1. EAL Nexus Resource The Tempest Matching activity Subject: English
Age groups:
11-14, 15-16
Topic:
© Bell Educational Trust EAL Nexus – free downloadable teaching materials
This resource was originally developed by C. Field and M. Apcar from Stoke Newington School in Hackney for the Collaborative Learning Project, and piloted in schools with help from S. Broadbent at the English and Media Centre, and has been adapted for EAL Nexus.
Images taken from Self-Made Hero’s Manga Shakespeare series and used with permission.

2. I’m glad you taught me to speak because it means I can curse you.

3. Things that are hard to do may be painful but they will be worth it in the end.

4. If you marry me I will be your wife
If you marry me I will be your wife. If you won’t I will be your servant.

5. This island makes beautiful sounds that give me great pleasure.

6. The celebrations are over now, and the spirits taking part have all disappeared

7. Come on nymphs, help celebrate this marriage of two people who are truly in love.

8. Although I caused the shipwreck I made sure that no-one came to any harm.

9. I will submit to your commands and do what you say without complaining

10. They are both in love, but I will make things difficult for them so they have to work hard for their happiness and will appreciate it.

11. If I were in charge everyone would be equal and no-one would have to work.

12. I have loved women before to some extent, but never met a woman who I loved completely before.

13. How beautiful people are! What a wonderful world!

14. When I am a free spirit I will drink nectar like a bee, sleep in a cowslip flower and ride on a bat’s back

15. I will throw away my magic staff and books (not use my magic powers any more)

16. If I die I won’t have worry about money any more

17. Treat Caliban kindly and be nice to him or I’ll hang you from a tree
Treat Caliban kindly and be nice to him or I’ll hang you from a tree! I’m his master and I don’t want him disrespected.

18. I could die laughing at this monster! I’d like to beat him.

19. We’ve all just survived drowning, so we should take the future into our own hands.

20. I was so interested in my books that they became my whole life.

21. He smells like a cheap fish that is beginning to go bad

22. Let’s not be sad about things that have happened in the past

23. While you’re asleep, people are plotting against you
While you’re asleep, people are plotting against you! Wake up and watch out!

24. (Singing drunkenly) I’ve got a new master! I’m free!

25. He has such a beautiful body that he must be good inside because nothing bad could exist inside him

26. You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language

27. There be some sports are painful, and their labour
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.

28. I am your wife, if you will marry me.
If not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant
Whether you will or no.

29. Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears.

30. Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;

31. Come temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
A contract of true love.

32. I have with such provision in mine art
So safely ordered that there is no soul –
No, not so much perdition as an hair,
Betid to any creature in the vessel.

33. Pardon, master.
I will be correspondent to command,
And do my spiriting gently.

34. They are both in each other’s powers,
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.

35. Letters should not be known, riches, poverty
And use of service, none; contract succession
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none.

36. For several virtues
Have I liked several women, never any
With so full soul,

37. How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!

38. Where the bee sucks there suck I;
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry,
On the bat’s back I fly.

39. I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did every plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.

40. He that dies pays all debts

41. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutinner – the next tree! The poor monster’s my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.

42. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster
I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him.

43. We all were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again,
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.

44. My library
Was dukedom large enough.

45. A fish: he smells
Like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell: a kind of
Not of the newest Poor-John.
A strange fish!

46. Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that’s gone.

47. While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy
His time doth take.
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber and beware.

48. ‘Ban, Ban, Cacaliban
Has a new master: get a new man.
Freedom, hey-day! hey-day,
freedom! Freedom!

49. There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with’t.

50. Antonio

51. Trinculo

52. Trinculo

53. Trinculo

54. Stephano

55. Stephano

56. Prospero

57. Prospero

58. Prospero

59. Prospero

60. Prospero

61. Prospero

62. Ariel

63. Ariel

64. Ariel

65. Miranda

66. Miranda

67. Miranda

68. Ferdinand

69. Ferdinand

70. Gonzalo

71. Iris

72. Caliban

73. Caliban