Holy Grail: act out the scene!

Choose a role, learn your lines, invent your insults… and film the scene.

Final task: in groups of four, act out the scene and film it in one shot. Keep the story, but replace the soldier's insults with your own (at least five, see the insult maker): silly and creative, never vulgar. Patsy's coconuts are welcome! Check the assessment grid before you start.

Watch the actors: the voices, the accent, the faces, the gestures.

Learn your lines

Choose your role: your lines turn orange. Then click Hide my lines and say them from memory (hover over a line to check).

King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, with their servants, “ride” up to a castle. Arthur's servant, Patsy, bangs two coconuts together.

ArthurHello!

A guard appears at the top of the castle wall. He speaks with an outrageous French accent.

Soldier'Allo! Who is it?
ArthurIt is I, King Arthur, and these are my knights of the Round Table. Whose castle is this?
SoldierThis is the castle of my master, Guy de Lombard.
ArthurGo and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail.
SoldierWell, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. He's already got one, you see.
ArthurWhat?
GalahadHe says they've already got one!
ArthurAre you sure he's got one?
SoldierOh yes, it's very nice. (to the other soldiers) I told him we've already got one!
ArthurWell… um… can we come up and have a look?
SoldierOf course not! You are English types!
ArthurWell, what are you, then?
SoldierI'm French! Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?
GalahadWhat are you doing in England?
SoldierMind your own business!
ArthurIf you will not show us the Grail, we shall take your castle by force!
SoldierYou don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nig-hts!
GalahadWhat a strange person!
ArthurNow look here, my good man!
SoldierI don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food-trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
GalahadIs there someone else up there we could talk to?
SoldierNo. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
ArthurNow, this is your last chance. I've been more than reasonable…
Soldier(to the other soldiers) Fetchez la vache!
Other soldierQuoi?
SoldierFetchez la vache!

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