A complete lesson plan preparing students for the general essay task. Use the differentiated tasks for group work as well as the plenary.

A complete lesson plan with group tasks and activities. Extend your students' appreciation of the play with specific tasks on extracts from Act 3. Great for reviewing the Act and cementing your students' understanding of the play. Suitable for KS4 but can be tweaked to suit KS3. Please leave a comment. Thank you.

A full lesson plan for looking at the relationships in the play. Explore with the help of these interactive and fun resources, Students present their ideas on the characters and examine the characters' motivations and personality traits. Suitable for KS4 but can be tweaked easily enough for KS3. Please leave a comment. Thank you.

Review students' understanding of the two Acts in differentiated groups tasks. Get the ideas flowing from different group tasks all happening at the same time. Suitable for KS4 but can be tweaked easily enough for KS3 use. Please leave a comment. Thank you.

Understand the background of the play and get to know what makes the characters tick with the help of this lesson.

Get your students ready for assessments on the passage-based tasks with this complete resource. A step-by-step guide with interactive group activity and role cards for differentiation.

Help your students to get to know the characters of the play better with this handy resource.

A complete lesson plan preparing students for the general essay task. Use the differentiated tasks for group work as well as the plenary.

How do the characters relate to one another? What drives one character to do what he does? What is their motivation? Explore the different relationships in the play in this lesson.

A resource that can be used to provide an introduction to Shakespearean times. It prompts the student to research this period using a series of web-links and write an essay on their fictional time travels to 1599.

Based on the card game, Snap, this game will involve students fully. The teacher holds the character cards while the students have the traits cards. Lots of fun and noise but all worth it in the end.