Five-Minute Plays, 2/e

本書特色

　　透過戲劇演出，能有效協助學習者在日常生活中，實際運用英文溝通。
　　台詞簡潔扼要，囊括了美式口語和俚語等用法，讓讀者快速習得日常溝通的英語用法。
　　故事生動逗趣，不僅適合上台演出，閱讀過程中亦能獲得十足樂趣。
　　劇本皆附字彙解說、問題討論，以及角色扮演活動等，極適合課堂上使用。
　　每篇劇本長度約為五分鐘，搭配附錄練習，恰好滿足了教師課堂時間不足，卻又想要指導學生以戲劇學英文的需求。

　　CONTENTS
　　Introduction
　　Author’s Note
　　1. Ghost Teacher’s Revenge
　　2. The Murder
　　3. Family Business
　　4. Outlaws for In-Laws
　　5. The Braggart
　　6. The Passive Orange
　　7. Appendix

　　Ghost Teacher’s Revenge
　　To the teacher …

　　The following skit can be done with the lines provided or you can add and improvise your own. This may be especially helpful for the class where one student has a higher level or is more aggressive than the others and can accept the challenge of playing the NEW TEACHER. This student can add other commands, illnesses, or parts of the body to make the script longer or to introduce spontaneity. The tone of the skit is already a little dark, so try to avoid getting the pain and suffering of NEW TEACHER too violent. GHOST TEACHER can also add to the spontaneity by changing and adding actions such as turning an air conditioner on or off, or a fan, or anything else that’s available. The class should copy the actions and the emotional reactions of NEW TEACHER during the drill and gradually become faster and more excited, building to a climax at the end when they run out of the room after NEW TEACHER. Try the whole scene with different teachers.

　　Notes in parenthesis ( ) are directions for the actors and director. They tell them what to say and do. They should not be spoken aloud. For example, if this phrase appears: (GHOST TEACHER is a man), then the students should say “he” and not “she.”

　　If you wish to do the production on a stage and not in a classroom, the opening of the door and window as well as the sounds that they make will be a problem. There are several ways that this can be solved. First, put a door and window on stage, hanging them with wires from the ceiling of the stage. A person on the side could create the sound effects.

作者簡介

Don Gilleland

　　資深英文教師，擅於透過戲劇方式，引導學生迅速掌握英語的訣竅，亦著有20-minute Plays（二十分鐘短劇，書林出版）。