Our common Shakespeare reader

We have had an international voting about which play to read together:

Riddle poll about Shakespeare plays

Students have voted for "Midsummer Night's Dream" so we are going to read the easy version of this play together.

The text of the play can be read online on English E-books:
http://english-e-books.net/a-midsummer-nights-dream-william-shakespeare/

We have also created a unit on this text in Clilstore as with the help of this students can check the meaning of the unknown vocabulary.

Quizlet wordset to practice the vocabulary of the reading.

Some vocabulary activities for the 1st part of the reading:
http://LearningApps.org/view2405795

Language activities for the second part of the reading:

http://learningapps.org/view2423367

Reading-comprehension activities:

Our Shakespeare experience

In order to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death we have launched a series of activities to learn more about this extraordinary author.
To begin with we ask everyone to write words or anything that comes to their mind in connection with Shakespeare:
What comes to your mind about Shakespeare?
Our next step is collecting our famous Shakespeare quotations on a common Padlet wall. We invite everyone to share his/her favourite Shakespeare quotation with us either in text or in picture form.

Created with Padlet

Watch the video about Shakespeare's life and the age he lived in and answer th equestions while watching: Here you can find some activities in connection with William Shakespeare:

Language activities - Croatian contemporary author: Janko Polic Kamov, The Beard (extract)

You can read the extract here and check the unknown words with the help of the built-in dictionaries.
Practice the vocabulary with the help of this Quizlet set.

An activity to practice the vocabulary of the extract:


Another activity to check reading comprehension:

Language activities: Lithuanian classical writer: Forest of the Gods by Balys Suoga

Read the extract on the following link:
http://multidict.net/cs/4386

Practice the vocabulary with the help of this Quizlet set!

Do the following language activities:
Task 1: word formation activity:

Task 2: Choose the suitable preposition to fill in the gaps:

Language activities: Turkish classical writer - Mevlana

Read the text here: http://multidict.net/cs/4340

Practice the vocabulary here:  https://quizlet.com/_290omv

A matching activity:


A gap-filling activity:

Language activities: Spanish classical writer - Cervantes

You can read the English extract of Cervantes' Don Quijote here: http://multidict.net/cs/4241

The vocabulary can be practiced here: https://quizlet.com/_28oht5

A wordsearch activity about the vocabulary of the text:

Language activities: Italian contemporary writer - Ammaniti: I'm not scared

The text can be read here: http://multidict.net/cs/4215

Vocabulary of the text: https://quizlet.com/_28j9db

  A quiz on the text: