READERS

 

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (video)

http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/elt/general_content/global/illuminating_shakespeare/William_Shakespeare.mp4

William Shakespeare’s web quest

Shakespeare's Life

Answer the questions after reading the following web pages.


1. How much do we know about Shakespeare's life? Why?

2. Where was Shakespeare born?

3. What date was he born on?

4. Did Shakespeare ever get married? If so, to whom?

5. How many children did they have?

6. What did he leave his wife in his will?

7. Shakespeare established himself as an ____________ and _________________

8. What day did he die? What is unusual about this date?

9. Why is the World Book Day celebrated on April 23rd -except for the UK and Ireland?


Elizabethan Period Click here
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-period.htm to answer these questions

10. What was the Elizabethan Period?

11. When was this period?

12. What was the most significant invention of this time and why?

13. What did this lead to a renewed interest in?

14. During this period, what were unexplained events blamed on?

15. Why were people of this period superstitious?

16. What were the four humours and what were they associated with? http://classweb.gmu.edu/rnanian/humours.html



Click here
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm to answer this question

17. How was Elizabethan class structure maintained?

18. What was the Chain of Being and what did it uphold? Click here  
http://schoolworkhelper.net/2010/08/the-chain-of-being-shakespeare/                   

19. What is the Rotae Fortuna?    Click
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1535026
                                                  

Education Click here  http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/boys.html 

20. What did education depend on?

21. What was the main purpose of schooling?

22. Why were students taught Latin?                            

23. What were girls from wealthy families educated in? Click here
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/girls.html 


Elizabethan Theatre Click here to answer these questions.

24. What was the general feeling towards plays during this period in time?

25. What was the name of the first theatre?

26. What was the name of them most famous theatre?

27. What happened to this theatre?

28. Where did people sit or not sit?

29. When did they have performances? Why?

30. How many women performed in these plays?

31. what did the audience do if they didn't like the performance?


 Shakespeare's Influence Click here http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.html to answer these questions

32. What does Shakespeare's work provide reference for?

33. What were Shakespeare's histories a tribute to?

34. What was Shakespeare attempting to do with these tributes?

 

Click here to answer these questions.

35. How many words did Shakespeare invent?

36. Give an example of a word or phrase we have gotten from Shakespeare.

37. Name one poet who was influenced by Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's works

38. Name three of Shakespeare's comedies.

39. Name three of Shakespeare's tragedies.

40. Name three of Shakespeare's histories.



http://www.mundofree.com/seronoser/tausiet/shakespeare/shakespeare.htm


 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare (B2.1) Vicens Vives. Black Cat.

Activities:

Part One: Love and the law

 page 17. Exercises:1,2

Part Two: Acting for the Duke

 page 24. Exercises:1,2,3

 Part Three: The fairy kingdom

  page 37. Exercises:1,2,3

 Part Four: The donkey and the queen

 page 44. Exercises:1,2,3,4

Part Five: Lovers' quarrels

 page 55. Exercises:1,2

Part Six: The sevens's wedding day

 page 67. Exercises:1,2 

Part Seven: Pyramus and Thisbe

 page 75. Exercises:1

 

 

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

 by Emily Brönte. (B2.2). Vicens Vives . Black Cat

Activities:

chapter 1

page 20 , exercises: 1,2,3,4,5

chapter 2

page 29, exercises: 1,2, 3,4,5,6,9

chapter 3

page 38, exercises:1,2,4,5,6

chapter 4

page 46, exercises: 1,2,,3,4,5

chapter 5

page 57, exercises: 1,2,3,5, 6

chapter 6

page 69, exercises: 1,2,3,4,5,6

chapter 7

page 85, exercises: 1,2,3,5,6

chapter 8

page 97, exercises: 1,2,3,4,5,6

chapter 9

page 107, exercises: 1,2,3,4a

chapter 10

page 118, exercises: 1,2,3,5

chapter 11

page 129, exercises: 1,4,6

chapter 12

page 141, exercises: 1,2,4

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