Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Drama (Classroom Gems)

403 Pages·2013·10.744 MB·English

by  Michael Theodorou

Classroom
Gems
Games, ideas
and activities for
Primary
Drama
Michael Theodorou
Second Edition
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the The Classroom Gems series
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the The Classroom Gems series
brilliant series
Ready-made ideas, activities and games to transform
any lesson or classroom in an instant.
www.pearson-books.com/classroomgems
The essential tips, tools and techniques to
transform your classroom and become a
brilliant teacher.
9781292000992 9781292000985 9781292000954 9781408267776
9781292000978 9781408254172 9781408284841 9781405873925
9780273734420 9780273735649 9780273732501
9781292001005 9781292000961 9781408228098 9781408223260
9781292000947 9781408267745 9781408223239 9781408292051
9780273732464 9780273735946 9780273732488
See what else is available at www.brilliantseries.com
Whatever your level, we’ll get you
Inspirational ideas
to the next one.
for the Classroom
9781408259344 9781408225578
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Games, Ideas Activities
and for
Primary Drama
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Games, Ideas
and
Activities
for
Primary Drama
Second edition
Michael Theodorou
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First published in 2010 (print)
Second edition published 2014 (print and electronic)
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ISBN: 978-1-292-00094-7 (print)
978-1-292-00106-7 (PDF)
978-1-292-00125-8 (ePub)
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Theodorou, Michael.
Games, ideas and activities for primary drama / Michael Theodorou. -- Second
edition.
pages cm. -- (Classroom Gems)
ISBN 978-1-292-00094-7 (Paperback) -- ISBN 978-1-292-00106-7 (PDF) -- ISBN
978-1-292-00125-8 (ePub)
1. Drama in education. I. Title.
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Contents
About the author viii Animal Movement (Birds and
Introduction ix Insects) 77
Animal Movement (Kangaroos
Part 1 and Cuckoos) 80
Movement 1 Looking and Listening 82
Making Statues 85
Fingertips 3
All Aboard! 87
Mirror Work 6
Jobs (part 1) 89
Starters (solo) 9
Jobs (part 2) 92
Starters (pairs) 12
Jobs (part 3) 94
Starters (groups) 15
Expressive Mime (The Letter) 96
Moving Through Space 19
Expressive Mime
Fun Games 22
(The Window Cleaners) 98
Circle Work 25
Expressive Mime (The Tramp) 101
Object Shapes (pairs) 27
Expressive Mime (The Report
Object Shapes (groups)
and The Cake) 104
(The Fridge) 30
Monsieur Hulot 107
Object Shapes (groups) 33
Gesture 110
Robots 36
More Gestures 112
Letters and Words 38
Dramatic Change 114
More Letters and Words 41
Melodrama Movement
Numbers 43
(part 1) 116
Leading with the Nose (part 1) 45
Melodrama Movement
Leading with the Nose (part 2) 47
(part 2) 118
Changing Direction 50
Group Movement 121
Monsters 53
Double-glazed Window 124
More Monsters 55
Period Movement 126
Even More Monsters 58
Comedy Movement 129
Walking 61
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde 132
Character Walks 63
Visualisation 135
James Bond 65
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred 138
Animal Movement (The Cat) 68
Games 140
Animal Movement (Fish) 71
Use of Props 142
Animal Movement (The Tortoise) 74
Crowd Work 145
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vi CONTENTS
Using the Five Senses 147 Improvisation Starters
Changing Shapes 150 (Family Life) 223
Movement and Voice 152 Spoken Improvisation Work 227
A Day at the Beach 230
Part 2 Character Box Conversations 233
Voice 155 Loopy Dialogues (part 1) 235
Loopy Dialogues (part 2) 238
Sing Up! 157 Stating Intentions 240
Witch Voice? 160 The Crowd – Mrs Pankhurst 242
Sound Effects (part 1) 163 Dramatic Pause 245
Sound Effects (part 2) 165 The Owl and the Pussycat
Playing with Words 168 (part 1) 247
Nonsense Words 170 The Owl and the Pussycat
Repetition and Variation 172 (part 2) 250
Newspaper Headlines 174 Group Sounds (part 1) 253
War Chants 177 Group Sounds (part 2) 255
Once Upon a Time (part 1) 179 Talking in Sounds (part 1) 258
Once Upon a Time (part 2) 181 Talking in Sounds (part 2) 261
Character Voices (part 1) 184 The Daffodils 263
Character Voices (part 2) 187 Householder 266
Character Voices (part 3) 189 Helping Others 269
Character Voices (part 4) 191 The Eagle 271
Melodrama (Voice Work) 193 Shopkeeper 273
Choral Speech 196 Spooky Stories 275
Mobile Phones 199 The Land of Counterpane 278
The Travellers and the Bear Eating In and Eating Out 281
(part 1) 201 Waiter, There’s a Fly in
The Travellers and the Bear My Soup! 284
(part 2) 203 What Really Annoys Me is … 287
The Ant and the Grasshopper 206 Peter and the Wolf 289
The Hare and the Tortoise 208 Television Channels 292
The Fox and the Crow 212 Books 294
Pronouncing Difficult Words 215 Nursery Rhymes 296
Soundscapes 217 At the Zoo 299
The Splendour Falls on Castle Victorian Children up Chimneys 302
Walls 220 Victorian Children in Factories 305
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CONTENTS vii
Part 3 The Cuckoo Clock (Griselda
Character 309 Sees the Cuckoo Clock) 348
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge
Oliver Twist (The Board) 311 and His Nephew) 351
Oliver Twist (Picking Straws) 314 A Christmas Carol (Scrooge
Oliver Twist (Meeting his New and the Charity Collectors) 354
Employer) 318 A Christmas Carol (Scrooge
Oliver Twist (Meeting Fagin) 320 and Cratchit) 357
The Secret Garden A Christmas Carol
(Mary Lennox in India) 323 (Unearthly Characters) 360
The Secret Garden Dracula (part 1) 362
(Mary Lennox in England) 327 Dracula (part 2) 365
The Secret Garden Great Expectations
(Arrival at Misselthwaite (The Convict) 369
Manor) 330 Great Expectations
The Secret Garden (The Tickler) 372
(At Misselthwaite Manor) 334 Great Expectations
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stealing the Pie) 374
(Supernatural Characters) 336 Goodbye, Mr Chips
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Teacher’s Nightmare) 377
(The Mechanicals) 339
Appendix 381
Macbeth 342
The Cuckoo Clock
(Griselda Meets Her Aunts) 345
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