Procedure 1 Interpreting a text Students read and write down an interpretation of the following short text. It's very hard to live in a small unit with a screamin' child and a howlin' dog. That's what she said as she handed the empty revolver to the police. Groups of students share interpretations. The class discusses the exercise, noting the number of different interpretations and developing an explanation for why this has happened.
Students write a list of objects and symbols that they associate with evil.
They discuss which of these objects and symbols they would use if they wanted to present three witches as being very powerful and evil. There are four versions of the opening scenes of Macbeth presented in 'Director's interpretation'. Each member of the group is allocated one of the four productions. After viewing all of the productions, individual students note their reaction to the following questions. Students talk about their responses to these questions with others in their group.