WorksheetsUnit 2 Features of a Playscript
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 5mins
What does 'head of the household' mean?
The person who cleans the house.
The person who owns the house.
The top of the roof.
The leader and decision maker of a family.
Which family members are a part of your extended family?
Father & mother
Brother & sister
Uncle & aunt
Nephews & nieces
Cousins
How have family units changed over time?
Families are now larger than they used to be.
Families are now smaller than they used to be.
Men work, women are housewives nowadays.
There are more children in a family.
There are fewer children in a family.
What is the first feature of a play script that you would see?
Headline
Title
Name of the play.
Name of play and scene number.
A play script has...
A list of actors.
A list of characters in the scene - in order of appearance.
A list of characters in the scene - in alphabetical order.
A list of all the characters in the play.
After the list of names comes...
A character description.
A prologue.
An introduction.
A setting description for the scene.
The punctuation mark after a character's name is...
A semicolon.
A full stop
A colon.
There's no punctuation mark.
The play script can also give the actor...
Some acting advice.
Stage management.
Stage prompts.
Stage directions.
Stage directions can tell the actor...
What lines to say.
HOW to say their lines.
How or where to move to.
Gestures or expressions.
Stage directions are always written...
In the present tense.
In the past tense.
In passive voice.
In capital letters.
The purpose of a Play Scripts is...
To make a story easier to understand.
To show the audience what is happening.
To tell actors what to do & say.
So actors can read their lines while acting a play.
