. Theme : William Shakespeare

Цель: знакомство с творчеством У. Шекспира

Задачи: 1) создание творческой атмосферы в группе; развитие творческих способностей и умений работы в команде.
2) развитие интереса учащихся к культурному наследию
Великобритании, расширение кругозора учащихся;

I. Organization moment: greeting

Look at the blackboard. You can see a portrait of a famous man. Do you know who he is? (a portrait of W. Shakespeare is on the blackboard.)
P. He is W. Shakespeare.
T. You are right. Today we’ll speak about W. Shakespeare, his life and work, his role in English literature.

Read and listen to some facts from William Shakespeare’s biography and the time when he lived and worked.
You have mentioned the main facts in Shakespeare’s biography. Now I`d like to agree
or disagree with some facts from William Shakespeare’s life.

The name of William Shakespeare is known all over the world. The last half
of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries are known as the Golden Age
of English Renaissance. Sometimes they are called “The Age of Shakespeare”.
People often call Shakespeare “Our national Bard”, “The Immortal Poet of Nature”. We really know few facts of his life and many often of them are doubtful. But some facts are known to us and are proved by documents.
The first facts of Shakespeare’s biography are that he was born on 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.
We also know that, being 18 years old, William married Anne Hathaway, who was 9 years older than himself. They had a daughter Susanna and twins – son Hamlet and daughter Judith.
It's known that in 1567 Shakespeare went to London to find a job, where he began writing plays staged at the Globe Theatre.
It's known that only in 1611, at the height of his fame, Shakespeare returned to Stratford, where in April 23, 1616 he died.

True or False? ( Учащиеся решают и отмечают верны или не верны данные утверждения)

1. Shakespeare was born in the 17th century.
2. His father was a poet.
3. His wife was Anne Hathaway.
4. William Shakespeare had three children.
5. He died in Stratford-on-Avon, on April 23, 1616.

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 am sure that you know them well. So your next task is to divide his plays into tragedies
and comedies. (Учащиеся получают по 12 карточек, в которых написаны названия пьес, все карточки перемешаны.)

Comedies:
1. The Comedy of Errors.
2. Othello.
3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
4. The Merry Wives of Windsor.
5. Julius Caesar
6. Macbeth.
Tragedies:
1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
2. King Lear.
3. 12th Night.
4. Romeo and Juliet.
5. Much Ado About Nothing..
6. All’s Well That Ends Well.


“To be or not to be that
is the question”.
Это высказывание знакомо всем, но не все знают о существовании других высказываний У.Шекспира.

Translate into Russian:

The beginning at the end
The whirling of time
There`s the rub
All is well that ends well
To win golden opinions

Mach the name of the party with the translation.


1. «Комедия ошибок»

2. «Виндзорские насмешницы»

3. «Венецианский купец»

4. «Лукреция»

5. «Все хорошо, что хорошо»

6. «Мера за меру»

7. «Сон в летнюю ночь»

1. “A Midsummer Night's Dream”

2. “Measure for Measure”

3. “The Rape of Lucrece”

4. “All’s well that Ends well”

5. “The Comedy of Errors”

6. “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

7. “The Merchant of Venice”

1. «Ричард III» 1.“Much Ado about Nothing”

2. «Укрощение строптивой» 2. “The Two Noble Kinsmen”

3. «Много шума из ничего» 3. “The Tragedy of Richard III”

4. «Как вам это нравится» 4. “The Taming of the Shrew”

5. «Два благородных родича» 5. “The Tempest”

6. «Двенадцатая ночь» 6. “As you like it”

7. «Буря» 7. “Twelfth Night”

Quotations from Shakespeare

There are some common phrases which the English own to William Shakespeare. They have now become part of the everyday language of Englishmen.

1. “To be or not to be
That is the question”
2. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”.
3. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child…”
4. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
5. “One that loved not wisely but too well”.
6. “Every inch a king”.
7. “Lord, what fools these mortals be”.

a. «…острей зубов змеиных
неблагодарность детища!»
b. «Король, король – от головы до ног!»
c. «Быть или не быть
Вот в чем вопрос».
d. «Весь мир – театр. В нем женщины, мужчины – все актеры».
e. «Как безумен род людской!»
f. «Подгнило что-то в датском королевстве».
g. «…этот человек любил без меры и благоразумия».

1. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”.
2. “That way madness lies”.
3. “If music be the food of love, play on”.
4. “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
5. “What’s in a name? That which we call a vose by any other name would smell as sweet”.
6. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time…”
7. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”.



a. «О музыка, ты пища для любви! Играй же».
b. «Но это путь к безумию».
c. «Друзья, сограждане, внемлите мне».
d. «Что значит имя? Роза пахнет розой, хоть розой назови ее, хоть нет».
e. «В долг не бери и взаймы не давай».
f. «Завтра, завтра, завтра, а дни ползут, и вот уж в книге жизней читаем мы последний слог…»
g. «Ромео! Ромео, о зачем же ты Ромео!»

Try to guess the meaning of the following expressions. Pass your answers in writing.

1. “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit”.
“Twelfth night”.
2. “Brevity is the soul of wit”. “Hamlet”.
3. “Cowards die many times before their deaths”. “Julius Caesar”.
4. “The fool thinks he is wise.
But the wise man knows himself to be a fool”. “As you like it”.
5. “The wish is father to the thought”.
“King Henry IV”.

1. “All’s well that ends well”.
2. “All that glistens is not gold”.
3. “Much ado about nothing”.

1. “There is a history in all men’s lives”.
2. “Conscience does make cowards of us all”.
3. “Delays have dangerous ends”.
4. “Have more than you show. Speak less than you know”.
“Hamlet”.
5. “When clouds appear wise men put on their cloaks”.
“Richard III”.

Complete the sentences.

1) W. Shakespeare is one of the … (greatest and most famous writers in the world.)
2) He decided to become … (an actor).
3) S. was both … (an actor and a playwright)
4) His plays were staged … (in many theatres).
5) The writer’s most famous plays are … (“Othello”, “King Lear”, “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet”).
6) His plays are still … (popular and millions of people admire them.)
7) S. died … (in 1616).

What does it mean?

- 1564 (He was born in 1564.)
- Playwright (He was a famous English playwright.)
- Stratford-on-Avon (S. was born in Stratford-on-Avon.)
- 37 (He produced 37 plays.)
- 1616 (He died in 1616.)
- Globe Theatre (Most of his plays were performed in the new Globe Theatre)

(Учащиеся отвечают на вопросы викторины.)

1).Who was Shakespeare’s father? (Перчаточник)
2). What foreign languages did he study? (латинский, греческий)
3). How old was he when he got married? (18 лет, Анна)
4). Hoe many children had he got? (3: Сюзанна и двойняшки Хэмнит (мальчик) и Джуди (девочка.)

- The lesson is over. .