Hey!! well I’m an asst teach in an 8-10 Y O drama 1 class and 3 14-18 drama 1 classes. what are some good warm up games? fun games? games that’ll teach acting principles? just anything you wanna suggest for either class, jsut let my know witch and how to play/ teach them! Thanks!!!! ~Katie ?
BTW… if you DO give a game…please give instructions as well….I don’t know ‘em all!!! Thanks! ?
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what are some good warm up games for drama 1??
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Mirror Drama Game
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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A great game for concentration and co-ordination!
Organise your students into pairs and ask them to sit opposite each other on the floor. Player A initiates a series of simple movements that player B must follow in real time by becoming their reflection. Eye contact must be maintained throughout. Emphasize that this must be done slowly to be accurate.
After a while, instruct your students to swap over so that player B is now leading.
Show examples of good practise to the class. Try and encourage them to reach a point where the audience cannot tell who is leading and who is following.
Extention: The follow on from this is where you don’t decide who is leading and who is following and just allow the exercise to develop spontaneously. This can be fantastic to observe.
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The Wizard’s Treasure Drama Game
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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I use this game when I first start teaching my younger students about still images and freezing.
Firstly, you will need to set up the Wizard’s castle using chairs and other props.
Then you will need to split the class, half with create a forest by creating a still image of a tree or bush and their feet must remain rooted, while the other half are explorers looking for the Wizard’s treasure in the magic forest. If the explorers touch the poisonous trees or bushes then they turn into a tree or bush too!
The teacher plays the role of the wizard who remains in their castle until they hear movement in the forest. When the Wizard pops his/her head out of the castle all of the explorers must freeze and pretend to be trees to avoid being spotted. Anyone spotted moving again becomes a tree or bush.
The winner is the student who managers to get past all of the poisonous trees and into the Wizard’s castle without being spotted.
This exercise can also be used as a warm up for concentration and I also use it when teaching ‘The Old Man in the Grange’ poem as this explores magic.
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Active Concentration
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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A great way to get your students to actively listen in your lessons.
Students must find a partner and individually think of 3 or 4 topics that they can talk about. It must make grammatical sense EG they must speak in sentences.
They then must sit opposite their partner and both talk at each other non-stop. The trick to active concentration is that they must concentrate on what they are saying but also on what their partner is saying. Every so often stop what they’re doing and ask then what their partner said-EG: ‘Hope, what was Thalia talking about?’
Extension: The same activity but in song rather than speaking. Both must sing their song nice and loud and confidently without stopping or laughing-easier said than done!
Also see if they can find ways of making the task easier - subconscious lip-reading. Eye contact. Tone of voice. Volume of voice. Actions. Energy in voice.
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Traffic Lights Warm Up Drama Game
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
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Traffic Lights is particularly good for your younger students and is a good warm up game in terms of memory and physicality.
Your students should get into a space in the room and walk around as a simple pace.
You then have 3 commands: red, yellow and green.
You simply have to attach a simply movement or action to each colour. For example, green could mean touch your toes, red could mean run on the spot and yellow could mean do 3 star jumps.
Extension: You can obviously make the actions more complicated-they could maybe correspond to a number of dance moves that you plan to use later in the lesson. You can also add more colours if you wish.
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