ELEMENTARY AGES Teachers' Course 2: Winnie-the-Pooh. Objectives: at the end of the Exercise students should be able to:

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1 ELEMENTARY AGES 6 12 Teachers' Course 2: Winnie-the-Pooh Objectives: at the end of the Exercise students should be able to: Revise the sound of letters /D/ /d/ /E/ /e/ and /F/ /f/ /G/ /g/ and /H/ /h/ correctly. Name some words that begin with D, E, F, G, and H Ask and answer questions correctly. Identify some things in the classroom. Play the drama story of "Winnie-the-Pooh" together. Read and practise the Phonics Advice, for how to pronounce words Use vocabulary correctly. Have fun. Materials required: mp3 player, speaker, recorder (if you want to make an audio recording), microphone, printable flashcards, Wall chart of Alphabet. START WITH THE WHOLE CLASS 1. Preparation - Warm up Game and Warm up Song. Have a dressing up warm up game - competition. Warning: this game may be noisy! Divide the class into two teams, one mainly of boys and one mainly of girls. If there are more of one gender, boys can join the girls' team or girls the boys' team to make the numbers equal. Get each team to stand in a line. In front of them - a metre of more away - have two piles of clothes and objects. In front of the boys' team will be girls' clothes and objects: a bag, a skirt, a blouse, high heels and an umbrella (the five items can vary). In front of the girls' team will be boys' shoes, trousers, a polo shirt, socks and a man's bag (the five items can vary). On "ready, steady, go!" the first of each team runs to the pile and dresses. She/he then puts his her foot next to the beginning of the line then goes back to Each member of the team does the same until where the pile was and undresses. She/he then touches the next in line and then goes to the back of the line.one of the teams finishes. The first team to finish is the winning team. Play a warm up song: and with mime and gesture and get the children to join in. See youtube. Teacher sings: What's your name (4 times). Children sing: My name is...(3 times). Teacher sings: Nice to meet you (once). Repeat. Teacher says: Hello my name is... What's your name? Warm up Song

2 He goes to each child who says their name in turn. Encourage students to respond. Show the children different flashcards, "What's this?". Get them to respond correctly and ask each other. Find the hidden letter. Hide several /E/ /e/ /D/ /d/ /F/ /f/ /G/ around the room. When students find a letter, they must say the letter and indicate with a gesture whether it is up (upper case) or down (lower case). Identify some objects in the class room, for example chair, desk, white or black board, chalk or marker, eraser, window, door, books, pens, pencil, etc. 2. Presentation Introduce /D/ /d/ /E/ /e/ /F/ /f/ /G/ /g/ and /H/ /h/ Clarify word meaning: Dog, duck, dragon, dolphin, drum. Clarify word meaning: Egg, eleven, elbow, elephant, entrance, envelope, escalator, eagle.

3 Clarify word meaning: Fish, fan, fire, flower, feather. Clarify word meaning: Gate, goat, gold, gorilla, gift. Clarify word meaning: Hand, hammock, harp, heart, honey. Bring two volunteers to the front of the classroom. Present the letter words. Teacher says each letter's name with facial expression and body language. Students repeat. Make a wall chart or draw on the board to show words beginning with D d E e F f G g and Hh Teacher makes gesture to indicate big letters. Students repeat. Repeat with small letters. Teacher encourages them to imitate her body language and facial expression. Divide the students into two. Let each group say the words and point to the words by pointing to the correct alphabet. Give the students flash cards with pictures and words: tree, stairs, bees, prickles, honey, gun, umbrella - see below. Show the children how to mime these flashcards using movement and sound for example miming climbing a tree and miming spooning out of a jar and eating (honey) and saying "yum yum" or miming shooting from a gun and saying "pop" or "bang" or mime feeling the rain and opening an umbrella. You can also get each child to choose a partner and arrange her/him in positions and moving them - for example making the sound of air coming out of a balloon and slowly falling beneath a balloon. 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 what the others are miming. They can ask questions for a "yes" or "no" answer.

4 3. Practice Making the story. Who do you want to be? Who wants to be Pooh? The teacher encourages one of the children to chose to be him - but it can be a girl. Ask "why do you want to be Pooh?" Give him / her the flashcard of Pooh looking up. Who wants to be Christopher Robin? This too can be a boy or a girl. Just tell the girl to 'think' and 'feel' like a boy, when she acts. Ask "why do you want to be Christopher Robin?" Give him or her the Christopher Robin flashcard. Who wants to be a narrator? The narrators are important parts. They are the writer, A. A. Milne and his wife who helped him with the stories. Again they can be played by boys or girls. As writers they might have ideas to add to or to change the script. There are also non-speaking parts - the buzzing bees. Who wants to be a bee? Why do you want to be a bee? (because I make honey, because I like buzzing) Depending on how many children, you can have two or three groups for two or three performances. Or you can swap roles half or a third of the way through the script to give each child a turn. Practice saying the words in the Phonics Demo 4. Production Drama has rehearsal and performance and is a good way for the children to cooperate, become confident, have fun and learn English. Teacher prompts students to be dragged bumping along the floor. Perhaps they have a cushion tied to their bottoms. As the narrators -. who might have books - say / read the first five speeches. A student can find a way to make the 'Bump! Bump! Bump!' sound or they can vocalise it. Do the same with the following Get each of the children to mime climbing a tree and singing the song: "Isn't it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does? " Isn't it funny Get the child being Christopher Robin to march up and down with an imaginary or real umbrella, saying: "'Tut-tut, it looks like rain." 'Get the children to be in turn Pooh singing and Christopher Robin and the angry busy bees as follows: "How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!" It makes him very proud To be a little cloud."

5 THE BEES START BUZZING ANGRILY AROUND POOH SOME PRETEND TO STING HIM. Christopher--ow!--Robin, Yes? I have just been thinking. These are the wrong sort of bees The Drama Script of Winnie-the-Pooh You can copy and print the flashcards and the script for the students. There are only 4 speaking parts plus the buzzing bees. You can therefore divide the class into groups, so that they all get involved. Encourage the the children to improvise and modify. This should give them confidence and spontaneity. The phonics demonstration (above) will be of the words underlined. Click the microphone to hear the words of the play correctly pronounced Phonics Advice AT THE BACK OF THE STAGE IS A CUT OUT OF A TREE WHICH POOH WILL PRETEND TO CLIMB. THERE IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A GORSE (PRICKLY) BUSH. TWO NARRATORS STAND TO THE SIDE/S OF THE STAGE THEN CHRISTOPHER ROBIN APPEARS DRAGGING LYING DOWN WINNIE-THE-POOH BEHIND HIM BY THE FEET. HE TAKES ONE STEP AT A TIME AND AT EACH STEP WE HEAR A LOUD BUMP (SOUND EFFECT). MAYBE WINNIE-THE-POOH MOVES A BIT AT EACH BUMP. WINNIE-THE-POOH HAS A BEAR'S HEAD. As far as he knows, it is the only way of coming downstairs. Sometimes he feels that there is another way, If only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN STOPS DRAGGING HIM AND THE BUMPING STOPS Here he is at the bottom of the stairs, Winnie-the-Pooh. CHRISTOPHER: What about a story? What about one?

6 CHRISTOPHER: Please tell a Winnie-the-Pooh one? What sort of stories does he like?" CHRISTOPHER: About himself. Because he's that sort of Bear. Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday. Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself. POOH GETS UP AND STARTS WALKING AROUND One day when he was out walking, He came to an open place in the middle of the forest, And in the middle of this place was a large oak-tree, POOH SITS DOWN. WE HEAR A LOUD BUZZING OF BEES And, from the top of the tree, there came a loud buzzing-noise. That buzzing-noise means something. The only reason for making a buzzing-noise is because you're a bee. CHRISTOPHER: The only reason for being a bee is making honey. HE GETS UP So that I can eat it. HE PRETENDS TO CLIMB THE TREE AND AS HE CLIMBS HE SINGS. (SINGS) Isn't it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does? WE HEAR A LOUD CRACK OF A BRANCH BREAKING AND POOH TAKES A JUMP PRETENDING TO FALL. Help! The branch broke and he dropped ten feet. It's all because...

7 ANOTHER CRACK AND POOH JUMPS AGAIN Help! Another branch broke and he dropped twenty feet. because I like honey so much. ANOTHER CRACK AND POOH JUMPS AGAIN Help! And he dropped thirty feet into a prickly bush. Ouch! WE SEE HIM TAKING PRICKLES OUT OF HIS NOSE Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! After he'd taken the prickles out of his nose, the first person he thought of was Christopher Robin. CHRISTOPHER: Was that me? Yes, that was you. So Winnie-the-Pooh went round to his friend Christopher Robin, who lived behind a green door in another part of the Forest. Good morning, Christopher Robin. CHRISTOPHER: Good morning, Winnie-the-Pooh. I wonder if you've got a balloon?" CHRISTOPHER: A balloon? Yes CHRISTOPHER: What do you want a balloon for? POOH LOOKS AROUND TO MAKE SURE NOBODY IS LISTENING (WHISPERS) Honey. CHRISTOPHER:

8 But you don't get honey with balloons do you?. Have you got any balloons? CHRISTOPHER: Yesterday I went to a party at my friend, Piglet's, and there were balloons there. Oh have you got any? CHRISTOPHER Yes I brought a green one. And rabbit left a blue one. I brought it home too. Which one would you like? POOH PUTS HIS HEAD BETWEEN HIS PAWS AND THINKS CAREFULLY When you go after honey with a balloon, don't let the bees know you're coming. CHRISTOPHER: Yes If you have a green balloon, they might think you were only part of the tree, and not notice you, CHRISTOPHER: That's true And if you have a blue balloon, they might think you were only part of the sky, and not notice you. CHRISTOPHER: That's also true The question is: Which is most likely? CHRISTOPHER: Wouldn't they notice you underneath the balloon? I shall try to look like a small black cloud. CHRISTOPHER: Then you had better have the blue balloon, SO POOH FETCHES A BLUE BALLOON FROM OFF STAGE AND CHRISTOPHER ROBIN FETCHES HIS TOY GUN. THEY WALK ABOUT THE STAGE. You both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you. WINNIE THE POOH ROLLS ON THE GROUND AND WRAPS SOME BLACK PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL AROUND HIMSELF And Winnie-the-Pooh went to a very muddy place that he

9 knew of, and rolled and rolled until he was black all over. HE GETS UP HOLDING THE BALLOON, THEN CLIMBS UP ON A TABLE OR CHAIR SO THAT HE IS ABOVE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Then Pooh Bear floated gracefully up into the sky, and stayed there--level with the top of the tree and about twenty feet away from it. IF WE HAVE SOME EXTRAS THEY CAN FLAP WINGS BEHIND POOH AND MAKE BUZZING NOISES, BUT NOT SO LOUD THAT WE CANNOT HEAR THE DIALOGUE CHRISTOPHER: Hooray! What do I look like? CHRISTOPHER: You look like a Bear holding on to a balloon. (WORRIED) Not -- not like a small black cloud in a blue sky? CHRISTOPHER: Not much. Perhaps up here it looks different. You never can tell with bees. There was no wind to blow him nearer to the tree, so there he stayed. He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey. IF THERE ARE ACTORS AS BEES THEY CAN MAKE LOUD BUZZING NOISES FOR A MOMENT (IN A LOUD WHISPER) Christopher Robin! CHRISTOPHER: Hallo! I think the bees suspect something!" CHRISTOPHER: Perhaps they think that you're after their honey?" Christopher Robin! CHRISTOPHER: Yes? Have you an umbrella in your house? CHRISTOPHER: I think so. I wish you would walk up and down with it, and look up at me every now and

10 then, and say 'Tut-tut, it looks like rain.' I think, if you did that, it would help deceive the bees. Well, you laughed to yourself, CHRISTOPHER: Silly old Bear! CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GOES TO THE SIDE OF THE STAGE AND FETCHES AN UMBRELLA. But you didn't say it aloud because you were so fond of him And you went home for your umbrella. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN RETURNS CHRISTOPHER: Shall I put my umbrella up? Yes, but wait a moment. The important bee to deceive is the Queen Bee. Can you see which is the Queen Bee from down there? CHRISTOPHER: No. A pity. Well, now, if you walk up and down with your umbrella, saying, 'Tut-tut, it looks like rain,' I shall do what I can by singing a little Cloud Song, such as a cloud might sing... Go! CHRISTOPHER ROBIN PUTS UP HIS UMBRELLA AND WALKS UP AND DOWN, SAYING: CHRISTOPHER: Tut-tut, it looks like rain. WHILE POOH STARTS SINGING: How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! Every little cloud Always sings aloud. How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!" It makes him very proud To be a little cloud. THE BEES START BUZZING ANGRILY AROUND POOH. Christopher--ow!--Robin, CHRISTOPHER: Yes?

11 I have just been thinking. These are the wrong sort of bees. CHRISTOPHER: Are they? I think they would make the wrong sort of honey. CHRISTOPHER: Would they? Yes. I think I shall come down. CHRISTOPHER: How? Winnie-the-Pooh hadn't thought about this. If he let go of the string, he would fall--bump--and he didn't like the idea of that. So he thought for a long time. Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you got your gun? CHRISTOPHER: Of course I have. But if I do that, it will spoil the balloon. But if you don't, I shall have to let go, and that would spoil me. NARRATOR 2 So you aimed very carefully at the balloon, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN FIRES HIS GUN. PERHAPS IT FIRES A CORK. ANYWAY THERE IS A LOUD 'POP' SOUND EFFECT. Ow! CHRISTOPHER: Did I miss? You didn't exactly miss, but you missed the balloon. CHRISTOPHER: I'm so sorry. HE FIRES AGAIN AND WE HEAR SOUND EFFECT OF AIR COMING OUT OF THE BALLOON This time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, And Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground. Balloon deflating WE SEE POOH COMING DOWN. HE KEEPS HIS ARMS IN THE AIR. But his arms were so stiff from holding on to the string of the balloon that they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week,

12 POOH BLOWS HARD And whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. We think that's why he is called Pooh. POOH WALKS OFF WITH HIS ARMS IN THE AIR CHRISTOPHER: Is that the end of the story? That's the end of that one. There are others. CHRISTOPHER: About Pooh and Me? And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember? CHRISTOPHER: I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget. That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump-- CHRISTOPHER: They didn't catch it, did they? No. CHRISTOPHER: Pooh couldn't, because he hasn't any brain. Did I catch it? Well, that comes into the story. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN NODS CHRISTOPHER: I do remember, only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering. That's just how I feel. POOH COMES BACK IN AND LIES DOWN. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN TAKES HIS LEG AND DRAGS HIM OFF STAGE. BEFORE HE LEAVES HE TURNS AND ASKS: CHRISTOPHER: I didn't hurt him when I shot him, did I? Not a bit. HE NODS AND GOES OUT AND WE HEAR WINNIE-THE-POOH GOING BUMP BUMP BUMP UP THE STAIRS

13 Vocabulary English Local Language: Thai/Spanish/Chinese as far as he knows เท าท เขาร / por lo que él sabe / 因为据他所知 the only way ว ธ เด ยวท / la única manera / 必由之路 of coming Downstairs มา / venir / 来 ข างล าง / abajo / 楼下 Rewards and Homework The teacher gives the students rewards, perhaps an English through Drama certificate of completion of this course. For their homework please draw a picture of Pooh or Christopher Robin or some bees and write on it what or who it is. Let them look at flashcards to help them, but also encourage them to use their imaginations. Also write his/her name on the picture. Encourage the Parents to subscribe to the Winnie-the-Pooh Parents' Page so that they can help and encourage and have fun with their children. Students can submit their pictures to the English through Drama website. The best pictures will go on the website. If they wish we shall add their names, school and country. Copyright English through Drama 2016 Member of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)