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SHAKESPEARE’s LONDON Internet worksheet The Great Fire of London and The Plague Visit http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history /fire/ Click on Watch London Burn Click on Watch it Spread . Read the captions and pause if it goes too fast for you to read. Read The Story of the Fire . Answer the following questions in your book: 1. Where did the fire start? 2. How long did it go on for? 3. Why did it last so long? 4. How did the fire stop? At the same website as above, click on Plague / Where they died . In your book write down the areas worst affected. Write a comment about how these two events must have affected people of London at the time. The Globe Theatre Visit http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/enrich /globe_picker.html Enter the site and click on either ‘low bandwith version’ or ‘full sound version’ Complete the virtual tour Return to the homepage and find the answers to the following questions. Write them down in full sentences in your book. 1. How many toilets were there at the Globe in Shakespeare's day? 2. What sort of people went to the Globe theatre? 3. How did people behave at the theatre? 4. What signalled that the play was about to begin? 5. What was a 'cutpurse' and what might happen to them at the theatre? 6. How would Shakespeare's special effects man create the sound of birds? 7. What sort of scenery did Shakespeare's theatre have? 8. How did Shakespeare's company light their plays? 9. Where did the players get their best costumes from?

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Worksheet for exploring internet sites as instructed; information on The Great Fire, the PLague and The Globe. Check emailsites exist first!

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Page 1: Shakespeares London Internet WS

SHAKESPEARE’s LONDONInternet worksheet

The Great Fire of London and The Plague

Visit http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/fire/

Click on Watch London Burn Click on Watch it Spread. Read the captions and pause if it goes

too fast for you to read. Read The Story of the Fire. Answer the following questions in your

book:

1. Where did the fire start?2. How long did it go on for?3. Why did it last so long?4. How did the fire stop?

At the same website as above, click on Plague / Where they died. In your book write down the areas worst affected.

Write a comment about how these two events must have affected people of London at the time.

The Globe Theatre

Visit http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/enrich/globe_picker.html

Enter the site and click on either ‘low bandwith version’ or ‘full sound version’

Complete the virtual tour Return to the homepage and find the answers to the following

questions. Write them down in full sentences in your book.

1. How many toilets were there at the Globe in Shakespeare's day? 2. What sort of people went to the Globe theatre? 3. How did people behave at the theatre? 4. What signalled that the play was about to begin? 5. What was a 'cutpurse' and what might happen to them at the theatre? 6. How would Shakespeare's special effects man create the sound of birds? 7. What sort of scenery did Shakespeare's theatre have? 8. How did Shakespeare's company light their plays? 9. Where did the players get their best costumes from? 10. What would the audience do if they didn't like a play? 11. What are props - and what sort of props would Shakespeare's theatre have had? 12. Did all theatre companies own a theatre to perform in? 13. What was unusual about female characters? 14. What did the area under the stage symbolise when actors shouted from underneath it?