This document provides a lesson plan for a guided improvisation workshop. It includes sections for warm-ups, pre-drama exercises, setting the dramatic frame, the drama portion, calming down, and further reading. The warm-ups involve physical movements and role playing as different animals. In the pre-drama, participants explore themes by following a leader as different animals and picking animal cards. The guided improvisation involves the teacher telling a story where participants act out roles as the animals described. It provides suggestions for how to portray different animals and scenarios they may encounter. The lesson closes with quiet reflection and evaluation.

1. A Guided Improvisation
Lesson Plan for the Workshop
Mgr. Gabriela Šimová

2. Contents
 Warm –ups
 Pre-drama
 Dramatic frame
 Drama
 Calming down
 Text for the guided improvisation
 Further reading

3. Warm-ups
 1. Physical warm-ups
 „Pass the clap in a circle“. You can
change the direction. It is a good
concentration activity and an ice-
breaker.
 2.“Walk in a circle telling 1,2,3,4,5 and
turn round and go to opposite direction
5,4,3,2,1. A new version :Add a clap.
 The last version: Walk the same way
quietly“.

4.  3. „Shake your body“
 Shake, please, your right hand,
now left hand. /follow the leader/
 Shake your right leg/left leg.
 Shake your shoulders
backwards/forward, please.
 Now shake your head.
 Now shake your
fingers/hands/arms/at last all
your body. Release.

5.  4. Look up there in the tree.
There is a cat. She can´t get down.
Help her, please. Reach her.
Higher... And higher. At last you
get her. She is so lovely.
 Pre drama: Exploring the theme
 1. Follow the leader. Be a lioness. A
hen. A duck. A monkey. An
elephant. A kangaroo. Slowly
switching form one role to another
one after the leader.

6.  2. Pick up a card with an animal: a
fierce dog, a sly fox, a drunken fly,
a lazy crocodile, a lovely pussy cat,
a jumping kangaroo, a big elephant,
a busy bee, an active spider.
 3. A guided improvisation
 The teacher tells the story /guided
fantasy/ in which animal ends up in
various situations. The pupils play
the story while it is being told. They
fully transform into the chosen
animal. They play animal on 4 legs,
they play a bird like it flies...

7.  If there are too many pupils, divide
them into two halves. One group
watches while the second
observes. A task for watchers:
 Who was who?
 Advice: Read very, very slowly.
And at first demonstrate.
 If you are bat, how do you sleep, if
you are a bird, how do you look for
food /eat/drink?
 And start now.

8. Text for the Guided Improvisation
 You are sleeping soundly/How?
Does a fly, a dog.. sleep/? As you
sleep, a fly comes and bothers you.
You wake up /How?/ you are thirsty
and you look for some water. You
drink /How?/ It tastes well. Drink
some more. You spot a friend, say
hello to him. /sound/. You play
together. You get hungry and you go
to look for some food. /lion hunting,
fly excrements/.

9.  Now you meet an enemy. There is
a confrontation and a fight takes
place. You win/lose.
 You find the food and eat /How?/
You see another animal.
 You fall in love with it. You do a
mating dance.
 You are tired and you go to look a
place to sleep. You fall asleep.

10. Calming down
 A quiet time for reflection,
evaluation of the work in the
lesson.
 It lovers energy and closes drama.

11. Further Reading
 Canon Erna Schelltraete, Ministry
of Flanders Education Department
 As if..., Daniela Bačová and Tim
Phillips 1999
 Play with English, Belts 2001
Bratislava

12. A na koniec reflexie
 Ďakujem tým, ktorí takéto prípravy
čítajú. Sú to odskúšané veci s veľkým
úspechom u žiakov i u kolegov učiteľov.
Námety som pozbierala na tvorivých
dielňach v SR a v Belgicku.
 Nezabudnem, keď som sama hrala, bola
to skákajúca žabka. Nakoniec, keď som
otvorila oči, Carmen, učiteľka zo
Španielska sedela asi 2 m vysoko na
okne. Ako sa tam dostala? Bola mucha!

13.  Alebo jedna žiačka sa priznala, že ona
ako mucha sa tak preľakla, keď ju
začal prenasledovať nejaký vták, že to
nikdy nezabudne.
 Malí druháci chceli túto „hru“hrať
opakovane nespočetnekrát. Vždy boli
iné zvieratko.
 A kolegyne učiteľky boli skvostné, keď
hrali hada, ktorý tancuje s levom!
Alebo bitka ryby s krokodílom!

14. Ďakujem!
 Šablónka: Slávka Kalakayová