William Shakespeare

Holy Trinity – Year 4

‘Shakespeare & The Tempest’ Lesson Objectives: • To identify what we know about Shakespeare and ‘The

Tempest’• To become familiar with the characters from ‘The

Tempest’

To understand more about the world of Shakespeare

Starter: On A3 paper list down everything that youknow about William Shakespeare.

Write at least THREE points. You have FIVE minutes.

On the back of your paper, list down all thatyou know about ‘The Tempest’.

Write at least THREE points.You have FIVE minutes.

Shakespeare wrote over 35 plays!

The Plague (The Black Death)

Lessons

Lessons

Lessons

Latin

Latin

Latin

Es vos usura statio?

Can you read this Latin sentence?

It means . . .

Are you enjoying the lesson?

Shakespeare had a vocabulary of over 25 000 words!

Blanket, gossip, assassination, champion, generous

We still use these words that he invented.

Here’s some that we don’t use anymore.

Fustilarian means an idiot.Trundletail means a long tailed dog.

Linsey-woolsey means rubbish.Gorbellied means someone who is hugely fat.

William Shakespeare

“The Bard”