TRAIN DRIVER & OTHER PLAYS (FOR CIAE A LEVEL)

This is a package of 15 resources designed to support study of the Train Driver and Other Plays for Cambridge international A level.

The following items are included:

1 an exercise on the background to the plays - an IB style interactive context exercise
2 an original exercise in predictive ‘pitching’ - students use the notebooks to anticipate the dramatic direction of The Train Driver
3 a visually rich handout on staging the first play with exercises on theatrical styles
4 an introduction to critical perspectives (crucial for a paper 3 text)
5 and 5b - a whole text essay exercise on The Train Driver with follow up note on methods of integrating critical quotation
6 Exercise in comparison: openings of Train Driver and Coming Home
7 Coming Home - staging and setting exercises
8 Coming Home - Acts 1 and 2
9 and 9b - Character Development in Coming Home - grid and completed grid with notes
10 COMING HOME critical debate exercise
11 COMPARATIVE essay task with notes on writing comparatively
12 HAVE YOU SEEN US - production stills and compare/ contrast exercise
13 and 13b mock up exam style passage questions
14 mock up exam style whole text question with accompanying critical quotations