LANGUAGE.
Delve deeper into the language used in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
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Quote analysis, videos of key scenes, text extracts – everything you need to enhance your exploration of Macbeth.
Key Quotes
To help with analysis and quote memorisation we have picked out ten chronological quotes from the play.
Explore the quotes with your students – listen to them out loud, and consider how they link to exam themes.
Speeches
Extracts
The length of these extracts from Macbeth vary in order to represent the range of extract lengths used by different exam boards at GCSE.
Each extract is followed by questions relating to language, key themes, and character.
These resources are intended to support you in leading students’ analysis of a key scene. This could be used for discussion as a class, in pairs or groups, or as a homework task.
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