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Teaching Resources

Explore our range of teaching resources for school, home educators, or to enhance a trip to Shakespeare's family homes

Teaching level
English Speakers English Learners Other Languages
Topic
Shakespeare’s Plays
Resource type

FR Shakespeare Family Tree

Teaching level
French
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This family tree introduces Shakespeare’s immediate family: his parents and siblings, his own children, and his grandchildren.

FR Tudor Journalist Template

Teaching level
French
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This is the template you can use in combination with the Tudor Journalist in French resource.

FR Shakespeare’s Family Fun Facts

Teaching level
French
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This fact sheet gives you some details about the Shakespeare family, including ten facts you might find surprising.

FR Shakespeare's Family Tudor Journalist

Teaching level
French
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

Let your students inhabit the role of a Tudor journalist and come up with headlines and news stories about the Shakespeares in Stratford! Can be used together with the Shakespeare’s Family Fun Facts in French and Shakespeare’s Family Tudor Journalist Template in French.

FR Shakespeare WANTED worksheet

Teaching level
French
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This worksheet uses the information on the Shakespeare WANTED poster as a springboard for a couple of activities that check on the students’ understanding of the information and that encourage them to explore the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s life in a fun and creative way.

FR Shakespeare WANTED

Teaching level
French
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This poster offers a quick introduction to Shakespeare: who was he, what do we know about him (and what not), and what is he famous for. Ideal with the accompanying Shakespeare WANTED worksheet that uses information from the poster for some activities.

Shakespeare WANTED Worksheet

Teaching level
Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14)Key Stage 4 (ages 14-16)B2 / IELTS 5.5-6.5
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This worksheet uses the information on the Shakespeare WANTED poster as a springboard for a couple of activities that check on the students’ understanding of the information and that encourage them to explore the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s life in a fun and creative way.

Shakespeare WANTED

Teaching level
Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14)Key Stage 4 (ages 14-16)B2 / IELTS 5.5-6.5
Topic
Historical context
Resource type
Classroom resource

This poster offers a quick introduction to Shakespeare: who was he, what do we know about him (and what not), and what is he famous for. Ideal with the accompanying Shakespeare WANTED worksheet that uses information from the poster for some activities.

Shakespeare’s Interesting Idioms

Teaching level
Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14)Key Stage 4 (ages 14-16)C1 / IELTS 7.0-8.0
Topic
Shakespeare's Language
Resource type
Classroom resource

Although Shakespeare wrote his plays and poems some 400 years ago, many of his expressions are still familiar to us today – we regularly speak Shakespeare without realising it. Take a look at this short text by journalist Bernard Levin, “On Quoting Shakespeare”.

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