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    Macbeth Student Worksheet

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    This document provides student worksheets about William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The worksheets guide students through tasks analyzing Lady Macbeth's character and her use of persuasive techniques to manipulate Macbeth. Students are asked to choose adjectives to describe Lady Macbeth, match Shakespearean dialogue to modern translations, read a key scene between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, and identify the persuasive techniques Lady Macbeth employs. Finally, students are tasked with developing a concept for a modern film adaptation of Macbeth that updates the characters, setting, and plot for contemporary audiences.

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    Macbeth Student Worksheet

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    This document provides student worksheets about William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The worksheets guide students through tasks analyzing Lady Macbeth's character and her use of persuasive techniques to manipulate Macbeth. Students are asked to choose adjectives to describe Lady Macbeth, match Shakespearean dialogue to modern translations, read a key scene between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, and identify the persuasive techniques Lady Macbeth employs. Finally, students are tasked with developing a concept for a modern film adaptation of Macbeth that updates the characters, setting, and plot for contemporary audiences.

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    This document provides student worksheets about William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The worksheets guide students through tasks analyzing Lady Macbeth's character and her use of persuasive techniques to manipulate Macbeth. Students are asked to choose adjectives to describe Lady Macbeth, match Shakespearean dialogue to modern translations, read a key scene between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, and identify the persuasive techniques Lady Macbeth employs. Finally, students are tasked with developing a concept for a modern film adaptation of Macbeth that updates the characters, setting, and plot for contemporary audiences.

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    121 views3 pages

    Macbeth Student Worksheet

    Uploaded by

    Eslam Fekry
    This document provides student worksheets about William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The worksheets guide students through tasks analyzing Lady Macbeth's character and her use of persuasive techniques to manipulate Macbeth. Students are asked to choose adjectives to describe Lady Macbeth, match Shakespearean dialogue to modern translations, read a key scene between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, and identify the persuasive techniques Lady Macbeth employs. Finally, students are tasked with developing a concept for a modern film adaptation of Macbeth that updates the characters, setting, and plot for contemporary audiences.

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    Lady Macbeth and how to get what you want

    Student worksheets

    Warmer – Discussing and sequencing events in Macbeth

    Have you ever watched this play


    or seen a filmed version? What
    do you know about it?

    Your teacher will give you a


    jumbled-up version of the plot of
    Macbeth.

    Work with a partner to see if you


    can arrange the events in the
    correct order.

    A scene from William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth

    Task 1 – Vocabulary: adjectives of personality

    You will now know that Lady Macbeth plays an important part in shaping the plot of Macbeth. Choose
    five words from the box which, in your opinion, best describe the character of Lady Macbeth.

    ruthless submissive manipulative ambitious violent feminine sensitive caring

    strong intelligent confident

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    Task 2 – Shakespearean English

    Shakespearean English is quite different from the English we speak today.


    Can you match Lady Macbeth’s lines (1–5) with their translation into modern English (a–e)?

    1. He has almost supped a. Are you too scared to go and get what
    you really want?
    2. Art thou afeared to be the same in thine own act
    and valour as thou art in desire? b. When Duncan is asleep I’ll get his two
    servants so drunk that they won’t
    3. When you durst do it then you were a man remember a thing the next day.
    4. But screw your courage to the sticking place and c. He has almost finished dinner.
    we’ll not fail.
    d. You were manly when you were brave
    5. When Duncan is asleep his two chamberlains will enough to do it.
    I with wine and wassail so convince that memory,
    the warder of the brain will be a fume. e. Set your mind on what you want to do
    and we’ll not fail.

    Task 3 – Reading Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7

    You are going to read Act 1, Scene 7 from Macbeth. As you read, think about the adjectives you
    chose to describe Lady Macbeth in Task 1 – Vocabulary: adjectives of personality. Do you still
    agree with your choices?

    Task 4 – Identifying Lady Macbeth’s persuasive techniques

    Lady Macbeth has to work very hard to persuade her husband to kill King Duncan. In the scene you
    have just read, she uses a number of persuasive techniques to make absolutely sure she gets her
    way. Here are some examples:

    a. Flattery
    b. Reassurance
    c. Putting someone down
    d. Emphasising determination

    For extracts 1–4, decide which of the persuasive techniques a–d she is using.
    1. I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face,
    have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.

    2. Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale on
    what it did so freely?

    3. When you durst do it then you were a man.

    4. But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail.

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    Task 5 – Role play

    Your teacher will give you a role play card. It will be your job to persuade someone to do something
    you want them to do. Use the persuasive techniques you have learned about. How successful are
    they?

    Task 6 – Pitching a modern-day film version of Macbeth

    Do you think similar events to those in the play Macbeth could take place today, in our times? What
    would be different?

    Working in groups, decide on a storyline for a modern-day film version of Macbeth. The story should
    be similar but the characters, setting, dialogue, etc. should all be adapted for our times. Which actors
    would play the lead roles? What would the soundtrack be? Where would your film be set?

    Take it in turns to ‘pitch’ your film idea to the rest of the class. Vote for the film which sounds the most
    interesting.

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