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UNIT 1 - 19th September 2019


Practical Lesson 1:
We started with a body warm up:
  • The body
  • The voice - tongue twisters. We got in pairs and we had a conversation with the two tongue twisters that we were given.
Task One
In our pairs we had to name ourselves A and B.
A had to go in a circle with the other As and think of an opening line.
Bs would then go to their partner and A would start the conversation with their opening line to have a conversation. Afterwards Bs moved to their left to talk to someone else to talk to. Bs would then swap roles and have to think of an opening line.

Task Two
We then had to have another partner and have a conversation where we could only talk with a line and the last line had to be 'that's all I ever wanted'.

This was my conversation with my partner:
A - Your mum said you were saving up for a book
B – Yeah
A - So here, I got it for you
B - How much was it?
A - It doesn't matter
B - Why won't you tell me?
A - Because I decided to get it for you, so why should it matter
B - Thanks, I'm so happy
A - That's all I ever wanted

We then had to perform our 9 line conversation to everyone followed by a class talk about what we learnt/did today:
How to use only a certain amount of words and lines for a performance/story.

Practical Lesson 2:
Task One
Our teacher put some words of identity on the whiteboard and some of those words were from what we previously wrote about identity. Some of the words were (some I added myself):
  • Family
  • Class
  • Friends
  • Sexuality
  • Politics
  • Music
  • Gender
  • Clothes you wear
  • Makeup
We then had to pick one of the words from the board and do a monologue about them. You were allowed to do it as a 1st, 2nd or 3rd person.
I decided to talk about friends as I thought I could talk about myself or what I see or experienced with my friends.

This is the monologue about friends.
Friends. What do friends mean to me? They are people who you can trust. People who you can show your bad side and moments with and when you feel like the world is crumbling around you and you can't escape.

They are those people who will always lend a hand, have a laugh with, a scare or a tear with. You can be yourself around them and they wouldn't judge.

Even though you have disagreements and not have everything in common. That makes you friends. If you liked everything they liked then you would start to hate each other. So not having everything in common is ok.

These people are like family. So keep them close as you might never meet any other people like them in your life.
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