![]() The teacher on the other side, saves time by simply taking advantage of your ideas which seem to be really practical. ![]() What is more, they can be easily transformed for the needs of the children. They engage them through action and interesting plots. All in all, your skits really appeal to young children, they don’t need to learn them at home as they are short, repetitive and funny. Your book has given me some inspiration for creating my own drama game based on the robot skit. What I appreciate in your scripts is that I can engage any number of children in the play. They created their own ones such as a painter, a you tuber, a builder or a rapper. Children engaged themselves into the action pretending to play their favourite job. Your skits are really helpful while engaging children to speak freely about their favourite jobs or giving orders to the robots. I feel like having a little treasure in my teacher’s bag. Thank you so much for your skits! They’re just fantastic! The colleagues who came to watch, said it was just amazing to see the pleasure and enthusiasm the kids displayed while acting in English having had such a short time lapse to rehearse. I did the one act play about going on the bus last week and we all loved it! Never have I had so many kids speaking in English so much and so quickly! The stories are great too….you are a wonder thank you so much! At the end of one lesson I had one little girl come up to me and say, “Miss Cathy I am a dancer,” and she showed me some wonderful dance moves. It’s amazing to see the confidence it builds in them. They managed the vocab great and I knew it would work as I had taught them the vocab previously. I really got them to ham it up when they said “Hey girls” etc, and they laughed and laughed. The 1st class was a bit nervy and it did not help with the Chinese teacher saying, ‘Are you sure that they can do this?’ With that negativity I kindly removed her from the next two classes and the kids loved it. I just wanted to let you know how I went with my 1st play “Professions”! It was great. Each of my classes put the play on for the school and the parents! Thank you for your great ideas. The one act plays were a great success and I intend to keep having fun with them. ![]() It really helped the kids build confidence in their ability to speak English. ‘The Robot’ was perfect and so simple to do. The children in my beginners’ English class had such fun doing your free skit ‘Ready Steady Go!’ They were begging me for a skit. They looked like film stars! Anyway, they’ve asked to do it again next week so a sure sign that they enjoyed themselves. They absolutely loved it and I wished I’d taken my camera as, by the end of the lesson, they were all sitting in their pretend car with a fine array of ski hats, sunglasses, umbrellas, over-sized gloves, etc. I did that play (Ready Steady go!) with my children’s class yesterday evening and it worked really well. My 6-7 year old children were absolutely happy to play Ready Steady Go (I was amazed that they learned the script in 45 minutes) and are looking forward being robots as I promised them. From Lioubov Vereshchagina, Saint Petersbourg, Russia Their exuberant personalities, which can be sometimes a challenge to keep under control, were perfect in this context and I received very pleasing feedback from parents too. We started with the Easy restaurant play and they really got fully into character. Just a quick email of thanks to say I purchased the book of one act plays during the holidays and used it for the first time Thursday night with my small group of 12 year olds and it was a huge success. Not to mention the complex structures they are able to use in a foreign language! Thank you again!Įurydice Prentoulis, Czech Republic, May 2014 The parents marvel at the kids’ confidence during their performance. I have staged five performances in the past year, and the kids and their parents are ALWAYS delighted. My success as an English language drama teacher to czech children is in large part down to YOU and your wonderful plays. They are GREAT and have been producing FANTASTIC results with kids as young as 3 and as old as 18 – or even older! It has been three years or more since I have been using your materials. From one of my favourite teachers, Eurydice Prentoulis, in the Czech Republic Two of my groups (4-6kids) are 2 and 3 years old! Some still in nappies!! The Birthday party was a huge success and we used a doll for the birthday girl. I teach from home in Lanzarote and have about 50 students. I am using the plays and really enjoying them. I have already done some plays with my students and they are sooooo thrilled about them, they love them!!!įrom Loreto Ibieta, at I’m doing really well with my English workshop using your plays. The plays are so interactive, kids really enjoy acting them.
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