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Midsummer Night’s Dream

One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays is Midsummer Night’s Dream. The students of the 6th grade of Primary School have a chance to acquaint themselves with this play in Unit 3 Lesson 3 where they can find an adaptation of it for a school play.

Here are the main characters.

You can watch a short video of the story here:

You can also help your students understand the story by using the British Council’s worksheet which is ideal for young learners.

A midsummer night’s dream-worksheetΛήψη
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Shakespeare: England’s national poet

William Shakespeare is undoubtedtly one of the most famous playwrights of all time. His plays have been extremely successful and lots of them have been apated into films. But what do you know about Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-uponAvon, in England. His father, John, was a glove-maker. His mother, Mary, was a farmer’s daughter. He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers. William probably studied Latin, Greek and history, and left school when he was 14 or 15. Three years later he married Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter called Susanna and twins named Judith and Hamnet.

Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford and went to London, the capital city of England. London’s first theatre opened in 1576. Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays too. In 1593 the plague, a terrible disease, killed thousands of people and theatres were closed. During this time William started to write poems instead of plays. His short poems are called sonnets. Shakespeare helped build a new theatre called The Globe. It opened in 1599. It was round and had space for 3,000 people. No women acted in Shakespeare’s time: men and boys played all the parts.

Shakespeare’s plays

Shakespeare wrote comedies with happy endings, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He wrote tragedies which had sad endings, like Romeo and Juliet. His history plays are about kings and queens, like Henry V. Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, maybe more.Here is a list of his plays according to their genre.

Comedies

  • All’s Well That Ends Well
  • As You Like It
  • Comedy of Errors
  • Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • Measure for Measure
  • Merchant of Venice
  • Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Much Ado about Nothing
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Tempest
  • Twelfth Night
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Winter’s Tale

Historic plays

  • Henry IV, Part I
  • Henry IV, Part II
  • Henry V
  • Henry VI, Part I
  • Henry VI, Part II
  • Henry VI, Part III
  • Henry VIII
  • King John
  • Pericles
  • Richard II
  • Richard III

Tragedies

  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Coriolanus
  • Cymbeline
  • Hamlet
  • Julius Caesar
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Othello
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Timon of Athens
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Troilus and Cressida

William became rich and famous. He died when he was 52 on 23 April 1616. His plays and poetry were very popular 400 years ago and they are still popular today.

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/william-shakespeare

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