Active English Coursebook 5

Listening Listen to the paragraphs. Match each paragraph with the correct quality. 1. Paragraph A a. darkness 2. Paragraph B b. anger 3. Paragraph C c. love 4. Paragraph D d. determination 5. Paragraph E e. kindness Speaking Here is a script based on The Happy Prince. Cast Swallow, Happy Prince, Narrator, Student Props desk, chair, blue stone, bottle of milk, bread, bundle of sticks Narrator : The Happy Prince and Swallow are in the square. The student is sitting at a desk on the left of the stage. Swallow : (Swallow flies around Happy Prince excitedly.) Today I must fly to Egypt to join my family and friends. Happy Prince : Swallow, please stay one more night. Swallow : Why? © 2017 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN 978-981-47-8115-2 149

(Happy Prince turns to look at the student as if he is far away. Swallow turns to look at the student too.) Happy Prince : I can see a young student in a room at the edge of the city. Please take one of my sapphire eyes to him. Swallow : I can’t take your eye! Happy Prince : Please do. This sapphire is a rare gem. The student can sell it for food and firewood. (Swallow flies near the Happy Prince’s eye.) Swallow : All right, if you insist. Narrator : The Swallow is moved by the Happy Prince’s compassion. He plucks a sapphire from the Happy Prince’s eye and flies to the student’s home. He drops it onto the table. The student looks up in surprise and picks up the stone. Student : Oh! Where did this come from? I can sell it to buy food and firewood. Narrator : The student sells the sapphire and uses the money to buy food and firewood. When he is full and warm, he sits down to finish a play that he was writing. (Swallow flies back to Happy Prince. Student walks out and pretends to give away the sapphire for milk, bread and a bundle of sticks. He makes a fire and eats his food. Then, he sits down and writes his play. He reads out the play and smiles with pride.) Try it out Get into groups of four and act out this play. Remember to express your character’s feelings and attitude. Pay special attention to your voice, facial expressions and body language. 150 © 2017 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN 978-981-47-8115-2

Writing Read the script on pages 149 to 150 again. Now, write a short script, in your notebook, based on any other incident from The Happy Prince. Remember to include the cast, the props and costumes you will be using, the scene and the dialogues of the characters. Here are some guidelines to help you write your play. 1. Cast Name the characters. 2. Props and Make a list of the props and costumes you costumes might require. Remember, it is not necessary to wear a robe to show a king (a paper crown 3. Scene is enough). Think of such alternatives. 4. Dialogue Describe where and when the action takes place. 5. Stage directions Don’t use quotation marks in your script. Use colons (:) to separate the characters from their lines. Start every character’s lines on a new line. Write down the instructions for the characters (how they should look, act and speak on stage). Put these stage directions within brackets so that the characters know they should not read them out. Once you have written the script, check if you need to move or change certain dialogues or stage directions. Make corrections in grammar and spelling, and practise the play. W B Unit 12, pages 63–64 © 2017 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN 978-981-47-8115-2 151

Review What did you learn? Tick. Some words refer to things we cannot see or touch. They name a quality, idea, emotion or condition. When we change direct speech to indirect speech, the pronoun and possessives are changed. When we change direct speech to indirect speech, we also make changes to time and place words. When adding -ing, we double the r of some verbs of more than one syllable when the stress falls on the final syllable. Project Work Get into groups of five and make a Joy of Giving box. Paint an old carton and decorate it with ribbons and stickers. Fill it with unused things that you have lying at home (pencils, erasers, notebooks, toys). Hand it to your teacher to donate to needy children. 152 © 2017 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN 978-981-47-8115-2



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