外研版七年级下册英语课件M9-U2.pptVIP

Work in pairs. Read the passage and decide what William Shakespeare wrote. play poems stories The life lf William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a famous English write of plays and poems. He wrote about thirty-eight plays, 154 shot poems and a few long poems in his life, Two of his famous plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford, England. Like many people 400 years ago, Shakespeare’s parents didn’t learn to read or write. At school he liked plays, so he decided to be an actor when he finished school at fourteen. He married in 1582 and had three children. Shakespeare went to London and joined a theatre company in about 1592. He became a successful actor and began to write plays. Queen ElizabethⅠenjoyed his works very much. In 1599 the company built the Globe Theatre on the River Thames in London. You can visit the theatre today, but it isn’t the same building. There was a fire in the old theatre. They built it again in 1614 and in the 1990s. William Shakespeare died at the age of fifty-two. He was rich and successful. You can still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He’s famous around the world. 9 Unit 2 He decided to be an actor. Ask and answer --When is …? --It’s in… . Ask and answer about when you were five years old. — Did you ride a bike when you were five years old? — Yes, I did./No, I didn’t. 2. — Did you play computer games when you were five years old? — Yes, I did./No, I didn’t. Do you know these plays? 《Hamlet》 《Romeo and Juliet》 《Merchant of Venice》 《King Lear》 Who is the writer of these plays? William Shakespeare 1. To master the new words: successful, build, on, fire, die, rich, around the world 2. To get information from the reading material about William Shakespeare. 3. To introduce a writer you know well. Language aims /pleI/ /p?uIm/ /m?ri/ /s?ksesful/ /w?:k/ /bIld/ 剧本；戏剧 n. p