Primary 05 – Teachers Learn ETD

Primary Course 05

You should find lots of material here from which to make lesson plans
in preparation for the Production of the Play.

Presents from Heaven, the ASEAN Play

Description:
Encourage your students to learn English the easy and enjoyable way. Cooperate with their parents. Help them develop the skills of: acting, writing, painting, and singing, composing and performing music, costume, stage design and team building. Sing the animal action song. Teach those shapes and colours. Ask them for ideas to make sound effects and props. Ask them for ideas to end the play: How will the wicked queen try to kill Snow White? What will the dwarfs do? Does Snow White meet a prince?

Course Objectives:

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.

Materials:
MP3 player, speaker, recorder (if you want to make an audio recording), microphone, printable flashcards, Wall chart of Alphabet (you can find many printable ones online).

Tips:

The teacher will need a lot of energy and variety of approach, as small children get very easily bored.

Units:

Warm up Song and Game
Letters
Simple Shapes and Colours
Drama Game
Phonics
The Cast
The Script
Vocabulary

Unit 1

Two Warm Up Songs

Shape Song

“I’m a square, I have 4 sides.

I’m a square, I have 4 sides.
We are squares, we have 4 sides,
1,2,3,4, we are squares.

I’m a circle, I go round and round.
I’m a circle, I go round and round.
We are circles, we go round and round, round
Round and round.
We are circles.

I’m a triangle, I have three sides.
I’m a triangle, I have three sides.
We are triangles, we have 3 sides, 1,2,3, we are triangles.

We are shapes, you see us everywhere.
We are shapes, you see us everywhere.
We are shapes, you see us everywhere.
Just look around we are everywhere.

We are shapes, you see us everywhere.
We are shapes, you see us everywhere.
We are shapes, you see us everywhere.
Just look around we are everywhere.
Just look around we are everywhere.

Just look around we are everywhere.”

Jingle Bells Song

“Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh”

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go
Laughing all the way

Bells on a bobtail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
In a sleighing song tonight

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride Jingle Bells
In a one horse open sleigh.

Now the ground is white
And the night is young
Take the sleigh tonight
And join us in this song.

Just get a bob tailed bay
Get ready for a run
Then hitch him to a sleigh
And now we’ll have some fun

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride Jingle Bells
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride Jingle Bells
In a one horse open sleigh.”

Note: In the play there is a reindeer instead of a horse.

Unit 2

Memory Games and Preparation for the Drama

Help your children to memorize the flags of the ten ASEAN countries.

Then form the students into groups. Give each group a flashcard from this website. Tell the students the letter for each flashcard, A, B, C, etc. Tell them to memorize. Then read out the letter for each flashcard. The first group to show the flashcard gets a point. The winning group has most points.

Alphabet Revision Recording for Letters u, v, w, x, y, z.

Show the students the image below and ask them which image belongs to which country

Also help them to memorize words beginning with U or with u in the words.

Which is which – upside-down, run, umbrella, United States, bun, umbrella?

Before having fun with the play do some more Alphabet Revision

Introduce /V/ /v/ /W/ /w/ /X/ /x/ /Y/ /y/ and /Z/ /z/.

Identifying words from pictures.

Let the students identify and then memorise words beginning with V.
Which is which: vine, volcano, village, violin, vet?

Let the students identify and then memorise words beginning with W.

Which is which: wasp, waist, watch, waterfall, windmill?

Let the students identify and then memorise words beginning with or containing the letter X.

Which is which: six, xray, box, xylophone, fox?

Let the students identify and then memorise words beginning with or containing the letter Y.

Which is which: yarn, yogurt, yacht, yak, yoyo?

Let the students identify and then memorise words beginning with or containing the letter Z.

Which is which: zebra, zombie, zoo, zip, zero?

Bring two volunteers to the front of the classroom.
Present the letter words. Teacher says each flashcard’s name with facial expression and body language.
Teacher encourages them to imitate her body language and facial expression.
Divide the students into two. Let each group say the words and then write the words.
Give the students flash cards with pictures and words: run, flag, umbrella, bun, etc.
Show the children how to mime these flashcards using movement and sound – for example waving a flag, eating a bun, running on the spot, etc.
You can also get each child to choose a partner and arrange her/him in positions and moving them – for example coming down by parachute, swimming like a dolphin, etc.
Get a pair of students to demonstrate to the class. Let them take it in turns to do this. Get the students participating as soon as possible?
The students can look at their flashcards to guess the answer.
They can ask questions for a “yes” or “no” answer.
They can also write the words.

Unit 3

Feelings and Food

Help your students to describe their feelings

Ask your students to make faces and gestures to express these feeling, and at the same time make up sentences with other students like: “I am happy”, “she is laughing”, “ you are sad”, “we are crying”, “they are angry”, etc.

Ask your students to say what Food they like

Have conversations with fellow students with sentences like :“Are you hungry?” “Yes” “What do you like to eat?” “I like ice cream” “I like cheese” “Are you thirsty?” “No ““What do you like to drink?” “I like juice” , etc.

Get them to name as many foods and drinks as they can.

Age

Learn

Have conversations about Age

“How old are you?” “What is your age?” “I’m eight”, “I’m seven years old”, etc.

Unit 4

The Play

Making the drama story, “Presents from Heaven”, a play to celebrate the coming together of the ASEAN community.
There are 19 speaking parts! And plenty of extras. And plenty to prepare

It can be creative and a lot of fun. We have had great success in encouraging the help of families and friends

This play can suit a large class – or many parts can be doubled or trebled for a smaller class.
Because many of the parts are very small students should be able to learn their speeches
It is very important that they listen out for their ‘cues, the speeches just before theirs.
It is also important that they think ahead and pass the microphone in time to the to the next speaker
They will also need to learn when exactly to bring on the cut-outs and props.
The narrators can help to guide them.
Who want to be the narrators?
Who wants to be one or two children from each of the 10 countries? They can always be in pairs a boy and a girl, each arriving with the flags of their countries.
Who want to be Mr and Mrs Santa and the Reindeer?
Who want to be the dolphins?
Who would like to help with the costumes? Something to convey each national dress? Mr and Mrs Santa, the reindeer and the dolphins?
Who will prepare the flags to wave? – or children could wear them round their necks, leaving hand free to hold microphone and other things they have to do.
Who would like to make or collect the props? Lots of balloon to convey one large balloon and a cut out to convey the basket carrying – or rather being carried on stage by – five children – or ten if in national pairs
You could find a trolley that on one side would be Santa’s sleigh and on the other the boat pulled by dolphins.
Who would like to help with the Jingle bells music? Or find Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, or the ASEAN song?

Practice dialogue between the Thai boy and girl:

“I bet you don’t know all the Asean Countries do you? There are ten of them.”
“Let me try. They are Thailand. . . .”
“That’s easy.”

(SHE COUNTING ON FINGERS) . . . “and Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia.”

Pretend to be Chi coming down by parachute. Try miming coming down, bumping into each other, landing on the ground. Or dolphins swimming up river pulling a boat. Or anything else that occurs to you.

The picture below is from an English through drama workshop at Parawun Sueksa School in North East Thailand may give some ideas: The children acted in “Presents from Heaven” and “The Jungle Book” (Secondary Course 4); and the teachers acted in “Romeo and Juliet” (Secondary Course 8). The trolley on the left of the picture represented a boat on one side and a bullock cart on the other.

Unit 5

Help

Help with Flashcards

Encourage the students to paint flashcards. If you like we can upload the best to this website; and also if you like we shall credit your name, child’s name and country.

Help with Costumes

Ask your children’s families and friends which costumes it would be helpful to design and make. You do not have to have costumes exactly as in the pictures. Let you and your children and families and friends use their imaginations and creativity:
1. Mr. Santa’s costume.
2. Mrs. Santa’s costume.
3. A reindeer’s horns or head
4. 3 Dolphins
5. A boy or a girl’s costume for each of the Asean countries.

Research this online and look at the pictures below.

Here are some adult national costumes to inspire you, but research and create your own:

Unit 6

The Cast and Role play

Encourage the children to learn their parts but also to improvise and modify. This should give them confidence and spontaneity.

They can practise and try out characters by themselves or with their family. Later you can audition them.

Boys

Girls

Boys or Girls

PROPS

MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS

Somchai (Thai)

Ying (Thai)

Narrator 1

model of tree with branch to hang

Jingle bells.

Sovann (Khmer)

Angel (Filipino)

Narrator 2

flags

Mr Santa

Mrs Santa

Reindeer

flowers

Rio (Indonesian)

Chi (Vietnamese}

Dolphin 1

umbrellas

Tin Tut (Myanmar)

Dewi (Brunei)

Dolphin 2

trolley with cut out of boat

Amir (Malaysian)

Fann Wong (Singapore)

Dolphin 3

cut out of hot air balloon

Anani (Lao)

The Script

A SMALL GIRL AND A SMALL BOY, WEARING THAI NATIONAL DRESS, ARE IN A PRETTY GARDEN WITH TREES AND FLOWERS. THEY ARE WAVING THAI FLAGS THAT THEY THEN PUT IN A TREE. AT THE SIDE OF THE STAGE STAND TWO NARRATORS WHO READ (OR PRETEND TO READ) FROM STORY BOOKS.

Play reading

NARR 1:	Somchai and Ying are in the same class and they want to have friends from all the Asean countries
SOMCHAI:	I bet you don’t know all the Asean Countries do you? There are ten of them.
YING:	Let me try. They are Thailand …
SOMCHAI:	That’s easy.
YING:	(SHE COUNTS ON HER FINGERS) . . . and Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia.
SOMCHAI:	Wow! Well done! How can we get to know children from each of them?
YING:	Perhaps one day you and I will marry one of them.
SOMCHAI:	Don’t be silly. We’re too young to talk about that.
YING:	Anyway how can we meet them?
SOMCHAI:	I know. Let’s ask Mr and Mrs Santa to help us.
NARR 2:	They arrive through the sky in the Santas’ sleigh pulled by a red nosed reindeer.
	WE HEAR THE JINGLE BELL MUSIC. AND THEN SANTA AND MRS SANTA AND THE RED NOSED REINDEER ARRIVE WITH A CUT OUT SLEIGH. SANTA GIVES A MERRY WAVE.
Mr and MRS SANTA and REINDEER	Hello children.
SOMCHAI and YING	Yes
2nd CHILD:	Hello. Where have you come from?
MRS SANTA:	We’ve been around the world five times.
MR SANTA:	Giving presents.
SOMCHAI:	Wow!
YING:	But we don’t want presents.
SOMCHAI:	We want friends.
MR SANTA:	(LAUGHS) Very Good! We’ve got one for you already.
MRS SANTA:	(CALLS) Sovann!
	(SOVANN A BOY FROM CAMBODIA WAVING A CAMBODIAN FLAG APPEARS OUT OF THE SLEIGH)
SOVANN:	Sue-saw-day.
YING:	What does that mean?
SOVANN:	It’s the Khmer for hello.
MR SANTA:	Sovann didn’t want a present.
MRS SANTA:	Instead he wanted to travel.
MR SANTA:	Well we must be on our way again.
MRS SANTA:	Would you like us to send you more friends?
REINDEER:	I shall very tired going round the world again.
MR SANTA:	Never mind. We’ll find other ways to send them to you.
MR and MRS SANTA, REINDEER:	Good bye (AND OFF THEY FLY)
YING:	(TO SOVANN) What does you name, Sovann, mean?
SOVANN:	It means like gold.
SOMCHAI:	can you give us some?
SOVANN:	No . I am very poor. But we can be friends.
	SOVANN PUTS HIS FLAG IN A TREE. THEN TWO GIRLS: CHI (WEARING VIETNAMESE NATIONAL DRESS) AND ANGEL (WEARING PHILIPPINES NATIONAL DRESS) APPEAR WITH PARACHUTES. THEY TOO ARE WAVING THEIR FLAGS. THEY KEEP BUMPING INTO EACH OTHER.
NARR 1:	While this was happening Mrs Santa sent two girls down by parachute.
NARR 2:	They were Chi from Vietnam and Angel from the Philippines.
NARR 1:	They were quarrelling; because they kept bumping into each other.
	CHI BUMPS INTO ANGEL
ANGEL:	Stop that.
CHI:	I can’t help it. It’s the wind.
ANGEL:	(BUMPING INTO CHI) I don’t believe you.
	THEY NARROWLY MISS YING
5TH CHILD:	Because I want to run fast.
NARR 2:	They nearly landed on Ying’s head. But Ying said:
YING:	Sawatdee kha. Hey, let’s hold hands and be friends.
ANGEL:	Kumasta.
CHI:	Chao.
	THEY JOIN HANDS AND DANCE TO MUSIC: “JINGLE BELLS” OR “THE ASEAN WAY”. DURING THE DANCE THEY PUT THEIR FLAGS IN TREES. SOVANN AND SOMCHAI JOIN IN THE DANCE.
	WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING THREE CHILDREN DRESSED AS DOLPHINS PULL A CUT-OUT BOAT WITH RIO IN IT. RIO ALSO WEARS NATIONAL DRESS AND WAVES HIS FLAG.
NARR 1:	Then a boy called Rio arrived from Indonesia.
NARR 2:	He sailed across sea then up the Chao Praya River into Bangkok (or to another place – or up the Mekong to another place – up to you)
NARR 1:	He came in a boat pulled by Dolphins that the Santas had given him.
	SOMCHAI, VERY EXCITED, RUNS TO GREET HIM. RIO HAS THE INDONESIAN FLAG.
SOMCHAI:	Sawatdee khrap.
RIO:	Apa kabar. Would you like to play with the dolphins?
SOMCHAI:	Wowee! Yes please.
ANGEL:	Can I play too? I love fish.
DOLPHIN 1:	And I love humans.
CHI:	I’ve always wanted to ride a dolphin.
DOLPHIN 2:	Come on then.
SOVANN:	Me too. Dolphins are very clever.
DOLPHIN 3:	Jump on our backs
	(THE CHILDREN JUMP ON THE DOLPHINS’ BACKS AND RIDE ‘PIGGY BACK’ ROUND THE STAGE)
YING:	Yippee!
	THEY ALL SING AND DANCE WITH THE DOLPHINS. AND RIO PUTS HIS FLAG IN A TREE. WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING THE BIGGEST OF THE CUT-OUTS APPEARS. IT IS A HOT AIR BALLON WITH FIVE CHILDREN IN IT. THEY WAVE THE FLAGS OF THEIR COUNTRIES: THEY ARE TIN TUT FROM MYANMAR, DEWI FROM BRUNEI, FANN WONG FROM SINGAPORE, ANANI FROM LAOS AND AMIR FROM MALAYSIA.
NARR 2:	Then the last five children all arrived together.
NARR 1:	They landed in a hot air balloon.
NARR 2:	They each said hello in their own language
NARR 1:	They were a boy from Myanmar called Tin Tut.
TIN TUT:	Min-ga-la-ba.
YING:	Sawatdee kha
NARR 2:	A girl from Brunei called Dewi.
DEWI:	Hai.
NARR 1:	A girl from Singapore called Fann Wong, who spoke Chinese.
FANN WONG:	Ni Hao.
NARR 2:	A girl from Laos called Anani – which means orange tree.
ANANI:	Sabaidi.
NARR 1:	And a boy from Malaysia called Amir.!
AMIR:	Hello.
SOVANN:	Isn’t that funny? We’ve all dropped down from heaven
ANGEL:	But Rio arrived by boat pulled by dolphins.
CHI:	So? Dolphins are heavenly creatures.
	ALL THE CHILDREN AND THE DOLPHINS CRY: “YES” AND LAUGH. ANGEL JOINS IN AND SHOUTS “YES” LOUDEST OF ALL.
DEWI:	What about Ying and Somchai? They were already here.
ANANI	They came from heaven too.
AMIR:	Yes. We all came from heaven before we were born.
FANN WONG:	Yes even the grown ups.
	MR AND MRS SANTA AND THE REINDEER RE-APPEAR.
SOVANN:	Including Mr and Mrs Santa
REINDEER:	Don’t forget me.
TIN TUT:	Are you a grown up?
REINDEER:	Of course I am.
AMIR:	Okay. You too.
ANANI:	And all our families and friends
ANGEL:	They came from heaven too.
	SHE GESTURES TO THE AUDIENCE AND SO DO THE REST OF THE CHILDREN AND THEY CRY: “YES”
	THEN THE CHILDREN SING AND DANCE TOGETHER AND PUT MORE FLAGS IN THE TREES. THIS CAN BE IMPROVISED. THEN THEY TURN TO THE AUDIENCE AND SAY TOGETHER:
ALL THE CHILDREN:	When – we – grow – up – all – the – peoples – of – ASEAN – will – be – happy – together.
	THEN THEY CLAP THE AUDIENCE AND – HOPEFULLY – THE AUDIENCE CLAPS BACK.
	THE CURTAIN DROPS

Unit 7

Notes, Homework and New Plays

You can download and print the script of Presents from Heaven here. Encourage your students to submit their ideas and images of “Presents from Heaven” to the Website.

If they wish we shall add their names, school and / or country. The best pictures will go on the website.

If they wish we shall add their names, school and / or country.

If your students are skilled and ambitious and want to be drama writers they can have a go at continuing one of these dramatisations of : The Little Prince or The Wizard of Oz

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 !