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ii GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE PLAY- Plastosphere.

Imagine the current rate of plastic littering, hydrocarbon emissions, industrial discharges, sound pollution and human artificiality. Plastosphere is a speculation on all these activities and their consequences on generations to come.

The play starts by expressing the formation of an artificial island called Plastosphere. Littered plastics, and worn out gadgets are ferried in a flood and accumulated in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to form this human habitation. This takes place in 2035, where people die in this flood, and some are saved by the floating objects in the ocean. Owing to the ingenuity of the survivors, this area is made livable with most of the occupants exploring the entire world to become prosperous billionaires who challenge nature, projecting robot effort over human effort. They ease life and accumulate huge fortunes. Life rests in the hands of machines and robots; women are even relieved from bearing pregnancy for nine months with the invention of the ‘gestation machine’.

Ingenuity for profit and ease at the expense of the environment is represented by Pete, Teqno, and partners, who constantly thwart the efforts of neo -naturalists as Bob Ecolo, Vegeta, Philo and followers in conserving biodiversity.

The consequences of pollution in various forms and abusive artificiality don’t delay to start manifesting: the laziness of ease and GMO consumption render Gastro, a son to Pete, obese; sound pollution causes a gadget and noise adept, Suzy-Maquillo, to start speaking like the machines with an omission of determiners in her speech; acid rain increases threats of health hazards. The huge gas emissions from burning of hydrocarbon substances accumulate in the atmosphere and condense to a sooty rainfall as the whole earth’s surface experiences a black out. After days of darkness, due to this color of the atmosphere, Plastospherans have no choice than to come back to nature through a forced pilgrimage, qualified here as the ‘Great Staggering’. They fall back to reality in the land of Frica. Bob Ecolo and father, who have been conserving virgin forests as shrines, receive many of the people from this island. They introduce them to nature building projects like rehabilitating polluted lands, agroforestry, and ecotourism as sources of income.

The extortionists from nature, Pete and Teqno get jealous of Bob’s progress in the business of ecotourism and control a robot with explosives to burn down a virgin forest. This area, being a shrine under Bob’s care, the Ndzondzene Park, has been eyed by tourists and declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Pete and co are tried, found guilty, and punished to clean a garbage heap by a child who presides as the judge. The right to inheritance of Pete’s empire goes to his son, Gastro, assigned the task of using the fortunes of his father to clean the oceans and encourage sustainable development.

iii SUMMARY OF THE ACTS AND SCENES, ANSWERS TO MCQs ON COMPREHENSION, WORKSHEET AND

LESSON PLAN REFERENCES.

Answers to MCQs ON COMPREHENSION

ACT 1 STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH, Summary of the scenes

Grammar point in focus

Worksheets and lesson plan references

Page references in the text

Act1, scene 1 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. D

Teqno and Gastro are moving on a street in Plastosphere. The latter hates his large size due to consumption of GMOs. Teqno instead blames his brother for gluttony, than science, for this size.

The SUBJECT in a sentence.

Worksheets 1-2 1. Lesson plans on the SUBJECT in a sentence

3-4

Act 1, scene 2 1. C 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. C 9. B 10. B 11. A

Two opposing characters in stance to environment are found in a hair dressing saloon. Philo goes for natural hair, which is biodegradable while Suzy-Maquillo likes sophisticated artificial hair. Philo goes for a simpler hairdo in order to save time for her studies.



5-6

Act 1, scene 3

1. C 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. B

Total mcq 23

The family of Pete meditates, in a flashback, on the events that lead to the creation of this island. The children ask to know about the Great Flood; how the plastics and tree trunks that float to save 4000 people in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, contribute in the creation of Plastosphere. Two factions are perceptible in the family: those who pride in human ingenuity and see no reason to stop deforming nature for profit – Pete, Teqno; those who call for caution in the human activities, especially plastic disposal and scientific inventions: Philo, Gastro.


Worksheets 6-9 1.Lesson plans on the SUBJECT in a sentence

7-9

iv Answers to MCQs ON COMPREHENSION

Summary of the scenes Grammar point in focus



Act 1, scene 4 1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. C 8. B 9. B 10. D 11. A 12. C 13. D 14. A

Managing Directors of Pete’s company, Taming Nature limited, meet to draw a balance-sheet of the successes realized by the company. We discover the company to generate billions from carbon production, building, technology, ammunition, pharmaceutics etc. Pete is worth a hundred and fifty billion dollars and is not ready to get complacent with the riches. Any Environmental consideration and support in the riches is a façade intended for publicity. Teqno, Dr Robot, Toxico and Pete are the brains behind the company’s success.


Worksheet 10 -14 1. Lesson plans on the SUBJECT in a sentence

9-13

ACT 1, Scene 5 1. C 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C

Total mcq 21

Members of Bob Ecolo’s family gather under a tree consecrated a shrine, where Ecolo senior, father to Vegeta, was buried, to recollect, forty years after the great flood. The story of the rescue of Vegeta, Bob’s father, and the demise of Ecolo senior is told. In selflessness Bob’s grandfather tries to rescue his wife and dies with her in the flood. The late man’s will for all his grandchildren is, to study botany in school and keep track of all the medicinal plants found in the Frica forests.


Worksheets 15-17 1.Lesson plans on the SUBJECT in a sentence

14-16

v Answers to MCQs ON COMPREHENSION




ACT 1 scene 6 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. C

Suzy-Maquillo, an idler of modern times marvels at Philo’s ease in validating her university courses. Philo replies that it lies in her passion for the environment, reflected in the courses. She discovers in this discussion a relationship between her friend and her brother, Teqno.



16-18

ACT 1 Scene 7 1. B 2. D 3. A

Bob Ecolo leaves the continent to Plastosphere for an internship. Being the best student, he leads the others and suggests pottery as a means of having plants live in the continent. His field is irrelevant to the context of Plastosphere, yet his knowledge brings forth a scheme to import soil and live plants to beautify the city. Teqno, the die-hard pollutant agrees to Bob’s idea.

The SUBJECT in a sentence

Worksheet 22 1. Lesson plans on the SUBJECT in a sentence

19-20

ACT 1 Scene 8 1. A 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. A 11. C 12. A 13. B

After a month of internship in Plastosphere, Bob Ecolo is offered a job by Teqno, which he rejects because his passion is working in close touch with nature in the continent. Conserving age-old trees in parks and shrines appeal to him more than the luxury of Plastosphere. Four of his friends settle for the job and reject the natural continent. Philo falls in love with him for his natural stance and beauty he succeeds in giving the town. Teqno foresees his choice to earn him nothing than poverty.

The VERB in a sentence.

Worksheet 24-28 1. Lesson plan on the VERB in a sentence

20-24

Total mcq 24

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ACT1, Scene 9 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. A 10. B 11. D 12. C

At the Department of Environmental studies, Bob and Philo are left by Suzy-Maquillo to savor the stories of Frica and environmental beauty seen in the virgin forests. Bob tells Philo about the superstitions of Frica, that favor biodiversity. Shrines and evil forests maintain their vegetation cover because of the myths. Bob prepares Philo’s mind to have a foretaste of nature in such forests she is not used to seeing. Their love relationship is almost fully accomplished.

Introduction to the VERB in an SVC Structure

Worksheet29-35 1. Lesson plan on the VERB in a sentence

25-29

ACT 1, Scene 10

1. B 2. C 3. B 4. D

Philo disappoints her family members, except her mother, Lucie, by getting pregnant and marrying a poor man, Bob Ecolo. Lucie argues they form a good pair because they match in their views of the environment. Lucie finds nothing wrong with the life of her daughter and husband during her visit to Frica

Introduction to the VERB in an SVC structure

Worksheet 36- 40 1. Lesson plan on the VERB in a sentence

29-31

ACT 1, SCENE 11

1. C 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. D 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. B 11. D 12. A 13. D

Total mcq 29

Three years after the previous scene, Teqno, and Gastro visit the family of their sister, Philo. Bob Ecolo makes it big in his environmental business. With no intention of profit, Bob preserves age-old trees that impress many around the globe. He receives many communities and teaches them to culture economic trees, practice agroforestry and set up nature havens in their localities. Teqno realizes his prophecy of poverty was an error and appreciates Bob’s progress, yet stressing the fact that more money is made from the gadgets and the polluting enterprises. They spree around Bob’s investments but prematurely seek shelter from acid rain that starts falling.

COMPLEMENT slot in an SVC structure. DIRECT OBJECT,

Worksheets 41-48 3. Lesson plan on the DIRECT OBJECT in a sentence

32-37

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ACT 1 Scene 12

1. C 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. B 9. A

After flushing the acid rain from the body, the host, Bob, and visitors continue in their discussions. They discuss the family and hold their positions on the sciences. Sophia, the mother to Bob laments over the fact that those who pollute most are least affected than the poor. Teqno announces to the surprise of Sophia and other Frican’s that their gestation machine is pregnant for him and Suzy-Maquillo.

COMPLEMENT slot in an SVC structure. *INDIRECT OBJECT, *ADJUNCTS AND ADVERBIALS. *DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES

Worksheet 49-53 4. Lesson plan on the INDIRECT OBJECT 5. Lesson plan on ADJUNCTS and ADVERBIALS 6.lesson plan on the DEPENDENT clauses 6. lesson plan on the TYPES OF DEPENDENT clauses

37-41

Total mcq 9

SUMMARY OF ACT 1

Plastosphere, an imaginary island is born from the accumulation of plastics littered on the earth’s surface and heaped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by a flood in 2035. Pete and the 4000 survivors of the flood do the compacting to form a world appreciated by his offspring, especially Teqno, Two of his children, Philo and Gastro, are fed up with the very artificial world and relish a more natural company in their in-law, Bob Ecolo and family. An initiative by Pete’s company brings some botany students from Frica to Plastosphere, led by Bob. He tries to plant flowers and shrubs in containers filled with soil, in a totally artificial world. The concept of this environmentally friendly project is done by the company for the purpose of gaining favor in the eyes of environmentalists.

The brilliant performance of Bob in this island makes his products to be so admired by Philo, that she falls in love with him and they get married to the disappointment of her father. Teqno on his part clings to Suzy-Maquillo who shares his machine-bound passions.

Technology is seen to be so advanced that the pains of nine months’ pregnancy and labor are borne by a gestation machine; Teqno and wife are already using it. This causes alarm among people like Bob’s family who wonder how children from such a machine will behave.

Bob on his part does not do badly in business, since his project of conserving age-old trees appeals to tourists around the world who are ready to spend millions in support of his scheme. Teqno, who prophesies poverty for him is surprised at his abode and business strides.

viii Answers to MCQs ON COMPREHENSION

ACT 2 Summary of the scenes




ACT 2, scene 1 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C

Bob Ecolo visits Teqno in Plastosphere and is dissatisfied with the constant pollution of the sea and the atmosphere. He sees discharges from industries with contempt, and dreads the future for the unborn. But Teqno and friend, Toxico, celebrate these activities because of the profit. Toxico and Bob discover they agree in their inclination to alcoholism. They plan a treat in Frica with palm wine consumption.

PHRASES *Noun phrase *Verb phrase *Prepositional phrase *Non-finite clauses

worksheets *63&64 *56-58 *59-61 *62 *63-64 7. Lesson plan on PHRASES in a sentence

*41 *42 *43 *43-44

END OF STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH ACT 2, Scene 2

1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. B 11. C 12. C 13. D

Total mcq 19

WORD CLASS IN ENGLISH Bob Ecolo and Philo pay a visit to Plastosphere to greet Suzy-Maquillo and husband, whose gestation machine has just given birth to their child. They discover that Suzy’s speech is broken because void of determiners. Robot Medic, among the many robots that serve in Teqno’s home, diagnoses her of a speech defect caused by the destruction of a nerve in her brain. She needs as therapy, a constant period of quiet for three months. After entertainment from the robot servants in the house and tending the baby, they see the necessity of a visit to Frica for Suzy.

DETERMINERS Types: *definite article, *indefinite article, *demonstrative, *possessive, *indefinite, *interrogative and *exclamatory adjectives.

Worksheets 65-101 8.Lesson plan on the DETERMINER as a word class.

44-50

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ACT 2 scene 3 1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. A 11. B 12. C

Suzy, after three months of determiner deficiency, visits Frica in the same condition, contrary to the suggestive therapy given her by the Robot Medic. She comes to discover for the first time the natural vegetation cover and solidarity that prevails in that set up. She dreads the life of human effort, employed in Frica and only heeds to Philo and Bob’s suggestion for them to go to Vegeta’s house, for health reasons. The determiner crisis is finally solved with this visit. She visits this area with no child, left behind to the care of robots.

The DETERMINER in English.

Worksheet 81-95 8.Lesson plan on the DETERMINER as a word class.

50-56

ACT2, scene 4 1. A 2. A

At the shores of the Atlantic, Suzy after one month’s stay and reeducated to speak normally gets a gist of the humaneness of Fricans and especially her naturalist in-laws. She is about to set out to her artificial and robot world. She confesses not being able to contain herself with respect to loud sounding music but promises to do her best to refrain from it. She loves her robots and her machine husband, whom she missed for a month’s stay in Frica.

The DETERMINER in English

Worksheet 96 8.Lesson plan on the DETERMINER as a word class.

56-57

ACT 2, Scene 5 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D

Total mcq 19

At Pete’s residence, there is a recollection on the use of the high decibel speaker. Suzy and Lucie agree on the destructive effect of its sound, with Gastro suggesting they stop its fabrication. Pete does not see so because the appliance has not yet covered its cost of research. Suzy and Gastro tilt further towards the natural tendencies of Bob and Philo.

The DETERMINER in English.

Worksheet 97 -101 8.Lesson plan on the DETERMINER as a word class.

57-59

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ACT2 Scene 6 1. D 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. C

Toxico pays a visit to Frica for the first time and relishes fermented palm wine which he consumes to large proportions. He finds diehard consumers of alcohol in Bob Ecolo and Vegeta to keep him company. He gets tipsy at night and sleeps on a bench in the yard. At night, a sooty black rain falls on him. He is too tipsy that he is insensitive to the rain.

The DESCRIPTIVE OR QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE in English.

Worksheet 102-107 9.1.Lesson plan on the QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE as a word class.

59 - 63

ACT 2 Scene 7 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. C

Everyone is surprised to see Toxico all messed up. He is well entertained and accompanied to the guest apartment before all go to sleep. He explains that the stupor causes him to sleep outside, where he is beaten by the sooty black rain. Despite a thorough bath, some stains on him remain indelible. Pressed by the imminent visit of an august guest to Taming Nature limited, he desperately plans to return to Plastosphere, amidst appeals to the contrary from the Bobs.

The DESCRIPTIVE OR QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE

Worksheet 108 – 113 9.2.Lesson plan on the QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE as a word class.

63 -66

ACT 2 scene 8 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. B

Toxico insists to go and attempts so. He reaches the shores and finds no sailor to take him to the island. He discovers a thick paste reaction between the carbon rain water and the salty sea water on the surface and tries to wade to a vessel but falls. Bob Ecolo rescues him and they move back for him to take another thorough bath.

The DESCRIPTIVE or QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE

Worksheet 113 -120 9.1.Lesson plan on the QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE as a word class.

66 - 69

ACT2 Scene 9 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. C 9. C 10. D

Total mcq 34

Conditions of travel don’t permit Toxico to leave for Plastosphere and he meets Bob Ecolo’s elder sister, Flora, who is equally trapped. This mishap is an opportunity for us to discover a contrast between Bob Ecolo and his sister. She is out to lobby for a lumbering company to cause further destruction of forests in Frica. Her brother is so bitter to have a sister of such a money-minded character.

The NOUN

Worksheet 121-137 10.Lesson plan on the NOUN as a word class.

69-72

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ACT2,Scene 10 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. D 8. C 9. C

Pete regrets the business losses for a week; he has registered after the black rain. Frightened by the odd looks of the island, Lucie sees the necessity to go back to the continent. Pete is too reticent because of the assets and the one hundred billion dollars he has in his accounts in Plastosphere. It stands inevitable he must follow Teqno’s suggestion to wear floatable plastic shoes and walking sticks to trek on the carbon and salt paste to go to the continent.

The PRONOUN

worksheet 138 – 144 11.Lesson plan on the PRONOUN as a word class.

72 -74

ACT2,Scene 11 1. B 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. B 11. D 12. D 13. B 14. C

Total mcq 23

Once more, the imperatives of pollution artificiality corner man in his world. The Plastospherans dread continuing in a carbon smeared gloomy area, which lacks the potential for regeneration and renewal. They decide after a week to set out for the continent. It is not to be done in ease because; the reaction of the carbon soot on salty sea water creates a thick paste that prevents any boats from sailing. The air is somber and airports cannot function. They embark on a 45 kilometer staggering with air-filled objects to reach Frica. There is much cooperation and coordination from the first wave of fifty who reach the continent. The journey ends with a fresh water bath from the rain which falls on them.

END OF ACT 2

The PRONOUN.

Worksheet 145 – 167 11.Lesson plan on the PRONOUN as a word class.

74-80

SUMMARY OF ACT 2

The Plastospheran artificial and Frican neo-naturalist characters pay mutual visits to the two worlds of their pleasure – the natural world of Frica and the artificial world of Plastosphere. The realities of uncontrolled recourse to human inventions start affecting the characters through some unnatural phenomena in the play. Bob notices with disgust, the abusive attitudes of Plastospherans towards gains with little sustainable development in perspective: pollution is excusable, provided it fills an

xii individual’s pocket. Huge industrial wastes are released to the sea and the atmosphere with the effect of killing natural sea creatures.

Suzy-Maquillo, plunged in deafening music and served by a myriad of robots gets the result of an automated speech, void of determiners and only finds a solution in the quiet natural environment of Frica. The hospitality of Fricans is sharply contrasted with the nonchalant attitude of the Plastospherans, involved in money-making projects. Also, all human beings are subject to diseases because of these industrial discharges into the atmosphere. The result is acid rain that affects everybody. These mishaps caused by human greed are crowned by the black rainfall that hits Frica and Plastosphere. Plastospherans finally consider their world uninhabitable and stagger to Frica for refuge.

Answers to MCQs on COMPREHENSION





ACT3, Scene 1 1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. D 8. B 9. A 10. D 11. B 12. B 13. D

Vegeta welcomes the Plastospherans as Fricans who made the error of leaving their world to settle on a garbage heap. He exhorts them to learn the lessons on the need to preserve biodiversity, worship God in a natural environment and feel at home. Pete seeks to know how he can develop the lands he has in Frica into resorts that will produce the amount of money Bob Ecolo has. They agree to work together to transform Pete’s lands into resorts for tourism. Vegeta tries to advise him against such a spirit that subjects people to the plight he and family have just gone through.

THE VERB BRAINSTORM ON

THE TENSES IN ENGLISH. -----------------------

FUNCTIONS OF THE VERB in a sentence.

Worksheets 168-172 -------------- 173- 184 12.VERBS: A CHART ON THE TENSES IN ENGLISH

81 - 85

ACT 3, Scene 2 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. C 8. A

Total mcq 21

Pete and a number of people move to his villa for shelter; while at Vegeta’s residence, there are arguments about Suzy-Maquillo’s stay behind. Living with the Vegetas keeps a distance between her and husband. Gastro, who is an outright opponent to his father’s selfish policies, opts to be a forest guard while Suzy intends also to join the same trend. Vegeta and Bob see her sound taste for colors as a booster to their floral adornment of the parks and gardens. Suzy sees no obstacle in her husband who can live at Bob’s quarters and work anywhere. Her husband also goes with sex toys and can endure her absence.

THE VERB MODALS and AUXILIARIES functions in a sentence.

Worksheets 185-202 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

85-88

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ACT3, Scene 3 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D

Pete and the other 49 Plastospherans of the first wave settle and there is the imperative to assist other people left behind in Plastosphere. Teqno and his associates adapt a cutting device to the front of a boat to slice the thick stretch of carbon paste in the ocean. Teqno also dispatches a cargo ship to collect their company’s money in the bank of Plastosphere. Bob does all to accommodate the coming people.

THE VERB MODALS and AUXILIARIES, FUNCTIONS in a sentence.

Worksheet 185-202 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

89-91

ACT3,Scene 4 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. B 9. B

Total mcq 13

Plastospherans coming in are so many that it is a challenge to receive them. Bob Ecolo already makes provision for food and accommodation for a month. Pete suggests in all miserliness that the people contribute some money for their hosting. At Orchard Secondary School, one of Bob’s investments, welcoming millionaires’ children around the world for its natural look, several people are hosted. The students already sent back to their various areas of origin, this empty school constitutes a better abode for the fugitives. Pete also makes contacts with some of his managers around the world to host Plastospherans. Lucie, his wife, observes they will find it difficult to adapt to their new situation if it is not made to look like Plastosphere.

THE VERB Further details on TENSES SIMPLE PRESENT& PRESENT CONTINUOUS


91 -95

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Act 3 scene 5 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. B 8. D 9. D 10. C

Philo and Suzy-maquillo are happy to now belong to the same camp for nature conservation. The horrible incident of the black rain is still seen by their people, the Plastospherans, as yet another incident where they can use the sciences to escape. Philo gets discouraged with her philanthropic gesture to them and wishes it should be halted. Sophia still appeals they continue on the track of tolerance. Suzy makes her to know they can’t change.

VERB: PRESENT PERFECT TENSE.

207-216 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

95-99

ACT3: Scene 6 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. A 8. D 9. B

The first revival project by Pete’s company is to rehabilitate land used for depositing nuclear and industrial wastes. This is a forest area transformed to a barren land where biodiversity has been completely effaced. As Bob projects, only the robots and machines can go to risk the planting of economic trees on the land. Soil has to be imported and filled in holes dug by remote controlled bulldozers and mechanical shovels. Pete has no choice because his wife, Lucie is putting him under pressure to realize nature-friendly projects.

VERB: SIMPLE PAST TENSE OR PRETERIT


99-103

ACT 3, Scene 7 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. C

Total mcq 26

After three months of intensive work, the land is rehabilitated. Pete and Teqno are so critical of the job but must do it to please Lucie. Bob takes very good care of the seedlings and personally takes charge of the placing in cars to transport. Pete reminds Lucie, her share of his property is exhausted for encouraging such a fruitless project. Bob presses for the parks to be created if Pete and company aim at profit in bio conservation.

VERB: SIMPLE PAST TENSE OR PRETERIT


103-106

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ACT 3, scene 8 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. A

Gastro, in one of his patrols around the Ndzondzene park, in execution of his duties, discovers Plastospherans smoking. Most of this group usually drink with Vegeta and end their evening taking indian hemp in the forest. Bob Ecolo discovers their intention and sends them away.

VERB THE PAST PERFECT TENSE


106-107

ACT 3, Scene 9 1. D 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. B

Vegeta is surprised the scary myths attached to the shrine is no deterrent to the smokers. He recalls guards dropped protecting the area because the UNESCO could not pay them. Gastro opts to be committed in doing the job for no pay.

The VERB: PAST PERFECT TENSE

Worksheet 234 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

108-109

ACT 3, Scene 10 1. A 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. A

At Pete’s villa, there are regrets why Bob Ecolo still attracts more tourists to his parks than Pete. Enough comes to the newly built resort, yet Pete is not satisfied. Teqno equally aligns with his father to condemn the investment, which Lucie appreciates it is doing fine. Suzy surprises them with Gastro’s decision to be a forest guard. They express their anger by attacking Bob for this decision that exposes their son to risks.

The VERB: PAST PERFECT

Worksheet 235 – 240 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

109-112

ACT 3, Scene 11 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. C 10. C 11. B

Total mcq 29

Gastro’s controversial decision to be a forest guard is met with stiff resistance from his mother, brother and father. Gastro comes in to warn his kin not to meddle with his life. The alternative job of an accountant, relished by his materialistic father and brother, is nothing short of imprisonment. He considers himself a free man for dropping his father and his toxic approach to earn profit.

The SIMPLE FUTURE tense

Worksheet 241 – 246 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

113 -116

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Worksheet and lesson plan references


ACT 3, Scene 12 1. D 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. B

Suzy-maquillo and her husband interact frankly as husband and wife. She is a convert to environmental care and drifts away from artificiality to the total consternation of Teqno who knows no aspect of her upbringing matches with this new life. Her parents are of his line of thought - machine-like life for profit. She tells her husband she loves beauty and will not entertain another black rain that paints gloom on the earth’s surface. Teqno spites her as a lean wit who has never known her to generate income.

VERB: THE SIMPLE FUTURE

Worksheet 241 - 246 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

116-118

ACT 3, Scene 13 1. D 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. A 7. C

Pete and managers don’t conceive Bob’s edge over them in a friendly manner. They device strategies not to be outwardly opposed to him but inwardly outrageous in their plans to run him down. Lucie is to be kept off from all their plans for her admiration of non-profit making environmental projects. Toxico schemes that they burn down the Ndzondzene park during a dry season, using a remote-controlled drone.

VERB: THE PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE


119-121

ACT 3, Scene 14 1. C 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. B 7. B

Gastro on one of his guarding sessions is visited by Suzy who appreciates the deep and self-fulfilling experience nature instills in her. She regrets her pretentious past with Taming Nature Limited. As an environmental envoy for the company in the past, she only acts in suggesting nature conservation to project a good image of the company, not for its conviction in taking care of the environment. She backs down when she is convinced her role is insignificant in the company.

VERB: PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

Worksheet 256 -259 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word class.

122-125

ACT 3, Scene 15 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. B

Total mcq 26

Pete and companions plan the act of burning down a UNESCO world heritage site, Ndzondzene Park. They assign tasks for the execution of this devilish scheme. On Christmas day, they are to first launch an explosive to drive away tourists and then send a remote-controlled toy to do the burning. Toxico is to be drugged to launch this device, since it entails a lot of courage to do so.

VOICES – PASSIVE AND ACTIVE

Worksheet 260 -264 12.Lesson plan on the VERBS as a word

125-126

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class. Answers to MCQs on COMPREHENSION



Worksheetand lesson plan references


ACT 3, SCENE 16 1. 1

The operation to destroy Ndondzene park takes place with Toxico launching the toy. Drinking, considered as a drug to make tourists go to slumber, creates the contrary effect of alertness among the excited tourists to the disappointment of Pete’s group.

VOICES – PASSIVE AND ACTIVE


126-127

ACT 3, scene 17 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D

Explosions are heard in the Ndzondzene park with panic created. Vegeta, Bob Ecolo, Gastro and the forest guards all commit themselves to putting out the fire. They also usher a thousand tourists present for the Christmas night to a safe location. The operation of the Petes fails once more because the fire does not effectively consume the forest.

THE IMPERATIVE


127-128

ACT 3, Scene 18 1. C 2. B 3. B

Total mcq 8

Teqno passes in pretense to visit his sister, but rather, his purpose is to examine the destruction they have caused to the forest. Gastro attacks him with no mincing of words about he and his father’s involvement in the fire incident.

END OF ACT 3

THE IMPERATIVE


129 -130

Summary of Act 3 The first wave of Plastospherans reaches the coast of Frica and is welcomed by Bob Ecolo and other Fricans. They come to the reality of a world where worship of God, architecture and educational facilities try as much as possible to drift away from artificiality and stick to nature. Neo-naturalists like the Bob Ecolos and Vegeta caution them against implementing such artificial practices that would lead to another phenomenon as nasty as the black rain. All the people, a little above five hundred thousand, are settled after a lot of efforts around the world. Pete’s wife pressurizes him to resort to ecotourism and do a great deal in transforming the world to a natural haven. Parks have to be multiplied, natural shrines have to be increased, and recycling of plastics has to be mandatory. Bob works with him to establish these natural havens, yet receives a lot of criticism for still having an edge over them in touristic attraction. The rivalry is worsened with the choice of Pete’s son, Gastro, to become a forest guard under Bob Ecolo. Father denounces son for this and schemes with Teqno, his ardent supporter in environmental waywardness for profit, to destroy Bob Ecolo’s most booming park, the Ndzondzene park. Using a remote-controlled incendiary robot, Teqno and friends partially burn this park on a Christmas evening, when many tourists are celebrating. Thanks to the increase of water cannons supplied from nineteen bore holes around the park, the fire is put out with some damages registered. Teqno pretentiously pays a visit to Bob Ecolo’s house the next day, and is not welcomed. His pretense is on Christmas season routine to visit family members, and to extend their mother’s greetings to Bob Ecolo’s family. Grastro not only suspects but accuses his brother and father for this scheme to burn the park. Teqno ignores them and slips to the park unnoticed.

xviii

ACT 4 Answers to MCQs on COMPREHENSION



Worksheet and lesson plan references


ACT 4, Scene 1 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. D

In the burnt forest, Teqno confirms the thoroughness of the execution of their plot in some areas. He is discovered by his brother, Gastro and asked to leave. The wind blows down a branch that falls breaks his head. Gastro rushes to his rescue and a van conveys him to the hospital.

PREPOSITIONS VS VERBS : PHRASAL VERBS


131-132

ACT 4, Scene 2 1. C 2. D

A bit away from the park, Philo, Vegeta, Bob and a guard lament the accident of Teqno and blame the latter for stubbornness.

PREPOSITIONS VS VERBS : PHRASAL VERBS

Worksheet 279

132 – 133

ACT 4, Scene 3

1. B 2. D 3. A

Pete gets the bad news of his son’s accident and first laments for another failure to bring down Bob. He, especially, sees Teqno’s pivotal role in managing the company to maximum profit. Toxico and Dr Robot warn that the news is too implicating for the company and must be concealed as much as possible. Pete’s suggestion to sue Bob is cancelled immediately to avoid raising dust.

PHRASAL VERBS.


133 - 135

ACT 4, Scene 4 1. C 2. B

Total mcq 11

Pete and co meet in the hospital and there is both lament and confrontation over Teqno’s plight. Gastro and Philo are blunt to their father about his misleading role on Teqno. They are sure he is responsible for the explosions that burnt the Ndzondzene Park. Toxico and Dr Robot are pretentious peace-makers between father and children.

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

284 -286 13.Lesson plan on the PREPOSITIONS as a word class.

135 -137

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ACT 4, Scene 5 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. C 7. D

Lucie gets to know the motivations behind Teqno’s visit to the park before being further confused when it is revealed to her that he was bearing greetings from her to the Bobs. His sister, Philo, is more convinced after finding out the falsehood in Teqno’s words that they (Saving the Earth Limited) are behind the burning of the park on Christmas day. Bob is nevertheless prepared to use every means to save the life of Teqno, even if it means increasing the roles of robots in his treatment.

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

worksheet 287 -292 13.Lesson plan on the PREPOSITIONS as a word class.

137-140

ACT 4, Scene 6 1. B 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. C

Bob Ecolo, Gastro and Vegeta are informed by the UNESCO fact-finding team about the explosive that burns the park. It is embedded in a toy and all accusations point to a neighboring electronic factory. Vegeta and Bob Ecolo shy away from the case and seek instead to defend their in-law. Gastro on the other hand will not tolerate his kin for this outrage and recommends they are exposed with a penalty for the damages. Vegeta is willing to handle the matter out of court but is interrupted by UNESCO that finds a criminal act in the attempted burning.

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME FUNCTIONS OF PREPOSITIONS

Worksheet 293 -295 296 – 302 13.Lesson plan on the PREPOSITIONS as a word class.

140 -143

ACT 4, Scene 7

1. B 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. A

Total mcq 19

Pete and co deliberate on UNESCO’s intention to take the culprit of the fire incident to court. He has hardly caught any sleep since the organization conducted investigations and produced a report accusing an electronic company in the vicinity; they must by this fact appear in court. Dr Robot informs him that a bench of the company’s lawyers is at work to frame alibis and ward off guilt.

ADVERBS MODIFYING VERBS

Worksheet 303 - 307 14.Lesson plan on the ADVERBS as a word class.

143 -145

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ACT 4, Scene 8 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. A 7. C

The court proceedings are almost absolving Pete and co while the Bobs are free of any accusations. Bob and co analyze the possibility that the efforts towards rehabilitating the waste land seem to make the jury consider Pete’s company innocent. At another end of the court, Pete and managers jubilate because of skillful arguments of the company’s lawyers in their defense. No electronic company is guilty but some tourist. Yet the court requires Teqno to get well for questioning.

ADVERBS MODIFYING AN ADJECTIVE and ADVERBS MODIFYING OTHER ADVERBS

worksheet 308 -310 worksheet 311-312 14.Lesson plan on the ADVERBS as a word class.

146 -148

ACT 4, Scene 9 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. B

Pains cause Teqno to start making uncoordinated utterances that are implicating to his company. He betrays the rivalry between his father’s company and Bob Ecolo’s, referring to some of the schemes of destroying the park as contrived in their hidden circles. Bob reinforces security measures around the patient for fear of a guilty party coming in to eliminate him as evidence.

ADVERBS MODIFYING SENTENCES

Worksheet 313 -314 14.Lesson plan on the ADVERBS as a word class.

149 -150

ACT 4, Scene 10 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. B

Total mcq 17

Gastro analyzes the speech of Teqno as revealing about the involvement of his father’s company in the destruction of Ndzondzene Park. The company’s lawyer despises Gastro, declaring him incompetent to judge the words of a mentally deranged person. Gastro considers the utterances of his brother in pain, as a revelation of a sub-conscious mind. Pete condemns the court for not pronouncing a verdict after his lawyers prove the company’s innocence beyond reasonable doubt.

ADVERBS OF MANNER


150 -152

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ACT 4, Scene 11 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D

Bob, Gastro and Philo are mistrustful of Pete in trying to seek justification for his deeds. They all see Teqno in danger after the latter’s implicating utterances. Lucie is skeptical about such analyses because she has lived with her husband for long and noticed no such tendencies. Bob and Gastro resolve to tighten security around the patient for his own safety.

ADVERBS OF TIME (TEMPORAL ADVERBS)


152 -154

ACT 4, Scene 12 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. D

Bob Ecolo comes back to the ward to ask after Teqno and his protection. The former is the main focus of the latter’s attacks as mentioned by Guards. Bob bars any revelation of these implicating details to the journalists outside. After verifying that the Guards have taken their meals, he leaves to his house for a while.

ADVERBS OF PLACE (SPATIAL ADVERBS)


154 -155

ACT 4, Scene 13 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D

Pete and friends are disturbed with the revelations of Teqno. They seek several means to silence the implicating partner but find none given the presence of incorruptible guards around the patient. Pete resolves, he be killed. The UNESCO Regional Representative is a corrupt man who Dr Robot and friends bribe to intervene in taking any of them nearer the patient for morphine to be exaggerated in the medication of the patient.

ADVERBS OF QUANTITY, DEGREE, INTENSITY,

Worksheet 324 – 333 14.Lesson plan on the ADVERBS as a word class.

156 -160

ACT 4, Scene 14 1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. A 9. B 10. B

Total mcq 25

The UNESCO Regional Representative comes to the hospital and talks to the guards about the state of Teqno. Bob Ecolo is carried away with the trustworthy past of the Representative. Contrary to agreement, the Representative asks for the chip containing the virus to increase the morphine dose programmed in the nurse robot from Dr Robot. As a diversion, the UNESCO Regional Representative is told how activities in the park have resumed more effectively than expected after four months of its destruction while he pushes the robot and tries to slot in the microchip but fails. Gastro shouts from outside for Bob to pick up the chip.

ADVERBS OF AFFIRMATION AND NEGATION COMPARISON OF ADVERBS

Worksheet 334 -337 14.Lesson plan on the ADVERBS as a word class. Worksheet 338 -341

161 – 163 163-165

xxii Answers to MCQs on COMPREHENSION





ACT 4, Scene 15 1. D 2. D 3. C 4. A

Bob Ecolo struggles and gets the chip from the Representative. The UNESCO guard is also a witness to this fishy move to corrupt a robot. The boss appeals to Bob and co that this chip contains obscene pictures of him and wife naked. He asks that they move to the forest before going to examine the chip for clarity.

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

Worksheet 341 – 343 15.Lesson plan on the CONJUNCTION as a word class.

166 - 167

ACT 4, Scene 16 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A

As a diversion, the UNESCO Regional Representative is led to make a tour around Ndzondzene Park by Bob and Gastro. He sees life coming back to normal in the growth of plants, and appreciates it. He explains that the porn pictures are authorized by his wife. Bob Ecolo still believes in this don and asks Gastro to give back his microchip when there is a distress call from Philo.

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

Worksheet 344 -347 15.Lesson plan on the CONJUNCTION as a word class.

168 -170

ACT4, Scene 17 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. D

Teqno is gasping for life as a result of a dose of morphine administered by the nurse robot. Intrigued by this suspicious change of the patient, Gastro and Bob now align in asking for the chip which the UNESCO Regional Representative tries to put in this appliance. A software engineer is to analyze the chip to see its effect on the robot. Pete attacks his son -in-law for being more available by the side of his sick son than himself. The court decision prohibiting him from coming nearer the patient could be reversed if Bob Ecolo expresses the need for it. He adds that Bob is no more a father to this child who is also his manager than he is.

SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS


170 - 174

ACT 4, Scene 18 1. C 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. A

Total mcq 19

Pete successfully forces in to see the suffering Teqno whom he laments about. He evokes the dubious incidents of personnel in his companies that Teqno trashes with ease. His children and wife accuse him for negligence. Actually he is out to verify if Teqno dies after taking the morphine.

SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS THE IF-CLAUSE TYPE 1 CONDITIONAL IF+PRESENT+FUTURE

Worksheet 354-358 15.Lesson plan on the CONJUNCTION as a word class.

174-176

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ACT 4, Scene 19 1. C 2. B 3. C

At Pete’s villa, the losing partners meet with the UNESCO Regional Representative. Pete blames the latter for gross miscalculation of the timing to corrupt the robot with a chip. Everyone is present to witness the crime. He asks for his money but the expatriate refuses because there is no receipt when transactions are done.

Zero or Real CONDITIONAL IF+PRESENT+PRESENT IF=WHEN


177-178

ACT 4, Scene 20

1. B 2. C

A software engineer uncovers the secret behind the chip. It is programmed to alter the prescription of the morphine from five milliliters to thirty milliliters. Vegeta here discovers that the expatriate intended killing Teqno. Gastro and Philo embark on a spy mission of his father.

TYPE 2 CONDITIONAL Unreal CONDITIONAL IF+PAST SIMPLE +CONDITIONAL

Worksheet 363-366 15.Lesson plan on the CONJUNCTION as a word class.

179 -180

ACT 4, Scene 21

1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A

The two siblings acting as detectives bump on Pete and the UNESCO Regional Representative, contrary to prescriptions of the law. For their safety, Gastro rushes to set the alarm on. In a fit of confusion, the UNESCO Representative confesses he has received a million dollars as bribe to soil his hands in attempting to kill Teqno. Pete further confesses that his empire of riches rests on such bloody deeds. He could not let it crumble for his own life or anyone whoever, including his own son.

TYPE 3 CONDITIONAL (impossible to fulfill.)


181 - 183

ACT 4, Scene 22

1. B 2. D 3. C

Total mcq 12 427 mcqs

Three weeks after these scandalous facts uncovered about Pete and his friends, a child pronounces the verdict in court against them. Pete and co will spend three years on a garbage heap and feel the discomfort of the world they create. He also has to hand a billion dollars to his son, Gastro, and mother for clearing the mess of Plastosphere and recycling all plastic wastes in Frica.

INTERJECTIONS

Worksheet 372 -373

183-185

xxiv Summary of Act 4

Teqno visits the Bobs in pretense to slip to the Ndzondzene premises and verify if the burnings are thorough. He sees some destruction and admires it. A burnt branch is broken by the wind and drops on his head. In a fit of confusion, Gastro conveys him to the hospital. Teqno’s partners and father lament over this incident and see it as another victory for Bob Ecolo. He is attended to by a highly skilled medical staff, assisted by robots. A case file is opened in court against the culprit of the Ndzondzene fire incident with a hearing largely to the favor of Pete and co, owing to the skillful defense of the company’s lawyers.

After the court hearing, Teqno spends a very difficult night having excruciating pains, assisted by his mother and wife. Bob does not relent paying several visits to see into his treatment. His father on the other hand has no interest in passing to examine his progress. These pains continue when Pete visits the hospital. The patient starts making implicating pronouncements against their own company. Pete in the height of guilt cooks up a plot with his friends to kill Teqno. They seek alliance with the UNESCO Regional Representative who misfires and struggles to corrupt the nurse robot attending to Teqno using a virus put in a microchip. Gastro is smart to view it and when the patient deteriorates with an excess morphine dose, this expatriate to no avail ends up guilty. A child, playing the role of a judge sentences Pete and his friends to three years imprisonment on a garbage heap with their prime role to rid it of plastic wastes. His son, Gastro and mum Lucie are to take charge of projects worth a hundred billion dollars on sustainable development and recycling plastic wastes.

QUIZZES IN THE 373 WORKSHEETS

STRUCTURE IN A SENTENCE

SUBJECT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 298 quizzes

VERB (as structure, vocabulary in context, number agreement)-------------------------226 quizzes

DIRECT OBJECT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------67 quizzes

INDIRECT OBJECT----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------22 quizzes

ADJUNCT & ADVERBIALS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 quizzes

OTHER ASPECTS OF STRUCTURE

CLAUSES, ESPECIALLY DEPENDENT CLAUSES----------------------------------------------6 quizzes

PHRASES (NOUN PHRASE, VERB PHRASE, PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE)---------------------33 quizzes

PARTS OF SPEECH IN ENGLISH

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1. DETERMINER -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------288 quizzes 2. QUALIFYING OR DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES --------------------------------------------167 quizzes 3. NOUNS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------86 quizzes 4. PRONOUNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------174 quizzes 5. VERBS (TENSES, FUNCTION OF VERBS, FUNCTION OF MODALS AND AUXILIARIES, OTHER

DETAILS ABOUT TENSES, VOICES, THE IMPERATIVE--------------------------------- 449 quizzes VERBS ------------------------PHRASAL VERBS-----------------------------------------------50 quizzes

6. PREPOSITIONS : TIME, PLACE, FUNCTIONS IN A SENTENCE------------------------103 quizzes 7. ADVERBS, TIME, PLACE, FREQUENCY, DEGREE, INTENSITY ETC)------------------141 quizzes 8. CONJUNCTIONS; COORDINATING AND SUBORDINATING---------------------------99 quizzes

# INTERJECTIONS: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 quizzes __________________

Total on grammar-----------------------------------2225 quizzes Total on comprehension-----------------------------427 quizzes.

xxvi Roger Njebuh Nzembayie is an ESL,EFL, FLE, FLS teacher with a vast experience in the learning and teaching of the English and French Language to non-native speakers for thirty years. As the first son to an English teacher, Mbutuh Nzembayie Mathias (40 years as an English teacher), a trained English and French teacher, he paid keen interest to users’ difficulties in expressing themselves in this language. He is a Cameroonian from Babessi, NW Region, born on 15 May 1976. He is a holder of a BA and Post-graduate diploma in English and French. He has actively taught English and French for three years with the private sector and seventeen (17) years with the Cameroon Government.

He is a live witness to the crisis in the Anglophone part of the country, from peaceful protests to radicalization of both camps. A big fan of environmental protection, he admires natural forest zones, farming and cultural festivals around local shrines. He also loves reggae music, especially Bob Marley’s songs.

Plastosphere seeks to discover what careless littering of plastics, gadget dumps, burning of these materials can cause to the environment. Plastics and gadgets most certainly make people billionaires but what aspect of human nature and reality is compromised when there is no effort to recycle wastes from such materials? Discover this from the conflicts in the play. Teqno and his father, billionaires at the expense of the environment battle with Vegeta, Bob Ecolo to destroy and conserve nature, respectively.

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