BILINGUAL THEATRE: Aladdin ICT project

The other day we were working in class how could we convert a topic into a dialogue, and how we could work with it with children like in a theatre. At the beginning wasn’t natural at all but, finally, after practicing in silent at the beginning, and then loudly with the rest of the group, the result was incredible! We discovered that two of our mates, Noelia and Guio, have a great possibility as actresses in the future! They were very funny.
 

The other day, somehow, we applied with the story telling in the ICT project, these skills that we worked in class. It is important to pronounce properly, to speak loudly and with a normal speed, but emphasizing in the important points of the text.

I am going to make a little summary of how we organized our tale:

We worked the story of Aladdin. We were dressed up with the costumes representing each of the main characters: Jafar, the Magic Carpet, Princess Jasmine, The Sultan, Aladdin, Iago,Abu and the Genie.  Our fairy god mother was Sara, who accompanied a whole group of eight children through four different tales.

Meanwhile in Agrabah Iago started telling the story of Aladdin and the rest of the characters made a little performance. Then, as you already know, the end disappeared and the children had to say the magic words: GENIE, WAKE UP! A few times until the Genie, me, appeared from behind the magic lamp. I divided children into two groups (i.e. the group of Aladdin and Abu) and they had to go with the correspondent character. Then, they had to pass through the magic lamp and take 5 magical pictures. As we have divided in two small groups, we could do a closer guidance in the rebuilding of the story and it was more direct and clear for children. Later, the Genie had to come back again into the lamp and he took a magic box full of dialogues. Those dialogues were small sentences that we prepared, thinking in the different characters, so the students could choose a picture and prepare the dialogue of that picture. Then, we expected to have more time and do the performance of those scenes that they had created, but the time flew too fast and this last part of the plan was impossible to follow. At the end, we congratulated children and we gave them a medal with a magic lamp for each student.

It has been an incredible experience! I am fascinated with this workshop that we have created. I am also very happy with my team! They are very creative and responsible mates who have worked perfectly! The artists of this tale are: Patricia Peláez, Itziar Rebollo, Marta García, Clara Vilches, Guiomar Caballero, Noelia Barroso, Sandra Anaya, Sara Blanco and me, Leticia de la Serna.

And in the break time...