Tales from Shakespeare - Charles and Mary Lamb

Theme: Social Issues

An excellent introduction to the world of Shakespeare.

This edition includes seven of Shakespeare’s plays: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They tell stories of love, romance, ambition, jealousy and death, to name but a few of Shakespeare’s favourite themes and introduce us to some of his most famous characters.

Syllabus

Verbs:

Present perfect continuous, Past perfect continuous, Future perfect, Third conditional, Make, Get, Let, Have something done, Used to, Phrasal verbs, All passive forms, Wish, Conditionals with may/might

Sentence types:

relative clauses,  defining, Clauses of concession: despite, Complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause

Modal verbs:

May might.