1. Who is the author of the play? - William Shakespeare 2. Which famous play is this scene from? - “Hamlet” 3. Which type of play is it? 4. What is the play about? - A tragedy - About revenge, deception and fate! 5. What do you know about this author? - William Shakespeare is an English playwright and poet! Let’s have a virtual journey to get to know something else about William Shakespeare! 1
English lesson, form 9, Module 5 Lobanova Elena Alexandrovna, English teacher of Secondary school № 15, Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Region
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“A Lear”, 2004 “Hamlet”, 1996 “Merchant of Venice”, 2008 “King. Midsummer William Shakespeare wrote “Othello”, “Twelfth night”, 1956 Ballet “Romeo and Juliet” Night’s Dream”, 36 plays. 1955 1995 They were translated in many languages. All of them are still studied, performed and even made into films all over the world! Film “Romeo and Juliet”, of the Shrew ”, 1967 “The Taming 1968 5
William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of plays: - comedies, - tragedies, - histories! Shakespeare also wrote many love sonnets – poems with a fixed pattern of lines, syllables and rhymes 6
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Question 1. When and where was William Shakespeare born? In 1558, London In 1561, Swansea In 1564, Stratford-on-Avon Next 8
Question 2. What monarch reigned in Shakespeare’s time? Henry VIII Elizabeth I Charles II Next 9
Question 3. Which theatre did William Shakespeare act in? La Scala Covent Garden Globe Theatre Next 10
Question 4. Which play is not a comedy? The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet Next 11
Question 5. When and where did William Shakespeare die? 1616, Stratford-on-Avon 1613, London 1614, Southampton Epilogue 12
Sonnet 54 О! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. Перевод Самуила Маршака Прекрасное прекрасней во сто крат, Увенчанное правдой драгоценной. Мы в нежных розах ценим аромат, В их пурпуре живущий сокровенно. 13