(For safety reasons it may be best to do this activity in a large grassed area). Have selected students show the class one of their slapstick exercises W3 Warm Up: recap the slapstick exercises from last lesson. Write out Students will tongue put together Activity: students are to get into groups of 4 and create twisters on the slapstick a performance using some of the slapstick comedy skills board. activities they learnt last lesson. Students are to be reminded that they have less is more and that they do not need to use everyone First and Last learnt into a of the techniques they learnt last lesson. Lines Activity scene using Sheets. plot and Scenes: characters Busy restaurant with a difficult table of guests Dancing competition where the floors have not been cleaned Company meeting where everything goes wrong Students are to rehearse one of the scenes above and then perform to the class Lesson 6 Physical Warm up Students will Comic Characters: Characters in comedy can be to presented in a variety of ways, from highly stylised to understand naturalistic. The circus clown often uses slapstick how comedy and is an excellent example of a highly stylised characters character. Group can become improvisation comical. Activity: Creating Comic Characters Exercise Worksheet
(For safety reasons it may be best to do this activity in a large grassed area). Have selected students show the class one of their slapstick exercises W3 Students will put together the slapstick activities they have learnt into a scene using plot and characters Students will to understand how characters can become comical. Warm Up: recap the slapstick exercises from last lesson. Activity: students are to get into groups of 4 and create a performance using some of the slapstick comedy skills they learnt last lesson. Students are to be reminded that less is more and that they do not need to use everyone of the techniques they learnt last lesson. Scenes: Busy restaurant with a difficult table of guests Dancing competition where the floors have not been cleaned Company meeting where everything goes wrong Students are to rehearse one of the scenes above and then perform to the class Lesson 6 Physical Warm up Comic Characters: Characters in comedy can be presented in a variety of ways, from highly stylised to naturalistic. The circus clown often uses slapstick comedy and is an excellent example of a highly stylised character. Activity: Creating Comic Characters Write out tongue twisters on board. First and Last Lines Activity Sheets. Group improvisation Exercise Worksheet
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