At the end of the session the student will be able to:
Revise the sound of letters /O/ /o/ /P/ /p/ /Q/ /q/ /R/ /r/ /S/ /s/ and /T/ /t/ correctly.
Name some words that begin with O, P. Q, R, S and T.
Name some words that have the sounds O, P, Q, R, S and T.
Look at simple shapes and colours.
Play part of the drama of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” together.
Use vocabulary correctly
Have fun.
Tips:
The teacher will need a lot of energy and variety of approach, as small children get very easily bored.
Units:
“Come on everybody come down to the zoo
We’re going to do a dance like the animals do.
Animal action it’s so much fun.
Animal action.
Move like an elephant”
The children move like an elephant and make trumpeting sound.
“Animal action it’s so much fun.
Animal action.
Move like a cat”
The children move like a cat and make meowing and purring sounds.
“Animal action it’s so much fun.
Animal action.
Move like a frog.”
The children jump and croak like frogs.
“Animal action it’s so much fun.
Animal action
Move like a bird.”
The children flap wings and whistle and chirp like birds.
“Animal action it’s so much fun.
Animal action.
Move like a snake.”
The children move and hiss like snakes.
“Animal action it’s so much fun.
Animal action it’s so much fun.
Move like a monkey”
The children jabber and jump around like monkeys
Learn words: Octopus, ostrich, oars, omelette, orange.
Learn words: Pencil, paint, panda, pig, puppet.
Learn words: Queen, question, queue, quilt, quiet.
Learn words: Rabbit, rice, ring, robot, rain.
Learn words: Ship, star, spoon, shoes, sandwich.
Learn words: Tree, towel, train, tiger, tent.
Shapes:
Ask your students which is diamond, oval, rectangle, square, star, triangle? Get them to draw and name them.
Colours:
P = Primary, S = Secondary, T = Tertiary
Primary Colours
These are the three colours that can not be created by mixing other colours.
The colours are red, blue and yellow.
Primary colours can be combined to make secondary colours.
Secondary Colours
These colours consist of two primary colours mixed together.
The three secondary colours are purple/violet, green and orange.
red + blue = purple
red + yellow = orange
yellow + blue = green
Show flash cards of different colours to the students and ask them to identify them. Which is blue, green, orange, red, purple/violet, yellow?
If your students have time they can paint and mix primary colour paint together to create secondary colours.
Get your students to unscramble and say the words:
dre ___________ ergnao __________
uleb ____________ ergen __________
luppre __________ lowley ___________
Kalbc ___________ rwbno ____________
hiwte ___________ yrge _____________
Get the students to draw six shapes and colour them and name them, e.g red square, green circle, Violet triangle, etc
Practice saying the words in the Phonics Practice.
These words are underlined in the script (below).
“Repeat after me
middle of winter, middle of winter,
white feathers, white feathers,
sewing, sewing,
all the palace, all the palace,
magic mirror on the wall, magic mirror on the wall,
summoned, summoned,
obeyed, obeyed,
snow whit’e heart, snow whit’e heart
doll’s house, doll’s house,
grumpy, grumpy,
bashful, bashful,
sneezy, sneezy,
dopey, dopey,
my chair, my chair,
my vegetables, my vegetables
don’t disturb her, don’t disturb her,
astonished, astonished. “
| CHARACTERS | COSTUMES | CHARACTERS | COSTUMES | MUSIC / SOUND EFFECTS |
| Narrator 1 | optional | Grumpy | see dwarfs clothes and white beards | Opening theme music. |
| Narrator 2 | optional | Dopey | ditto without beard | a lullaby sung by the good Queen |
| Good Queen | elegant but simple dress | Sleepy | PROPS | Bad Queen’s theme music |
| Bad Queen | see picture | Bashful | Huntsman’s knife | Dwarf’s marching song and feet |
| Looking Glass | mirror strapped to body | Sneezy | plate, knife and fork | SCENERY / CUT-OUTS /FURNITURE |
| Snow White | see pictures | Dopey | Cooked heart. Perhaps a hamburger shape | Cut-out of trees and leaves to convey a forest |
| Servant (non speaking) | PROPS | 7 candles (can be torches with red lights) | Cut-out of model house | |
| Cook (non speaking) | Needle and thread and material | White confetti or feathers | One bed made to look like seven little beds | |
| Huntsman | see picture | baby doll | broom | a mat or carpet to sleep on |
| Pig | pig costume | Small box for heart | Table and chair | |
| Doc | see dwarf clothes and white beards | Small box for heart | Table and chair |
THE GOOD QUEEN IS SEWING AT A WINDOW. FALLING SNOW CAN BE CONVEYED BY FALLING WHITE CONFETTI, COTTON WOOL (WE CAN SEE CHILDREN THROWING IT) OR BY LIGHTING.
NARRATOR 1: In the middle of winter when snow was falling like white feathers, the Queen sat sewing at her window.
NARRATOR 2: She pricked her finger with her needle.
GOOD QUEEN: Ouch! That hurt.
NARRATOR 1: And a drop of red blood fell on the white snow.
GOOD QUEEN: I want to have a child as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as the wood of the window frame.
A SERVANT CAN BRING HER A BABY GIRL DOLL TO CUDDLE
THE GOOD QUEEN MAY SING HER A LULLABY
NARRATOR 2: Soon she had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and had lips as red as blood, and her hair was as black as coal.
NARRATOR 1: So she called her Snow White.
THE SERVANT TAKES THE DOLL FROM HER AND TAKES THE CHAIR AWAY AND THE QUEEN LIES DOWN.
NARRATOR 2: But when Snow White was born, the Queen died.
THE QUEEN GETS UP AND LEAVES AND ANOTHER QUEEN APPEARS ON STAGE.
NARRATOR 1: After a year the King married again.
NARRATOR 2: She was a beautiful woman.
NARRATOR 1: But very vain and very unkind.
AN ACTOR DRESSED AS A LOOKING GLASS WALKS ONTO THE STAGE
NARRATOR 2: She had a wonderful looking glass that could speak.
BAD QUEEN: Magic mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful of all?
LOOKING GLASS: You, oh Queen, are the most beautiful of all.
SNOW WHITE WALKS ONTO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STAGE. SHE SWEEPS THE FLOOR WITH A BROOM
NARRATOR 1: The new Queen was unkind to Snow White. She made her sweep all the palace.
NARRATOR 2: But Snow-white was growing up, and grew more and more beautiful;
NARRATOR 1: And when she was seven, the new queen again asked the looking glass.
BAD QUEEN: Magic mirror on the wall who is the most beautiful of all?LOOKING GLASS: You are beautiful oh Queen, but more beautiful still is Snow White.
BAD QUEEN: (SCREECHES) What! (SHE TURNS TO SNOW WHITE)
Get out of here, you horrid girl.
SNOW WHITE DROPS HER BROOM SHE RUNS AWAY
NARRATOR 2: The Queen grew to hate Snow White more and more.
THE HUNTSMAN ENTERS
NARRATOR 1: One day she summoned her Huntsman.
BAD QUEEN: Take the child away into the forest; I will no longer have her in my sight. Kill her, and bring me back her heart.
THE QUEEN LEAVES THE STAGE. THE HUNTSMAN PRODUCES A SMALL BOX. HE THEN FETCHES SNOW WHITE. STAGE HANDS CARRY ON SOME CUT OUTS OF TREES OR SOME BRANCHES AND LEAVES TO CONVEY THE FOREST.
NARRATOR 2: The huntsman obeyed, and took her away;
HE DRAWS HIS KNIFE
NARRATOR 1: But when he had drawn his knife, and was about to pierce Snow-white’s innocent heart, she began to weep.
SNOW WHITE: (CRYING) Dear huntsman, leave me my life! I will run away into the wild forest, and never come home again.
HE PUTS AWAY HIS KNIFE. HE KNEELS BEFORE HER.
HUNTSMAN: Please forgive me.
SNOW WHITE: Of course I forgive you.
HE GETS UP.
HUNTSMAN: Run away, then, you poor child.
SNOW WHITE: Thank you, dear Huntsman.
SHE RUNS AWAY
HUNTSMAN: (TO HIMSELF) The wild beasts will soon eat her.
AN ACTOR DRESSED AS A WILD BOAR APPEARS. THE HUNTSMAN PRETENDS TO STAB IT WITH HIS KNIFE, TAKES OUT ITS HEART AND PUTS IT IN HIS BOX.
HUNTSMAN: The Queen will think this is Snow-White’s heart.
THE COOK APPEARS AND THE HUNTSMAN TAKES THE HEART OUT OF THE BOX AND GIVES IT TO HER.
HUNTSMAN: Take this and give it to the Queen.
AS THIS HAPPENS STAGE HANDS BRING ON A TABLE AND CHAIR WITH A KNIFE AND FORK AND THE BAD QUEEN SITS AT IT.
NARRATOR 1: The cook cooked and salted the heart.
SHE TAKES IT ON A PLATE TO THE QUEEN. (IT COULD BE A REAL, SMALL HAMBURGER IN THE SHAPE OF A HEART). THE QUEEN EATS IT.
BAD QUEEN: Delicious!
NARRATOR 2: The bad Queen ate it all, thinking she was eating Snow white’s heart.
THE QUEEN LEAVES. SNOW WHITE APPEARS AGAIN AND WANDERS IN THE FOREST. THE STAGE HANDS BRING ON A CUT-OUT OF A MODEL HOUSE.
SNOW WHITE: It looks like a doll’s house. I wonder if I can sleep there. Let’s have a look inside.
THE STAGE HANDS REMOVE THE MODEL.
IF POSSIBLE HAVE A DOOR HERE THROUGH WHICH SNOW WHITE AND LATER THE SEVEN DWARFS WILL ENTER. THE STAGE HANDS CAN BRING THIS ON.
THEY ALSO CARRY THE TABLE AND CHAIR ACROSS THE STAGE AND BRING ON 7 PLATES WITH SOME FOOD AND 7 MUGS WITH SOME DRINK.
SNOW WHITE: I am so hungry. I hope they won’t mind.
SHE EATS
SNOW WHITE: And thirsty.
SHE DRINKS. THE STAGE HANDS ALSO BRING ON ONE BED MADE TO LOOK LIKE SEVEN LITTLE BEDS.
SNOW WHITE: And tired.
BEDS AND GOES STRAIGHT TO SLEEP. THEN OFF STAGE WE HEAR THE
MARCHING SONG OF THE DWARFS APPROACHING.
SEVEN Heigh ho, heigh ho
DWARFS: It’s off from work we go
Heigh ho, heigh ho
It’s off from work we go
THE 7 DWARFS ENTER. THEY DON’T YET SEE SNOW-WHITE. ALL EXCEPT FOR DOPEY HAVE BEARDS.
NARRATOR 1: When it was quite dark the owners of the cottage came back.
NARRATOR 2: They were seven dwarfs who dug in the mountains for metals.
NARRATOR 1: They were called Doc.
DOC: (TO THE AUDIENCE) Hello
NARRATOR 2: And Grumpy.
GRUMPY: (TO THE AUDIENCE) What are you doing in my house?
NARRATOR 1: And Happy.
HAPPY: (TO THE AUDIENCE) I’m pleased to see you. Welcome!
NARRATOR 2: Sleepy
SLEEPY: (HE YAWNS. TO THE AUDIENCE) Sorry. Good night. (HE YAWNS AGAIN) Sorry. I mean hello
NARRATOR 1: Bashful.
BASHFUL TRIES TO HIDE HIMSELF, BUT THE HE TURNS TO THE AUDIENCE
BASHFUL I’m shy.
NARRATOR 2: Sneezy.
SNEEZY GIVES A LOUD SNEEZE
SNEEZY: Excuse me.
NARRATOR 1: And Dopey
DOPEY WAVES IN A DOPEY FASHION
DOPEY: (CALLS) Halooooo!!
THE DWARFS THEN ALL LIGHT CANDLES
NARRATOR 2: They lit their seven candles.
NARRATOR 1: And saw that someone had been there.
DOPEY: Who’s been sitting on my chair?
GRUMPY: (ANGRY) Who’s been eating off my plate?
HAPPY: (HE CANNOT HELP SMILING)Who’s been taking my bread?
SLEEPY: (YAWNS AGAIN) Who’s been eating my vegetables?
BASHFUL: Who’s been using my spoon?
SNEEZY; (SNEEZES) Who’s been cutting with my knife?
DOPEY: Who’s been drinking out of my mug.
THEY THEN SEE SNOW WHITE SLEEPING ON THEIR BEDS.
THEY DON’T WAKE HER UP.
DOC: Oh heavens!
HAPPY: Oh heavens!
BASHFUL: What a lovely child.
SNEEZY: (HE STIFLES A SNEEZE) Don’t disturb her.
SLEEPY: Let her sleep.
GRUMPY: But where shall we sleep?
DOPEY: Anywhere.
THEY BLOW OUT THEIR CANDLES, LIE DOWN AROUND THE ROOM AND BEGIN TO WHISTLE AND SNORE IN THEIR SLEEP.
WHILE THEY ALL SLEEP THE QUEEN AND THE LOOKING GLASS COME ONTO ONE SIDE OF THE STAGE.
BAD QUEEN: Magic mirror on the wall who is the most beautiful of all?
LOOKING Queen, you are fairest of all I see,
GLASS: But in the forest, where the seven dwarfs dwell,
Snow-white is still alive and well,
And none is so fair as she.
NARRATOR 1: Then she was astonished.
NARRATOR 2: She knew that the looking-glass never spoke falsely
NARRATOR 1: She knew that the huntsman had betrayed her,
NARRATOR 2: And that little Snow-white was still alive.
NARRATOR 1: And so she thought and thought again how she might kill her.
For their homework the students will write and perform how they might end the play.
They can share their ideas of how the Bad Queen might try to kill Snow White.
What do the dwarfs do about this?
What happens to Snow White in the end?
Does she go to sleep for a thousand years?
Or does she get married?
Also for their homework the students may draw or paint a picture of Snow White or the Bad Queen or the Seven Dwarfs.
Once the students have written and performed their own endings, you can access the completed play at Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. You can organise a school or drama club production for families and friends to enjoy.
You can submit your students’ pictures to the English through Drama website. The best pictures will go on the website. If they wish we shall add their name, school and / or country.We have advice on the use of music in plays and particularly the music of the great classical composers and of film music. Have a listen !
