Make a map or write a letter
Use comparatives and superlatives.
Use frequency adverbs.
Work out which words in a sentence to emphasize.
Pronounce blended consonants and the ‘zh’ sound.
Do Maths in English.
Find pictures and tell stories from Aesop’s fables
Cheap and expensive shopping and hotels
Shopping: eye glasses, shoes, how much is that doggy in the window
Hotels restaurants
Produce and perform “Beauty and the Beast”
Mp3 player, speaker, recorder (if you want to make an audio recording), microphone, printable flashcards, video camera (if you wish to video record your production).
Units:
Song
Maps, Letters, Comparatives, Pronunciations and Emphasis
Maths
Writing a Story
Shopping and Hotel Booking
Elements of Beauty and the BeastThe Drama Script
The Script of Beauty and the Beast
Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly
Just a little change
Small, to say the least
Both a little scared
Neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before
Ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast.
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast.
Beauty and the beast.
In some countries people draw maps or write letters and put them bottles and then into the sea or a river and imagine who might receive them.
Get your students to draw a map of a real or imaginary country. It might be one of where treasure is buried or of where the beast lives.
Or get your students to write a simple letter like:
Dear Unknown Friend,
My name is …………. and I live in…………… I am sending you this letter in this bottle on (date)
I hope one day I might visit your town or country and that we might get to know each other.
With best wishes,
(Name)
Get the students to use comparatives: Let them write sentences using smaller, faster and more beautiful.
Then introduce the superlative: Get them to invent some sentences like “The blue balloon is bigger than the yellow balloon but the red balloon is the biggest.
Pronunciation 1: get the students to blend consonants by saying aloud words beginning with cl, fl, sl, gl, bl, pl. eg. clown, flight, slow, glue, black, please. Tell them not to sound a vowel between the consonants.
Get them to think of others words using using these combinations.
Pronunciation 2: get them to think of and say words ending in ‘ld’ and ‘nd’ like gold and hand.
Pronunciation 3: get then to find and say words with a ‘zh’ sound like Jolie in Angelina Jolie, pleasure and vision. (Treasure, garage, measure).
Get the students to choose which words to emphasise in a sentence, e.g. I usually go to school by bus. Which words should they emphasise in “His horse slipped on the ice and wolves howled”?
It may help the students to ask which words create pictures and actions in the reader’s or listeners mind (His horse slipped on the ice and wolves howled). Choose some more sentences from Beauty and the Beast to decide which words to emphasise.
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You change one US dollar for Vietnamese dong. One dollar is 23, 000 don. You change 8 dollars How many dong do you receive? |
Multiply |
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You have to give 100,000 dong to a friend. How much is left? |
Subtract (minus) |
| Another friend then gives you 60,000 dong. | Add |
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The result is divided equally to give to three friends. How many dong do each receive? |
divide |
Inspire your students to write a story based on one of these pictures from Aesop’s Fables.
You can tell them the fables after they write their stories.
The Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and for a joke put nothing before her but some soup in a very shallow dish. This the Fox could easily lap up, but the Stork could only wet the end of her long bill in it, and left the meal as hungry as when she began.
“I am sorry,” said the Fox, “the soup is not to your liking.”
“Pray do not apologize,” said the Stork. “I hope you will return this visit, and come and dine with me soon.”
So a day was appointed when the Fox should visit the Stork; but when they were seated at table all that was for their dinner was contained in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could not insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to lick the outside of the jar.
A slave called Androcles once escaped from his master and fled to the forest. He came upon a Lion lying down moaning and groaning. At first he turned to flee, but finding that the Lion did not pursue him, he turned back and went up to him.
The Lion put out his paw, which was all swollen and bleeding, and Androcles found that a huge thorn had got into it, and was causing all the pain. He pulled out the thorn and bound up the paw . The Lion was soon able to rise and lick the hand of Androcles like a dog. Then the Lion took Androcles to his cave, and every day used to bring him meat from which to live.
Shortly afterwards both Androcles and the Lion were captured and the slave was sentenced to be thrown to the Lion, after the latter had been kept without food for several days. The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena. Soon the Lion was let loose from his den, and rushed bounding and roaring towards his victim.
But as soon as he came near to Androcles he recognized his friend, and fawned upon him, and licked his hands like a friendly dog. The Emperor, surprised at this, summoned Androcles to him, who told him the whole story. Whereupon the slave was pardoned and freed, and the Lion let loose to his native forest.
Get your students into pairs and read the following.
Encourage them to help each other with vocabulary
A: Can I help you?
B: Yes. I’m looking for a shirt.
A: What size are you?
B: I’m large.
A: How about this one?
B: Yes. That’s nice. Can I try it on?
A: Certainly! The changing/fitting rooms are over there.
B: Thank you.
A: How was it?
B: It’s too large. Do you have Medium?
A: Yes, here you are.
B: Thank you. I’ll have it please.
A: Ok. How would you like to pay? Cash or credit card?
B: Do you take credit cards?
A: Yes. We do visa, master cards and American express.
B: Ok. Here’s my visa.
A: Thank you. Have a nice day.
B: Thank you. Good-bye.
Get your students to focus on the following. Help them with pronunciation:
C. Good afternoon. Do you have a room for tonight?
D. Yes. What kind of room would you like?
C. What are your prices?
D. 60 dollars for a deluxe twin bedded room with TV and sea view.
C. Do you have something cheaper?
D. Yes the rooms at the back are only 50 dollars.
C. We will take that please.
D. How long do you want to stay?
C. I am not sure. We will stay tonight and then decide.
D. If you stay more than 5 days we will give you a discount.
C. How much will be the discount?
D. 40 dollars a night.
C. Is breakfast included?
D. No.
C. Let me think about it.
Ask the students what changes should be made to the dialogue if the man’s wife is with him.
| ACTORS | NON SPEAKING |
COSTUMES See pics |
PROPS SCENERY |
MUSIC SOUND EFFECTS |
| Narrators 1 to 3 | Two actors to be back and front of merchant’s horse | Merchant’s costume | Horse whinny | |
| Greed | The Beast’s servants | Greed’s overdressed costume | Backdrop of orange trees. | Wolves howl |
| Jealousy | Jealousy’s overdressed costume | Backdrop of palace | Magic music for dreams | |
| Beauty | Beauty’s simple, elegant costume | A couch | Magic music for changing beast into prince | |
| Beast | Costume for horse, back and front to cover two actors. | Meal on tray | ||
| Fine Lady | Perhaps she looks like a fairy | A ring | ||
| Young Prince | wand |
Beauty and the Beast
from a famous French fairytale
dramatised by Shaun MacLouglin
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. They may find it helpful to listen to the reading.
| (BACKDROP OF FOREST IN SNOW. ENTER A MERCHANT ON HORSEBACK) | |
| NARRATOR 1: | Once upon a time in winter, in France, a merchant was returning home after a long journey. As night fell, he entered a deep forest. |
| (THE HORSE SLIPS ON ICE AND WHINNIES. WOLVES HOWL) | |
| His horse slipped on the ice and wolves howled, but his head was full of thoughts of his three daughters, named Greed, Jealousy and Beauty. | |
| Greed and Jealousy gave themselves ridiculous airs. | |
| They went every day to parties, balls, plays, and concerts, and they laughed at their youngest sister, because she spent the greatest part of her time in reading good books and playing the harpsichord. | |
| Before he had left home the merchant had promised his daughters presents. | |
| (THE THREE DAUGHTERS APPEAR. THE MERCHANT STEPS ASIDE FROM HIS HORSE.) | |
| MERCHANT: | What do you each most desire? |
| GREED: | I want a pearl necklace, to match my white skin. |
| JEALOUSY: | I want a gold chain, to match my blonde hair. |
| BEAUTY: | I only want your safe return. |
| MERCHANT: | You must choose something that I can bring home with me. |
| BEAUTY: | Then I choose a simple rose. |
| NARRATOR 1: | He had found and bought the two necklaces; but waited until shortly before his return to find a fresh, sweetly smelling rose. |
| (THE DAUGHTERS LEAVE AND THE MERCHANT RESUMES HIS JOURNEY ON HORSEBACK) | |
| In the forest he realized that he was lost. At last, he saw some sort of track. At the beginning it was rough and slippery, | |
| (THE BACKDROP CHANGES TO ORANGE TREES) | |
| But soon it led him into an avenue of orange trees covered with fruit. | |
| Here there was no more snow. | |
| (THEN HE DISMOUNTS FROM HIS HORSE AND THE BACKDROP CHANGES TO A MAGNIFICENT PALACE THAT IS THEN PULLED ASIDE TO REVEAL A COUCH AS DESCRIBED. FINALLY HE FINDS A COUCH IN A SMALL ROOM. THE MERCHANT LIES | |
| DOWN AND FALLS ASLEEP) | |
| He saw a flight of stone steps. He went up them into a great castle. Inside he passed through several splendid rooms. Everywhere in the castle there was a deep silence. At last, he stopped in a small room, where a fire was burning. He lay down on a couch and very soon fell into a sweet sleep. | |
| (WHILE HE SLEEPS SERVANTS CREEP IN WITH A SUMPTUOUS MEAL AND LAY IT BESIDE HIM. HE WAKES AND STARTS TO EAT) | |
| He wanted to thank his kind host, whoever it might be. But no one appeared. | |
| (BACKDROP CHANGES TO ROSE GARDEN. BIRD SONG) | |
| Then he went down into the garden, and though it was winter everywhere else, here the sun shone, and the birds sang, and the flowers bloomed, and the air was soft and sweet. He had never seen nor smelt such beautiful roses. | |
| (HE PICKS ONE. IMMEDIATEY A FRIGHTFUL, UGLY BEAST APPEARS BEHIND HIM) | |
| BEAST: | Who said that you could pick my roses? Was it not enough that I let you stay in my palace and was kind to you? This is the way you thank me, by stealing my flowers! But you shall not go unpunished!. |
| (THE MERCHANT DROPS THE FLOWER AND GOES DOWN ON HIS KNEES) | |
| MERCHANT: | Forgive me, my Lord. I am truly grateful for your kindness. I could not imagine that you would mind so much if I took such a little thing as a rose. |
| BEAST: | My name is not My Lord, but Beast. Excuses and flattery will not save you from the death you deserve! I don’t love compliments. I like people to speak as they think. I am not moved by any of your flattering speeches. |
| MERCHANT: | Alas! My daughter’s rose has put me into terrible danger. |
| (THE BEAST THINKS FOR A MOMENT. THEN SAYS IN A LESS TERRIBLE VOICE) | |
| BEAST; | I will forgive you on one condition – that you will give me one of your daughters. |
| MERCHANT: | What excuse could I invent to bring her here? |
| BEAST: | No excuse! She must come willingly. Go home. I give you a month for one of your daughters to save you. If none is willing to come to me, you must come back alone.. If you do not keep your word I will come and fetch you! |
| (THEY PART AND THE MERCHANT MOUNTS HIS HORSE AND TROTS THROUGH THE FOREST.) | |
| NARRATOR 2: | The poor merchant was still wrapped in gloomy thoughts when it stopped before the door of his house. |
| (HIS DAUGHTERS APPEAR. HE GIVES THE NECKLACES TO GREED AND JEALOUSY, THEN THE ROSE TO BEAUTY.) | |
| MERCHANT: | Here is what you asked me to bring you; you little know what it has cost. |
| NARRATOR 2: | He told them of his adventures from beginning to end. |
| (THE GIRLS WEEP, GREED AND JEALOUSY IN ANGER AND BEAUTY IN SORROW) | |
| GREED: | (TO BEAUTY) It’s all you fault, you sniveling bookworm. |
| JEALOUSY: | It’s not fair. Why should we suffer for your foolish wish? |
| BEAUTY: | Who could have guessed that asking for a rose would cause so much misery? |
| As I made this mistake, I should be the one to suffer. I will go back to the Beast with father. | |
| (BACKDROP OF ROOM WITH FIRE. SERVANTS BRING ON A SPLENDID MEAL, WHICH THEY ARE EATING) | |
| NARRATOR2: | Her father took her back to the palace and led her to the little room, where he had stayed, and there they found a splendid fire burning, and a delicious supper set out on the table. |
| (AS THEY FINISH EATING WE HEAR ECHOING FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING. BEAUTY CLINGS TO HER FATHER, BUT TRIES HARD TO HIDE HER TERROR) | |
| As they finished eating the Beast appeared. | |
| (SHE NODS POLITELY TO THE BEAST) | |
| BEAST: | Good-evening, old man. Good-evening, Beauty. |
| BEAUTY: | (SWEETLY) Good-evening, Beast. |
| BEAST: | Have you come willingly? |
| BEAUTY: | Yes, to save my father. |
| BEAST: | I am pleased with you. As for you, old man, at sunrise to- morrow you will go. |
| Beauty, take your father into the next room, and help him to choose presents for your sisters. Take everything they would wish for. | |
| NARRATOR2: | Then he left them. |
| BEAST: | Good-by, Beauty; good-by, old man. |
| NARRATOR 2 | In the next room they found splendid dresses fit for a queen. And when Beauty opened the cupboards she was quite dazzled by the gorgeous jewels that lay in heaps upon every shelf. After choosing a vast quantity, she opened the last chest, which was full of gold. |
| BEAUTY: | I think, father, that gold will be more useful to you. |
| We had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with gold. | |
| NARRATOR 2 | So they did this; And at last the trunks were so heavy that an elephant could not have carried them! |
| MERCHANT: | The Beast was making fun of us. He pretended to give us these things, knowing that I could not carry them away. |
| BEAUTY: | Let us wait and see. |
| NARRATOR 3: | They went to sleep, and Beauty dreamed, a fine lady came, and said to her. |
| FINE LADY: | I am content, Beauty, with your good will, this good action of yours in giving up your own life to save your father’s shall not go unrewarded. |
| NARRATOR 3: | When Beauty and her father awoke at sunrise, they went down into the courtyard, where two horses were waiting, one loaded with the two trunks, the other for the merchant to ride. And as soon as he climbed into the saddle, he went off at such a pace that Beauty lost sight of him in an instant. Then she began to cry and she went back to her room and fell into a deep sleep. |
| She dreamed again, This time she was walking by a stream when a young prince came up to her and said, in a voice that went straight to her heart: | |
| YOUNG PRINCE: | Ah, Beauty! You are not so unlucky as you suppose. Only try to find me, no matter how I may be disguised, as I love you dearly. Make me happy and you shall be happy. Be as true-hearted as you are beautiful, and we shall have nothing left to wish for. |
| BEAUTY: | What can I do, Prince, to make you happy? |
| YOUNG PRINCE: | Do not trust your eyes. And set me free from my misery. |
| NARRATOR3 | When Beauty awoke, she began to think about the charming Prince she had seen in her dream. |
| BEAUTY: | He said I could make him happy. It seems that this horrible Beast keeps him a prisoner. How can I set him free? I don’t understand it. But, after all, it was only a dream, so why should I worry about it? |
| She got up to explore the castle, but she did not see anyone or hear any sound, and she began to find it rather dull. | |
| NARRATOR 3: | Only that evening, at a delicious supper laid out for her, she heard the Beast coming, and she trembled with fear at what it might do. |
For example my Brazilian friend Simara Macedo was inspired to write the following
The Beauty is seen from Beauty’s eyes
The eyes are the mirrors of the soul
The eyes see the reflection of the soul
The eyes see what is within the soul
The eyes see outward what is inward
We see from the Light the surrounding shadows
The Beauty perceives the Beast
The Beauty, the Love, perceives the Beast, the Unloved
The Beauty becomes threatened by the beast and avoids it
The Beast becomes enraged due to the rejection
The Beauty, because of Love, accepts and meets the Beast
The Beast is enraptured by the charming Beauty.
The Beauty sees beyond the Beast.
And recognises a fragile, wounded heart
The Beauty falls in mercy and the Beast falls in Love
The Beast is transfigured into a Radiant Beauty
By the Blooming Heart of Love.
You can find the full script of Beauty and the Beast here.
Encourage your students to submit their ideas and images of “Beauty and the Beast”.. The best pictures will go on the website.
If they wish we shall add their names, 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 !
