SHAKESPEARE DAY – RE-DISCOVERY

William Shakespeare is the playwright whose name is associated with so many secrets and puzzles that the question: To be or not to be? may seem to be the simplest of all. On Wednesday the students of the 11-A had an opportunity to unveil some of Shakespeare’s mysteries. The task “Find Someone Who …” helped the students to “assess” Shakespeare’s prolific legacy in the terms of statistics. The girls tried hard to find those who know at least three tragedies or comedies (Shakespeare wrote 38 of them, so the task is not so easy, isn’t, it?). The students read some extracts from Hamlet, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and were really surprised to learn some of Shakespeare’s aphorisms which they thought were popular proverbs! All that glisters is not gold, Love is blind, and lovers cannot see were among them. A real treat for students was an animated film “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” which they watched with genuine interest. No doubt, the language of Shakespeare’s masterpieces is far from being easily comprehensible even for such brilliant English learners as the students of 11-A, but bright, eye-catching pictures and wonderful music made it fun and unforgettable.