THE GHOST TEACHER

                THE GHOST TEACHER

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                              LEVEL 3- 1 ESO

SYNOPSIS

A new teacher called Mr Brown comes to Tony´s class.  He wears old fashioned clothes, drives an old car and teaches contents based on  the 1940´s.  Besides, he dislikes Billy, Tony´s friend,  who is punished by making him  stay  in the classroom after school. 

Tony, who tries to find information about the new teacher, returns to the classroom where Billy is doing exercises and notices that Mr Brown is reading a 60-year-old newspaper.  Later he follows the teacher, who goes into an old department.  There he manages to read Mr Brown´s paper, which shows a news describing a crime in a school, where a teacher and a student  had died in a fire in 1945.  The fire was started by the student, Billy Reed, according to the police.

Suddenly, Tony smells smoke and tries to find where it comes from.  In the corridor he finds Mr Wilson, the caretaker, who carries some matches.  Tony realises that there is fire in the classroom where Billy is.  Then he tries to save his friend  unlocking the door and setting off the fire alarm.

Billy is saved and  the police discover that the Mr Wilson was the boy who had started the fire in 1945 and the man who has just done it.  He had been beaten by Mr Brown  and therefore, he needed his own  revenge.  Nevertheless, Mr Brown´s  ghost had returned because he thought that Billy was the student who had done it.

CHARACTERS

Tony

Mr Brown (the teacher)

Billy

Mr Wilson (the caretaker)

Susan Smart

Steven Dobson

The headmaster

The rest of students will play different parts:, either pupils,  firemen  or police officers.

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES

Tony :  A smart student in class 2b at West Hill School.  He is curious about the new teacher, since he behaves in a strange way. 

Billy:  Tony´s friend.  He is also in class 2b. For no apparent reason, he is punished twice by Mr. Brown.  He wants to know the truth about Mr Brown

Mr Brown:  He is the new teacher and is very violent .  He wears old –fashioned clothes and smokes a pipe.  He has it out for Billy.

Mr Wilson:  He is the caretaker.  He walks around the school with an oil lamp looking for ghosts.

Susan Smart:  A bookworm who tries to answer Mr Brown´s strange questions.

Steven Dobson:  A naughty student who misbehaves in the classroom, making Mr Brown get angry.

SCENE BREAKDOWN

Scene 1

 It is set in the classroom where the students waiting for the teacher. The new teacher  asks some questions related to an old car and an old song by Sinatra while he is hitting the table with his stick.  The children are scared and Billy is punished.

Scene 2

 It is set in an empty department with a lot of newspapers on a table. Tony reads an old article about a crime in a school.  There is smoke and he tries to save  his friend Billy.  Meanwhile,  Mr Wilson is holding a box of matches.

Scene 3

It is set in the hospital, where Billy is recovering.  He explains Tony what happened in the classroom , how Mr Wilson came into to  throw the oil lamp. They come to the conclusion that Mr  Brown is a ghost who  thinks  Billy  is responsible for the fire in  1945..

Scene 4

 It is set in the police station.  Mr Wilson  tells the police everything about  his time in the school and how Mr Brown had hit him.  He was responsible for the fire now and then.

Scene 5

 It is set in the classroom.  The students are coming into when there is  something written on the blackboard, he is apologizing to Billy .

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