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EADING KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES madman. He did strange things and Page 34 – Activity 5 he talked in a crazy way. He often said 1 A 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 A 6 B

S things with a hidden meaning which Recording script B1.1 HAKESPEARE only he understood. The people Narrator: enjoyed making fun believed that Hamlet was mad and of . One day, the Prince was they hoped that he would soon get reading a book when he met the better. The Queen was very worried foolish old lord. because she loved her son. Only Polonius: What are you reading? Hamlet and the guards knew the Hamlet: Words, words, words. Prince of secret of Hamlet’s meeting with the Polonius: But what is the book about? . Hamlet: It’s full of lies. The writersays Page 21 – Activity 5 that old men are foolish, weak and KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES AND EXIT TEST PERSONAL RESPONSE have grey hair. Polonius: Hmmph. Page 22 – Activity 6 Hamlet: Can you see that cloud, 1 F 2 H 3 A 4 G 5 E Polonius? The Life of 3 1964 4 Grigory Kozintsev Polonius: Yes, my lord. William Shakespeare 5 Russia 6 7 Castle Page 22 – Activity 7 Hamlet: It looks like a camel, doesn’t 8 1996 9 complete 10 Almereyda PERSONAL RESPONSE it? Page 6 – Activity 1 11 12 New York Polonius: Yes, my lord. 1 It is St George’s Day, and St Page 9 – Activity 2 PART TWO Hamlet: No, I think it looks like a George is the patron saint of 1 A 2 O 3 Z 4 B 5 K Page 23 – Activity 1 weasel. England. Polonius: Yes, my lord. 1 Paris. 2 Sad. 3 He is mad for 2 A grammar school, where he PART ONE Hamlet: Or perhaps it looks like a studied Latin and Roman history. ’s love. 4 King and queen. whale. 3 The period after his Page 11 – Activity 1 Page 31 – Activity 1 Polonius: Yes, my lord. before he became well-known in 1 C 2 C 3 B 4 B 5 C 6 B 7 A 1 B 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 B 6 B 7 A 8 B Hamlet: Goodbye, you foolish old man. . 9 A 10 A 4 He was one of the owners of the Page 19 – Activity 1 PART THREE theatrical company known as the 1 B 2 D 3 F 4 E 5 G 6 O 7 K 8 C Page 31 – Activity 2 Page 34 – Activity 1 Lord Chamberlain’s Men. 9 L 10 H 1 did not say 1 university 2 pleased 3 ask a lot of 5 He was an actor. 2 may be/might be Page 20 – Activity 2 questions 4 the king 5 Horatio 6 38. 3 because he loves PERSONAL RESPONSE 7 The theatrical company, the Lord 4 Ophelia what Page 42 – Activity 1 Chamberlain’s Men, which changed Page 20 – Activity 3 5 no intelligent its name with the ascension to the 1 Because they asked a lot of 1 can’t 2 must 3 must 4 can’t, 6 not forget throne of Kings James. questions. must 5 must 6 must 7 can’t 8 He died in Stratford-upon-Avon on Page 32 – Activity 3 2 To put the Ghost’s story on the 8 must 9 must 10 can’t stage. 23 April 1616. C1D 2 H 3 G 4 E 5 C 6 J 7 M 3 The murder (by poison) of a king. Page 21 – Activity 4 8 B 9 K 10 L 11 I 12 A 13 F 4 No, he watched Claudius’s face Films of Hamlet DA5 B 4 C 2 D 1 E 6 F 3 1 C 2 C 3 C 4 B 5 A 6 B instead. Page 9 – Activity 1 Recording script Page 33 – Activity 4 5 He felt guilty. Narrator: So Hamlet, who was very 1 2 Four Academy PERSONAL RESPONSE 6 Because he did not want Claudius’s Awards and Best Picture Award intelligent, began to play the part of a soul to go to heaven.

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Page 42 – Activity 2 the audience will understand you. bed and walked around the ship. While Page 67 – Activity 1 A1 While Hamlet and Ophelia are Next, remember to pay attention to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were 1 Because he thought that Claudius talking, Polonius and Claudius the meaning of the words. Last of all, sleeping, he stole Claudius’s letter to had killed his father. are listening. don’t add any extra lines to the play the King of England. To his surprise, he 2 She sang sad songs and gave 2 While Claudius is praying, and don’t change the writer’s words. read these orders: ‘As soon as Hamlet flowers to everyone. Hamlet is standing behind him. I’ll repeat all that because it’s arrives, cut off his head.’ Hamlet 3 He jumped onto the pirates’ ship. 3 While the actors are performing important. First of all, don’t speak too quickly prepared another letter. 4 Because he was popular with the the play, Hamlet is watching loudly or too quietly. Secondly, don’t ‘Execute the people who bring you this people. Claudius carefully. move your hands too much. Thirdly, letter,’ he wrote. He signed it 5 She drowned in the river. 4 While the Player Queen is you should speak clearly. Next, you ‘Claudius’. Then he went back to his 6 Four. They belonged to a jester, a talking to the Player King, the should pay attention to the meaning cabin and hid the original letter. ‘When lady, a lawyer and a court murderer is planning to kill him. of the words. Finally, don’t add any Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive in gentleman. B1 While the soldiers are guarding extra lines or change the words of the England,’ he thought, ‘the English King Page 67 – Activity 2 the castle, the Ghost appears. play. will execute them. But how am I going to return to Denmark?’ The next 1 fought 2 hid 3 met 4 fell 2 While Ophelia is sitting in her Page 44 – Activity 5 room, Hamlet enters. morning, Rosencrantz and 5 shook 6 thought 7 sent 8 sang PERSONAL RESPONSE 3 While the murderer is poisoning Guildenstern woke up without realising 9 found 10 ran 11 felt 12 stood that the letter had been changed. the Player King, Claudius stands Page 67 – Activity 3 up. Shakespeare and the Page 59 – Activity 4 PERSONAL RESPONSE 4 While he is talking to the Elizabethan Theatre PERSONAL RESPONSE players, Hamlet has an idea. Page 47 – Activity 1 Page 68 – Activity 4 Page 43 – Activity 3 1 courtyards of pubs, the houses of PART FIVE 1 D 1 dramatist 2 stage 3 characters aristocrats Page 59 – Activity 1 2 4 4 tragedy 5 comedy 6 audience 2 Shakespeare’s theatrical company P I 3 G R E E T 3 a fire 1 YES 2 NO 3 NO 4 YES 7 costumes 8 ticket 9 box office 5 NO 6 YES 7 NO 8 NO 5 F O O L I S H E 10 interval 11 playwright 4 the open space in front of the I C V stage 9 YES 10 NO Page 44 – Activity 4 5 in the 1990s S 8 O 6 B E T R A Y 1 too loudly 6 boy actors 7 F O R G I V E N 9 2 hands 10 N O E G 3 speak clearly PART FOUR 12 P S 11 P R E T E N D 4 meaning Page 55 – Activity 1 12 P O U R E D 13 5 add (any extra) lines R N N R 6 words of the play OR writer’s words 1 C 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 C 6 A 7 B A I C L I F F Recording script Page 56 – Activity 2 14 Y S R V Hamlet: It’s good to see you again, my PERSONAL RESPONSE friends. Let me give you some advice I 15 H E A V E N for the play tonight. First of all, you Page 57 – Activity 3 N N R shouldn’t speak too loudly or too 1 B 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 C 6 C 7 C 16 G H O S T quietly. If the audience can’t hear you, Recording script Z they won’t be pleased. But if you shout, Narrator: It was a long journey by sea they won’t like it. Secondly, you to England. One night, Hamlet could shouldn’t move your hands too much. not sleep because he was thinking But it’s important to speak clearly, so about all his problems. He got out of

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Page 69 – Activity 5 Page 83 – Activity 2 AFTER READING Page 94 – Activity 3 willow; shine; picking; graceful; Four: , , Claudius, Page 91 – Activity 1 A 7 B 4 C 3 D 9 E 6 F 8 G 1 H 5 climbing; broke; down; wide; surface; Hamlet A Ho 15 B C 10 C Hm 5 D Hm 1 I 2 happy; heavy; bottom Two: Polonius and Ophelia E L 2 F C 4 G Ho 6 H Hm 14 Page 70 – Activity 6 Page 83 – Activity 3 I Hm 11 J G 8 K G 13 L O 12 M Hm 9 N Gh 3 O G 7 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 A 6 B 7 A PERSONAL RESPONSE Page 72 – Activity 7 Page 84 – Activity 4 PERSONAL RESPONSE 1 a guard 3 the ghost 4 Hamlet 5 Hamlet 6 Hamlet PART SIX 7 Claudius 8 Hamlet 9 Claudius Page 73 – Activity 1 10 Hamlet 11 Gertrude 12 Ophelia 13 Hamlet 14 Hamlet 15 Hamlet 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 C 5 B 6 B 7 B Page 85 – Activity 5 Page 83 – Activity 1 1 A 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 A 6 A 7 B 1 B 2 A 3 A 4 B 5 A 6 A 7 B 8 A Page 87 – Activity 6 KEY TO THE EXIT TEST PERSONAL RESPONSE

Focus on the context Activity 3 Who was Hamlet? Activity 1 a F – It takes place in Denmark. Page 90 – Activity 1 a In Stratford-upon-Avon on April b T c F – He sees the ghost of his Seneca’ revenge tragedies Shakespeare’s Hamlet 23rd, 1564. b 38. father. a secret murder Claudius secretly poisoned King Hamlet c At the , London. d F – She is in love with Hamlet. the ghost of the person murdered King Hamlet appears before the d The plays took place in the open e T comes to a younger relative, often guards at night, and then Hamlet air in daylight when the weather f F – They put the Ghost’s (King the son, of the person murdered comes and talks with him. was good. Hamlet’s) story on stage. period when the avenger and Claudius sends Rosencrantz and e Shakespeare’s birthplace. (Also: g T murderer make plans against Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet, Mary Arden’s house, Anne h F – Laertes prepares a poisoned each other and then he tries to send Hamlet Hathaway’s cottage and the Royal sword. to England to kill him. Shakespeare Theatre.) i F – Queen Gertrude drinks from the cup of poison by mistake. the avenger or some other Hamlet pretends to be mad in Focus on the story j F – Seven people are dead: King character pretends to be mad order to better investigate his Activity 2 Hamlet, , Polonius, or really becomes mad father’s murder. 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 B 6 B 7 C 8 A Ophelia, Laertes, Queen Gertrude an explosion of violence and killing The duel between Laertes and Hamlet and Claudius. when most of the main characters that ends in the death of Laertes, are killed Hamlet, Claudius and Gertrude.

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Focus on the context the graveyard when Ophelia’s funeral procession approaches. Hamlet is shocked at the death of Ophelia and fights with Laertes. Laertes wants 1 Answer the following questions. his revenge and he and Claudius plan how to kill Hamlet. Laertes puts a Where and when was William Shakespeare born? poison on the tip of his sword and challenges Hamlet to a fencing match b How many plays did he write? while Claudius prepares 7...... poisoned drink. During the fight, Gertrude c Where were many of Shakespeare’s dramas performed? drinks from the cup of poison and dies. Laertes wounds Hamlet with the d Why was the Globe Theatre different from a modern theatre? poisoned sword but then, in the confusion, they exchange swords and Hamlet wounds Laertes who dies. Hamlet has his revenge and uses the e What can you visit if you go to Stratford? same poisoned sword on Claudius 8...... they both die. 0. A sees B seen C see 1. A tell B telling C tells Focus on the story 2. A dying B dead C dies 2 Read the summary of the story. Choose the best word (A, B or C) for each 3. A himself B her C him space (1-8). 4. A in B on C at One night two guards 0...... the ghost of King Hamlet and 1...... Horatio, 5. A on B with C of Prince Hamlet’s friend. The Prince’s father is 2...... and Gertrude, his 6. A on B into C down mother, is now married to Claudius, his uncle. Hamlet doesn’t like 7. A one B this C a Claudius. Hamlet sees the ghost of his father who tells him that the 8. A and B when C until Queen was unfaithful to 3...... and that his brother murdered him. Hamlet decides to pretend to be mad. Ophelia is in love with Hamlet. She tells her father, Polonius, that Hamlet looks sad and Polonius speaks to 3 Are the following sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones. Claudius and Gertrude. They decide to listen to a conversation between TF Hamlet and Ophelia to discover the truth. Hamlet realises that this is a a The story takes place in England. trap and tells Ophelia he doesn’t love her. Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz b Queen Gertrude is married to Prince Hamlet’s uncle. and Guildenstern, visit him. He is suspicious of them when they ask a lot c One night, Hamlet sees the ghost of his grandfather. of questions. When the travelling actors arrive at Elsinore, Hamlet decides to add words to their play and put King Hamlet’s story on the d Ophelia is in love with Horatio. stage. During the play, Claudius runs out of the court and goes to pray in e Gertrude was unfaithful to King Hamlet. the chapel. f The travelling actors put Polonius’ story on stage. Hamlet sees him but decides not to kill him while he is praying. Hamlet g Ophelia falls into a river and drowns. speaks to his mother 4...... the middle of the night. The Queen screams h Claudius prepares a poisoned sword. because she is afraid of him. Someone behind the curtain screams and i Laertes drinks from the cup of poison by mistake. Hamlet kills him. He thinks it is Claudius but it is Polonius. After this, j At the end of the story, four people are dead. Claudius decides to send Hamlet to England. In the meantime Laertes, Polonius’ son, is very angry. 5...... Claudius because of the death of his father. Ophelia is now mad because her father is dead. Hamlet returns to Denmark. Meanwhile, Ophelia falls 6...... a river and drowns. Hamlet is in Photocopiable © 2008 Black Cat Publishing Photocopiable © 2008 Black Cat Publishing

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