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Keyword

• lesson
• speak
• 2hours
• high_school postgrad adult
• ll_6 ll_7 ll_8 ll_9
• game roleplay
• restaurant act

[edit] Prep

[edit] Learning goals

Students will be able to

• display their dramatic qualities
• learn new vocabulary in context
• learn how to voice emotions

[edit] Prerequisites

• decent vocabulary

[edit] Materials

• Restaurant drama/Setting -- list of 5 to 10 vocabulary words per setting defines each setting
• dictionaries if necessary
• video example of a skit if necessary

[edit] Lesson

[edit] Intro

For this lesson, the students are put in groups of four to six. They receive a setting and five to ten words to work with. The task is to make a five-minute skit (so, it should be funny) that incorporates the words they received. Each group gets to perform their skit. It's nice to keep all the skits in a familiar and similar setting, such as the restaurant setting in the materials' example.

[edit] Presentation

1. Explain the concept of a skit: a short, funny piece of acting. Use a video example for clarification e.g. Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch
2. Make groups of four to six
3. Each person needs to get a role in the skit. Larger groups may consider adding a narrator.
4. Hand-out Restaurant drama/Setting and tell them to include at least six of the words in the skit.
5. Encourage the students to alter the base words to their liking: anger can become angry, break can be used as "to break" or "taking a break" and embarrass can become embarrassment.
6. Allow the use of a dictionary for new words

[edit] Application/activity

1. Let the students make a script
2. Allow for practice time

[edit] Test

1. Perform the skit for the whole class

[edit] Alterations

Suggestions to juice up the lesson

• Use words that are unrelated to the setting to heighten the challenge of incorporating them
• Make students incorporate all words in the list
• Take a zero-props approach so that all the attention goes to the acting
• Allow a maximum number of props (e.g. 5), so they get two chairs, one table, a plate and a glass, but leave the rest to imagination