Transcript English Literature - Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw

Scenarios
• He walked absentmindedly
pavement into the traffic.
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Towards his long lost brother
From a crime scene
Past a bakery
Behind the woman
Through the park
Towards his victim
off the
Remember
• 20 minutes to track through the
extract
• Worth 10 Marks
What is a play?
• Verbs
• Actions
• Do-ing words.
• Adverbs
• Words which describe
how a verb is done.
• Find examples in your
extracts, highlight them,
why are they there?
What do they tell you?
Stage directions.
• Where are they positioned in the
extract, why?
• What do they tell us?
• How can they be used in you
answers?
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PETER: What the hell’s going on? Do you expect me to wait in the filthy
street all night?
HELEN: I told you to stay outside.
PETER: Don’t point your bloody finger at me.
HELEN: I said I’d only be a few minutes and I’ve only been a few minutes.
Now come on,
outside!
PETER: Ah! The erring daughter. There she is. [Sings.] “Little Josephine,
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Where d’you keep the whisky?
HELEN: They haven’t got any. Now, come on.
PETER: [seeing GEOF]: What’s this, the father? Oh Christ, no!
GEOF: Who’s he?
HELEN: President of the local Temperance Society!
PETER: [singing]: “Who’s got a bun in the oven? Who’s got a cake in the
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HELEN: Leave her alone.
PETER: Oh, go to hell!
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you’re a big girl now.”
stove?”
A taste of honey.
• Look carefully at the extract and
consider the relationship between
Peter and Helen, what can you infer?
• Support your points.
Your questions
• When – from what point is the
extract taken?
• Who – who is involved what do you
know about each character at this
point in the play?
• What – what is happening here and
how is it relevant to the play and the
characters.