CGP Books

This text guide is brilliant to understand the Shakespearean play Macbeth, with handy notes down the side of each scene and act to help you know all the little twists and turns through this young lord's life of cruelty and bravery. With questions at the end of each scene to help you recap, and a funny comic at the end, this edition is great to let you read easily through the play.

I have known a long time about this fantastic play, though this guide helped me to pick out all the tiny details from Shakespeare's language and techniques. It has inspired me to write many stories, and all I have heard from others is 'It's an awful play' and 'It's a brilliant play'. Unsure of what to think, I got my mum to read me and my sister this book, and found that those who said it was great were true.

The play itself is very hard, but this book, to shorten words, guides you through it swiftly. It was great and really easy to understand; I felt quite sudden about the characters, and I have learnt many poems from the play, such as 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' off by heart. Without this guide, I do believe the play would be as reading 'Conort rheetwee sukuy' over and over, though far more good than that! It was really fun and every day I was excited to see what happened in the next act.… (mere)

This is a good English practise and learn book. Although it is aimed at those pupils aged 6-7 and in Key Stage 1 because it isn't babyish in content I'd be happy to use this activity with my secondary students who have a reading age/English ability of this level. Equally, you could use this with ESOL students.

There are 18 different worksheets that can be completed covering:

* phonics
* the sounds "air" and "ear"
* plurals (not "y")
* writing sentences with correct demarcation and also subject/verb/object
* prefixes and suffixes
* tongue twisters with a focus on alliteration
* riddles (may be complex for ESOL students)
* compound words (such as black+berry)
* adjectives
* question words and question marks
* punctuation which is ? ' . !
* synonyms and antonyms but phrased as the same and opposite
* joining sentences with both conjunctions and connectives
* poems (mainly looking at rhyme but with a little comprehension)
* non-fiction and also finding facts (which is comprehension based around knowing what non-fiction means) then also the same for fiction
* proofing your work
* finally, there's a little board game on the back cover.

In the middle of the workbook are answer pages set out so that children/pupils can complete them alone if that's what you want to do or equally work with an adult to check their work. Nicely presented with colourful (but not bright/vivid) page backgrounds. I think this is well worth the money and would be great to have as a set in a classroom. I'd recommended it!… (mere)