WHO’S CHANGING THE MOVEMENT?
• Good for observation skills and physical control. Students stand in a circle; one
student leaves the room. The teacher assigns a group leader, who begins a
simple repetitive movement for the class to copy.
• The student outside stands in the centre of the circle and has to guess who
the group leader is. The group leader has to keep subtly changing their
movements and the class technically will all copy.
NURSERY RHYME NEWS!
OVER THE COURSE OF THIS UNIT YOU WILL
LEARN A VARIETY OF PRESENTATION SKILLS
AND ACTING SKILLS IN ORDER TO PRESENT
A NURSERY RHYME NEWS REPORT TO BE
RECORDED.
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LEARNING JOURNEY
Lesson 1
In this lesson you will learn
how to create a news style
interview scene. You will write
and rehearse you scene in
pairs to be performed at the
end of the lesson.
Lesson 2
You will learn how to create
news headlines and you will
develop your understanding of
the importance of staying in
role.
Lesson 3
In this lesson you will learn
how to structure a script and
will begin to develop your
nursery rhyme news scenes.
Lesson 4
You will continue to develop
and rehearse your scenes for
performance. You will take part
in peer and self-assessment
and will understand what you
need to do to improve and
make progress.
Lesson 5
Final rehearsals, using peer and
self-assessment to improve and
develop work.
Add in a choice of scenes –
weather or sport report etc!
Lesson 6
Final performance.
Final evaluation and
responding to feedback.
We are
aiming to
learn…
Proof that you
have learned
this will be that
you…
Your first
activity is
to…
• To create a news style interview scene
• Write and/or perform a nursery rhyme news
interview!
• Discuss: have you ever watched the news?
• What can you remember about it? What
different elements are there?
DISCUSS
• Have you ever watched the news?
• What different elements might you see in a news report?
• How do news reporters speak?
• Think, pair, share
NURSERY RHYME OPTIONS – CHOOSE ONE YOU
KNOW!
• Jack and Jill
• 3 Little Pigs
• Humpty Dumpty
• Little Miss Moffett
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Rapunzel
You can choose
one not on the list
if you want to. Just
make sure you
speak to me about
it!
MAIN TASK
• Working with a partner create an interview scene with a
witness/bystander who saw the events in your chosen nursery rhyme
• Write down the following in your books:
• Core
Challenge
Aspire
• How does the reporter introduces him/herself?
• What is the name of your news station?
• What questions does the reporter ask?
• Who is the witness, name, age relationship to the event etc?
• What did they see?
• How does the witness react to the event? Scared, concerned, happy,
nosey?
• What is the reporters attitude? Professional, interested, bored, excited,
agitated?
• You have to talk to the camera when performing!
There are 2 ways
you can
approach this:
1. Improvise
your scene and
then write up
your script in
your book
2. Write a script
for your scene
then rehearse it
practically
PERFORM AND PEER ASSESS!
WWW & EBI
HOME LEARNING
WATCH THE NEWS AND LIST THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS YOU SEE. E.G. THE MAIN HEADLINES
BRING IN NEXT LESSON
We are
aiming to
learn…
Proof that you
have learned
this will be that
you…
Your first
activity is
to…
• To create news headlines
• The importance of staying in role
• Work in a pair to come up with and present a
set of news headlines for your Nursery Rhyme
News report.
• Discuss your homework with a partner
• What have you come up with? Can you add
anything to your list following your discussion?
THE NEWS
Parts of a news programme
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Main headlines
Introductions
More detailed stories
Reports on location
Interviews with people involved
Interviews with experts
The weather
Sport
Possible Jobs
• Presenter/Anchor man or
woman
• Correspondent
• Interviewer
• Interviewee
• Subject expert
• Weather person
• Sports reporter
NUN’S IN THE MONASTERY!
Key skills:
Staying in role
Focus
• Students stand in a circle with hands in ‘nun’ prayer position; everyone must
have straight faces. Person A starts, they need to make eye contact with
someone (B) and cross the circle to them. ‘A’ says ‘This is a sad and solemn
day brother/sister’ ‘B’ replies ‘Thank you brother/sister’. ‘B’ then takes over
and starts.
• However if someone laughs they are out, that includes anyone else in the
circle who laughs.
• Students they can say, sing, and dance, the line in any way they want! They
must not touch the other student; the reply must remain the same. The
object of the game is to maintain a straight face and to make each other
laugh.
MAIN TASK
• Today you are going to focus on creating headlines for your news
programme
1. Working on your own come up with 3, 4 or 5 silly or fun or serious
headline ideas for an anchor person – write these in your books
HEADLINE IDEAS
• Breaking news – young girl found guilty of breaking and entering,
stealing the bear’s porridge and extensive property damage, more
on this story later
• In other news – the wolf proclaims his innocence, with a plea of
temporary insanity brought on by extreme hunger and the smell of
bacon
• We will also hear from our roving reporter, who will be asking
“how do you put humpty back together again?”
• But first, the gruesome and completely true story of how a young
girl was kidnapped and forced to cook and clean for 7 dwarfs
MAIN TASK
• Today you are going to focus on creating headlines for your news
programme
1. Working on your own come up with 3, 4 or 5 silly or fun or serious
headline ideas for an anchor person – write these in your books
2. Working with a partner – share your headline ideas with each other then
choose your favourite 4 or 5
3. Create a scene with 2 anchor people –
• Introduce and welcome
• Present headlines
• Use dramatic voices
• Completely serious, no matter how silly the headlines are.
Challenge:- choose 1 of your
headlines and create 3 freeze
frames to show the story
Aspire:- add in mime and
movement to transition from 1
image to the next.
PAUSE AND DISCUSS
• Why is it important to stay in role?
•
•
•
•
Audience engagement
To show a character clearly
To communicate something to the audience – a theme or emotion etc.
Often things are more funny for the audience if the actors are serious
• You have to remember that what you are doing is not for you, it is
for the audience.
PERFORM AND PEER ASSESS
WWW & EBI
WRITE YOUR FEEDBACK BOTH GIVEN AND RECEIVED IN YOUR BOOKS
We are
aiming to
learn…
Proof that you
have learned
this will be that
you…
Your first
activity is
to…
• Learn how to structure a script
• Begin to create a nursery rhyme news script
• Look at the 2 extracts – note down the
differences between the script and prose
Script
Novel
What are the most obvious differences
between the two examples?
ZOMBIES
• Players start in a circle and one person is chosen to be
the ‘zombie.’
• The zombie ‘A’ makes eye contact and begins walking
towards another player ‘B’ with his/her hands out in
front of them. If A reaches B, B is out.
• Players can stop the zombie by calling out the name of
the zombie before the zombie gets to them.
• Then it is B’s turn to become the zombie and pick
another person to walk towards!
•
Key skills:
Names
Reactions
Focus
Listening
Observation
Eye contact
QUESTIONS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgcwmn/articles/z6hhcqt
1. A director's job is to help the actors change any bits of the script and story
they don't like. True or False?
2. A Scene is broken up into a number of acts. True or False?
3. An actor finds out what his character must do by reading descriptions of
action in the script. True or False?
KEY POINTS
• Character names should be in bold or CAPITALS and in the margin.
They need to stand out from the dialogue so that it is clear who is
speaking
• Stage directions can be physical movements or emotions and should
be written in italics and in (brackets)
• Announce the scene, e.g. Scene 1
• Give a short introduction to the scene explaining where the scene is
set and who is on stage.
• Try to include some short snappy dialogue.
MAIN TASK
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• Work in groups to put your scenes together and rehearse them
• Write a script for your nursery rhyme news story
• You must all have a copy of the script in your books
• Things to include so far:
1. Introduction and welcome
2. Main headlines – 4 or 5
3. Main story – the nursery rhyme
4. On the scene report with bystander interview
Consider:
How do newsreaders
speak?
Think about their turn of
phrase as well as the quality
of their voice
WATCH AND COMPARE!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-93TPksZk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHcw0edw18Y
• Have a look at these tips and examples and compare to your own work
• Write a WWW and an EBI for your work so far
• Come up with a target for improvement
WWW
EBI
My voice was loud and clear and I was
able to use a dramatic tone
I need to show more emotion in my voice
use using the 5 p’s
I was able to stay in role for most of my
performance
I need to stay in role and show a more
believable character
I was able to use exaggerated expression
and movement to create an entertaining
scene for the audience
I need to use more exaggerated facial
expressions and gestures to show a clear
character
We are
aiming to
learn…
Proof that you
have learned
this will be that
you…
Your first
activity is
to…
• To develop your scenes for performance
• Rehearse your scenes
Take part in a vocal warm up game
WORD TENNIS
If you've never played 'word tennis', the rules are simple.
You are given a subject and then, taking turns, you have to say a word related to
that subject.
With your partner, label yourselves A and B…
A, you will start first - you will be given a topic and have to name something
related to that topic.
B, you then reply with another word related to the topic.
Keep going until one of you hesitates or repeats a word.
YOUR FIRST TOPIC IS…
• Types of sport
NEXT TOPIC…
• Types of food
NEXT TOPIC…
• Things that are hot!
FINAL TOPIC…
• Things you find in a forest
TASK 1
• Look at your WWW and EBI and the targets you set last lesson
• Discuss how you will achieve your target in this lesson
• Make improvements to your scripts based on your EBI and target
TASK 2
• When you are ready begin to stage and rehearse your scenes.
• Remember to maintain your distance
CHALLENGE & ASPIRE TASKS:
• Add in 1 or 2 additional scenes
• Options:
• An expert interview
• A weather report
• A sport report
• A freeze frame story with a voice over
• An interview scene with a main character from your story
TASK 3
• Record your work on your phone
• Whoever is not on stage for each section can be in charge of
recording that section
• Watch back – what could you improve?
We are
aiming to
learn…
Proof that you
have learned
this will be that
you…
Your first
activity is
to…
• To perfect your scenes for performance
• Rehearse your scenes
Watch your recorded performance from last
lesson and identify the strengths and weaknesses
of your performance