Shakespeare

Use this lesson with A2 level learners to provide students with an insight into Shakespeare’s life.

Use this lesson with secondary and adult students at CEFR Level B2 to discuss the theme of lies in Shakespeare's play 'Othello'. 

This lesson introduces the concept of telling lies and gets students to discuss this.

Use this lesson to introduce secondary and adult students at CEFR Level B2 to one of Shakespeare’s best known plays: Macbeth.

Use this lesson to introduce secondary and adult students at CEFR Level B1 to the theme of disguise and to Shakespeare's play 'Much Ado About Nothing'. 

Use this lesson to help secondary and adult learners of CEFR Level B2 to develop their ability to read a short extract from Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and to discuss paintings inspired by the work. 

This lesson teaches idioms which were all used or invented by Shakespeare. It uses specially created illustrations to show the connection between the individual words (e.g. night + owl) and the idiom as a whole (e.g. night owl). The lesson will give students an opportunity to use the idioms through the creation of a short skit.

Use this lesson with adult students of CEFR Level C1 to explore the topic of race in Shakespeare's play 'Othello'.