Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

Part I. The Taming of the Shrew

1. Lesson 1: “Is It Your Will to Make a Stale of Me Amongst These Mates?” (Act 1, Scene 1)
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2. Lesson 2: “Have I Not in My Time Heard Lion Roar?” (Act 1, Scene 2)
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3. Lesson 3: “If You Strike Me, You Are No Gentleman” (Act 2, Scene 1)
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4. Lesson 4: Words Invented by Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1 and more)
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5. Lesson 5: “I Told You, I, He Was a Frantic Fool” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)
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6. Lesson 6: “To Me She’s Married, Not Unto My Clothes” (Act 3, Scene 2)
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7. Lesson 7: Wicked Shakespearean Insults (Act 4, Scene 1)
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8. Lesson 8: “My Falcon Now Is Sharp and Passing Empty” (Act 4, Scene 1)
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9. Lesson 9: “She Will Be Pleased; Then Wherefore Should I Doubt?” (Act 4, Scene 4)
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10. Lesson 10: “Better Once Than Never, for Never Too Late” (Act 5, Scene 1)
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Part II. The Merchant of Venice

11. Lesson 11: “A Stage, Where Every Man Must Play a Part” (Act 1, Scene 1)
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12. Lesson 12: The “Pound of Flesh” Bond (Act 1, Scene 3)
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13. Lesson 13: “And Say There Is Much Kindness in the Jew” (Act 1, Scene 3)
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14. Lesson 14: “That Is the Very Defect of the Matter Sir” (Act 2, Scene 2)
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15. Lesson 15: “Hie Thee, Gentle Jew” (Act 2, Scene 5)
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16. Lesson 16: “I Have a Father, You a Daughter, Lost” (Act 2, Scene 5)
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17. Lesson 17: “All That Glisters Is Not Gold” (Act 2, Scene 7)
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18. Lesson 18: “If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed?” (Act 3, Scene 1)
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19. Lesson 19: “It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain from Heaven” (Act 4, Scene 1)
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20. Lesson 20: The Dark Comedy in a Nutshell (Act 4, Scene 1 and more)
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Part III. Romeo and Juliet

21. Lesson 21: Beginning of Trouble (Act 1 Prologue)
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22. Lesson 22: Before Meeting “The One” (Act 1, Scenes 1 & 3)
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23. Lesson 23: Love at First Sight (Act 1, Scene 5)
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24. Lesson 24: A Very First Kiss (Act 1, Scene 5)
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25. Lesson 25: Replaying Juliet in the Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2)
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26. Lesson 26: Playing Hide and Seek (Act 2, Scene 5)
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27. Lesson 27: When Things Fall Apart (Scenes from Acts 2 & 3)
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28. Lesson 28: Breaking Someone’s Heart Softly (Act 4, Scene 1)
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29. Lesson 29: Mourning Over Juliet’s Dead Body (Act 4, Scene 5 & Act 5, Scene 3)
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30. Lesson 30: Is Tragedy Unavoidable? (Act 5, Scene 3)
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Part IV. Macbeth

31. Lesson 31: The Witches’ Riddles (Act 1, Scene 1)
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32. Lesson 32: Hailing Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 3)
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33. Lesson 33: “Unsex Me Here” (Act 1, Scene 5)
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34. Lesson 34: “Prithee, Peace: I Dare Do All That May Become a Man” (Act 1, Scene 7)
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35. Lesson 35: “No, This My Hand Will Rather the Multitudinous Seas Incarnadine” (Act 2, Scene 2)
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36. Lesson 36: “Sleep No More! Macbeth Does Murder Sleep” (Act 2, Scene 2)
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37. Lesson 37: Lady Macbeth’s “Doubtful Joy” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)
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38. Lesson 38: Foreshadowing Failure and Death (Act 4, Scene 1)
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39. Lesson 39: “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” (Act 5, Scene 5)
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40. Lesson 40: Macbeth as the Tragic Hero
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