Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students : The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays

This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency and cultural sensitivity. By introducing the plots, characters, and language arts employed in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, the book conveys English grammatical rules and aspects like a walk in the garden; complicated rhetorical features such as stress, meter, rhyme, homonymy, irony, simile, metaphor, euphemism, parallelism, unusual word order, etc. are taught through meaning-driven games and exercises. Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance higher-order thinking skills, encouraging reflection on the central themes in Shakespeare’s plays. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Lesson 1: “Is It Your Will to Make a Stale of Me Amongst These Mates?” (Act 1, Scene 1)....Pages 3-4 Lesson 2: “Have I Not in My Time Heard Lion Roar?” (Act 1, Scene 2)....Pages 5-7 Lesson 3: “If You Strike Me, You Are No Gentleman” (Act 2, Scene 1)....Pages 9-11 Lesson 4: Words Invented by Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1 and more)....Pages 13-14 Lesson 5: “I Told You, I, He Was a Frantic Fool” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)....Pages 15-16 Lesson 6: “To Me She’s Married, Not Unto My Clothes” (Act 3, Scene 2)....Pages 17-18 Lesson 7: Wicked Shakespearean Insults (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 19-20 Lesson 8: “My Falcon Now Is Sharp and Passing Empty” (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 21-23 Lesson 9: “She Will Be Pleased; Then Wherefore Should I Doubt?” (Act 4, Scene 4)....Pages 25-27 Lesson 10: “Better Once Than Never, for Never Too Late” (Act 5, Scene 1)....Pages 29-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Lesson 11: “A Stage, Where Every Man Must Play a Part” (Act 1, Scene 1)....Pages 35-36 Lesson 12: The “Pound of Flesh” Bond (Act 1, Scene 3)....Pages 37-38 Lesson 13: “And Say There Is Much Kindness in the Jew” (Act 1, Scene 3)....Pages 39-40 Lesson 14: “That Is the Very Defect of the Matter Sir” (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 41-42 Lesson 15: “Hie Thee, Gentle Jew” (Act 2, Scene 5)....Pages 43-45 Lesson 16: “I Have a Father, You a Daughter, Lost” (Act 2, Scene 5)....Pages 47-48 Lesson 17: “All That Glisters Is Not Gold” (Act 2, Scene 7)....Pages 49-50 Lesson 18: “If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed?” (Act 3, Scene 1)....Pages 51-52 Lesson 19: “It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain from Heaven” (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 53-55 Lesson 20: The Dark Comedy in a Nutshell (Act 4, Scene 1 and more)....Pages 57-59 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Lesson 21: Beginning of Trouble (Act 1 Prologue)....Pages 63-66 Lesson 22: Before Meeting “The One” (Act 1, Scenes 1 & 3)....Pages 67-68 Lesson 23: Love at First Sight (Act 1, Scene 5)....Pages 69-72 Lesson 24: A Very First Kiss (Act 1, Scene 5)....Pages 73-75 Lesson 25: Replaying Juliet in the Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 77-79 Lesson 26: Playing Hide and Seek (Act 2, Scene 5)....Pages 81-83 Lesson 27: When Things Fall Apart (Scenes from Acts 2 & 3)....Pages 85-87 Lesson 28: Breaking Someone’s Heart Softly (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 89-91 Lesson 29: Mourning Over Juliet’s Dead Body (Act 4, Scene 5 & Act 5, Scene 3)....Pages 93-95 Lesson 30: Is Tragedy Unavoidable? (Act 5, Scene 3)....Pages 97-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Lesson 31: The Witches’ Riddles (Act 1, Scene 1)....Pages 101-103 Lesson 32: Hailing Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 3)....Pages 105-107 Lesson 33: “Unsex Me Here” (Act 1, Scene 5)....Pages 109-111 Lesson 34: “Prithee, Peace: I Dare Do All That May Become a Man” (Act 1, Scene 7)....Pages 113-116 Lesson 35: “No, This My Hand Will Rather the Multitudinous Seas Incarnadine” (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 117-119 Lesson 36: “Sleep No More! Macbeth Does Murder Sleep” (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 121-123 Lesson 37: Lady Macbeth’s “Doubtful Joy” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)....Pages 125-127 Lesson 38: Foreshadowing Failure and Death (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 129-130 Lesson 39: “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” (Act 5, Scene 5)....Pages 131-132 Lesson 40: Macbeth as the Tragic Hero....Pages 133-135 Back Matter....Pages 137-149