七年级英语下册 Module 9 Life history Unit 2 He decided to be an actor教学课件 外研版.pptVIP

(2) 句中finish school意为 “毕业”, school 前不加冠词。有类似用法的词还有begin school, 意为“开始上学”。finish后接动词作宾语时,要用动词-ing形式。 His father finished eating breakfast quickly. 他父亲快速地吃完了早餐。 * Module 9 Life history Unit 2 He decided to be an actor. Do you know these plays? 《Hamlet》 《Romeo and Juliet》 Who is the writer of these plays? William Shakespeare （1564—1616） Birthplace：Stratford upon Avon What do you know about William Shakespeare ? Work in pairs. Read the passage and decide what William Shakespeare wrote. Reading and vocabulary 1 · plays ．poems ．stories The life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems. He wrote about thirty-eight plays，154 short 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 didnt 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 Elizabeth I enjoyed 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. Put the sentences in the correct order. 2 a）Shakespeare went to London. b）Shakespeare’s company built the Globe Theatre. c）Shakespeare married. d）Shakespeare liked plays at school. e）Shakespeare died at the age of fifty-two. f）Shakespeare decided to be an actor. 6 2 1 5 4 3 Complete the timeline for Shakespeare with the correct form of the words and expressions from th