Shakespeare
$249 Buy NowExtensive coverage of five key Shakespeare plays
Explore the plays of Shakespeare with varied and dynamic teaching material. This gap-fill activity summarizing Act Five of Much Ado About Nothing is ideal for consolidating students' understanding of the key plot developments in this part of the play. With five separate resources covering Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth,The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III, Boardworks gives you everything you need to teach exciting, inspirational lessons.
- Dozens of worksheets accompany each resource, ideal for consolidating students’ learning, or as homework.
- The wealth of material contained in the resources helps you to explore and teach Shakespeare's plays in detail.
Well-organized resources for whatever you're teaching
All presentations are coherently structured and enhanced by a wealth of material to ensure you get the most out of your class time. Typical slides, like this one on understanding characters, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with relevant illustrative material.
- Additional presentations introducing the context of Shakespeare and providing insight into understanding the plays accompany each resource.
- Engaging example material and topical illustrations supplement key facts and aid overall understanding of the subject.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready prepared and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. This interactive hotseating activity allows students to put themselves in the role of different characters in Macbeth and answer questions associated with each.
- Interesting and varied interactives enhance lessons and motivate your students.
- Comprehensive summary activities aid and consolidate learning.
- Every presentation is a manageable length, so that topics can be taught in focused, bite-sized chunks.
Inspiringly Interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore Shakespeare in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. Here students can analyze Lady Macbeth’s speech in detail by pressing on the highlighted sections of text to reveal questions. This activity is ideal for encouraging careful consideration of the language of Shakespeare, and comes with a high quality audio rendition of the speech.
- Use your classroom technology to facilitate class discussion and encourage and focus lively debates.
- Inspire your students with stimulating games, testing activities and thoughtful animations.
- A wealth of interactive activities are embedded throughout the presentations.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Bring Shakespeare to life with engaging and informative activities. This activity tests students’ detailed understanding of a key speech from Romeo & Juliet. The accompanying audio allows students to hear each part of the speech read aloud.
- Encourage students to explore key elements of language and plot in more detail with imaginative games and open-ended exercises.
- Interactive exercises are enhanced by illustrations, quotations and audio clips to help underpin learning.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks Shakespeare resources you can easily tailor the material to the needs of your students. This animation about the granting of Ariel’s freedom can be used flexibly – use it as a summary of the relationship between Prospero and Ariel, or ask students to consider the accompanying questions and use this as a stimulus for written response.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly, both to support your own teaching methods and to meet the different learning needs of your students.