Macbeth - William Shakespeare

Eli Graded Readers: Macbeth - William Shakespeare, Adaptation and activities by Janet Borsbey and Ruth Swan

Young Adult ELI Readers: 96 page fully-illustrated book + audio CD with extensive narrated excerpts from the book. Level B1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Eli Graded Readers: Macbeth - William Shakespeare - Summary:

‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’ (Act II, Sc. III)

Scotland in the eleventh century. Macbeth is a brave general, loyal to King Duncan and to Scotland. Until, that is, he meets three evil witches after a battle against King Duncan’s enemies. They tell him that one day he, Macbeth, will be King of Scotland. This is the beginning of a story of ambition and evil, involving him and his calculating wife, Lady Macbeth. What follows leads them to terrible violence, murder, madness and ultimately to their own destruction.

Syllabus:

Nouns

• complex noun phrases

Verbs

• present perfect simple: unfinished past with for and since, recent past with just
• past perfect simple
• reported speech
• should for obligation
• would for hypothesis and polite requests#
• must for deduction
• may for possibility. 
• types of clause: type-two conditionals, conditionals with unless, clauses with although, clauses with so... that, time clauses with as soon as, until,before and after