Class: 6

March 23, 2020

Subject: English Literature

➢ Reading task:
• Read the introduction of the book “The Merchant of Venice and other stories
from Shakespeare’s Plays”
• Read “ About William Shakespeare”

March 24,2020

Subject: English Literature

➢ Writing Task:

Topic: “About William Shakespeare”

Q: Write down the facts about “William Shakespeare”

A: William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, an actor, widely regarded as

the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist.

Born: April 26,1564

Studied: King’s New School Startford

Wife: Anne Hathaway

Children: three children

▪ Susanna Hall
▪ Hamnet Shakespeare
▪ Judith Quiney

Died: April 23,1616

Age: 52 years

Kinds of plays:

▪ Comedy plays
▪ Historical plays
▪ Romantic plays
▪ Tragic plays

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Comedy plays:

▪ The Comedy of Errors

▪ The Merchant of Venice
▪ Cymbeline
▪ The Merry Wives of Windsor

Historical plays:

▪ Antony and Cleopatra

▪ Julius Caesar
▪ King Lear

Romantic plays:

▪ The Winter’s Tale

▪ The Tempest
▪ Pericles

Tragic plays:

▪ Hamlet
▪ Othello
▪ Macbeth

March 25,2020

Subject: English Literature

Play: “The Merchant of Venice”

➢ Reading task:
➢ Writing Task:

Q: Read the play “The Merchant of Venice” from page no 1 to 4 then draw the
given character map in your note book.

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March 26,2020

Subject: English Literature

Play: “The Merchant of Venice”

➢ Reading task:

Q: Read the play “The Merchant of Venice” pages 1 and 6.

➢ Learning and Writing Task:

Learn the followings spellings for dictation.(write these words in your note book
as well)

• continually
• successful
• foreign
• destroyed
• generous
• amusing
• bargain
• amusing
• intended
• humour
• borrowed
• persuaded
• agreement
• terrible
• immediately

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March 27,2020

Subject: English Literature

Play: “The Merchant of Venice”

➢ Reading task:

Read the play “The Merchant of Venice” pages 1 and 6.

➢ Writing task:

Q :Write down the meanings of the following words.

• defeat: destroy lose

• ducats: a former European currency usually gold coins
• suspicious: doubtful
• intended: delibrated
• desire: wish
• terrible: exteremly bad
• generous: kind, liberal, big hearted
• merchant: trader, dealer
• annoyed: feeling of anger
• accused: blamed
• bargain: to negotiate over the term of an agreement
• deserve:to be worthy of, merit

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