Webquest Shakespeare Onestopenglish. By Luke Vyner, Karen Kovacs. The 2. 3rd of April is the Bards birthday, so here on onestopenglish were taking a closer look at Englands most famous author. This Shakespearean webquest includes activities on Shakespeares life, Romeo and Juliet, boy players and famous quotes from Shakespeare plays that we still use today. Warmer. What do you know about William Shakespeare Discuss your ideas with a partner. Activity 1 William Shakespeare An introduction to his life. British pronunciation, BBC learning English, Standard Southern British English Pronunciation Duration 12329. Before starting it is very important that you have Real Player Basic and Shockwave installed in your computer, as sometimes Windows Media Player will not be able to. Read the biography on Shakespeare below and try to complete the missing information. Then, visit www. bbc. Shakespeare is Englands most famous playwright and. His plays are known throughout the world and he introduced up to 3. English language. He was born in in the year. He probably went to the local school, King Edward VIs School, where he learnt Greek and. He didnt go to . In 1. In total, they had children. He left Stratford to go and live in, working as a playwright and actor. He performed many times for Queen. Bbc Phonemic Chart' title='Bbc Phonemic Chart' />Shakespeares group built their own theatre called the. By now, Shakespeare was very rich. He bought the house in Stratford and many other properties as investments. He had a good head for business. He died in, probably of. In his will, he left his  bed to his wife. Nobody knows for certain why he did this. He is buried in Stratford. Activity 2 The plot of Romeo and Juliet. Read the statements about Shakespeares classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Some are true and others are false. With a partner, predict whether you think they are true or false, then visit en. RomeoandJuliet to check your answers and correct the false statements. Introduction. 1. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is based on a French tale. Shakespeare created the supporting characters Mercutio and Paris. The play is believed to have been written between 1. Synopsis. 4. The play is set in Venice, Italy. It begins with a street fight between the Montague and Capulet servants. Romeo first sees Juliet at a ball in the Montague house. With the help of Benvolio, they are secretly married the next day. Romeo kills Juliets cousin, Tybalt, in revenge for his killing Romeos close friend and ally, Mercutio. For the execution, Romeo is exiled from Verona. Before he leaves, he secretly spends the night with Juliet. Juliets mother offers her a drug that will put her into a coma for two and forty hours on the night before her planned wedding to Paris. When she is found, she is believed to be dead. Romeo buys a gun to kill himself when he hears the news. At the crypt where Juliets body has been laid, Romeo is met by Paris. He kills him before drinking the poison. When Juliet awakens from her deep sleep, she realizes Romeo is dead and, panicking, she runs away. Activity 3 Boy players. Visit en. wikipedia. Boyplayer and find out about boy players by reading the Boys in adult companies section. Then, answer the questions below. When did it become permissible for women to perform in the theatreWhy were pre pubescent boys used to play female roles Did boys also play the complex lead female roles What kinds of roles did actor John Honyman play What did audiences think of the boy players Activity 4 Shakespearean language still used todaya. In pairs, you are going to find out the meaning of the phrases created by Shakespeare. Decide who is Student 1 and who is Student 2. Find out the meaning of the expressions and teach the phrases to your partner. Student 1 Find the following phrases from Hamlet. Student 2 Find the following from phrases from Macbeth. Now, choose your favourite expression from the main list http www. Once youve chosen your favourite expression, perform and teach it to the whole class. The 2. 3rd of April is the Bards birthday, so here on onestopenglish were taking a closer look at Englands most famous author. This Shakespearean webquest includes activities on Shakespeares life, Romeo and Juliet, boy players and famous quotes from Shakespeare plays that we still use today. Level Intermediate Type Worksheet The 2. April is the Bards birthday, so here on onestopenglish were taking a closer look at Englands most famous author. This Shakespearean webquest includes activities on Shakespeares life, Romeo and Juliet, boy players and famous quotes from Shakespeare plays that we still use today. Type Teaching notes. Cockney Wikipedia. The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations. Originally a pejorative term applied to all city dwellers, it was eventually restricted to Londoners and particularly to Bow bell Cockneys 1 those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary le Bow2 in the Cheapside district of the City of London. It eventually came to be used to refer to those in Londons East End, or to all working class Londoners generally. Linguistically, cockney English refers to the accent or dialect of English traditionally spoken by working class Londoners. By the 1. 98. 0s and 1. English had become part of general South East English speech, producing a variant known as Estuary English. Today cockney speaking areas include parts of Dagenham, Barking, Billericay, Brentwood, Romford, Chigwell, Loughton, Harlow, Basildon, Thurrock, Cheshunt, Bexley, Sidcup, Welling and Eltham among others. Etymologyedit. A costume associated with cockneys is that of the pearly King or Queen, worn by London costermongers who sew thousands of pearl buttons onto their clothing in elaborate and creative patterns. The earliest recorded use of the term is 1. VI of William Langlands Piers Plowman, where it is used to mean a small, misshapen egg, from Middle Englishcoken ey a cocks egg. Concurrently, the mythical land of luxury Cockaigne attested from 1. Matlab Torrent With Cracks more. Cockayne, Cocknay, and Cockneyand became humorously associated with the English capital London. The present meaning of cockney comes from its use among rural Englishmen attested in 1. Reeves Tale of Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales c. This may have developed from the sources above or separately, alongside such terms as cock and cocker which both have the sense of to make a nestle cock. By 1. 60. 0, this meaning of cockney was being particularly associated with the Bow Bells area. In 1. 61. 7, the travel writer Fynes Moryson stated in his Itinerary that Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bells, are in reproach called Cockneys. The same year, John Minsheu included the term in this newly restricted sense in his dictionary Ductor in Linguas. Diy Funeral Programs. The use of the term to describe all Londoners generally, however, survived into the 1. The term is now used loosely to describe all East Londoners, although some distinguish the areas such as Canning Town that were added to London in 1. The region in which cockneys are thought to reside is not clearly defined. A common view is that in order to be a cockney, one must have been born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary le Bow. However, the church of St Mary le Bow was destroyed in 1. Great Fire of London and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. Although the bells were destroyed again in 1. Blitz, they had fallen silent on 1. June 1. 94. 0 as part of the British anti invasion preparations of World War II. Before they were replaced in 1. Bow Bell cockneys could be born. The use of such a literal definition produces other problems, since the area around the church is no longer residential and the noise of the area makes it unlikely that many people would now be born within earshot of the bells, although the Royal London Hospital, Guys Hospit, Lying In Hospitall and St Thomas Hospital are within the defined area covered by the sound of the Bow Bells. The closest maternity units would be the City of London Maternity Hospital, Finsbury Square, but this hospital was bombed out during the World War II Blitz, and St Bartholomews Hospital or Barts, whose maternity department closed in the late 1. The East London Maternity Hospital in Stepney, which was 2. St Mary le Bow, was in use from 1. There is a maternity unit still in use at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Home births were very common until the late 1. A study was carried out by the City in 2. Bow Bells could be heard,2. According to the legend of Dick Whittington the bells could once be heard from as far away as the Highgate Archway 4. The association of cockneys with the East End in the public imagination may be due to many people assuming that Bow Bells are to be found in the district of Bow, rather than the lesser known St Mary le Bow church in Cheapside in the City of London. Thus while all East Enders are cockneys, not all cockneys are East Enders. The traditional core districts of the East End are Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar, Clerkenwell, Aldgate, Shoreditch, Millwall, Cubitt Town, Hackney, Hoxton, Bow and Mile End. The Borough to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only cockney area south of the River Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge. The area north of the Thames gradually expanded to include East Ham, Stratford, West Ham and Plaistow as more land was built upon. The Becontree estate was built by the Corporation of London to house poor residents of Londons East End on what was previously a rural area of Essex, and Peter Wright wrote that most of the residents identified as cockneys rather than as Essex folk. Notable peopleeditJohn Keats poet, born in Finsbury was said to speak with a strong Cockney accent. James Booth actor, born in CroydonMichael Caine actor, born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 1. March 1. 93. 3 in Rotherhithe2. Hoxton Tom Mc. Court, musician, face, born in Shoreditch and lived in Hoxton. Lenny Mc. Lean, bare knuckleunlicensed boxer, actor, born in Hoxton. Ray Winstone actor, born in Homerton2. Danny Baker broadcaster, born in DeptfordMike Reid actor, comedian, born in Central LondonDanny Dyer actor, born in Canning TownMiriam Karlin born in in Hampstead, North London. Barbara Windsor actress born in Shoreditch, London,Max Bygraves comedian born in Rotherhithe. Writing in 1. 98. Peter Wright gave some examples of then contemporary Cockney speakers Use in filmseditMigration and evolutioneditLinguistic research conducted in the early 2. English are declining in usage within the East End of London and the accent has migrated to Outer London and the Home Counties. In Londons East End, some traditional features of cockney have been displaced by a Jamaican Creole influenced variety popular among young Londoners sometimes referred to as Jafaican, particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro Caribbean descent. Nevertheless, the glottal stop, double negatives, and the vocalisation of the dark L and other features of cockney speech, along with some rhyming slang terms are still in common usage. An influential July 2. Paul Kerswill, Professor of Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University, Multicultural London English the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety, predicted that the cockney accent will disappear from Londons streets within 3. The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, said that the accent, which has been around for more than 5. London by a new hybrid language. Cockney in the East End is now transforming itself into Multicultural London English, a new, melting pot mixture of all those people living here who learnt English as a second language, Prof Kerswill said. Conversely, migration of cockney speakers has led to migration of the dialect.