MacBeth (Annotated) Vocabulary Stretcher

By Lazlo Ferran

This edition is a vocabulary stretcher and includes links from all difficult words to an online dictionary.

The wife of a Scottish lord persuades him to murder the King for his crown with dire consequences.

Shakespeare’s classic play has delighted readers and film fans for many years.

This version of the story has been specially adapted for students of English as a Foreign or Second Language. The language and vocabulary are simple, and emphasis is on action using past, present and future simple tenses.

Punctuation meets UK or USA ESL/CEFR/IELTS Level B2 in most cases, although there are some 19th Century features of the text which do not comply and have been left intact to preserve the charm of Shakespeare's text.

The vocabulary in this book is slightly harder than for The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Frankenstein. You should try those books first if you are not familiar with words like the following: disdaining, undaunted, distillation, refrain, slaughtered.

Lazlo Ferran is a fully qualified English teacher and teaches in London. He has also published more than twenty novels, making him the ideal choice to adapt Shakespeare’s stories for students.

Learning English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) and Kids’ editions are also available. Paperback editions also available on Amazon.

Classics Adapted by a Qualified Teacher

Paperback available: http://bit.ly/mcbvoc

Categories: ESL, CEFR, IELTS, TEFL, EFL, action, warlock, TOEFL, Learning English Foreign second Language, action, witch, magic, Shakespeare, thriller, fun, crime, 17th Century, Macbeth, ghosts, teaching materials, punctuation, horror, Scotland, action historical

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lazlo Ferran
• Release date: Oct 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463947708

Lazlo Ferran

Lazlo Ferran: Exploring the Landscapes of Truth. Educated near Oxford, during English author Lazlo Ferran's extraordinary life, he has been an aeronautical engineering student, dispatch rider, graphic designer, full-time busker, guitarist and singer, recording two albums. Having grown up in rural Buckinghamshire Lazlo says: "The beautiful Chiltern Hills offered the ideal playground for a child's mind, in contrast to the ultra-strict education system of Bucks." Brought up as a Buddhist, he has travelled widely, surviving a student uprising in Athens and living for a while in Cairo, just after Sadat's assassination. Later, he spent some time in Central Asia and was only a few blocks away from gunfire during an attempt to storm the government buildings of Bishkek in 2006. He has a keen interest in theologies and philosophies of the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. After a long and successful career within the science industry, Lazlo Ferran left to concentrate on writing, to continue exploring the landscapes of truth.

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MacBeth (Annotated) Vocabulary Stretcher

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William Shakespeare

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Adapted by Lazlo Ferran

Note: The vocabulary and grammar in this book are harder than in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary and Frankenstein. Please read one of the titles above first if you are not familiar with these words: disdaining, undaunted, distillation, refrain, slaughtered.

Punctuation and grammar, where possible, meet UK or USA ESL/CEFR/IELTS Level B2, but I have kept much of Shakespeare’s grammar intact, since this is a major feature of medieval literature.

In this edition all difficult words are linked to Oxford Dictionaries, where you can find full definitions.

Note: There are no words in this edition that are spelled or defined differently in the USA and United Kingdom.

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Classics adapted by Lazlo Ferran:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Adapted For Kids

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Adapted For Kids – Large Print

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Kids Colouring Book

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Kids Fun Exercise Book

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students

The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Vocabulary Stretcher

The Secret Adversary – Adapted For Kids (US and UK Editions)

The Secret Adversary – For Kids (US and UK Editions) – Large Print

The Secret Adversary – Kids Colouring Book

The Secret Adversary – Kids Fun Exercise Book

The Secret Adversary – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students (US and UK Editions)

The Secret Adversary – Vocabulary Stretcher

(US and UK Editions)

Frankenstein – Adapted For Kids

Frankenstein – Adapted For Kids – Large Print

Frankenstein – Kids Colouring Book

Frankenstein – Kids Fun Exercise Book

Frankenstein – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students

Frankenstein – Vocabulary Stretcher

MacBeth – Adapted For Kids

MacBeth – Kids Colouring Book

MacBeth – Kids Fun Exercise Book

MacBeth – Adapted For Kids – Large Print

MacBeth – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students

MacBeth – Vocabulary Stretcher

Other books by Lazlo Ferran:

Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate

Too Bright the Sun

The Hole Inside the Earth

Act 1

Scene 1

Open ground. Thunder and lightning. Enter Three Witches, one carrying a cat, Grey-Malkin, and another, a toad called Padock.

First Witch: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch: When the hurly-burly’s done; When the battle’s lost, and won.

Third Witch: That will be before the set of sun.

First Witch: Where the place?

Second Witch: Upon the heath.

Third Witch: There to meet with MacBeth.

First Witch: I come, Gray-Malkin.

Second Witch: Padock calls.

Third Witch: Soon!

All: Fair is foul, and foul is fair;

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

[Exit]

Scene 2

A camp near Forres. Alarm within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox and attendants, meeting a bleeding Captain.

Duncan: What bloody man is that? He can report, it seems by his plight, of the revolt the newest state.

Malcolm: This is the sergeant who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought against my captivity.—

Hail, brave friend! Tell the King your knowledge of the battle as thou did leave it.

Captain: Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together,

And choke themselves. The merciless Macdonwald (the well-known villain and rebel) from the Western Isles Of kerns and Gallowglasses arrived,

And Fortune smiled on his damned battle, but his army’s too weak:

For brave MacBeth (well he deserves that name), disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,

Which smoked with bloody execution, like Valour’s minion carved out his passage

Till he faced Macdonwald, the slave; who never shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,

Till he slit him from the navel to the chops and fixed his head upon our battlements.

Duncan: O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!

Captain: As where the sun gains his reflection, shipwrecking storms and dire thunders break;

So, from that place where comfort seemed to come, discomfort sometimes swells. Take note, King of Scotland, mark (verb)!

No sooner justice had, with valour armed, compelled these skipping soldiers to trust their heels,

But the Norwegian lord, [watching from high] vantage, with furbished arms and new supplies of men, began a fresh assault.

Duncan: were they dismayed by this, our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?

Captain: Yes; as sparrows are of eagles; or