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Lesson 7
Attendance and warm – ups (10 mins)
Group Count 1 – 10
Students stand in circle and look at the floor. Any actor will start by saying “one.” Any other
actor will continue by saying “two” and so on until you reach “ten”. If any two players say a
number at the same time the group must start again at “one”.
Pass the Pulse
Students stand in a circle, hold hands, and close their eyes. The instructor begins a pulse by
lightly squeezing the hand of one of her neighbors. Once that person feels the pulse, she
squeezes the hand of her neighbor, and so on, and so on until the pulse returns back to the
instructor. This should all happen silently.
- If a student makes a sound or a giggle, consider starting over again until they can do it with
complete control.
Activities
Reading the Princess and the pea (part 3) (35 mins)
Read the Princess and the pea the play.
In this lesson, we are going to read (scene 5 from (page 21) only).
Note that page 21 is supposed to be scene 5. There is a typo
(Invite students to read the lines after you) Explain what is happening in the play. Hold an
interactive question and answer session about what happened in the play.
Discuss the difference and the use of present tense, past tense, future tense and present
continuous tense used in the play. This time, let students be the leader of the discussion.
Vocabulary (15 mins)
Teach the following vocabulary from the play to students:
- SOAK
- SHIVER
- RAINCOAT
- WRAP
- MEAN
- MATTRESS (ES)
- DESTROY
- RIP
- AWFUL
- BREEZE
- DELICATE
- THEATEN
- TERRIBLE
- SPELL
Ask students to write down sentences using these words
(students do not have to learn all the spelling of the word at this point, just know what the word
means and how it is pronounced)
Lesson 9
Attendance and warm – ups (15 mins)
Bus Stop
Prepare a bowl with slips of paper with different types of characters written on them (a 5 year
old, a business person, a clown, an 80 year old, etc.)
Create a row of chairs on stage (a bench).Three at a time, students will enter the stage, sit and
wait for the bus for a while, then one at a time give up waiting and exit. Before each student
enters they will draw a character from a bowl. The goal is to put that character into every part of
their bodies and convey specific behaviors while in the scene. After they exit the audience can
guess the character of each actor.
Toy Boat
Have the group stand in a large circle. Explain that in the middle of the circle is a shallow pond.
Stand behind one student and ask her to close her eyes. As you gently push her forward, she is
to become a toy boat that lightly glides to the other side of the pond (with her eyes closed).
When the boat reaches the other side, a student should be ready to catch her. The boat opens
her eyes and takes the place of whichever student caught her. The student who “caught her”
now becomes the next toy boat to float across the circle.
NOTES:
- Make sure that every aspect of this game happens in slow, gentle motion. - Students will
realize when their eyes are closed the other side of the circle is much further than they think.
- After a few rounds, consider allowing sending two or three toy boats across at the same time.
Try-out! (45 mins)
Try reading the lines and act with emotion and body gesture (as well as following the stage
direction). (In this lesson, we are going to focus on scene 2 only )
Lesson 11
Attendance and warm – ups (15 mins)
Body Emotion
Sitting down or standing in the room, tell students try acting these emotions without making
any sounds:
frightened, helpless, hungry, happy, embarrassed, excited
Ask students : How does your body change when you express different emotions?
Respond to face
Have students stand in a circle. The group agrees to be a character (e.g.
Queen). Then someone starts and pulls a face (e.g. Sad, happy, hungry,
thoughtful) and the next person has to make a corresponding vocal sound before
pulling their own face and so on.
Props Challenge
Find a couple of everyday items such as a bucket, a ball, a spoon, a pen or a book. Get into a
circle. For each round, place one of the items in the middle of the circle. The challenge is to get
up and use the item as if it were something else,
for example: a bucket becomes a hat or a chair.
Try-outs (45 mins)
Try reading the lines and act with emotion and body gesture (as well as following the stage
direction). (In this lesson, we are going to focus on
Lesson 14
Attendance and warm ups
Tongue Twister (5 mins)
Students sit in a circle. Say a person name and that person has to say a) the tongue twister and 2)
another person’s name so that the other person who hears his name should recite the tongue
twister.
1. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
2. Three free throws
Creating Paper bags puppets (25 mins)
Students get to create their paper puppets. (for group size larger than 10, they can make use of
this time to rehearse the whole play)
Materials needed : paper / paperbags (you can use paper to make paperbags but preparing
paper bags beforehand would be nicer and easier for students to work on)
, crayons, glue, some color papers, scissors
sample paper bag puppets:
make sure the paper bag puppets are long enough to cover children’s hand
Build seed cottage
Prepare 2 pillows / blanket as a base, other : color paper
Prepare a bean
Creating props and sets (30 mins)
Introduce the term:
sets
: The scenery for a scene or entire production. Designed to serve as several
different settings with only minor changes between scenes or acts.
Students can work in groups or individually to create the props and sets needed in the play (e.g.
the can use some color papers to create the barn etc.)
Remind students we are going to have the performance of the Princess and the pea
soon. Ask them to familiarize with their lines and memorize as much as they can
(expected : 10 lines)
