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Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays

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Authors:
  1. Leung Che Miriam Lau

    1. Division of Language and Communication, Hong Kong Community College, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

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  2. Wing Bo Anna Tso

    1. The School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • Provides a preface on 'Shakespeare and the teaching of language' by Prof. Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, The University of Birmingham, UK
  • Gives an introduction on "Chinese and Hong Kong Shakespeare by Dr. Otto Heim, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
  • Includes an overview of Shakespeare's life, times and work
  • Covers teaching ideas and learning materials excerpted from a drama education project commissioned by Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s CPCE Fund

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. The Taming of the Shrew

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Lesson 1: “Is It Your Will to Make a Stale of Me Amongst These Mates?” (Act 1, Scene 1)

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      Pages 3-4

    3. Lesson 2: “Have I Not in My Time Heard Lion Roar?” (Act 1, Scene 2)

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      Pages 5-7

    4. Lesson 3: “If You Strike Me, You Are No Gentleman” (Act 2, Scene 1)

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      Pages 9-11

    5. Lesson 4: Words Invented by Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1 and more)

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      Pages 13-14

    6. Lesson 5: “I Told You, I, He Was a Frantic Fool” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)

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      Pages 15-16

    7. Lesson 6: “To Me She’s Married, Not Unto My Clothes” (Act 3, Scene 2)

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      Pages 17-18

    8. Lesson 7: Wicked Shakespearean Insults (Act 4, Scene 1)

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      Pages 19-20

    9. Lesson 8: “My Falcon Now Is Sharp and Passing Empty” (Act 4, Scene 1)

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      Pages 21-23

    10. Lesson 9: “She Will Be Pleased; Then Wherefore Should I Doubt?” (Act 4, Scene 4)

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      Pages 25-27

    11. Lesson 10: “Better Once Than Never, for Never Too Late” (Act 5, Scene 1)

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      Pages 29-31

  3. The Merchant of Venice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Lesson 11: “A Stage, Where Every Man Must Play a Part” (Act 1, Scene 1)

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      Pages 35-36

    3. Lesson 12: The “Pound of Flesh” Bond (Act 1, Scene 3)

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      Pages 37-38

    4. Lesson 13: “And Say There Is Much Kindness in the Jew” (Act 1, Scene 3)

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      Pages 39-40

    5. Lesson 14: “That Is the Very Defect of the Matter Sir” (Act 2, Scene 2)

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      Pages 41-42

    6. Lesson 15: “Hie Thee, Gentle Jew” (Act 2, Scene 5)

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      Pages 43-45

    7. Lesson 16: “I Have a Father, You a Daughter, Lost” (Act 2, Scene 5)

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      Pages 47-48

    8. Lesson 17: “All That Glisters Is Not Gold” (Act 2, Scene 7)

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      Pages 49-50
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About this book

This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency and cultural sensitivity. By introducing the plots, characters, and language arts employed in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, the book conveys English grammatical rules and aspects like a walk in the garden; complicated rhetorical features such as stress, meter, rhyme, homonymy, irony, simile, metaphor, euphemism, parallelism, unusual word order, etc. are taught through meaning-driven games and exercises. Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance higher-order thinking skills, encouraging reflection on the central themes in Shakespeare’s plays.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Division of Language and Communication, Hong Kong Community College, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Leung Che Miriam Lau

  • The School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Wing Bo Anna Tso

About the authors

Ms. Miriam Lau Leung-che is a lecturer at Hong Kong Community College, Polytechnic University, where she teaches academic English. She has published papers in Shakespeare Review and Nordlit, and she is currently doing her doctoral studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. 


Dr. Anna Tso is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she heads the Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics, leads the English Cultural Literacy team, and directs the Digital Humanities Research Centre. She is currently awarded a government research grant for improving university students' academic writing at the Open University of Hong Kong.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

  • Book Subtitle: The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays

  • Authors: Leung Che Miriam Lau, Wing Bo Anna Tso

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0580-0Published: 05 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9200-8Published: 15 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0582-4Published: 23 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 149

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education, Language and Literature, Literacy

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