Year 9
Key Stage Three Drama activities for the Summer term
- These activities are designed for students in Years 7-9.
- There are a selection of tasks.
- Some of them will require you to work practically with other members of your household.
- Some of them will be individual tasks.
- It is up to you to choose a task per week while school is closed. They can be completed in any order. Tasks nearer the top of the list are more complicated than those near the end.
- These tasks do not need to be submitted in any way and they will not be marked.
- The tasks are designed to inject some fun and creativity during a difficult time, while still developing your Drama skills.
- If you do write a play then, when we’re back in school, tell your tutor/Drama teacher about it and there might be an opportunity to get it performed!
- With thanks to TheatreMakers @ Birmingham City University, Shrewsbury Drama, and the online Drama community, for some of the tasks.
Putting on a Show! – This is a seven-week task
How to take part:
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Write a script for a performance about what is happening in the world at the moment – This is a task which could last for a number of weeks depending on how much you do
How to take part:
Example: John: Hello, my name is John. (He waves to Sarah). Sarah: (Nervously) Hello… how did I get here? (John walks over to the door and points at it.) John: through here. (Sarah stays where she is) John: Are you ok?
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Verbatim monologues 1 – this task requires another person
How to take part:
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Verbatim monologues 2 – this task requires another person
How to take part:
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Who’s in the box? – this task requires another person
How to play:
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Old photograph - new story – this task requires another person
How to play:
Tip: when prompting the other person to come up with a story, the more absurd it gets, the more plausible you need to find it.
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Hot Seating – this task requires another person
How to play:
Tip: if you want, use this as a chance to really have fun - play with costume, accents etc.
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Scriptwriting – this task can be repeated as many times as you like
How to take part:
Still image Thought-tracking Choral Speaking Physical Theatre Mime Monologues Circus Comedy Masks
School Party Park Beach Supermarket Alien planet
Win the lottery Earthquake Zombie attack Meet your favourite celebrity Witness a bank robbery Meet a ghost Invent a time machine
Top Tip:
Example: John: Hello, my name is John. (He waves to Sarah). Sarah: (Nervously) Hello… how did I get here? (John walks over to the door and points at it.) John: through here. (Sarah stays where she is) John: Are you ok?
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Storyboarding – this task can be repeated as many times as you like
How to take part:
Still image Thought-tracking Choral Speaking Physical Theatre Mime Monologues Circus Comedy Masks
School Party Park Beach Supermarket Alien planet
Win the lottery Earthquake Zombie attack Meet your favourite celebrity Witness a bank robbery Meet a ghost Invent a time machine
Top Tip:
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Circle Character – this task requires another person
How to play:
Tip: maybe you’ve already got one character from a previous exercise, but need to find out who their best friend or sidekick is. Try this!
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Fortunately / Unfortunately – this task requires another person
How to play:
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Sausages! – this task requires another person
How to play:
Tip: To play with more players, just sit in a circle and take it in turns asking the question – the person asking the question can ask it to whoever they like!
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Gibberish – this task requires another person
How to play:
A: Badada bubda? B: Gugugug … gugu? A: Baaaa! B: *pointing* Gagag guguuuu geee gaa. Ga?
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Tongue Twisters
How to play:
Peter Piper Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Where’s the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?
Woodchuck How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if the woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would, If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
I Thought a Thought I thought a thought, But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.
A Proper cup of coffee All I want is a proper cup of coffee, Made in a proper copper coffee pot I may be off my dot But I want a cup of coffee From a proper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots They’re no use to me – If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee In a proper copper coffee pot I’ll have a cup of tea.
Betty Botter Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. “But,” she said, “this bit of butter’s bitter, But a bit of better butter mixed with this butter might just make my bit of bitter butter better.” So, Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter butter better
Doctor If one doctor doctors another doctor, Then which doctor is doctoring the doctored doctor? Does the doctor who doctors the doctor, doctor the doctor the way the doctor she is doctoring doctors? Or does she doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
Cross Cow If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
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Three Times Through
How to play:
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Tell me a story! – this task requires another person Skills: reading, performing
How to play:
● Read a line of the text in your head ● Look up at the person (or toys, or pet) you are reading to, and speak aloud the line you just read.
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