12 May 2014

Where am I? Incl. Role Cards


Where am I?



We behave in different ways in different places, e.g. a church or a Football match.

To establish place we can do so without the use of props by adopting a typical stance, attitude, or mood. The ability to do this greatly supports taking a role later on.   We will look at people in places and the purpose is to guess where they are by what they are showing to us. Teacher models the activity first.  A suggestion is to use the expanding model of places to do with home, neighbourhood, school, town/city, country. Again the roles are types. Going from what pupils know to what they do not in terms of experience and lesson content.





Teacher announces that s/he will no longer be Ms Smith, and ask can we all believe that that? Its only play and we need to believe for it to work? Make eye contact swiftly and move into position. Hands on knees, no one guess until teacher clicks her fingers at the end. Then first share with a partner and then one of you speaks. Ask the pupils how they know you were Mum making soup in the kitchen. Praise close observation of stance, attitude, showing what she was doing through mime. The place of course is the kitchen. Success is to  guess not what they are doing but rather where they are.



Home
TV Room
Garage
Front Door
 Kitchen

Neighbourhood
Shop
Garage/Farm
Bus stop
Crossing road
School
Classroom
PE Hall
Principal’s office
Yard
City/Town
Garda Station
Hospital
Train station
Restaurant
In the Country
Seaside
Up the mountains
In a forest
On a lake
Transport  
In a Train
In a Plane
On a Ship
 In a Pram


  

If you wish to develop this into pair work try asking people in pairs to set up two people who are connected (Bus driver and passenger) and have the class guess where they are. Next stage is that the low status role has a problem that the high status person can help them with- e.g. the passenger has got on the wrong bus for urgent hospital appointment and does not understand English.

At the end of the session you could do a general two stars and a wish on the board. This will show you what the pupils have learnt form the exercise.