Propaganda and Shakespeare’s Richard III

This lesson provides students with information about Shakespeare’s history play Richard III, and raises awareness of how Shakespeare used propaganda to portray King Richard III as an evil tyrant.

Topics: Propaganda in Shakespeare’s time; Richard III

Age and level: Adult (CEF B1–B2)

Time: 75 minutes

Learning outcomes:

  • Develop reading for information skills.
  • Practice inferring the meaning of new vocabulary by its context.
  • Look at how Shakespeare used propaganda in his writing.

Materials:

  • Lesson plan
  • Presentation (This can replace worksheets 1 and 2)
  • Worksheet 1 - Lead in
  • Worksheet 2 - Images
  • Worksheet 3 - Jigsaw reading
Downloads
Lesson Plan219.06 KB
Worksheet 1283.15 KB
Worksheet 2344.92 KB
Worksheet 3218.3 KB

Comments

Submitted by Suzanne_Mordue on Fri, 02/16/2024 - 16:33

The presentation is now available beside the other documents.

Submitted by MaryFrances on Thu, 01/18/2024 - 12:50

Could you please provide the powerpoint that goes with the worksheets? Or is it not accessible anymore?

Thank you in advance.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Fri, 01/19/2024 - 10:54

In reply to by MaryFrances

Thanks for your comment MaryFrances. 

The worksheet contains all of the material that is mentioned as being on the Powerpoint, so you can project the PDF in the same way. We are looking into whether the original Powerpoint is still available.

Thanks,

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Kate Bourne on Wed, 09/07/2022 - 12:57

Hi
Is there any chance the slides can be attached again?
Thanks

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 20:18

In reply to by Kate Bourne

Hi Kate,

I've asked about this to see if they can, will get back to you.

Anne

Submitted by Derek Spafford on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 04:15

Hi Cynthia Its been uploaded now. Best wishes Del

Submitted by CynthiaSparkle on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 16:16

This resource looks great, but I can't seem to find the slides you refer to. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks

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