Shakespeare Language

Shakespeare

By Соня Романова

​watch the video about william shakespeare's life

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Shakespeare was in the ... century

• XV

• XVI

• XVIII

• XVIII

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At school Shakespeare studied ...

• science

• languages

• maths

• he didn't go to school

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Before William Shakespeare became a writer he worked as an ...

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All theatres in London were closed because of the plague, which was a ...

• natural disaster

• new law

• a terrible desease

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Shakespeare helped build a new theatre in London called ...

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At Shakespeare's times women ... in the theatre.

• could act

• couldn't act

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Shakespeare is most popular for his ...

• poems

• novels

• sonnets

• plays

​​​​William Shakespeare introduced new words and phrases, which we still use today, into the English language. He invented over 1700 of our common words.

look at this list of most popular words and phrases introduced by Shakespeare and find ​the ones that you already know.

​“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”―

William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well