A lesson teaching students how to analyse an extract from Macbeth, preparing them for the new GCSE 9-1 Literature exams. This lesson focuses on Act 1, Scene 2 . Based on Edexcel mark scheme, though this can be easily changed.

This is a 104-page activity booklet made to be used alongside David Crystal’s book “The Story of English in 100 Words”. I have highlighted on page 2 chapters that are specifically useful to students on the A Level Language course, highlighting particular parts of the book that relate to concepts like borrowing, neologisms, the influence of Latin and Greek on English etc, though of course the whole book is wonderful to read. This makes an excellent transistion task between either Y11 and Y12, or Y12 to Y13. Of course this also could be used for #homelearning #homeschooling as it is a substantial task which can be completed independently (we buy our sixth formers a copy of the book to take away with them).