T: Do you like watching drama series? Now let’s watch a short video first.

(Show drama series to the students)

  What do you think of the drama series?

S: They are exciting/ humorous …

T: Do you know this man? He is good at writing stories. He wrote the TV drama script for the Modern Family. Because of his good writing, we can enjoy such exciting drama series.

1. Learn about the background.

T: Look, Millie is writing a TV drama script for a competition. To write a good TV drama script, she made an outline before writing. Now let’s take a look at the first half of her outline.

How many parts are there in the outline? What are they?

S: There are two. They are the background and the story.

T: Read the background first. What information can be introduced in this part?

S: We can introduce characters, time, place, events and so on. 

T: Read the background carefully and answer these questions.

(1) who: the twins Justin and Luke; their friend Sarah

(2) when: one day

(3) where: The twins were at home. Sarah lived in Hill building.

(4) what: The twins received a message from Sarah, who was asking for help. There were some burglars in Hill Building.

2. Learn about the story.

T: What happened then? Read the outline carefully and answer these questions.

(1) What did the twins do after they received the message?

They called the police at once and then ran there quickly.

(2) What did they see when they got there?

They saw three men in police uniforms coming out of the building with guns in their hands.

(3) What happened to the twins then?

They were pushed into a minibus.

(4) What did they do on the bus?

They tried to use a knife to open the back door of the minibus.