Shakespeare 400th anniversary

The bilingual groups attended to a general presentation about Shakespeare's life and work. The main points that our assintant teacher, Tim, talked were:

• William Shakespeare grew up in a rather important family. His father was influential as an alderman and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy landowner.

• He never received a complete education, but he spent most of his free time reading, writing and acting.

• There are a lot of things we don't know about Shakespeare, but we can hypothesize about parts of his life based on his writings.

• He became very wealthy from the work he did, and bought property in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London.

• Other than his famous stories, he also invented more than 1,700 words by combining words, turning verbs into adjectives, changing nouns into verbs and using many other techniques.