The document outlines activities for a sixth grade English class over two weeks focusing on the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. The activities include learning vocabulary words and verb tenses, discussing what the characters may be waiting for, creating comics and dialogues, and watching adaptations of the play in different styles like manga and Hello Kitty. The goal is for students to learn English while participating in fun activities centered around the play.

1. Rafael Carmen
Hernando Plaza

2. General Information
-Fifth grade: ≈10 years old
-6 sessions (a fortnight)
-Contents
-Present (simple/continuous) + Imperative
- Colours, fruits and vegetables
-Main objective.
Learn English language and some literary English
ideas while participating and having fun.

3. Theater of the Absurd
• Play: “WAITING FOR GODOT: a tragicomedy in
two acts”.
• Author: Samuel Beckett (1906-†1989)
• Considered to be“the most significant English
language play of the 20th century”
• Written originally in French “En attendant
Godot”
• Published in the fifties (1953, 1956)

4. Peculiar summary of the play:

5. First week activities
First session:
Present. Simple & Continuous
Question: “What do you think they are waiting for?”
Vocabulary (colours): Cartoons
Second session:
Imperative + action verbs: Orders to your partner
Vocabulary (fruits & vegetables): Bingo.
Third session:
Ideas about the play watching adaptations
Create a comic (PDI)

6. Second week activities
Fourth session:
Adapted dialogue (tomatoe);
Fill the gap ____ (fruits, vegetables, colours, etc)
Fifth session:
Introduce a Project
Instructions: draw/create a background &
Write a dialogue ( possibility of free vocabulary)
Sixth session:
Show your project/dialogue
Conclusion: videos about the play (manga style, hello
kitty style)

7. A> Do you want an apple? (A shows a tomato)
B> Yes, ¡but that is an orange!
Absurd dialogue
A>¡It isn't! It is red. It is a strawberry.
B> But it is round... ¡It is an apple!
A> ¡No, it isn't! Do you want the onion?
B> Give it to me... Yuck, it is a fruit... (B catches the tomato)
A> ¡No, it isn't! It is a vegetable.
B> But it is not green, so it is not a vegetable.
A> ¡Yes, it is! It is a fantastic fruit.
B>Give me the apple... (B bites the tomato) It tastes good
.

8. Created comics

9. THE END

10. Resources
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRhIozmfzE (cartoons created with Becket’s
collaboration)
•
http://youtu.be/Oosp8MMv_v8 (Italian videogame version of the play)
•
http://youtu.be/ArX7M24u394 (Human videogame version (really interesting))
•
http://youtu.be/gPTohbwPpgM (Japanese manga style version)
•
http://youtu.be/V-bPl2_CEqg (“Hello Kitty” style version)
•
http://youtu.be/C3DQDFULCYA (Trailer of a formal performance)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WzYgFA1mkg (Guinea Pig version)
• http://youtu.be/ksL_7WrhWOc (Sesame Street version)
• http://www.toondoo.com/ (Website for creating comics)