TEACHER'S CORNER (3)

Publicado en Capital Letter No. 3

Mayo de 2003

ACTIVITY

(Beginners - 5 minutes per student )

Classmates call out questions until they guess what is being mimed.

Preparation:

Write an action or a sequence of 2 or 3 actions on a card. Prepare enough of these for each student so each one has one.

Mimes should be related to eating and cooking or tasks around the home, for example:

- "You are standing in front of the cooker. You're frying a pancake in a frying pan. Toss it to turn it over"

- "You have a loaf of bread. Pick up a knife and slice off 2 pieces"

- "You are pouring milk into a glass. Some milk spills onto the floor. Find a cloth and clean up the milk"

- You are dusting a table. You knock off a vase. It breaks, clean up the broken glass"

Procedure:

1. Give a card to each student. If necessary, take performers out into the hall one at a time to demonstrate their activity, then send them back into mime.

2. One student at a time goes in front of the class to repeatedly mime the actions on his/her card. Classmates guess what they are doing asking only Yes/No questions until someone guesses the correct action.

Taken from Hess, Natalie and Pollard, Laurel. (1995) Creative Questions (1995)England: Longman.