LESSON PLAN FOR DRAMA

Name of the the Trainee: Safiye Nisa Gündoğan

Age: Adolescent/Adult
Level: Pre-Intermediate to Adult
Objectives:
a) For Drama: to make the students active participants of the lesson
to raise cooperation among them
to make students use body language and voice effectively
b) For Language Item/Skills Involved: Raise students’ speaking skills
To make the students use their vocabulary

Materials: Pictures, Role cards

PRE

Procedure: Teacher shows some pictures and asks some questions to introduce the topic.
Then he/she delivers the role cards to the five groups. After the role plays, ask the
students some questions about the role plays and discuss about them.

Steps:
1. The teacher shows some pictures about the topic and asks some questions about the
pictures.
2. Students try to find the possible problems of the child in the picture.
3. After the answers, teacher delivers the role cards.
4. Students have a few minutes to prepare their role play.
5. After the students get ready, each group act out.
6. Then the teacher asks some questions about the role plays to make the rest of the class
active.
7. After all the groups act out and they discuss about the situations, teacher delivers the
text.

Role Cards

1.Situation: There is a child, his father, mother and sister, the child’s friend.
Child: You are 10 years old.Your mother and father are arguing all the time. You are not a
happy child. You don’t want to stay at home.You hate your sister. You spend all your time
with your best friend.
Friend: You are an irresponsible person, you ignore all your responsibilities in your life. You
feel alone and you want your best friend be with you all the time.
Mother: Your husband doesn’t have a job. You have to work, you have all the responsbility
of earning money. You don’t have time to care about your child. You don’t get on well with
your husband.
Father: You don’t have a job. You don’t care about your child. You ignore your family. You
don’t get on well with your wife. You drink all the time.
Sister: You didn’t go to school. You are nearly illiterate, but you want to have a life in luxury
and you don’t want to stay with your parents. You hate your brother.
2.Situation: There is a child, his father, his mother, neighbour 1, neighbour 2.
Child: You are 10 years old. You have to work instead of going to school. Your parents don’t let
you go to school. In your neighbourhood all the children have to work. You don’t have any
choice other than working.You get used to the life conditions in your family and neighbourhood.
Father: You don’t have a permanent job. You don’t let your child go to school. You want them
work and earn money. Your neighbours and you make your children work and it is an ordinary
situation for your neighbourhood. Everyone boast of their children when they earn much more
money than the others.
Mother: You don’t care about your child. You only deal with the money that your child earn.
Your personality is far from a mother’s. You don’t have good relationship with your child. You
feel jealous, when your neighbours’ children earn much more money than your child.
Neighbour 1: You make your children work and you get used to this situation. You always boast
of your chilren when they earn much more money than the other children in your neighbourhood.
You try to show your authority on your children to the others.
Neighbour 2: You always complain about your children, because they don’t want to work. You
are jealous of your neighbours and their children.

3. Situation: There is a child, 3 friends and a policeman.

Child: You are 10 years old. Your father is a policeman.You don’t have any friend from your
peers and you want to be with the girls/boys who are 15. You try to do whatever they do.
Friend 1: You are 15. You hate school. You don’t care about the life and you don’t have any
aim in life. You always disturb the other people in your neighbourhood.
Friend 2: You are 15. You have problems with your parents. You don’t stay with your
parents. You hate school. You take no responsibility in your life, you are an aimless person.
Friend 3: You are 15. You don’t go to school. You are the leader of your friends, they do
whatever you say. You always disturb the other people. You are a problematic person.
Policeman: Your duty is to find the guilty children. You have a son who is 10. You are
pursuing a group that disturbs the neighbourhood. One day you catch them and you see your
son with this group.

4. Situation: There is a student, a teacher, 3 other students.

Jessie: You go to a private school on a scholarship. You are not as rich as your friends. You
want to be like them.They look down on you.
Teacher: You are a teacher in a private school. Your students are rich. It is the first day of the
school and you ask your students’ parents’ jobs. You humiliate the scholarship students.
Mary: You are a student at a private school.You are so selfish. You look down on Jessie as
she studies with the help of scholarship. You and your friends ignore her.
Terressa: You are a student at a private school.You are so selfish. You look down on Jessie
as she studies with the help of scholarship. You and your friends ignore her.
Sara: You are a student at a private school.You are so selfish. You look down on Jessie as
she studies with the help of scholarship. You and your friends ignore her.
5. Situation: There is a child, her grandmother, grandfather and two friends.
Child: Your mother and father are dead. You live with your grandparents, but unfortunately
they die. You have to take care of yourself. You meet with two people. They will be your best
friends.
Grandmother: You love your grandchild. You take all the responsibility of taking care of
him, but unfortunately you die.
Grandfather: You love your grandchild. You try to be like his father. You take care of him,
but unfotunately you die.
Friend 1: You don’t go to school. You don’t stay with your family. You have no aim in your
life. You are a problematic person.
Friend 2: You don’t go to school. You don’t stay with your family. You don’t care about
your life. You disturb all the people around you with your behaviours.

WHILE

Procedure: Teacher hands out the text and introduces the activities. Students do skimming,
scanning and vocabulary part.

Steps:
1. Teacher hands out the text.
2. She gives the instruction for the first exercise.
3. Students do skimming, they read for the gist of the text.
4. After the students finished that part, the teacher checks the answers.
5. She gives the instruction for the second exercise.
6. Students do scanning, they read for some specific information from the text.
7. After the students finished that part, the teacher checks the answers.
8. She gives the instruction for the vocabulary part.
9. Students match the words with their meanings according to the clues in the text.
10. After the students finished that part, the teacher checks the answers.

POST

Procedure: The class will have a discussion about the “guilty children” in the next lesson.
There are two groups and each group defends one opinion. Teacher gives the opinions and
assigns them to make some research about their opinion.

Steps:

1. Teacher gives the instruction about the next lesson.

2. She introduces the topic of the discussion.
3. She seperates the classroom into two groups.
4. She gives delivers each group’s opinion.
5. She assigns the students to make research about their opinion.
6. Teacher ends up the lesson.