Teacher Resource

Globe Theatre

1. Before you watch the BTN Globe Theatre story, record what you know about William Shakespeare.

2. When was the Globe Theatre first built?3. Where was it built? Locate using Google Maps.4. What happened to the original Globe Theatre? 5. Name a play written by William Shakespeare.6. About how many people can the Globe Theatre can hold?7. How many storeys high is the Globe?8. What is at the base of the stage?9. Illustrate an aspect of the Globe Theatre story.10. Which film is based on one of Shakespeare’s plays?

a. Hotel Transylvaniab. Trollsc. Gnomeo & Juliet

Discuss the BTN Globe Theatre story as a class. What questions were raised in the discussion (what are the gaps in their knowledge)? The following KWLH organiser provides students with a framework to explore their knowledge on this topic and consider what they would like to know and learn.

What do I know?

What do I want to know?

What have I learnt?

How will I find out?

Students will develop their own question/s for inquiry, collecting and recording information from a wide variety of sources.

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Episode 254th September 2018

Students will explore the history of the Globe Theatre. Students will explore the meaning, use and form of Shakespeare’s language.

English – Year 5Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time.

Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships. 

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced.

English – Year 6Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice.

Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse.

English – Year 7Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities.

Virtual tourDownload the Shakespeare’s Globe 360 app for students to take a look inside the Globe Theatre. The free app allows anyone in the world to explore a virtual version of the Glove Theatre. Users can move around the virtual theatre, zoom in and out and reveal the oak frame. Users can venture through the oak doors and head inside, where they can explore the theatre as 360-degree images.

Learn more about the app by visiting this website http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/virtual-tour

Research projectStudents will find out more about the Globe Theatre using this worksheet to record their findings. Encourage students to use a range of sources to find their information.

Students will research the following for their project:

When was the Globe Theatre first built? Where was it built? Find using Google

Maps. What happened to the first Globe

Theatre? Name some plays that have been

performed at the Globe?

What does the Globe Theatre look like? Describe its layout and special features.

Did you know? Find some interesting facts about the Globe.

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Welcome to the Globe PlaygroundVisit Shakespeare’s Globe Playground for a range of interactive games and fun classroom activities. http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/playground

Source: Shakespeare’s Globe link

Everyday Shakespearean languageOver the centuries Shakespeare’s plays have gained a reputation for being difficult to understand. But did you know that you have probably quoted Shakespeare without even realising it? In fact, 95% of the words and phrases used in Shakespeare’s plays are the same words we use today.

As a class watch Shakespeare: The History of English for an fun animated look at the words and phrases invented by Shakespeare.

Students will then respond to the following: Which of the following Shakespearean phrases do you use in your everyday conversation? (refer to

table below) Think of situations when you would use these phrases and put them into a sentence. Use the internet to find out which of Shakespeare’s plays used these phrases. Create an illustrated dictionary of your 5 favourite words or phrases invented by Shakespeare.

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Refer to the BBC’s vocabulary reference for a list of phrases invented by Shakespeare. Watch these fun BBC animations to learn more about the origins and meanings of some of Shakespeare’s phrases.

Shakespeare’s insultsShakespeare was well known for the insults included in his work. Some of these included:

Thou urchin-snouted foot-licker Thou swag-bellied pignut Thou beetle-headed canker-blossom

Students will create their own Shakespearean insults using a word from each column at the following website https://www.folger.edu/sites/default/files/QuotesScripts_Insults.pdf

Shakespeare’s Globe – History of the Globehttp://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/history-of-the-globe

BTN – Shakespearehttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4452869.htm

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Word or phrase Example Shakespeare play

I nearly died of embarrassment

“I nearly died of embarrassment when I forgot my lines during the school play.”

Taming of the Shrew

As dead as a doornail “Oh no! I forgot to charge my phone. It's as dead as a doornail.”

Henry V

To nail it

Off with his head

Green-eyed monster

The world is your oyster

Don’t judge a book by its cover

All of a sudden

Like chalk and cheese

Wild-goose chase

Pigs might fly

Get off your high horse

Don’t cry over spilt milk

To be in a world of your own

BTN – Shakespeare in Schoolhttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3707999.htm

BTN – Shakespeare in Schoolhttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3208642.htm

Shakespeare’s Globe – Playgroundhttp://www.shakespearesglobe.com/playground

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