Just Desserts: A Foodie Drama About a Chef Gone Bad (Short Plays for English Learners)

Just Desserts is a short, original play about what happens when a teenager has to stand up to their boss, an overbearing celebrity chef. The engaging, suspenseful play hits on an important theme for students, how to stand up for yourself in a difficult situation. However, this play was written for English students to improve their communication and speaking skills. As students read, practice, and perform these plays, they will learn: cultural contexts, conversational moves, intonation and body language, high frequency lexical phrases and grammar patterns. Short enough for a project in a speaking class, but expandable to fill a whole elective class, drama unit, or theater club production, 6 characters, 8 scenes, about 15 minutes to perform, Language of the play is graded to A2+/B1 (intermediate) level, although the demands of performance may be higher. In addition to the script, this book contains: Preview activities, Pragmatics lesson on answering a false accusation, Advice on producing a play, Pronunciation tips and a glossary of theater terms.Just Desserts makes drama in the classroom a good thing!

• • Author: Alice Savage, Walton Burns
• • Publisher: Alphabet Publishing
• • Publication Date: Jan 15, 2019
• • Number of Pages: 44 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 194849227X
• • ISBN-13: 9781948492270