Shakespeare

The Tempest is one of a series of lesson plans to accompany the short animated videos of five of Shakespeare's plays on LearnEnglish Teens.

This is a series of extension activities to be used alongside our Shakespeare lesson plans for teens.

Use this lesson with secondary learners at B1 level to learn about manipulation and Shakespeare’s play Richard III..

Use this lesson to examine the role of women in Shakespeare's plays with secondary or adult learners of CEFR Level B2 and above. 

This lesson encourages a personal response from students, asking them to discuss how ambitious they are personally.

This lesson is about Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ speech. It provides students with the opportunity to become familiar with the situations and events in the play, and then look at parts of the speech in detail.

Use this lesson with secondary learners at B1 level to learn about one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, Hamlet.

Students start by discussing a very well-known idiom. They then consider some true/false statements about Shakespeare and idioms before reading a text to check their ideas. 

This lesson introduces secondary and adult students of CEFR Level B2 and above to the theme of violence in Shakespeare's plays.