About this worksheet
Trouble Below Stairs is a two-scene playscript set in Lord Ashworth's basement kitchen in 1885. Mrs Bridges the cook, Clara the scullery maid, Thomas the footman and Mr Hudson the butler search for a missing copper jelly mould. It turns up in the coal scuttle, full of ginger biscuits. Nine questions in three sections follow, for Year 5. Pupils name playscript features, explain stage directions, infer motives and rewrite four lines as a story with speech marks. Model answers fill the last two pages. The questions follow England National Curriculum reading comprehension.
