THE PERFECT PET

Plays Synopses and Language Objectives

1. INTERRUPTIONS SYNOPSIS:

Mrs Craddock attempts to teach her geography class, but the class keeps shrinking as Mr Norman, the headmaster, takes more and more students away to other classes and activities.

LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES:

Vocabulary: classroom objects, school classes, classrooms, school personnel, daily school situations Structures: simple present tense sentences

2. SNOWDONIA WEATHER SYNOPSIS:

Sonny Merriweather, television weather anchor for the Snowdonia Weather

Channel in Wales, and his co-anchor, April Showers, check in with their weather correspondents around Europe.

LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES:

Vocabulary: weather terminology (for example: snow, foggy, drizzling) Structures: weather-related phrases (for example: How’s the weather in ____? ... partly cloudy skies with a warm breeze...)

3. THE LOST BOOK

SYNOPSIS:

Casey searches his house in vain for his missing book as his family impatiently waits to leave for the library.

LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES:

Vocabulary: rooms of the house, furniture, common household objects Structures: prepositions (for example: on top of, between, under, inside) Verbs: informal commands

4. LOLA SYNOPSIS:

Two simple-minded young men meet a beautiful stranger in the park. They try to coax her into conversation, but she only wants to talk in rapturous, automatic phrases about her new car.