Тема: What helps you to enjoy yourselves? William Shakespeare – Meeting at a Fireplace.
Цель урока:
- Формирование навыков и умений иноязычной речевой деятельности обучающихся.
- Обучение познавательной деятельности с использованием английского языка.
Задачи:
- Создавать в течение урока условия для отработки обучающимися навыков и умений говорения и восприятия речи на слух.
- Обеспечить в ходе урока повторение грамматического материала «восклицательные и эмфатические предложения».
- Актуализировать знания обучающихся о выдающемся драматурге Вильяме Шекспире.
- Стимулировать самостоятельную познавательную деятельность обучающихся посредством английского языка.
- Содействовать повышению лингвокультуроведческой компетенции обучающихся.
- Способствовать повышению уровня мотивации на уроках через средства обучения.
Оборудование: макет камина, портрет Шекспира, картины с изображениями театра «Глобус», слайды, иллюстрирующие эпизоды из биографии драматурга (используя интернет-ресурсы), распечатки шекспиризмов по количеству обучающихся, распечатки отрывка «Весь мир – театр».
Форма урока: ролевая игра – проект.
Действующие лица: Ведущий, Шекспир, эксперты, слушатели –собеседники.
Cheer person:
– Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, our dear guests! We are happy to see you here in our cosy hall, at the fireplace. Today is (date), but our time machine lets us invite to our place a person of the 16th century. And we all are happy to welcome our star guest. He is an outstanding poet and a playwright . His name is a fame of Great Britain. Please, come in! Sir William Shakespeare!
William Shakespeare comes and reads his sonnet:
Sonnet 1.
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
The audience applauses and exclaims: how marvelous! and so on (see grammar emphatic and exclamatory sentences, it was homework)
Cheer person:
– Thank you, Sir William! I hope it will be pleasant for you to listen to our experts. They adore your works and now they are writing a book about your life. They will present some facts of your biography. Please, miss Elisabeth Greene and mister Alexander Stevenson.
Experts:
– Sir William Shakespeare’s parents, John and Mary (Arden), were married about 1557; she was of the landed gentry, he a yeoman—a glover and commodities merchant. By 1568, John had risen through the ranks of town government and held the position of high bailiff, similar to mayor. William, the eldest son, was born in 1564, on April 23, several days before his baptism on April 26, 1564. William attended the local grammar school in Stratford where his parents lived, and would have studied primarily Latin rhetoric, logic, and literature [Barnet, viii]. At age 18 (1582), William married Anne Hathaway, a local farmer’s daughter eight years his senior. Their first daughter (Susanna) was born six months later (1583), and twins Judith and Hamnet were born in 1585.
– Shakespeare’s life can be divided into three periods: the first 20 years in Stratford, which include his schooling, early marriage, and fatherhood; the next 25 years as an actor and playwright in London; and the last five in retirement back in Stratford where he enjoyed moderate wealth gained from his theatrical successes. John Shakespeare had suffered financial reverses from William’s teen years until well into the height of the playwright’s popularity and success. In 1596, John Shakespeare was granted a coat of arms, almost certainly purchased by William, who the next year bought a sizable house in Stratford. By the time of his death, William had substantial properties, both professional and personal, which he bestowed on his theatrical associates and his family.
Listeners (pupils) are supposed to ask questions, e.g.
– Was William the eldest son? Did this fact have any influence upon his life?
– Shakespeare’s life is usually divided into three periods, isn’t it? What is the most important period?
Cheer person:
– Dear sir, could you tell us about your theatre, please?
William Shakespeare:
– I think, I would ask Richard Burbage to do this.
Richard Burbage (рассказ сопровождается демонстрацией слайдов):
I will speak not only about the Globe theatre, but also about my great ancestors.
The Globe was built during Shakespeare's early period in 1599 by one of his long-standing
associates, Cuthbert Burbage, the brother of the most famous Shakespearean actor of the
Elizabethan Age, Richard Burbage.
The theater that Cuthbert Burbage built for the Chamberlain's Men had a total capacity of
between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators. Because there was no lighting, all performances at the
Globe were conducted, weather permitting, during the day (probably most often in the
mid-afternoon span between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M.). Because most of the Globe and all of its
stage was open air, acoustics were poor and the actors were compelled by circumstances to
shout their lines, stress their enunciation, and engage in exaggerated theatrical
gestures. What would seem most striking to a modern (Broadway) theatergoer about the
productions staged at the Globe is that they were completely devoid of background scenery.
Although costumes and props were utilized, changes of scene in Shakespeare's plays were
not conducted by stagehands during brief curtain closings. There was no proscenium arch,
no curtains, and no stagehands to speak of other than the actors themselves. Instead,
changes of scene were indicated explicitly or implicitly in the speeches and narrative
situations that Shakespeare wrote into the text of the plays.
A total of 26 names are recorded as the "Principal Actors" of Shakespeare's
company at the Globe in the First Folio of the Bard's collected plays. Near the top of the
list we find Richard Burbage, brother to Cuthbert, major partner in the Globe, and the
foremost tragedian of the Elizabethan stage. The sole owner of another, significantly
smaller venue (the Blackfriars Theatre), Richard Burbage initiated the performance of some
of Shakespeare's most famous characters, including Hamlet, Lear, and Othello, and brought
even greater vitality to other roles, e.g., Richard III. The extent to which Shakespeare
wrote his great tragic hero roles with Burbage in mind cannot be determined, but the
indirect evidence strongly suggests that the playwright knew in advance that Burbage would
be the "star" and had him in mind when he created the characters of Hamlet,
Lear, Othello and the like. Despite the need for exaggeration in the Globe's outdoor
setting, Burbage was best known for his naturalistic style of acting, his subtler
performances standing in sharp relief to the wild rantings of his peers.
The original structure of the Globe Theatre stood until 29 June, 1613, when its thatched
roof was set ablaze by a cannon fired in a performance of Henry VIII and the Globe burned
to the ground. By this time, Shakespeare was in semi-retirement at Stratford-on-Avon where
he would die three years later at the age of fifty-two. The Globe was reconstructed in
1614, with tiles replacing flammable straw on its partial roof. In 1642, however, a
quarter-century after Shakespeare's death, a new, Puritanical and decidedly anti-theater
regime assumed power in England and closed down all of the country's theaters. Two years
later, Cromwell's round heads tore down the Globe, leveled the site and constructed
tenement housing upon it.
Cheer person:
– Thank you! We find your information extremely interesting!
And I am sure our next speaker will grab our attention, too.
Please, miss Smith!
Miss Smith (раздает распечатки шекспиризмов):
Shakespeare's reputation as the greatest English-language writer stems from at least
five dimensions of his collective work. The first of these is the sheer scope of his
achievement. Over some thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare addressed virtually every aspect of
human experience. His plays include comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, and problem
plays: it is difficult to think of a dramatic situation, a human dilemma, or a major theme
that his works do not touch upon. That being so, although he wrote for a specific audience
of a particular historical era.
Shakespeare’s works enriched English language. I am speaking about his quotations. Now
they are part of phraseology and are used all over the world.
Here are some of them.
the observed of all observers – центр всеобщего внимания (Hamlet);
our withers are unwrung – “хула нас не задевает»;
to the manner born – привыкший с пеленок, прирожденный (Hamlet);
the seamy side (Othello) – изнанка ч-л, неприглядная сторона;
to make assurance double sure – для пущей верности;
to speak daggers (Hamlet) – поражать словами, «говорить со злобой»;
a fool’s paradise – «призрачное счастье», мир фантазий;
the green-eyed monster – «чудовище с зелеными глазами», зависть;
more sinned against than sinning – человек незаслуженно обиженный.
Modern linguists think there are over two hundred fifty phrases that we use in our speech and that find their origin in Shakespeare’s works. Shakespeare’s quotations have the second place after Bible.
Cheer person:
Thank you very much!
It is a pity, but now we have to say good-bye to sir William.
Saying good-bye
Teacher:
Our lesson is coming to the end. Thank you. It is great pleasure to listen to you. Any
discussion of Shakespeare is bound to be loaded with superlatives! In the course of a
quarter century, Shakespeare wrote some thirty-eight plays. Taken individually, several of
them are among the world's finest written works; taken collectively, they establish
Shakespeare as the foremost literary talent of his own Elizabethan Age and, even more
impressively, as a genius whose creative achievement has never been surpassed in any age.
I like the way you’ve presented material. I’ve seen you can use our active grammar –
exclamatory and emphatic sentences.
Your home task: 1.Read the following
smb’s memory is green
And try to find Russian equivalent, give your explanations of this saying.
And before I say good-bye I want you to listen to the immortal poem – the extract from
As You Like It. Act 2. Scene VII
– Next lesson be ready to discuss it.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
– Thank you. Good-bye. See you.
Источники:
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/325/
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes
http://svarkhipov.narod.ru/vip/arzu.htm