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Smart Planet 2 Stage to Page and Back Unit 4

1 Improvise it! 2 Write it down!


a Improvise a scene at home with three people. a Listen to the recording of the improvisation and
• Characters: Three friends. write it down in dialogue form.
• Situation: One friend tells the other friends b Work together to correct any vocabulary or
a story about something that happened that grammar mistakes that you made in the original
was really scary. In the end it wasn’t all that improvisation.
important. What happened? c Try to make the scene more interesting: add new
b Use some of the following language in your scene. lines of dialogue or change some lines to make
them funnier or more dramatic.
Really? How (scary)!
Right. I bet! 3 Play it out!
So then what happened? What happened next? a Rehearse the new version of your scene a couple
c Record the scene. of times.
b Play out your scene to the rest of the class..

✂ Stage to Page and Back Unit 5


1 Improvise it! 2 Write it down!
a Improvise a scene at home with three people. a Listen to the recording of the improvisation and
• Characters: Three friends. write it down in dialogue form.
• Situation: Two friends have come to another b Work together to correct any vocabulary or
friend’s house to see if he/she can go out with grammar mistakes that you made in the original
them but he’s/she’s not allowed to go out until improvisation.
he/she has finished all of his/her housework c Try to make the scene more interesting: add new
(cleaning his/her room, putting away his/her lines of dialogue or change some lines to make
clothes, etc.). His/Her friends offer to help and them funnier or more dramatic.
they finish as quickly as possible.
b Use some of the following language in your scene. 3 Play it out!
a Rehearse the new version of your scene a couple
Shall I ... ? That’s OK. I’ll do it.
of times.
Could you … ? I’ll ...
b Play out your scene to the rest of the class.
Sorry, I can’t!
c Record the scene.

✂ Stage to Page and Back Unit 6


1 Improvise it! 2 Write it down!
a Improvise a scene at home with three people. a Listen to the recording of the improvisation and
• Characters: Brother, sister and mother. write it down in dialogue form.
• Situation: The mother asks the brother and b Work together to correct any vocabulary or
sister to clean up the house while she goes grammar mistakes that you made in the original
shopping adding, ‘But please don’t use the new improvisation.
remote-controlled robot vacuum cleaner!’ They c Try to make the scene more interesting: add new
don’t listen and try it anyway. The problem is lines of dialogue or change some lines to make
they have no idea how to use it. One of them them funnier or more dramatic.
is looking at the instruction manual while the
other has the remote control. The robot vacuum 3 Play it out!
cleaner goes out of control and destroys some of a Rehearse the new version of your scene a couple
the furniture. Then their mother comes home. of times.
b Use some of the following language in your scene. b Play out your scene to the rest of the class.
How does it work? What do I do to … ?
First, press … . You need to …
Next, … . Now all you do is …
c Record the scene.

PHOTOCOPIABLE   © Cambridge University Press 2015 Stage to Page and Back Units 4–6

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