This project and its actions were made possible due to co-financing by the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals Hamlet – appearance and reality Matching cards Subject:English Age ranges:12–14, 15–16 Topic:Hamlet EAL Nexus resource Licence information | This resource is free to use for educational purposes. © British Council 2015 Source | This resource was originally developed by EAL Nexus. Images are from Self-Made Hero’s Manga Shakespeare series.

What to do  Work with a partner.  Use a dictionary to find the words in bold.  The blue cards have quotes from Act 1 of Hamlet. The pink cards have a picture of the person who said it and an explanation of what they meant.  Match each blue card with a pink card.

Hamlet says that he will pretend to be mad.

Claudius says that he loves Hamlet like a father loves his son.

The ghost says that Queen Gertrude seemed to be a good person.

Hamlet says that the ghost is telling the truth when he says that he is his father.

Claudius says that he is sad because Hamlet’s father is dead.

Hamlet says that he is really upset inside, not just wearing mourning clothes.

My most seeming-virtuous queen

….we with wisest sorrow think on him

It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you

And with no less nobility of love than that which dearest father bears his son, Do I impart toward you

How strange or odd so'er I bear myself, (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet, To put an antic disposition on)

But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe

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