circumspectat et miratur ubi corpus sit.
corpus tollit et in tabernam cadit.
Puella limonatam effusam videt et irata est.
Mors discedere paratus est, sed puella vestimentum tenet.
Dum puella tabulam digito indicat, Mors miratur quid cupiat.
Puella numerat “unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque.”
Quinque digitos tollit; Mors illius manum manu sua tangit.
Finis.
Comprehension Check
Comprehension Check
In initio, quid puella facit?
Cur vir trans viam repit?
Quanti nummi limonata sunt?
Cur Mors circumspectat?
Quid puella cupit?
Response to the film
Response to the film
If you were the girl, what would you do in this situation? After you have discussed possible answers in English, write in Latin what you would do.
Mors is a feminine noun in Latin. Yet in American culture, why do you think Death is often portrayed as masculine?
What title would you give this story in Latin? Or write the moral of this story in Latin.
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