Five Short Plays Stage 1

Before Reading the right thing to do while reading

1 Patrick to Rebecca about the man lying in the street.

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2 David to Patrick about waking the man up.
Before reading activities (page 42) 3 Rebecca to the woman in blue about the man in the
Activity 1 before reading street.
The Robbery: a library card 4 Michael Scott to the doctor about the reason for his
The Right Thing to Do: a bottle of pills, a TV chef, a sudden illness.
nurse 5 Rebecca to Patrick and David about the woman in
Canada Can Wait: a map, a traveller blue.
Salt: fifty dollars, a shopkeeper 6 David to Patrick and Rebecca about helping Michael
Slow Food: a pizza, an office worker Scott.

Activity 2 before reading cAnAdA cAn WAit while reading

Do not give the answers now, but ask students to 1 At the beginning Chris wants to leave.
wait and see if their guesses were correct as they 2 Chris’s friends think that he is tired of them.
read the plays. The correct answers are: 3 They want to see Canada’s lakes and forests.
1 visit 2 one of the places 3 friends 4 They have to stay at home.
5 At the end they all laugh at Chris.
Activity 3 before reading

4 SAlt while reading

3, 2, 5, 7, 6, 1, 4
Activity 4 before reading
Groot buys ten bags of salt from the shop.
Do not give the answers now, but ask students to The shopkeeper closes the store.
wait and see if their guesses were correct as they Spratly buys five bags of salt for $250.
read the plays. The correct answers are: Durg buys four bags of salt for $400.
Harry wants to rob a bank. Spratly tries to sell a bag of salt to Nello.
Ron asks for the money. Groot and Nello start fighting.
Gladys watches for the police. Manra’s truck hits Groot.
Wilf waits outside in the car.
Sid shoots someone with his gun. (not true) SloW food while reading

The police catch the robbers. (not true in the play) In the window there is a sign saying ‘Fast Food’. Maggie
Other people fight with Sid and Ron. (not true) is standing behind the counter. The first man is asking
The woman in the library helps them to borrow books. for chicken. The second man wants a burger and French
fries – he has to catch a train in forty minutes. The three
Activity 5 before reading
women are waiting for drinks and food. They are all
Do not give the answers now, but ask students to angry with Maggie, because the food is so slow. Maggie
wait and see if their guesses were correct as they doesn’t like her work.
read the plays. The correct answers are:
1 N 2 Y 3 N 4 N 5 N 6 N
After Reading
While Reading Activity 1 after reading

1 + 8 Sid and Ron wanted to steal some money, or

the roBBery while reading
perhaps steal some books.
1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 T 2 + 10 Sid said, ‘I’ve got a gun in my pocket,’ but the
Before reAding Scene 2 woman in the library wasn’t afraid.
3 + 6 They couldn’t steal any money, because they
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Do not give the answers now, but ask students to

wait and see if their guesses were correct as they weren’t in a bank.
read the plays. The correct answers are: 4 + 9 They didn’t want Harry to be angry, so they
1 N 2 N 3 Y borrowed some books.
5 + 7 The woman in the library can write to Sid and
Ron, when the woman in the library wants the
books back.

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 Activity 2 after reading Activity 6 after reading

The Robbery: Harry’s Plan, The Wrong Building Hi Dave

The Right Thing to Do: Get Well Soon! Bad Hearts and Guess what! Yesterday I left my job at the fast food
Good restaurant! You see, I had to do everything there,
Canada Can Wait: Home’s Best, The Dreamer even the cooking, because the chef left the day before.
Salt: The Right Price, The Man With the Cart Everybody wanted their food so fast! I couldn’t stay
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Slow Food: Fast Living, Time is Money there any longer. So I took off my work clothes and
Open answers. just walked out. I went to sit by the sea, and looked at
the sky, and felt a lot better. I’m going to look for some
Activity 3 after reading
different work tomorrow – I never want to see a burger
1 WATER
again!
2 HEART
See you, Maggie
3 BOTTLE
4 ALIVE Activity 7 after reading

5 DOCTOR Open answers.

6 FAMOUS
7 AMBULANCE
8 POCKET
1 The hidden words are: WELL DONE
2 Rebecca, David and Patrick all said this to each
other. They helped a famous person, and they were
happy about that.
Activity 4 after reading

Dear friends,
I’m leaving tomorrow. Please don’t try to stop me. I’m
not going because I’m tired of you; I’m going because
I want to travel. I’m young and I have my life in front
of me. I want to see exciting places, like Greece, Spain
and Australia. Canada can wait, perhaps, but not for
me! Perhaps I do say funny things sometimes, but it’s
important to have a dream, isn’t it? You can travel too,
you know. You don’t have to stay with the same old
faces and the same old problems day after day. Think
about it!
Yours, Chris
Activity 5 after reading

1 The shopkeeper: he sold all his salt to Groot, and

now it’s time to close the shop.
2 Manra: his truck hit Groot while Groot was running
across the road.
3 Nello: he is angry with Groot because he thinks
that Groot is planning to make a lot of money out
of selling salt at high prices. He’s looking for Groot
and wants to get some salt from him.
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