Download the complete Macbeth Activity Toolkit for all 20 activities. 

If you choose to work through in order, we recommend you watch the Macbeth Live Lesson after activity 10, before completing the remaining activities.

Several activities also contain Primary versions with slight adjustments that may help younger learners.

Below are links to simple instructions for each of the 20 individual activities on Macbeth. You can work through these in order or select the ones that feel most useful for you. Several also contain Primary versions of the activities with slight adjustments that may help younger learners. 

• 1 - The Witches
• 2 - The hero of the battle
• 3 - The prophecies
• 4 - The thane of Cawdor
• 5 - The letter
• 6 - The plan
• 7 - The doubts
• 8 - The murder of Duncan
• 9 - The bloody daggers
• 10 - The aftermath 

At this point we recommend you watch the Macbeth Live Lesson, exploring Lady Macbeth's character, before completing the remaining activities.

• 11 - The marriage
• 12 - Banquo
• 13 - The king and queen
• 14 - The second prophecies
• 15 - Macduff
• 16 - The alliance
• 17 - Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking
• 18 - Macbeth's journey
• 19 - The downfall
• 20 - A new king

Download the complete Romeo and Juliet Activity Toolkit for all 20 activities.

If you choose to work through in order, we recommend you watch the Romeo and Juliet Live Lesson from 2019 after activity 10, before completing the remaining activities. 

Below are links to simple instructions for each of the 20 individual activities on Romeo and Juliet. You can work through these in order or select the ones that feel most useful for you.

• 1 - The Prologue
• 2 - The opening fight
• 3 - The Story
• 4 - The Characters
• 5 - The world of the play
• 6 - Romeo and Love
• 7 - The Capulets
• 8 - When Romeo meets Juliet
• 9 - The Balcony Scene
• 10 - Juliet's Language

At this point we recommend you watch the Romeo and Juliet Live Lesson from 2019, with the actors who play Juliet and Friar Lawrence, before completing the remaining activities. 

• 11 - The Dilemma
• 12 - The disobedient Daughter
• 13 - The Friar
• 14 - The Nurse
• 15 - The Feud
• 16 - The death of Tybalt
• 17 - The wedding night
• 18 - The Banishment
• 19 - The deaths
• 20 - The Proclamation

Download the complete Hamlet Toolkit for all 20 activities.

Please note this Toolkit is aimed at students working at KS4. Work may be suitable for both younger and older students. 

Below are links to simple instructions for each of the 20 individual activities on Hamlet. You can work through these in order or select the ones that feel most useful for you.

Please note this Toolkit is aimed at students working at KS4. Work may be suitable for both younger and older students. 

• 1 - The opening of the play
• 2 - The Story
• 3 - The Characters
• 4 - The World of the play
• 5 - The Backstory
• 6 - Hamlet's first Soliloquy
• 7 - Hamlet's language
• 8 - Ophelia and Polonius
• 9 - When Hamlet meets the ghost of his father
• 10 - To be or not to be
• 11 - When Ophelia breaks up with Hamlet
• 12 - Get thee to a nunnery
• 13 - An antic disposition
• 14 - Ophelia
• 15 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
• 16 - The play within the play
• 17 - Claudius' confession
• 18 - When Hamlet confronts Gertrude
• 19 - The deaths
• 20 - The themes

Download the complete The Merchant of Venice Toolkit for all 20 activities.

Please note this Toolkit is aimed at students working at KS3-4. Work may be suitable for both younger and older students. 

Below are links to simple instructions for each of the 20 individual activities on The Merchant of Venice. You can work through these in order or select the ones that feel most useful for you.

• 1 - The Story
• 2 - The Characters
• 3 - The world of the play
• 4 - Antonio and Bassanio
• 5 - Portia's Suitors
• 6 - Prejudice
• 7 - Shylock and Antonio's Bond
• 8 - Lancelot Gobbo
• 9 - Jessica leaves home
• 10 - Gossip
• 11 - If you prick us...
• 12 - The casket scene
• 13 - Portia
• 14 - Cross Dressing
• 15 - The Venetian court
• 16 - The Trial
• 17 - The Quality of Mercy
• 18 - The Ring
• 19 - A happy ending
• 20 - The Themes

Download the complete Othello Toolkit for all 20 activities.

Please note this Toolkit is aimed at students working at KS5.

Below are links to simple instructions for each of the 20 individual activities on Othello. You can work through these in order or select the ones that feel most useful for you.

Please note this Toolkit is aimed at students working at KS5. Work may be suitable for KS4 students who enjoy a challenge. 

• 1 - The Set up
• 2 - The Story
• 3 - The Characters
• 4 - Tragedy
• 5 - The worlds of the Play (part 1)
• 6 - The worlds of the Play (part 2))
• 7 - The Secret Marriage
• 8 - Othello's Story
• 9 - Desdemona's Duty
• 10 - Iago's First Soliloquy
• 11 - Iago's Motives
• 12 - The Army and Cassio
• 13 - The Party
• 14 - Iago reels in Othello
• 15 - Power and Status
• 16 - Verse and Prose
• 17 - The Willow scene
• 18 - Cassio stabbed and Roderigo's death
• 19 - Othello's Language
• 20 - The Death scene

Download the complete Much Ado about Nothing Toolkit for all 20 activities.

Please note this Toolkit is aimed at students working at KS3-4. Work may be suitable for both younger and older students.