Five Short Plays

by Martyn Ford

Use these fully illustrated classic and contemporary plays for reading practice or performance.

Each script offers performance notes, character lists, exercises, and glossaries.

64 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 2007

Reviews

[Hikaoru · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book on its own is an ok read. You need not read the rest of the review. It's a rant.

It is a testament of how terrible the current education system that they thought that this book is adequate read for 16 and 17 year olds. It meant that they undermined the comprehension of these teenagers. They made these a compulsory reading for my youngest brother and his peers. I am appalled because by age 11, I was reading a much longer and harder books. At 17, I was crying over the last Harry Potter books. And at that age the book that we were forced to read in school was the Pearl by John Steinback.. It wasn't a very remarkable book in my opinion but it was a whole lot better than this one. This book, if you must put in the list, should be given to 13 year olds... and now that I think about it.. we dissected the poem Life Brief Candle by Shakespeare, so no.

[Salman Akbar · Rating 2 out of 5]

كتاب #خمس_مسرحيات_قصيرة
‎للكاتب #مارتن_فورد #جامعة_أوكسفورد

‎📖 | نبذة تشويقية عن الكتاب [ترجمتي] :-
ماذا تفعل إذا كان لديك وظيفة في مطعم ممل يقدم الوجبات السريعة للأشخاص الذين ليس لديهم وقت حتى لتناول الطعام، تبتسم؟ وتبذل افضل ما لديك؟ او ربما يكون من الأفضل العثور على مكان لا يهتم الناس فيه بالوقت كثيرًا! ماذا لو كنت تحلم بالسفر إلى دول أخرى لكن أصدقائك يضحكون عليك فقط؟ هل تبقى في المنزل معهم؟ أم أنك تقرر أن تكون أكثر ميلاً إلى المغامرة! ماذا لو سمعت أن أحدهم قد اشترى آخر كيس ملح في المدينة، هل تشتري الكيس منه بسعر أعلى من ما اشتراه؟ أو تحاول أن تجعله يعطيك الكيس! عالمنا مليء بهذه الأنواع من المشاكل، إنها تجعل الحياة ممتعة ، وفي بعض الأحيان مضحكة للغاية، تُظهر هذه المسرحيات الخمس القصيرة اشخاص يحاولون ان يقررون ما يجب عليهم فعله في المواقف غير المتوقعة أو الصعبة بطرق ذكية تفتح افاق جديدة في خيالك!

‎التقييم الشخصي 7/10؛ 🌟🌟
‎عدد الصفحات؛ 56ص.

[Rawaa Nabeel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book consists of five stories " the robbery , the right thing to do , Canada can wait , salt , and slow food " . it speaks about the way we behave sometimes , the things we ignore in everyday life and actions . each story contains a different meaning in an educational and simple way . before every story there is an introduction about the characters and scenes . at the end of the book you can see an exercises and a glossary . it's a nice book for educational and light reading.

[Edit Garai · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vicces, szórakoztató kis darabok, csattanóval. Különösen tetszett, hogy a mini-darabok – rövidségük ellenére – középpontba állítanak egy viselkedési formát, emberi tulajdonságot, amin mosolyoghatunk vagy elgondolkodhatunk. Kedvencem a The Robbery lett, kedvem lenne előadni.
Valójában csekkoltam, hogy a lányom nyelvi szintjének megfelelő-e, hiszen a Sarter1 könyvekben már jelen van a múlt idő, ami számára még a jövő. Szóval, örömmel jelentem, hogy múlt idejű igéket csak nyomokban tartalmaz.

[Ha Hahahahah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is really easy to read and I like this sentences which is take your time to live. Nowadays our live seems to be speed up already. Everybody always want to be more fast. But we also can have another lifestyle like take a cup of tea and enjoy our book in this beautiful days.

[Linh Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the book. I like to read a variety of books. It is good to read plays for a change.
It is level 1 Bookworms so pretty easy to read and not too long. As an English beginner learner, I get tired and bored quite quickly if the text is long and too difficult to understand.

[Cherish · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5stars

[مــــرام الشمـــراني · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like these short plays 😍😄

[Robyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this fairly interesting, if a bit weird at times.

[David Adair · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a little laboured in places. The points made about how we behave are laudable, if not utterly compelling.

[Hm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gooooood

[Raghad Al-Shdaifat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice book
And nice beginning for IELTS I thing 🙆🏻‍♀️

[SEEN · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s okay. Easy read, Suitable for an English learners.

[Sherry Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for children.

[yayan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is short but good. It was mostly good for theatre groups or group projects. I love the drama or the accidents happen 🫶🏻

[Ruiji Kimura · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/12 60min

7-word-summary
plan - rob - money - miss - library - borrow - books

〜PASSAGE/EXCERPT from the book that you liked or didn't like〜

Here are some good books for you. The Great Train Robbery, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Adventure of Robin Hood.

〜Why did you like/didn't you like the passage/excerpt you wrote above〜
These sentences are said to robber by library staff. It was fun that library staff recommeded robber the books related to robbery and a detective. It was very humorous.

〜What do you think about the book (or part of the book that you read)〜
This book is easy to read and fun. I enjoyed this book. However, a few stories were difficult to understand what is fun.

[かりん · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. OXFORD, Level1
2. 10/8 15min
3. money, bank, library, gun, rob, card, books
4. Have you ever heard such a stupid story?
---No, I have not. I thought that what stupid people they are.
5. There are some stories in this book, and I read the first story "The Robbery".
This story was very funny because five people made a big mistake.
It was unbelievable for me that they broke into a library in spite of they planed to break into a bank.


I am really sorry about that I cannot submit this review by yeaterday.

[Hiroki Yasui · Rating 4 out of 5]

1,Five short plays 2,Surfer!
10/28,29 (1=30 minutes, 2=60 minutes

robbery, bank, library, travel, salt, truck, accident

"It's important for everybody to read books - not just you and me, but everybody... even bank robbers! "

Those sentenses are very interesting for thus class. One story of this book is about a funny robbers group. They got a plan to rob a bank, but the building that they entered was a library. The Robert was nearly happenned, but a librarian kept a cool head. Surprisingly, she recommended them to bollow books not to surrender. I found she is a model of a librarian.

[Kota Shiiyama · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oxford University Press, Level 1
Time; 65 minutes

7 words summary; robber-planed-steal-money-and-attacked-library

Discussion questions

1.What is your most embarrassed experience?

I was announced by a saleswoman because of mischief of my friends
when I arrived at one supermarket of meeting place.

2.What is your latest mistake?

I mistaked time to ride on a train.
Therefore, I was late for first class.

[Sayaka · Rating 5 out of 5]

1 level 1 oxford
2 9/22= 50 minutes
3 robber, bank, library, books, library card, money
4 a: 'Life is beautiful. We can all be happy. But first we ust slow down. We must take the time to live.'
b: This passeage made me happy. We all have opportunity to be happy.
6 This book has 5 stories. They are funny, interesting and good. It is easy to read because they are short stories, however, they are thought-provoking stories.

[Maho Asano · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Oxford level1
2. 5/1=47min
3. Man, lying, 4 people, help, alive, tablets, famous writer
4. a. "Are you a doctor or a nurse?" "No, I'm not, but I think he needs help now. Call an ambulance, please be quick!"
b. He doesn't a person related to medical care, but I think his kind personality is shown by this passage.
5. I picked up this story from 5 short stories. The right thing to do is very important but it's difficult to do as this case (lifesaving).

[Chihiro Ushida · Rating 2 out of 5]

*Oxford university press
*7/1=60min

robbery, miss, right, canada, salt, many, food

*If you see a robber, what would you do?
...May be I will run away or call to the police. I can't do big things.

I enjoyed reading because this book had many episode in the book. Also, the story was suited long for me.

[ちえ · Rating 4 out of 5]

OXFORD level.1 80min
money/library/robber/ill/help/travel/food
Q.If a man who you don't know lay in the street, are you going to help him?
A.Yes, I do. Almost all Japanese people are kind, so almost Japanese help him.

There are 5 stories in this book. My favorite story is "Slow food".
The story shows our real life. I was though by the story.

[Minami Murase · Rating 2 out of 5]

time 45min
food-slow-angry-people-stop-working-go

How often do you eat fast food?
I do not it so much because I worry about high calorie.
Have you worked at any restaurants?
Yes, I have. I have worked at Cats' cafe.

[Alexandru · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cartea pentru incepatori , in studierea limbii engleze. Cred ca merita a fi citita, cel putin pentru situatiile amuzante descrise in cele 5 piese.