The Tempest - teaching resource

The Tempest is a 192-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with a 22-page booklet of accompanying worksheets. The resource contains a series of engaging lessons designed to develop knowledge and understanding of the play's context, plot, characters, themes and language. The unit covers a range of activities for pupils of all abilities, such as:

- How to approach Shakespeare (tips for reading Shakespeare's language and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary)

- Analysing the characters Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Ferdinand, Antonio and Sebastian

- Understanding the play's plot and subplots

- Examining Shakespeare's use of language and poetic imagery

- Exploring the play's themes - order and disorder, power and control, colonisation, slavery and freedom, redemption and forgiveness

- Getting to grips with the historical and social context of the early 1600s (attitudes to foreign countries and colonisation)

- Understanding Shakespeare's creation and resolution of conflict and order

- Varied lessons - comprehension questions, spoken English tasks, extension activities, etc

- Learning how to write an essay-like answer about a Shakespeare play

- Use of video to help the learning of key scenes and characters

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