William Shakespeare immortal poet of nature

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The theme: William Shakespeare-immortal poet of nature
The aims:
1. To give introduction about great play writer William Shakespeare’s life and works
2. To develop pupils interesting to extra curriculum works about famous people
Visual aids: slide show, cards, pictures, placards, diagram.
The type of the lesson: literature club.
Teacher: Good morning pupils. The meeting of our club is dedicated to the greatest playwright in the world literature: William Shakespeare. I hope all of you will take active part in it. At first I want you to see this presentation about Shakespeare.
Listen to some facts from William Shakespeare’s biography and the time when he lived and worked.

Pupils 1: The name of William Shakespeare is known all over the world. The last half of the 16-th and 17 - th centuries are known as the Golden Age Renaissance and sometimes are called “The age of Shakespeare”.
Pupil 2: People often call Shakespeare “Our national Bard”, “The Immortal Poet of Nature”. We really known few facts of his life and many of them are doubtful. But some facts are known to us and are proved by documents.
Pupil 3: The first facts of Shakespeare’s biography are that he was born in April 23, 1564 in Stratford - on – Avon. His father was a dealer in corn, meat, wool. William’s mother was a daughter of a rich farmer in the village of Wilmcote.
Pupil 4: We also know that, being 18 years old, William married Anne Hathaway, who was 9 years older5 that himself. They had a daughter Susanna and twins – son Hamlet and daughter Judith.
Pupil 5: It is known that in 1567 Shakespeare went to London, to find a job, where he began writing plays staged at the Globe Theatre. By 1592, he had been an important member of a well – known acting company.
Pupil 6: It’s known that only in 1611, at the height of his fame, Shakespeare returned to Stratford, where in April 23, 1616 he died. He was buried in a fine old church in Stratford.
Teacher: You have mentioned the main facts in Shakespeare’s biography. Now I’d like you to agree or disagree with some facts from William Shakespeare’s life:

1. Shakespeare was born in the 17th century. Is it true?
2. William married late; his life was younger than him.
3. William Shakespeare had three children: daughter Susanna and twin sons.
4. His wife Anne Hathaway loved theatre very much.
5. William got a good education in London.
6. Shakespeare never acted on stage.
7. Shakespeare died in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
8. Shakespeare wrote 47plays, 154sonnets, 2 poems.

Teacher: Thank you for your answers. I see that you known Shakespeare’s life rather well. As you know in London Shakespeare became an actor of the Globe Theatre and began to write plays for it. He wrote tragedies, comedies and historical plays. I’m sure that you know them well. So your next activity is to divide his plays into tragedies and comedies.(каждая группа получает по 14 карточек, в которых написаны названия пьес, все карточки перемешаны).
Comedies:
1. “The Comedy of Errors”
2. “The Taming of the Shrew”
3. “All’s Well That Ends Well”
4. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
5. “Much Ado about Nothing”
6. “Twelfth Night”
7. “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Tragedies:
1. “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
2. “Othello”
3. “King Lear”
4. “Macbeth”
5. “Romeo an Juliet”
6. “Julius Caesar”
7. “Antony and Cleopatra”

Teacher: Listen to this account from one of Shakespeare’s plays and tell us what play it is from. “What mostly troubled the young prince was uncertainly about his father’s death. Claudius told everybody that snake had bitten the king. The young prince, however, suspected that Claudius himself had killed the king.(“Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”)
Teacher: What was the name of young prince? You are right. His name was Hamlet. Now listen to an extract from this famous play.
Pupil: To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The sling and arrows of outrageous fortune:
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep,
No more, and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart – ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh in hear to; ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep-
To sleep, perchance to dream…

Быть или не быть – вот в чем вопрос,
Что благородный: думам покоряться,
Пращам и стрелам яростной судьбы,
Иль, ополчась на море смут, сразить их
Противоборством, Умереть, уснуть-
И только, и сказать, что сном кончаешь
Тоску и тысячу природных мук,
Наследие плати, - как такой развязки
Не жаждать? Умереть, уснуть – Уснуть!

Teacher: “To be, or not to be, that is the question”.
Это высказывание знакомо всем, но не все знают о существовании других высказываний Шекспира.
Translate some of them:
1. The beginning of the end – начало конца
2. The whiling of time – превратности судьбы
3. There’s the rub – вот в чем загвоздка
4. All is well that ends well – все хорошо, что хорошо кончается
5. To win golden opinions – заслужить благоприятное мнение

I know I want to know I have learnt
He was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway, who was 9 years older that himself. Why did he write a lot of tragedies Shakespeare wrote 47 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 poems?

Shakespeare wrote many sonnets. They are very popular and loved by our people. All of them were translated into different languages. Listen to some of them.
(Ученики читают любимые сонеты Шекспира).
Teacher: The meeting of our club is over. Thank you for taking active part in it. Good bye!