A funny play loosely based on the Grinch by Dr. Seuss, and the well known movie. The story revolves around the town of Whoville, where all the Whos love Christmas. In fact they love Christmas so much it is all they talk about!
However, a mysterious outcast lives to the North of the town; this outcast hates Christmas and anything to do with the festive time of year. This outcast is called the Grinch!
The play follows the story of Cindy-Lou and her family as they open up to the Grinch, and try to show him what Christmas is all about. However, the Grinch has his own plans to ruin Christmas for the town, and steals all the presents on Christmas eve.
He has a change of heart however when he hears the town enjoying Christmas even though he had stolen all of the presents. His heart grows and he quickly returns the gifts and takes part in all the festivities.
There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 28 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too for up to 30 students. The play is around 40-50 minutes long.
I hope you have fun with it, my class had a ball!
If you are unsure whether it will suit your class, download a free preview and give it a go!
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I also have some more Christmas play scripts in my store including:
A Christmas Carol (A School Remix)
Elf
A Christmas Carol (A Traditional Version)
The Santa Clause
To save money you can buy all four play scripts in my Christmas Play Script Bundle (saving nearly 40%) - link below:
Christmas Play Script Bundle
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Over 100 downloads and performances of this script so far!
An exciting and easily adaptable play suitable for your end of term or Year Six leaving performance.
Currently with 37 parts with the scope to add more lines in if more parts needed.
Easily adpated to personalise it to your school with class names, references to topics taught that year etc.
Variety style performance with characters watching well known TV shows including:
I’m a Celebrity…
David Attenborough
Popular talent shows - The Voice/Strictly/X Factor
Family Fortunes
References to Youtube - children given the chance to write and perform sketches in the style of Youtube videos.
Opportunity for a dance group to perform.
Singing opportunities -
Don’t Stop Believing (Leavers’ Version) (Google this if lyrics needed)
Frozen
Cups Song (When I’m Gone)
Each highlighted role with a number indicates a new role to help when handing out roles.
Great to give children some ownership if you want them to produce additional scenes - good end of year project!
Elf tells the story of ‘Buddy the Elf’ who was accidentally taken to the North Pole in Santa’s sack one Christmas Eve. He stayed in the North Pole until adulthood and grew up thinking he was an elf himself. One day he found out he was a human, and decided to go and visit his biological father in New York.
On arrival he wasn’t welcomed by his father until a DNA test reassured him that he was actually his son. The family grew to like Buddy, and he also found a girlfriend – but then everything changed when he fell out with his father one day and decided to leave.
But as he was walking alone he heard a crash in Central Park, when he went to investigate he noticed it was his good friend, Santa. The family caught up with him and realised he had been telling the truth all along, he was in fact an elf from the North Pole. The friends and family all worked together to lift Christmas spirit and thus power Santa’s sleigh to ensure he could finish his deliveries.
There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 20-22 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too.
I hope you have fun with it, my class had a ball! The play is around 40-50 minutes long.
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This powerpoint includes a range of revision activities to help pupils prepare for the dreaded GCSE Spanish Speaking Exam! This powerpoint presentation focuses solely on the role-play section of the exam in which pupils have to prepare their role in a conversation. Topics included in the activities provided are: doctors, restaurant, train station and hotel. These provide pupils with the opportunity to prepare and perform conversations in Spanish. There are role-plays for both higher & foundation students.
A doubled sided helpsheet to start students off with the role play tasks in the GCSE course. Designed with the new specification from Edexcel in mind taking into account the 10 prescribed scenarios, some common demands from the interactive tasks, frequent question words and some possible questions to ask for each scenario. Suitable for both foundation and higher tiers.
Includes sections for:
Cinema
Leisure centre
Shopping
At the doctors
Restaurant
In town
Tourist information
Campsite
Hotel
Train Station
This is a play script for Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. It tells the story of a mean, old man named Ebenizer Scrooge, who runs a dark and miserable buisness. His workers are under-paid and over-worked, especially his assistant Bob Cratchett.
It is Christmas eve and his Bob asks for the day off to spend time with his family, and sick child – Tiny Tim. Scrooge almost refuses but decides to just dock his pay for the day. Then, that evening he gets a visit from his previous business partner – another miserable person called Jacob Marley.
Marley tells him he needs to change his ways or end up with the same fate as him; he tells him how he will be visited by three ghosts that night. The ghosts visit and show Scrooge various things that upset him enough to change his ways.
After the visits of the ghosts Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day a changed man and tries to put right all the wrongs he has caused over the previous decades!
There are song recommendations throughout the script and roles for 19 speaking parts, with extra roles for up to 30 students.
I hope you have fun with it!
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I also have some more Christmas play scripts in my store including:
A Christmas Carol (A School Remix)
Elf
A Christmas Carol (A Traditional Version)
The Santa Clause
The Grinch
To save money you can buy all four play scripts in my Christmas Play Script Bundle (saving nearly 40%) - link below:
Christmas Play Script Bundle
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A booklet with 68 transactional role-plays divided under the 10 situational contexts needed for the New GCSE Pearson Edexcel Spanish.
Also I have added a quizlet link and list of key role-play vocabulary in chunks/sentences.
I hope it helps!
Full Bundle. Worksheets which show the Shakespearean text of key extracts alongside questions to support comprehension. Numbering helps students to know where to look for the answers and demonstrate that they can understand Shakespeare’s language better than they first realise.
Questions highlight memorable quotations and imagery, key themes and links to context & genre.
9 extracts from Act 1, 10 extracts from Act 2&3 and 10 extracts from Act 4&5, plus answer sheets included.
Excellent for introducing scenes and establishing understanding, or GCSE revision cementing understanding, wide knowledge and reviewing key quotations. Works great as a homework or independent study task.
Students can check their answers against the answer sheet provided as revision or independent study.
Try before you buy: Act 1 is available free in my TES shop.
If you enjoy, please leave a review!
Act Packs Available Separately
Act 1 FREE! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12876147
Act2&3 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12622972
Act 4&5 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12625072
Full Play Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12625174
Bring the play to life with a WHOOSH! Drama activity: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12198539
Explore key scenes with Drama strategies and elements with my Macbeth 7 lesson scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12198571
These interesting and engaging resources enable students to build their understanding of the context of J.B. Priestley’s play ‘An Inspector Calls.’ In particular, students learn how to make clear and appropriate links between the social and historical context and the play itself. This gives students a really stable knowledge-base from which to make inferences and interpretations about other parts of the play.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Recall the main events that occurred between 1912 and 1945, through an interactive group activity;
- Remember some key information about J.B Priestley and his beliefs;
- Read and understand the opening of the play;
- Make links between the opening of the play and the historical context - both in term of when the play was set, and when it was written;
- Analyse how Priestley links historical context to his characters, in order to get his messages across to the audience;
-Peer/self-assess learning attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- A clear and interesting worksheet for the development task;
- The opening of the text for students to read and interpret;
- Context information cards for the card-sorting game;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
In this digital product: You will find resources to practise the Role-Play (Part 1) of the GCSE (2026) Speaking Examination (AQA). The topics covered are the 3 topics from Theme 1: People and Lifestyle.
Topic 1: Identity and Relationships with others
Topic 2: Healthy living and Lifestyle
Topic 3: Education and Work
There are 3 practices for each Topic:
Practice 1: Prepare the Role-Play. Fill in the gaps to complete the candidate’s script. (This is an intermediate practice to help students build up their Role-Play skills).
Practice 2: Prepare the Role-Play by responding to the 5 tasks. Students need to give one detail per task and can use the present tense throughout.
Practice 3: Prepare the Role-Play by responding to the 5 tasks. Students need to give two details for 3 of the tasks and may have to use a range of tenses.
You can use this resource in the classroom:
Student’s booklet (with Candidate’s roles)
Teacher’s booklet (with Candidate’s roles, Teacher’s role and model role-plays)
PPT presentation (including an easier mark scheme for self/ peer assessment in the classroom)
Audio files (embedded to the PPT and also available as individual files)
Or for independent use:
Student’s booklet, including QR codes for access to audio files and answer booklet.
Note that:
Practice 2 and Practice 3 follow the AQA Speaking Paper closely: number of details and tenses required, phrasing of the questions.
Practice 2 corresponds to the Foundation Role-Play.
Practice 3 corresponds to the Higher Role-Play. (but can still be useful to Foundation students to review the topics content)
The first 5 files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder: Role-Play-Theme1.zip. After downloading, save the .zip file in your computer (in “documents” for example), then right-click and select “extract all” to access all the resources.
If you have any questions or if you are interested in more resources like this one, you can check this Facebook page:@Frenchresources, where updates, links and freebies are posted regularly.
KS3 - A creative writing lesson examining sentence types using an extract from the Frankenstein Play adaptation by Philip Pullman. A variety of activities included. Pupils must describe a gothic setting using what they have learned.
FULLY PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT! Editable script, MP3 backing tracks for all songs, karaoke videos, Performance Licence, cross-curricular activities and more - everything you need for a perfect play!
Look at the date - Santa’s going to be late!
There’s pandemonium at the North Pole - Santa’s overslept! The presents aren’t wrapped, the sleigh’s in the garage for repairs, Santa’s Christmas suit has shrunk in the wash, and the reindeer have caught colds!
Join us for a rollercoaster ride of festive frolics, packed to bursting with fun-filled songs and hilarity. And with one final surprise that even Santa doesn’t see coming, this might be the most magical Christmas ever…
Ready, steady, go for lots of fun in the snow!
Running Time: 25 minutes approximately.
Age: Suitable for Early Years / Nursery.
Cast: The only speaking parts are narrators, who guide the actions of the children on stage through a few simple lines of dialogue.
The number of non-speaking parts is fully flexible to suit your requirements.
Your Play Pack includes:
Scripts in both PDF format and editable Word format;
Instrumental and vocal backing tracks for 7 songs;
MP3s of all audio tracks songs, incidental music, and sound effects;
Click-n-Sing karaoke-style videos for every song;
Printable cross-curricular educational activities;
Cast and props list,
Staging advice;
Printable posters and programmes.
Lyric sheets and music scores;
PLUS! Optional Speedy Script for minimal rehearsal and performance - perfect for on-line streaming.
Everything you need for the perfect play - just add kids!
A humorous re-write of the story / pantomime of Cinderella, designed to be performed in under 5 minutes. Adaptable / editable Word document, so you can make your own changes & add your own children to the attached cast list. Ideal for class assembly, this has gone down well at year 6 leavers’ assemblies.
Great prompt for more able writers to write their own humorous ‘in 5 minutes’ versions of other well-known stories / pantomimes.
To perform, it has 9 speaking parts, plus around a dozen non-speaking / crew / sound effect parts.
If you liked this, search and download one of my other ‘in 5 minutes’ scripts.
Cinderella in 5 minutes
Goldilocks and the Three Bears in 5 minutes
This is a PowerPoint presentation I made for our students' independent learning away from school. It has foundation and higher questions and is based on Edexcel exams over last 5 years. Questions and Vocabulary for Speaking Role-Play and Revision.
A role play about ordering in a restaurant for year 10 pupils, following Stimmt AQA GCSE (Higher) Kapitel 5 (Ich liebe Wien), Activity 9, page 103.
Pupils see a sample dialogue, then create their own in pairs or threes. This includes ordering three courses, complaining about something and a ‘solutuion’ (e.g. never returning, speaking to the manager, not paying). They can then perform in front of the class, and other members can translate what was said during the role play (e.g. reporting back what they ordered or what the problem was).
A resource for Health and Social Care AS/level 3. This unit examines the importance of play, stages and types of play and play settings. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
This is a simple version of the nativity story which I use with nativity flashcards I put on a couple of years ago and we do actions for each of the key words before we look at the play eg hand out to the side as though holding staff for Joseph. Hands together in inverted v for the stable etc There is also a song Petit Jesus that I put on a couple of years ago that sings to the tune of Frere Jacques which brings in all the nativity characters.