how to dazzle at

Macbeth

Romeo & Juliet

Twelfth Night

by Patrick Cunningham, Irene Yates

Each title in this series contains over 40 photocopiable pages for use with junior and middle secondary students, especially those with special learning needs.

Students are helped to understand the plot, the characters, imagery and the language with:

• easy to read outlines

• word puzzles

• crosswords

• quizzes

• cloze exercises

•  ...and many other activities

These are books which can be used with all students but they will be particularly valuable in making Shakespeare enjoyable and a valuable learning experience for less able students.

click here to return to price list

click here for sample pages of Dazzle titles

 Twelfth Night Contents

Introduction

Twelfth Night (A brief summary of the story)

The story goes (A brief summary of each act and scene)

Who's who? (An exercise in matching up characters with their descriptions)

Who's in the play? (A quiz word on names)

Where do they all belong? (A recognition exercise)

Factfile - all about Orsino

Factfile - all about Viola

Factfile - all about Sebastian

Factfile - all about Olivia

Factfile - all about Malvolio

Factfile - all about Sir Toby Belch

Factfile - all about Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Factfile - all about Feste

Factfile - all about Maria

Factfile - all about Fabian

Factfile - all about Antonio

True or false?

A-Z of Twelfth Night

What I want, what I really, really want

Direct your own play

Elizabethan England

Tricky language

Old and new

Looking at imagery 1

Looking at imagery 2

Looking at imagery 3

Text messaging

Who said what to whom?

The key words

What's in a play?

Soap opera - the Illyrians

Write your own glossary - Act 1, Sc 1-3

Write your own glossary - Act 1, Sc 5

Write your own glossary - Act 2, Sc 5

Write your own glossary - Act 3, Sc 1

Write your own glossary - Act 3, Sc 4

Write your own glossary - Act 5, Sc 1

Answers

 Macbeth Contents           

The somewhat bloody tale of Macbeth (The play summed up scene-by-scene.

Who's who? (An exercise in matching up characters with descriptions.)

In other words, Macbeth (The play translated into more modern words, in seven parts)

            Part 1 - Setting the scene

            Part 2 - Growing ambitions

            Part 3 - A bloody deed indeed!

            Part 4 - We gotta get outa' this place

            Part 5 - Who invited the ghost?

            Part 6 - The untouchable?

            Part 7 - Take a bough, your Royal Highness

Visit the brain gym (A crossword where clues all contain anagrams.)

Who are these Scottish people then? (A quiz word search on characters.)

A word (or eight!) about Macbeth (Cloze passage with answers included in a word search.)

Who am I? (A small crossword where solution answers the question.)

Good news week? (Another crossword with message In the solution.)

What's it all about? (A small crossword with another message in solution.)

Macbeth (A quiz.)

When shall we three meet again? (A crossword about Shakespeare’s language.)

Solve it! (A large crossword of the 'message In the solution' kind)

13 steps to finish Macbeth. (Another quiz)

Happy families? (A cloze exercise on the play;)

Tell us the story of Macbeth (An exercise in sequencing events.) ...

An A to Z of Shakespeare's Macbeth (An exercise in recall of detail in the play;)

All change for Macbeth (A trilogy on replacing words or descriptions of people or places.) .

He's lost his head (A simple sequencing exercise.) .

Silent in Glamis Castle (A cloze exercise where all missing words contain silent letters.)

Shakespeare's words (Finding equivalent words for those of Shakespeare.) .

The voice of Scotland (Be the reporter; carry on with the story!) .

The things they said (Who said what in the play?)

Answers

Romeo & Juliet Contents

Introduction

Romeo and Juliet (A brief summary of each act and scene)

Who's who? (An exercise in matching up characters with their descriptions)

The missing link (Complete the quiz and find a description of the play;)

Quiz word

Test your knowledge

Missing words

Scene by scene

An A to Z of R & J

Word search

All mixed up

Late edition

Back in time

Whose line is it anyway?

You took the words right out of my mouth

13 steps to disaster

R & J revisited

Shakespeare's use of Imagery

Play on words

Modern times

Word match

Learning Shakespeare's vocabulary

A rose by any other name ...

Answers