PROFUNDIZA-LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH DRAMA

  In this session we learnt a little bit about Elizabethan theatre and as it is normal we wanted to focus on Willian Shakespeare. We learnt the characteristics of the theatre of the time. But before all this our warm up today was based on a play of Willian Shakespeare , The Tempest. We watched the first scene ,the shipwreck than lying on the floor we explored how we felt under the music of the sea and waves.  We also watched a video to learn about Willian Shakespeare Then students individually worked on the creattion of a small scaled model of the Globe theatre. Using the following document:  Then time to perform. After watching a video of the BBC about the story of Romeo and Juliet , students performed the first scene of the play reading the script published by Brendan Kelso Romeo and Juliet

  Today we have done a short warm-up called "who is the dancing queen" . In this activity one student invents a short choreography and the rest imitate him,then another students has to guess who is the one who leads the choreography. It is a great activity to break the ice and to foster concentration and observation.  Then we learnt how to create shadows theatre . In group they did two tasks:  1.-a mini project of a well- known scene of Harry Potter 2.-a representation in shadows of an everyday object giving it a magic touch.  Both activities were great and students could show their knowledge of the book and develop their creativity Here are some videos of those performances:  Then in small groups they selected from the witch hat a name of one character , and adjective and an object, with these three elements they improvised a short dialogue in English. It was something funny and silly but they had a lot of fun To end our session, usung google docs , we wrote together an  pla