Lesson 27: When Things Fall Apart (Scenes from Acts 2 & 3)
Do a close reading of the speeches of four characters, identify the context in which the speech is delivered, find out the characters’ different perspectives towards love, and rewrite the speech in modern English.
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Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
Leung Che Miriam Lau • Wing Bo Anna Tso
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays
Leung Che Miriam Lau Division of Language and Communication Hong Kong Community College Hong Kong
Wing Bo Anna Tso The School of Arts and Social Sciences The Open University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
ISBN 978-981-10-0580-0 ISBN 978-981-10-0582-4 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4
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To my grandparents, Kwan Shek Hong and Ho Woon Yin (Miriam Lau) To Sophia, my daughter, with all my love (Anna Tso)
Preface: Shakespeare and the Teaching of Language
A book about Shakespeare which reduces his great literary masterpieces to mere tools for teaching a foreign language? Scandalous! Except that Shakespeare’s plays themselves arose from a culture in which drama was used as a tool for teaching a foreign language, and they have participated in the spread of the language in which they were composed ever since. The changes to English grammar school and university curricula in the decades preceding Shakespeare’s birth – as Protestant educational reformers embraced Renaissance humanism and its interest in classical Latin as a sort of antidote to the medieval Latin of Catholic theology – laid particular stress on the value of performance as a classroom practice. (Oxford and Cambridge colleges, for instance, began to allocate budgets of up to 40 shillings per year – a substantial sum – for the staging of classical plays.) By memorizing the words of Roman playw
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