William Shakespeare - immortal poet of nature.

Литературная гостиная, посвященная творчеству В. Шекспира.

William Shakespeare - immortal poet of nature.

Дата: 05.04.2012 г. 

Задачи:

1. Развитие навыков говорения, аудирования, в процессе творческого общения обучающихся друг с другом и учителем на основе изучаемой темы.
2. Создание творческой атмосферы в группе.
3. Развитие интереса обучающихся к культурному наследию Великобритании, расширение кругозора по теме.

Форма занятия: литературный клуб.

Наглядность: 

1. Газета (English № 6, 1997), «Did he ever exist? »
2. Пьесы В. Шекспира на русском и английском языках.
3. Портрет поэта, картины мест, где он жил, работал (Дом В. Шекспира, церковь у реки Эйвон, театр «Глобус» и др.).

Ход занятия:

        Teacher: Good evening everybody. The meeting of our club is dedicated to the greatest playwright in world literature: William Shakespeare. I hope all of you will take an active part in it. Listen to some facts from William Shakespeare’s biography and the time when he lived and worked.

Student 1: The name of William Shakespeare is known all over the world. The last half of the 16-th and the beginning of the 17-th centuries are known as the Golden Age of English Renaissance and sometimes are called «The age of Shakespeare».

Student 2: People often call Shakespeare «Our National Bard», «The immortal poet of nature». We really know few facts of his life and many of them are doubtful. But some facts are known to us and are proved by documents.

Student 1. 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 in the village of Wilmcote.

Student 2. We also know that, being 18 years old,  William married Anne Hathaway, who was 9 years older that himself. They had a daughter Susanna and twins - son Hamnet and daughter Judith.

Student 1. It is known that in 1567 Shakespeare went to London, to find a job, where he began writing plays staged at the Globe Theatre. By 1592, he had been an important member of a well-known acting company.

Student 2. It is known that only in 1611, at the height of his fame, Shakespeare returned to Stratford, where in April 23, 1616 he died. He was buried in a fine old church in Stratford.

Teacher. You have mentioned the main facts in Shakespeare’s biography. Now I would like you to agree or disagree with some facts from William Shakespeare’s life:

1. Shakespeare was born in the 17-th century. Is it true?
2. William got a good education in London.
3. William married late; his wife was younger than him.
4. William Shakespeare had three children: daughter Susanna and twin sons.
5. His wife Anne Hathaway loved theatre very much.
6. Shakespeare never acted on stage.
7. Shakespeare died in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
8. Shakespeare wrote 47 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 poems.

Teacher. Thank you for your answers. I see that you know Shakespeare’s life rather well. 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 act is to divide his plays into tragedies and comedies.

(Каждая группа получает по 14 карточек, в которых написаны названия пьес, все карточки перемешаны.)

Comedies:

1. «The Comedy of Eros».
2. «The Taming of the Strew».
3. «All is Well that Ends Well».
4. «A Midsummer Night’s Dream».
5. «Much Ado About Nothing».
6. «Twelfth Night».
7. «The Merry Wives of Windsor».

Tragedies:

1. «Hamlet, Prince of Denmark».
2. «Othello».
3. «King Lear».
4. «Macbeth».
5. «Romeo and Juliet».
6. «Julius Caesar».
7. «Anthony and Cleopatra».

Teacher.  Listen to this account from one of Shakespeare’s plays and tell us what play it is from. What mostly troubled the young prince was uncertainty about his father’s death. Claudius told everybody that snake had bitten the King. The young prince, however, suspected that Claudius himself had killed the King. How right was he? What ought he to think of his mother?

Teacher. What was the name of young prince? You are right. His name was Hamlet. Now listen to an extract from this famous play.

 Student. To be, or not to be, that is the question:

               Whether «tis nobler in the mind to suffer

               The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune:

               Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

               And by opposing, end them? To die - to sleep,

               No more, and, by a sleep to say we end

               The heart - ache, and the thousand natural shocks

             That flesh in heir to, «tis a consummation

             Devoutly to be wish`d . To die - to sleep-

             To sleep, perchance to dream…

             Быть или не быть - таков вопрос;

             Что благородней думам - покоряться

             Пращам и стрелам яростной судьбы

             Иль, ополчась на море смут, сразить их

             Противоборством. Умереть, уснуть -

             И только, и сказать, что сном кончаешь

             Тоску и тысячу природных мук,

             Наследье плоти, - как такой развязки

             Не жаждать. Умереть, - уснуть. - Уснуть!

                                                                    (Перевод М. Лозинского).

Teacher.  «To be, or not to be, that is the question».

Это высказывание знакомо всем, но не все знают о существовании других высказываний Шекспира.

Translate some of them:

1. The beginning at the end - Начало конца.
2. The whirling of time - Превратности судьбы.
3. There is the rub - Вот в чем загвоздка.
4. All is Well that Ends Well - Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается.
5. To win golden opinions - Заслужить благоприятное мнение.

Shakespeare wrote many sonnets (154). They are very popular and loved by our people. All of them were translated into different languages. Listen to some of them.

(Обучающиеся читают любимые сонеты Шекспира).

Teacher.  The meeting of our club is over. Thank you for taking an active part in it. Goodbye!