First Week 3

Introduction: The aim of this first class is to affirm the Drama Workshop as a language

experience, as a life experience, as a GAME and as an enjoyable hard work.

 We'll present the new important class elements in the class: The green carpet,  where they can sit down to watch the performances, and The holy spot, the red carpet to perform on.

After that, the teacher will explain the only two rules in class:

                             - Respect the teacher and their classmates

                             - Freeze any action when the teacher says: STOP!

This is the moment to practice the rules with the 
Up & Down Freeze Game 
 ("A 100 Ideas for Drama, by Anna Scher & Others)

Then we play the game,  Pass the ball, to introduce ourselves 
and get to know each other. One student passes the ball 
to another one and they introduce themselves.

Later, Miss Sympathy and Mr. Complaints are presented: Miss Sympathy is a puppet.

He/She likes saying good positive things about life, friends, school..., 

while Mr. Complaints is always complaining about life, school, parents...

The first day, in small groups, they prepair the dialogues for the puppets.

By playing puppets, students don't mind saying the things they like and the things they hate.
They feel confident about speaking as "it's the puppet" who talks.

 Finally, its very exciting to watch a video on You Tube for three-five minutes, for instance
 "The Lion King", "Mamma mia"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYgrT0gsh6Q

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pgZtzDj_7o

In the second class of the week we repeat some activities, such as the puppets and games.
For the second occassion we review adjectives by playing "The Minister's cat is ..."
Every student says the sentence with a different adjective rhythmically and everybody claps
and repeats the sentence..