Module 9 Unit 2 He decided to be an actor.课件 (外研版英语七年级下册)

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Unit 2 He decided to be an actor.
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The life of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a famous English
writer of plays and poems.He wrote about
thirty-eight plays.154 short poems and a few
long poems in his life.Two of his famous
plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 in
Stratford,England.Like many people 400
years ago,Shakespeare's parents didn't
learn to read or write.At school he liked
plays.so he decided to be an actor when
he finished school at fourteen.He married
in 1582 and had three children.
Shakespeare went to London and joined
a theatre company in about 1592.He
became a successful actor and began to
the old theatre.They built it again in
write plays.Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed his
1614 and in the 1990s.
works very much.
William Shakespeare died at the
In 1599 the company built the Globe
age of fifty-two.He was rich and
Theatre on the River Thames in London.
successful.You can still see his plays in
You can visit the theatre today,but it isn't
English and in many other languages.
the same building.There was a fire in
He's famous around the world.