WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (2nd ESO)

GUIDE TO CREATE YOUR COMPOSITION

1^st paragraph: BIOGRAPHY

· Who is William Shakespeare? In which century did he live?

· Where was he born? Any important information about his parents or siblings.

· Was he married? Had he got any children?

· Do you know any gossip about him?

2^ND paragraph: WORK

· What did he wrote (poetry, literature, prose)?

· Why is he famous? Most important titles.

· If you know any famous sentence or quotation of whatever you want to write about his work

3^rd paragraph: OPINION

· What are we going to read about him?

· What is the story about?

· Your likes or preferences when reading books?

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William Shakespeare was a famous English poet, player and playwright in the 16^th century. He was born next to London in1564 and his parents were not poor. He had 7 siblings. He got married when he was 18 years old with a woman who was 26. He had two daughters and a son but he died when he was 11.

Shakespeare wrote poetry and theatre but he became famous for his theatre plays. He is the author of “Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The merchant of Venice”, “Othelo” and many others and he is very famous around the world. For example one of the most famous sentences is “to be or not to be… this is the question” written in “Hamlet”.

This term we are reading a fragment of “Romeo and Juliet” in class. It is a love story between Romeo and Juliet but their families don’t like the relationship and finally the two lovers die. I don’t like love stories, I prefer action or terror stories because they are interesting.