Урок английского языка " У. Шекспир - английский поэт и драматург"

Муниципальное бюджетное общеобразовательное учреждение «Гимназия №2»

г. Осташкова Тверской области

Урок английского языка

8 класс

Тема урока: «У. Шекспир – английский поэт и драматург »

Разработала:

Ганина Светлана Эдуардовна

учитель английского языка

высшей категории

Цель урока: Познакомить учащихся с жизнью и творчеством великого поэта.

Задачи урока: Развивать коммуникативные способности школьников по теме; практиковать учащихся в аудировании с охватом основного содержания.

Оборудование урока: компьютерная презентация; произведения Шекспира.

Ход урока

Good morning boys and girls! I’m glad to see you. Sit down! Let's start our lesson. The theme of the lesson is “The great English writer William Shakespeare”. Today we'll speak about his life and work, his role in English literature, listen to the sonnets and recite them. I hope you’ll know many interesting things about William Shakespeare.

I. The age of Shakespeare.

The last half of the 16^th and the beginning of the 17^th centuries are known as the golden age of English literature.

It was the time of the English Renaissance and sometimes it is even called “the age of Shakespeare”.

By that time England had become a powerful state, English trade was flourishing. The yoke of the feudal barons had been thrown off. New branches of science were developing. At the same time there was no change for the better in the life of the English people, and the power of gold grew stronger.

Shakespeare saw these contradictions and reflected them in his works.

William Shakespeare, the greatest and most famous of English writers, and probably the greatest playwright who has over lived, was born on April 23, 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

II. Stratford-upon-Avon (slide).

William lived in Stratford until he was about twenty-one, when he went to London. We do not know why he left Stratford-on-Avon. We know absolutely nothing about his life for the next seven years.

There is a story that Shakespeare's first job in London was holding rich men's horses at the theatre door. But nobody can be sure that this story is true.

III.William’s family and house (slide).

His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove maker and a dealer in wool and other farm products and he had several houses in Stratford. He was a respected figure in Stratford. William's mother, Mary Arden, was a farmer's daughter of Wilmcote, near Stratford.

IV.Shakespeare’s childhood (slide).

In his childhood William went to the Grammer School where, besides reading and writing, he was taught Latin, Greek, and other subjects.

When he had free time he liked to go to the forest and to the river. When actors visited Stratford William liked to watch them. He was interested in that profession and decided to become an actor himself.

But it was not so quick. In 1582 at just over eighteen Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter. His wife was eight years older then William.

He had got three children.

V. The Globe Theatre (slide).

The famous Globe Theatre was the centre of London theatrical life. Shakespeare played on its stage and he wrote plays for this theatre.

Poor people walked to the Globe Theatre and rich people came in boats across the river Thames, or took cabs. The performances were given in the day-time, and there was no scene­ry.

Shakespeare wrote most of his plays for the Globe Theatre. Now I'll tell you what the thea­tre of the 16th century was like. In the middle, there was a kind of house. There the actors dressed and kept the things which were used in the performance. In front of it there was a platform. This platform, together with the balcony over it, was the stage on which the actors played. They came out of the house to the stage through two large doors. In front of the stage was a large yard. Round the yard there were three balconies, one over the other. Both these balconies and the yard were for the people who came to see the perform­ance. The yard and the greater part of the stage were open to the sky. The actors were often very good. They could play, sing and dance.

Women's parts were played by boys or young men. An actor often played two or three parts in one performance. Music was very important.

The performance began at three o'clock. From its beginning till it was over, people could see a flag over the theatre. The people of London loved their theatre very much. Everybody went to the theatre in London - both young and old, rich and poor. Those who could not pay much for their tickets stood in the yard. If they were tired they could sit on the ground. Rich men and their wives sat in the balconies, and aristocrats were allowed to sit on the stage.

People had no newspapers, no radio or tele­vision in those days. That is why the theatre played a great part in their lives. The perform­ance gave them great enjoyment, but they came to the theatre not only for pleasure, they came to hear the news, to learn something of the history of England or of some other country. They were taught the great science of life there.

VI. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (slide).

Shakespeare was a good friend to his comrades in the theatre.

The theatre at that time was more closely connected with the people than any other art. All kinds of Londoners went to the theatre and were very fond of it.

Shakespeare's experience as an actor (although he usually acted only small parts like the Ghost in Hamlet) helped him greatly in the writing of his plays. His knowledge of the stage and his poetical genius made his plays the most wonderful ones ever written.

VII. Shakespeare’s sonnets (slide, record with English sonnets and Pugachova’s song).

VIII.Works of Shakespeare (slide).

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. Among them there are deep tragedies, such as Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, light comedies, such as The Merry Wives of Winu-sor⁶ All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing,⁷ historical dramas, such as Henry IV, Richard III.

Most of Shakespeare's plays were not published in his life-time. So some of them may have been lost in the fire when the "Globe" burned down in 1613.

IX. Shakespeare’s festival (slide).

Shakespeare's belief in man was the source of his opti­mism which we can feel in even his blackest tragedies.

Shakespeare was a great writer. He wrote many different kinds of plays. In his plays he could write equally well funny scenes, and scenes of fear and excitement. The characters in Shakespeare's plays do not seem like "characters in a book", but as if they were real people whom we could recognize at once if we met them in ordinary life instead of in the play. In fact, the names of some of Shakespeare's characters, such as Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and many others, are known even to people who have never seen the plays in which they appear.

X. The last years of life (slide).

Shakespeare spent the last years of his life at Stratford where he died in 1616. He was buried in the church of Strat­ford. A monument was erected to the memory of the great playwright in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Shakespeare was a great humanist. His belief in the high and noble features of man's mind and heart was the founda­tion of his great humanism.]

XI. Shakespeare’s monument (slide).

XII. Complete the sentences (slide).

XIII. Summing up.

Our lesson is over. You have worked very well today. I hope you liked the lesson. Your marks are good and excellent. Thank you. See you tomorrow.

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