Задание

Read the text and put the sentences in the correct order.

Macbeth and his best friend, Banquo, are brave soldiers. One day, after a battle, three ugly witches come out of the fog.

‘Macbeth. You will be the new King of Scotland! He, he, he, ha, ha, ha!’

‘Me? The new King of Scotland?’

Macbeth writes a letter to his wife, Lady Macbeth. He tells her what the witches said.

‘Yes! If he is the king, I will be the queen!’

King Duncan comes for dinner and sleeps at Macbeth’s castle. When Duncan is asleep, Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to kill him.

‘I really want to be a king. But I am very frightened about killing Duncan. He is a good king …’

Macbeth sees a knife in front of him. He knows it is wrong, but he decides to kill Duncan.

‘I must do this quickly.’

Duncan is dead but Macbeth feels bad about killing him.

‘It’s OK. Nobody will know our secret.’

Macbeth becomes a king but he is worried that his friend Banquo knows that he killed Duncan. He decides that Banquo must die too and he orders his servant to kill him.

‘I am a king, but I am not happy. I feel terrible about killing Duncan and Banquo and I am worried that people will know my secret.’

Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost in front of him. He’s very frightened. He goes to see the witches again.

Macbeth asks the witches if he’s in danger.

‘Don’t worry. Everything will be OK.’

‘Yes, everything will be fine.’

Macbeth believes the witches but they were lying.

‘He, he, he, ha, ha, ha!’

Lady Macbeth wanted to be a queen but now she feels terrible. She understands that it is wrong to kill.

An army comes to attack the castle. The people know that Macbeth killed Duncan.

‘The witches said I was safe. They lied to me!’

Macbeth is dead and now the people have a good, new king.

Lady Macbeth is very happy because she wants to be the queen.

Three witches tell Macbeth that he will be the new King of Scotland.

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to kill King Duncan.

Macbeth tells his servant to kill Banquo.

Macbeth feels terrible about killing Duncan and Banquo.

The witches tell Macbeth that everything will be OK.

Lady Macbeth now understands that it is wrong to kill.

An army attacks the castle and kills Macbeth.