DRAMA: HANDOUT SECTION 4

This handout has different types of storytelling activities to work with children.

This handout I really like and I find it very useful because all activities is proposed in the handout are well explained and in all activities is indicated: level, age, organization, AIMS, language focus, materials, procedure, comments and suggestion.

The activities that more I liked were:

Finger story: this activity is to make a puppet theatre with the fingers while you tell the story. I love this activity because it is a different way of telling stories in class and I think that children will pay more attention to the story. I think this activity is appropriate for younger children who are beginning to learn English.

Feeze!: the next activity I liked most was Freeze !: this activity the children had to represent the animals of the story with mime, and when the teacher says Freeze all children have to stay frozen in the position in which they are. This activity seems very fun to learn English in class. I think this kind of activities do children learn English in a fun way and they enjoy it more.

The last activity that has caught my attention was Class Play: In this activity the children had to do a theatre play about a story that had already read them in class. I really like this type of activity because all the children in the class can participate together while they are learning English in a more active and participatory way.