Lend me your ears!

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Teachit Author
Lend me your ears!
Main Subject
Key stage
Exam board
Category
Drama: Shakespeare for key stage 3
Resource type
Student activity
Author
William Shakespeare
Authors
William Shakespeare
Title
Julius Caesar
This resource will help students take a closer look at the famous 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' speech from Act 3 Scene 2 of Julius Caesar. The extract is included along with analysis questions and a speaking and listening task.

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I think that students do not meet very much Shakespeare today - and that there are extracts from a number of plays that are worth looking at - just to experience the glory of the words and the themes and eternal truths he presents to the reader.

This extract is one I would cover whether we were studying Julies Caesar or not. I often cover this extract when we have looked at How Horatio kept the bridge (Macaulay).


Other extracts I use as "One offs" include the 7 ages of man - O she doth teach the torches to burn bright - This royal throne of kings - Bubble Bubble - To be or not to be - Henry V Once more unto the breech - to be or not to be - is this a dagger - to tell sad stories of the death of kings - the chair she sat in etc etc etc.

And try learning by heart. This was a regular homework for me as a child (and given lines to learn instead of detentions as well!) and it is something that still gives me endless pleasure that I have a lot stored away in my mind. They can repeat the words of the latest hit after a couple of hearings and they can also still say nursery rhymes learned years ago!

Learning 12 great lines of Shakespeare or poetry can only enhance lives!

Ruth Newbury

25/07/2013

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I think that students do not meet very much Shakespeare today - and that there are extracts from a number of plays that are worth looking at - just to experience the glory of the words and the themes and eternal truths he presents to the reader.

This extract is one I would cover whether we were studying Julies Caesar or not. I often cover this extract when we have looked at How Horatio kept the bridge (Macaulay).


Other extracts I use as "One offs" include the 7 ages of man - O she doth teach the torches to burn bright - This royal throne of kings - Bubble Bubble - To be or not to be - Henry V Once more unto the breech - to be or not to be - is this a dagger - to tell sad stories of the death of kings - the chair she sat in etc etc etc.

And try learning by heart. This was a regular homework for me as a child (and given lines to learn instead of detentions as well!) and it is something that still gives me endless pleasure that I have a lot stored away in my mind. They can repeat the words of the latest hit after a couple of hearings and they can also still say nursery rhymes learned years ago!

Learning 12 great lines of Shakespeare or poetry can only enhance lives!

Ruth Newbury

25/07/2013

5

5

5

5