Shakespeare

•How well do you know Shakespeare?•Would you be able to act as a guide in Stratford?•The Globe Theatre•Shakespeare’s plays

How well do you know

Shakespeare?

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare’s birthplace in Henley Street

Ann Hathaway’s cottage

Stratford-upon-Avon

The Holy Trinity Church

Stratford-upon-Avon

Mary Arden’s House

Stratford-upon-Avon

The Royal Shakespeare’s Theatre

Stratford-upon-Avon

The New Place

Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon

The School where Shakespeare used to go

The Statue of Shakespeare

Stratford-upon-Avon

The Globe Theatre

Put the passages in the right

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D It cost one old penny to go in, another penny for a seat, and a third penny for a cushion to sit on. The audience could buy food and drink (beer, water, and fruit)

but there were no intervals, and no toilets in the theatre!

B (London Bridge was the only bridge over the Thames at that time.) Plays started at two o'clock in the afternoon, and a flag flew on top of the theatre when the play was ready to start. The theatre was very popular with both poor people and rich people –

A but it was not very popular with the authorities because the audience was very noisy, and some people went to the theatre instead of working. There was often plague in London, too, and so the authorities closed the theatre if there were more than thirty deaths in one week.

C Shakespeare built the Globe Theatre in London in 1599 on the south side of the River Thames. Most people lived on

the north side of the river and crossed London Bridge to go to the theatre.

Which one is the Globe Theatre?

A?

B?G?

E?

F?

D?

J?

L?

C?

K?

H?

I?

The Globe Theatre

Label the picture of the

theatre1

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Shakespeare’s plays Which ones are comedies? tragedies? historical plays?•Midsummer

Night’s Dream•Hamlet•The Merchant

of Venice•Henry V•Macbeth•Twelfth Night•A Comedy of

Errors

•Romeo and Juliet

•Othello•King Lear•All’s Well That Ends Well

•Henry VIII•Richard III• Julius Caesar

Shakespeare’s plays

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Can you match Shakespeare’s lines

with the updated versions?1 Hail to thee.

2 All the world’s a stage.

3 A horse! A horse? My kingdom for a horse!

4 Wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful!

5 How now, good woman! How dost thou?

6 Leave thy vain bibble-babble.

A Wheels! I’d give anything for some wheels!

B Hi.C Stop talking

rubbish.D Life’s like one

big TV movie.E How ya doin’

honey? What’s up?F Cool, cool, totally

cool!

Which team is the best?1 team 2 team 3 team

Questions about Stratford

Guide in Stratford

Which one is the Globe?

Mixed text

Label the pictures of the theatre

Comedies? Tragedies? Or historical plays?

What are the plays in the pictures?

Match Shakespeare’s lines with updated versions

summary