Shakespeare

This lesson provides students with an introduction to the features of Shakespearean comedy, highlighting the similarities between what contemporary audiences find funny and Shakespeare’s humour.

This lesson encourages an exploration of how the meaning of the word ‘tragedy’ has evolved since Shakespeare’s time. It provides students with an introduction to the features of Shakespearean tragedy, as awareness of these features will enhance students’ appreciation of Shakespeare’s own tragic plays.

Students will have the opportunity to find out more about Shakespeare’s private life and will role-play the main characters of his family in the discussion stage 

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to learn about some of Shakespeare’s best known characters and story lines in contemporary language which is tailored to suit their level. It will also raise students’ awareness of different ways of giving advice in English and provide practice at reading. 

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).