====== English Teaching Theatre - Unit 01 - Tea Break ======

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Scene A rehearsal room in a theatre Characters Five actors taking a tea break: Tom, Jerry, Jane, Martin, Sara

**Jerry** All right. That’s enough. It’s time for a cup of tea.

**Tom** Oh, good. A cup of tea. I can’t wait.

//Jerry, Jane, Martin and Sara sit down. There is no chair for Tom.//

**Jane** OK, Tom, make the tea.

**Tom** Me?

**Sara**	Yes, make the tea.

**Tom**	Make the tea? Me?

**Jane** Why not?

**Tom** All right. What do I have to do? I mean, how do you make tea?

**Jerry** Huh! He doesn’t know how to make tea!

**Tom** OK, Jerry. How do you make tea?

**Jerry**	Er...I don’t know.

//The others laugh.//

**Martin** Listen, Tom - it’s easy. Put some water in the kettle.

**Sara** Put the kettle on the stove.

**Jane**	Light a match.

**Martin**	Turn on the gas.

**Sara**	And light the gas.

**Jane**	Then put some tea in the teapot -

**Tom** It sounds a bit complicated.

**Jane** Oh, come on! It’s easy!

**Martin** Listen, Tom. You don’t have to make the tea.

**Tom**	Oh, good.

**Martin** You can get some from the cafe.

**Tom** Oh. OK. See you later.

//Tom goes towards the door.//

**Jerry**	Wait a minute!

**Tom**	What?

**Jane** You don’t know what we want yet.

**Tom** Oh, yes. Sorry. What do you all want? Sara?

**Sara** I’d like a cup of tea - with no milk and no sugar.

**Tom** One tea - no milk, no sugar. Jane?

**Jane** I’d like a cup of tea - with lots of milk and no sugar.

**Tom** Lots of milk - no tea. Right.

**Jane**	No sugar!

**Tom**	No sugar. Right. Jerry?

**Jerry** I'd like a lemon tea and a big cream cake.

**Tom**	A lemon cake and a cream tea.

**Jerry**	Careful!

**Tom**	What do you want, Martin?

**Martin**	A whisky and soda.

**Tom**	With milk and sugar?

**Martin**	Of course.

//Tom wants to check the orders.//

**Tom**	OK. Let me get this right. Sara, you want a cup of tea, with no milk and no sugar.

**Sara**	Yes. Oh...No. On second thoughts, I think I’d prefer coffee.

**Tom**	Coffee.

**Sara**	Yes, a cup of coffee - with milk and sugar.

**Tom** Right. So - it's one coffee with milk and sugar, and one tea with milk and sugar.

**Jane**	No sugar!

**Tom** No sugar. Right. Jerry, you want a lemon tea and a big cream cake.

**Jerry**	That’s right.

**Tom And Martin** - you want a whisky and soda.

**Martin**	With milk and sugar.

**Tom**	With milk and sugar. Right OK. See you in a minute.

//Tom leaves. Very soon, he comes back.//

**Tom** Right. Here you are. One coffee and soda, one whisky and cream, one lemon and milk, and one big sugar cake. All right?

**Jane**	Martin?

**Martin**	Yes?

**Jane**	Go and make some tea.
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