HOW TO CATCH A STAR by Oliver JeffersTheatre For Kids by Blunderbus Theatre Company brought by Gardner & Wife Theatre

PJ Live Arts, 17/3/2013, 2.00p.m.-5.00p.m (*3 hours to replace 12th & 13th February 2013).

PISMP TESL cohort 1/semester 5/Plays and Drama For Young Learners

Task instructions:

Individual:

1. Watch the Play carefully. 2. While you are watching, jot down your observations.

3. After the Play is over, you will have to reflect on adapting the Play for the ESL classroom, the suitability to be used with your targeted group of students and how you can include the teaching points in your ESL classroom.

Group:1. Each class has 3 groups (*6 in a group).

2. Using an adapted version of the Play that you have decided from your groups discussion, perform your adapted version for a 20-minute performance for ESL young learners.NOTE:

Use the same storyline from the Play you watched but you may have to adapt for the purpose of this performance. You may want to use the same ideas you picked up from the Play. You have to adapt to make it suitable for the teaching-learning process of your ESL classroom.

The characters:

Floor Plan (*how the actors move: blocking, crossing, countering, turning):

Set construction/ backdrop/ special effects/ lighting/ make-up/ costume:Props (stage props/ hand props/ personal props):

Drama activitiesTick what you seeHow it was usedRemarks

Puppetry

Hot Seat

Readers Theatre

Mask

Dance Drama

Drama TechniquesTick what you seeHow it was usedRemarks

Mirror

Tableau

Freeze-frame

Statue

Mime

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