William Shakespeare can be fun! This lesson, which starts with a listening, vocabulary and speaking task from Headway Upper-Intermediate, Oxford Univerty Press, 1987, continues with a discussion about the seven ages of man and aging, a topic that has changed very little since Elisabethian times. Then you can find two videos that explain the plot of the play "As You Like It", one from Shmoop and the other one by a teacher, Ian Finley. Finally, you can find four renditions of Jaques' classic monologue "All the World is Stage" performed by Digital Theatre Plus, Morgan Freeman, Tom O'Bedlam and Beth Kennedy in Troubadour Theatre Company. The picture in this post shows Orlando and Rosalind, the two main characters in "As You Like It".
Shakespeare still has something to say 500 years later, you only have to decide whose performance you prefer.
