Teach students to use direct speech correctly by showing them why speech marks are important. Begin with a cartoon. Ask them to identify how different kinds of speech bubble represent different kinds of speech e.g. thought etc.
Now discuss the way in which dialogue adds to the images but that the speech contained is only key to adding meaning to the visuals.
Divide the play up into scenes. Allocate scenes or selected scenes to individuals, pairs or small groups. They must choose the key dialogue from their scene and then create a cartoon to show the events of that scene.
When all the cartoons are finished they can be displayed as a frieze around the room.
Ask students to discuss how the combination of pictures and words is different to just dialogue. Discuss also the fact that Shakespeare's plays were not meant to be read from a book but to be watched.
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