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The Dream Factory is about a little girl with a tremendous capacity to love. Jackie is a poor orphan girl who lives with her sick grandfather. Being a sensitive soul, she worries about her grandfather’s illness and about how to find money to survive. As such, she often escapes to a dream world to avoid these harsh realities of life. But our story tenderly reveals to young audiences how Jackie’s power for selfless love for her grandfather can, in the end, prove to be a great advantage.
It is an highly interactive play which directly involves young audiences who are just beginning to learn English in the story. It also includes original music and songs composed by Craig Stevenson and extensive materials will provide teachers with useful classroom tools.

Synopsis in Spanish
The Dream Factory (La Fábrica de Sueños,) gira en torno a una niña con una gran capacidad de amar. Jackie es pobre y huérfana y vive con su abuelo enfermo. Siendo un alma sensible, la niña se preocupa mucho por él y por la falta de dinero que necesitarían para sobrevivir. Eso le hace a menudo escaparse a un mundo de fantasías y sueños con los que olvidar la dura realidad de su vida. Sin embargo, nuestros muy jóvenes espectadores podrán ver cómo el amor tremendo que Jackie siente por su abuelo va a proporcionarle a la larga grandes beneficios.
Este cuento entrañable pretende fomentar el interés por el inglés entre un público que está iniciándose en el aprendizaje de este idioma. El espectáculo, interactivo, incluye canciones y música original compuesta por Craig Stevenson y el material didáctico para los profesores será de gran utilidad en el aula.

Jackie is a nine-year-old English girl who hasn’t got a mother or a father. She’s an orphan(1) . She lives with her old Spanish grandad(2) . Jackie is often sad(3) because they are very poor(4) and her grandad is very sick(5). They haven’t got enough money(6) to pay(7) for his medicine. This is why Jackie likes to dream(8) . She likes to escape in her head to a place where she is never hungry, where the sky is always blue and where Grandad is always well(9) .
In the town(10) where they live there is a mysterious place called The Dream Factory’. It looks like a normal factory but Grandad says it is a magic place where all the dreams of all the children(11) in the world(12) are made.
One day Noël Peels, the famous television presenter, announces a competition(13) only for children. The prize(14) is a visit to the Dream Factory. To win(15) this prize, the lucky child has to find a special number with a special colour. It is a green number 7 and there are only three of these numbers in the entire world. Jackie is very excited(16) and dreams that she can find(17) one of the lucky(18) numbers.
Other children also(19) want to find the green 7’s, for example, Vila Vinegar, a very rich(20) and very horrible girl. And Game Boyd, an American boy who is always playing with electronic games.
Vila and Game find two of the green 7’s. There is only one left(21) . Can Jackie find the last(22) green number and visit the DREAM FACTORY? Can her dream come true?

VOCABULARY	1. orphan = huérfana/o 2. Grandad / Grandfather = abuelo 3. sad = triste 4. poor = pobre 5. sick = enfermo /a 6. money = dinero 7. pay = pagar 8. dream = soñar, sueño 9. well = sano, bien 10. town = pueblo 11. children = niños 12. child = niño 13. competition = concurso 14. present = regalo 15. prize = premio 16. win = ganar 17. excited = emocionado /a 18. find = encontrar 19. lucky = afortunado /a 20. also = tambien 21. rich = rica /o 22. there is only one left = Sólo queda uno 23. last = último 24. Can her dream come true? = ¿Se puede realizar su sueño
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JACKIE s nine years old. She hasn’t got a mother or a father. Jackie lives in England with her grandfather, who is Spanish. She has a very big heart. She hasn’t got many friends and she likes to dream about happy things.
GRANDAD is Jackie’s grandfather. His real name is Arturo and he is very old and very kind. He comes from Spain but now lives in England with Jackie. Grandad is very sick and Jackie worries about him.
NÖEL PEELS is a television presenter. He is very famous and very handsome. Jackie loves to watch him on TV.
VILA VINEGAR is another little girl who is also nine yers old. Her father is very rich and Vila has got very many toys and lives in a very big house. She goes to an expensive school.
GAME BOYD is an American boy who is ten years old. He is from New York and he likes to talk a lot. He is always playing with electronic toys, and he is the game boy champion of the United States.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE DREAM FACTORY is a mystery. He lives in the Dream Factory and he never comes out. No-one has ever seen so we do not know who he really is.

TEACHERS’ MATERIALS. Please look out the extensive teachers materials for use in the classroom. They are a great tool to help prepare your students before seeing the play (and for use AFTER seeing it). Read More

The Dream Factory (see synopses on pages 1 + 2) explores the following themes: kindness over selfishness; the importance of caring and loving as opposed to materialism and the desire for riches.

Bilingualism The relationship between Jackie and her grandfather is a Spanish-speaking one. The television show ‘The Noël Peels Show’ is broadcast via satellite to Spain and so Noël Peels uses both languages. The rest of the characters are English-speaking, though Game Boyd occasionally uses the conversational Spanish he knows. Spanish is used to reinforce what has been said in English and to highlight the most important elements of the play. About 65 - 70% of the play is in English.

LINGUISTIC/GRAMMATICAL CONTENT:
• NUMBERS AND COLOURS - A red number six; A blue number four.
• ASKING PEOPLE ABOUT THEMSELVES - Simple questions and answers: ‘How are you?’ ‘I’m fine, thanks’ ‘Have you got…?’ ‘Yes, I have / No, I haven’t’
• WHERE? - Prepositions of place (on, under, in, next to) and the phrases ‘there is/there are’
• LIKES AND DISLIKES - I like pizza. I don’t like watching television.
• ADJECTIVES - happy/sad, rich/poor, etc.
• TELLING THE TIME (o’clock) - It’s ten o’clock, It’s seven o’clock
• ANIMALS - lion, dog, etc., and some things animals do: lions roar, dogs bark, etc.

THE EXERCISES are intended to introduce the students to the story of the play plus the important vocabulary and grammatical constructions. If they are prepared beforehand, they will enjoy the play much more. Some exercises are easier than others - we realize that six year-olds have different needs and levels from nine year olds. We have therefore graded each exercise as either Level 1 (easy) or Level 2 (not so easy), so you can choose which ones you think will be most appropriate for the level of your class.

CONTENTS:
•SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH: (Level 1) Introduction of vocabulary; True/False questions. (p. 1)
•SYNOPSIS IN SPANISH: (Level 1) Revision of English vocabular (p. 2)
•COLOUR THE NUMBERS (Level 1). (p. 3)
•INTERVIEW WITH JACKIE: (Level 2) Questions and answers; write your own interview. (p. 4)
•JACKIE’S HOUSE: (Level 2) Simple Furniture; prepositions; there is/there are. (p. 5)
•EXTRACT FROM THE PLAY: (Level 2) More vocabulary; Spanish Comprehension questions. (p. 6)
•THE BEST: (Level 2) Multiple-choice ‘Who / what is the best…?; More practice. (p. 7/8)
•LIKES AND DISLIKES: (Level 1) I like…/ I don’t like/ Do you like?. (p. 8)
•WORD SOUP: (Level 2) VOCABULARY PRACTICE of Colours / Adjectives / Food. (p. 9)
ANIMALS: (Level 1) Anagrams; Draw the animal. (p.10)
•ANIMAL ACTIONS: Matching exercise (Level 2). (p. 11)
•DRAW THE MONSTER: (Level 1) Colours, Parts of the Body. (p. 11)
•WHAT TIME IS IT?: (Level 1) It’s…o’clock; Draw the hands on the clocks. (p. 12)
•ANOTHER EXTRACT: (Level 2) More vocabulary; Spanish Comprehension questions. (p. 13)

Estamos en el estudio con Noël Peels, el famoso presentador de televisión. Noël esta a punto de anunciar el concurso para encontrar el número 7 verde. Jackie quiere concursar y se acerca a Noël. Es entonces cuando otra niña que se llama Vila Vinegar entra en escena...

NOËL: Hello, little girl.
JACKIE: Hello.
NOËL: Do you want to play?
JACKIE: Yes, I do.
NOËL: Come here. What is your name?
JACKIE: My name is Jackie.
NOËL: Jackie! A round of applause. Now, Jackie, when I count up to three …
VILA: (entering) Hey, you! Yes, you! Noël Peels! I want to play, too
NOËL: I’m sorry, but?
VILA: I said: "I want to play too". Are you deaf or something?
NOËL: I'm very sorry little girl, but Jackie was here first.
VILA: No, no, no! Me, me, me! I want to go now because my daddy is very rich and very important and I always go first!
JACKIE: It's OK, Mr Peels. She can go first.
VILA: See. See. I am first, I’m first!
NOËL: Well, thank you, Jackie, but I think I have the solution. What is your name… dear?
VILA: My name is Vila, Vila Vinegar.
NOËL: Vila Vinegar! What a lovely name. Now, when I count up to three, you have to go together…
VILA: Oh, no!
NOËL: …at the same time, OK. And you have to find a GREEN SEVEN. Ready? One, two, three… GO!

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