This lesson was created for a mixed ability Year 8 class where they explore how the theme of hatred and violence are introduced early on. They focus on the speech of Prince Escalus.

Power-point lesson Objective : Focus on how the witches predictions start to have an affect Macbeth. Starter - Recap on Macbeth Read scene 3 - Discuss the impression of the witches Study questions - Technique Dramatic Irony Structure paragraphs exam style answers.

This resource guides students through Romeo and Juliet Act 4 scenes 2 and 3 where the Capulets are preparing for the wedding and Juliet is preparing to take the Friar’s potion and fake her own death. The lesson focuses on the language which shows that Juliet is clever, determined, fearful yet brave. Discussion considers the power of the fears that she articulates as she imagines what could go wrong with the Friar’s plan and her desperate act in taking the potion. Juliet’s character is understood to be increasingly isolated and having to act without the support of family or nurse. Foreshadowing, dramatic irony and tragic inevitability are features. The lesson closes with exam style questions (one AQA and one EDEXCEL with some suggestions for areas of focus in the answers (including context points).

A PowerPoint presentation, which takes students through Act One Scene Three of Macbeth. Includes a variety of tasks with focus on: reading for meaning, language, context and empathy. About an hour - 2 hours worth of work, depending on whether some tasks are set as homework or whether they are all completed in class time.

A lesson exploring the moment that Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time. This lesson has a specific writing focus - mainly looking at using different clause types - however the extract provided and analysis of key words could easily be expanded.

A PowerPoint exploring Act 5, Scene One of ‘Macbeth’ for mid-high level GCSE Engish Literature classes. The PowerPoint contains exploration of themes:Guilt; Gender & Identity; and Children Genre, Shakespeare’s Method and Context are also explored: The Character of Lady Macbeth; Significance of Language; and Insanity in the 17th Century The teacher can choose to focus on some, or all of the slides, as the class requires. Underneath most slides are teacher notes to aid with class teaching. Best wishes, Englbee x

A PowerPoint exploring Act One, Scene One of ‘Macbeth’ for mid-high level GCSE Engish Literature classes. The PowerPoint contains exploration of theme: Gender & Identity; Appearance & Reality; and Ambition, Fate & Freewill Genre, Shakespeare’s Method and Context are also explored: Tragic Villains , Significance of Language; and Belief in Witches The teacher can choose to focus on some, or all of the slides, as the class needs. Underneath most slides are teacher notes to aid with class teaching. You can find all of Act One below as part of a bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-act-1-gcse-12801339 Best wishes, Englbee x

Descriptive Writing – Focus in detail The point of descriptive writing is to give enough carefully selected and presented information for the reader to create a strong visual image of the scene in their mind. Supposing, for example, your students are handed a picture of a London scene, set in Victorian Britain in winter time, full of stalls and churches and snow and people and shops and carriages and stray dogs and lamps and so on. The written task might say: “write a description based on the picture.” It is natural that as the eye roams around the contents of the picture the description that follows will be in a logical linear sequence. So the student may describe a stall, then the church, then the snow then the people, followed by the shops, the carriages, stray dogs and lamps and so on. The problem I have noticed with such an approach is that although connectives are used in the form of ‘next to that is…” or ‘behind the church there is a dog that roams’ etc, the basic structure can resemble, in essence, a list.

This lesson is a lively introduction to the play for able students. It offers a glimpse of original performance methods as well as beginning to focus students on language and rhythm. There is a general look at the witches, followed by more detailed questions to answer independently on their meeting with Macbeth and Banquo. These questions should produce robust notes for students on the play’s opening that begin to focus their minds on detailed textual analysis with reference to context.

This PowerPoint lesson guides the class through two important scenes that focus on money/gold - Act 2 scenes 6 & 7 of The Merchant of Venice. Jessica’s departure with Lorenzo is considered in the context of the financial language established already in the play (with particular focus on the wealth she is stealing from Shylock). Scene 7 switches focus to Belmont and the three casket riddles, with students encouraged to consider the riddle meanings, spotting the odd one out of the three phrases. The language and ideas surrounding gold, wealth and its use are explored, contrasting the way in which the theft from Shylock is seen as rightful whereas the message within the gold casket warns against the pursuit of money and gold. The language and context of racial differences is also considered. The lesson closes with a formal question to interrogate the presentation of the theme of money in the play so far. Ideal for Edexcel, AQA and OCR GCSE courses.

A fully resourced lesson on Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene 4, with detailed focus on the Queen Mab speech. This includes a powerpoint with instructions and students worksheet. It offers a range of activities: quote analysis, paragraphs, character sketch and labeling, speech annotation. Perfect for any GCSE Literature specification or a high ability Year 9. I have also included a link to a youtube tutorial which would be great as a revision aid for students later on.

Unit of work covering Act One of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. All scenes are covered, with a focus on key scenes. I have used this with learners in Years 10 and 11, preparing them for GCSE English Literature (AQA), but it would still be appropriate for younger years. Includes all key quotations from the play on one handy document.

Poetry and drama (literary heritage) controlled assessment. Unlock Shakespeare's language in Romeo and Juliet's meeting scene. Activities and worksheets for pre-reading, prediction and writing on Act 1, Scene 5. Forms part of the TES English collection for WJEC GCSE English Literature

Focuses on the parallel school scenes in Blood Brothers with a focus on: -Constructing PEA chains, and -Hitting Assessment Objectives

Exam preparation materials focusing on John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men including essay planning and revision game

B and D Publishing’s Macbeth Act 1 slide pack. This series of lessons covers all of the scenes in Act 1, with commentary on the text, examination of key soliloquies, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery. Also included are pdf “Character Files” for pupils to fill out on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Also available: Act 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-two-slide-pack-15-slides-11993767 Act 3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-three-slide-pack-16-slides-12009554 Act 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-four-slide-pack-13-slides-12012985 Act 5: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-five-slide-pack-18-slides-12026078 Save by purchasing the bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12026188 A slide pack focusing on the scenes in which The Witches appear is also available for free download: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-the-witches-slide-pack-17-slides-12009565 Many of the exercises in the PowerPoint packs can also be found in our full key stage 4 scheme of worksheets on the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and Eduqas set text. This pack consists of 60 pdf pages and sample pages are available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-resource-pack-sample-pages-11860541 For even better value, the slides can also be purchased as a bundle with the full scheme of worksheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-scheme-of-work-and-powerpoint-bundle-12028223 The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school. Key stage 4 Shakespeare schemes of work are also available for the following plays: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night; Henry V; Richard III. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for home learning and GCSE exam revision. Also available for KS3 are ‘Starting Macbeth’ and ‘Macbeth in Focus’. The Starting Macbeth scheme of work is a short, simple introduction to the play for KS3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-macbeth-ks3-scheme-of-work-12044679. Macbeth in Focus features classroom display materials and accompanying worksheets, perfect as an introduction to the play for KS3 or as a quick revision resource for KS4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-in-focus-10-lesson-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12022474 See our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources or would like to provide feedback please leave a review.

Pupils are introduced to the circumstances surrounding Oliver's birth and the tragic death of his mother. Pupils work on a settling activity which challenges them to unjumble the words of characters/key items related to the text. Following this, pupils read the accompanying extract with a particular focus on one of the three central characters within this scene; Oliver's mother, the nurse and the surgeon. Students are then challenged to create an internal monologue for their assigned character. All resources included!

A lesson that explores Act 1 Scene 2. Students consider how they can use powerful verbs to create atmosphere. They then think about the qualities/personalities/connotations of a father and daughter and a magician and their magic. They then apply these ideas and look at how Miranda converses with her father and analyse her language use. They they move on to focus on Prospero and choose from one of three arguments to focus their extended writing on. Students then produce a PEAL paragraph/extended response based on their selected essay question. There is also a PEAL/PEE support table mat to scaffold learning that includes a sample paragraph and quotation bank.

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This is a planning sheet to help pupils to collate ideas for acting out the chosen scene.

Grid revision resource to use for KS4 pupils to review and revise Act One of Macbeth. For each scene, there is an abridged version in the first column to focus pupils and support differentiation. The remaining columns require pupils to review, revise and make notes on the following areas: Why the scene is important Key Themes Key Characters Key Quotations Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s Macbeth in Focus, a short, colourful introduction to the play for KS3. The full resource pack contains 10 A4 posters that can be printed and displayed in the classroom as a useful aid to memory. Each of the accompanying worksheets provides enough work for a whole lesson or homework. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. There are 10 worksheets providing work for 10 lessons and the full pack is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-in-focus-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12022474 The pack would also make a useful, quick revision resource at key stage 4, but for an in-depth analysis of the play see our KS4 Macbeth scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-scheme-of-work-11860607 PowerPoint versions of many of the activities from the KS4 scheme of work are also available. This series of lessons covers all of the scenes in the play, with commentary on the text, examination of key soliloquies, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12026188 Also available in our ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials: Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing; Henry V; Richard III; Twelfth Night. Also available is the KS3 scheme of work Introducing Shakespeare. This useful resource introduces pupils to Shakespeare’s England and theatre. There are worksheets on Elizabeth I; Elizabethan clothes, homes, food, festivals and life; Shakespeare’s home and family; Stratford-on-Avon; London and more. The pack includes a simple model of the Globe theatre for pupils to make: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-shakespeare-scheme-of-work-11889714 For a short, simple introduction to Shakespeare’s plays at key stage 3, B & D Publishing’s Starting Shakespeare series is also available for the following plays: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; The Merchant of Venice. KS4 schemes of work are also available for: Othello; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo & Juliet; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry V; Richard III. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for GCSE exam revision. See our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources please leave a review. The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school.