Shakespeare | EFL Resource Pack for Language, Literature and Creative English Lessons

Explore the plays, language, and legacy of William Shakespeare with this carefully curated EFL resource pack, designed to make Shakespeare accessible, relevant, and engaging for English language learners.

This collection blends creative drama tasks, language decoding, and cultural context with structured reading, speaking, and vocabulary-based activities. From iambic pentameter and stage directions to storytelling games and a Shakespeare-themed murder mystery, this pack supports learners with flexible resources that bring the Bard’s world to life.

Perfect for use during literature projects, drama weeks, or to build fluency, inference, and cultural knowledge — all while having fun with Shakespeare.

What’s Included:

• Meet Shakespeare – A short biography and timeline introducing Shakespeare’s life, works, and legacy.
• What Does It Mean? –A vocabulary worksheet presenting key terms used in his plays, with modern definitions.
• Blank Verse – A pronunciation and rhythm resource that introduces iambic pentameter and its role in spoken English.
• It’s All in the Text – A guided worksheet showing how Shakespeare’s words convey setting, emotion, and action without stage directions.
• Shakespeare Puzzles – A wordsearch and crossword activity focused on the titles of Shakespeare’s plays.
• Spot the Plot! – A reading challenge where students decide which plot summaries are from Shakespeare’s plays and which are decoys.
• Bard or Bat? – A fun quote challenge where students decide whether each line is from Shakespeare or a Batman character, encouraging tone and theme analysis.
• Decoding Macbeth – A matching task where students pair dramatic quotes from Macbeth with their modern English equivalents.
• Romeo and Juliet Scenes – Four key extracts from the play, with performance notes to support classroom reading or roleplay.
• Plot Builder – A storytelling game using character, setting, plot twist and object cards to help students create their own Shakespeare-style tale.
• Mystery Most Foul – A murder mystery game where students work in teams to solve the fictional death of Shakespeare using reading and logic.
• Elizabethan Theatre Texts – Two reading texts describing what life was like for actors in Shakespeare’s time, laid out in a line-numbered, theatre-style format to reflect the structure of dramatic texts.

These resources are also available to download individually.

Perfect For:

• TEFL, ESOL, and EAL teachers introducing Shakespeare with varied language levels
• Literature and drama-themed lessons, project weeks, or cultural units
• Building vocabulary, reading fluency, and confidence with performance and interpretation
• Exploring Shakespeare’s language, theatre, and legacy in a fun, modern classroom format

Please Note: Once you have completed your purchase, you will receive a PDF pack to download and print. This is a digital download – no physical product will be shipped.