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1. Copertina Plico Inglese Le Nuvole – Casa del Contemporaneo (feriali 9.00/17.00) 081 2395653 [email protected] www.lenuvole.com Dracula Teachers’ Material page 1 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu Dear Teacher, Welcome! The Play Group are delighted to be performing Dracula for schools and theatres throughout Europe in the season 2016 – 2017. We look forward to meet your students and hope that the experience is useful and motivating – in appreciating that English is not just a school exercise, but is very much alive and can be surprisingly entertaining and easy! About this material The teachers’ material is divided – rather arbitrarily – into three levels of English. But please choose the activities best suited to your students. For more detailed material about Bram Stoker, Transylvania and related themes, please visit our website: www.theplaygroup.eu . You will also find informations about the Play Group and how we create the play. Short of time? If you don’t have much time, try doing the vocabulary exercises and the story summaries (see pages T2 - T5). But don’t worry, we are experts at making ourselves understood! About the story Dracula is a very familiar story, with many movies, comics, cartoons, spin-offs and variations of all kinds. But although our story is based on Bram Stoker’s original, as it is customary for the Play Group, you can expect some surprises! Student participation We like to involve students in the performance, but please DON’T tell them – it can make them nervous! We also encourage students to talk to us after the show… if you have time perhaps you could prepare some questions or comments about the play. About the performance The show can be performed in almost any space (we need a playing area of approx. 6 X 3 metres), e.g. assembly hall or school gymnasium. If you have a light and audio system, please ask your technician to assist us with access to it. We only need a power extension cable (prolunga), six chairs (not the small ones in primary schools) and a clean, dust-free playing area. We’d also appreciate three bottles of mineral water for the three actors, and – whenever possible, that famous black liquid called coffee! Looking forward to seeing you soon! Eddie, Simon, Enzo, Francesco and the team Dracula Teachers’ Material page 2 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu INDEX This packet is divided into two sections: the first part contains teachers material and instructions. The second part are the “P” pages, for photocopying. NB: not every exercise needs 1 photocopy per student. Many exercises work well either individually or in pairs. On the right, you see the suggested levels for your students. Of course, you are the best judge of what is right for them! BEG: Beginners INT: Intermediate ADV: Advanced ACTIVITY PHOTOCOPIES LEVEL 1- Vocabulary list P2 ALL 2 - Vocabulary pictures P3 ALL 3a) - Picture story P4 BEG 3b) - Picture story sentences P4 and P5 INT 3c) - Story summary P6 ADV 4 - Making a mask P7 and P8 and P9 BEG - INT 5 - Poster competition COVER PAGE / WEBSITE ALL 6 - Bat crossword & castle P10 BEG - INT 7 - Instant Vampire Quiz ALL 8 - The castle ALL 9 - Bat puppet P11 BEG - INT 10 - Word grid P12 ALL 11 - Jonathan’s journey P13 BEG - INT 12 - Recipes ALL 13 - Life of Bram Stoker P14 ADV Themes and background Web links ACTIVITY 1 - VOCABULARY LIST < ALL LEVELS > Photocopy: page p2 (1 for each student or 1 between 2) Instructions: These are some of the most important words in the show! The first examples in each column are shown. Ask students to see how many they can complete on their own. Help them out if necessary! ACTIVITY 2 - VOCABULARY PICTURES < ALL LEVELS > Photocopy P3 (1 each or 1 between 2) Instructions: Ask your students if they know the words for the pictures. Some, like “ship” should be easy. For more difficult vocabulary, write the vowels (or the full alphabet) on the board and invite your students to choose a vowel or certain letters of the alphabet which you write in the spaces. You can make it competitive by dividing the class into two or more teams. Dracula Teachers’ Material page 3 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu Optional variation The game ‘hangman’. (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) Choose a picture, e.g. picture 19 which represents the verb ‘to write’. Students take turns to say a letter of the alphabet. When they say a letter in the word, write the letter in the correct space. Letters which are not in the word are also written on the board together with an element of the gallows. The first team to complete the word is the winner. But when one team has its gallows completed, it is ‘condemned’ and loses the game. In this picture the team has correctly guessed ‘W’ and ‘I’ but has made mistakes on ‘O’, ‘B’, ‘Y’ and ‘S’…they are “condemned”! Answers: 1) a bat 2) strong 3) a bride 4) to drink 5) a coat 6) the sea 7) blood 8) a hammer and stake 9) a cross 10) a hat 11) to sleep 12) a vampire 13) a wolf 14) garlic 15) a suitcase 16) a ship 17) a diary 18) a coffin 19) to write 20) a teddy bear ACTIVITY 3A - PICTURE STORY < BEGINNERS > Photocopy: page P4 (1 each or 1 between 2) Materials: Scissors Instructions: Students cut out the pictures and place them face up on their desk. Explain that you are going to read the simple story (below) several times, including the numbers. But the pictures they have are not in order, and they will have to re-order them. Give students a few moments to study the pictures. The first time students should just listen carefully. On the 2nd reading, students should place the cards in the correct chronological order. Help them with any vocabulary. On the 3rd reading, check if students have placed the cards in the correct order. Go through each picture with the students, help them to describe what they see and remind them of the vocabulary they learnt in the previous exercise. 1. Jonathan Harker works for Peter Hawkins, who sells houses. One day Mr Hawkins tells Harker he must take important documents to a client who lives in a castle in East Europe 2. Jonathan travels by train from London to Transylvania. He takes the contract to Count Dracula who wants to buy a house in London. He writes in his diary about Mina, his girlfriend 3. After some days in Dracula’s castle Jonathan realises he is a prisoner. He sees many strange things. One night three beautiful women enter his bedroom and try to bite his neck. Dracula Teachers’ Material page 4 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu 4. In a town in England called Whitby, a Russian ship full of boxes of Transylvanian earth crashes into the port. A large animal, like a dog or a wolf, jumps off the ship. 5. Dracula has arrived in England. He uses his magic to bring Lucy, a friend of Mina, to Whitby cemetery where he bites her neck and drinks some of her blood. 6. Lucy is very ill. Her boyfriend asks for help. A very important scientist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, arrives. He sees that Lucy has lost a lot of blood and gives her a blood transfusion. 7. Jonathan escapes from the castle and tells Van Helsing about Count Dracula. Van Helsing understands that Lucy is now a vampire. Van Helsing describes what vampires like and what they don’t like. 8. Lucy dies but Van Helsing and Jonathan discover that she leaves her coffin at night and bites children. In order to kill the vampire in her the professor, Jonathan and the others open her coffin and drive a wooden stake through her heart. 9. Jonathan, Van Helsing and the others follow Count Dracula back to Transylvania. They have garlic, a cross, holy water, a hammer and stake and other things that vampires do not like. In a battle they finally kill Dracula and peace once more returns to their lives. Answers: The correct order for the pictures is 1 E – 2 B – 3 G - 4 I – 5 F – 6 A – 7 H – 8 C – 9 D ACTIVITY 3B - PICTURE STORY < INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy: page P4 (pictures) and page P5 (sentences) (1 each or 1 between 2) Materials: Scissors Instructions: Students can work in pairs or small groups. Ask students to match the descriptions with the pictures. Then cut out the pictures and place them in the correct order. Tell them that one phrase has nothing to do with the story. Answers: The correct order for the pictures (and sentences) is E (3) – B (7) – G (4) - I (9) – F (6) – A (8) – H (1) – C (5) – D(2) The events depicted in the pictures can be found in the following chapters of Bram Stoker’s novel: Picture E is from Chapter 2 - PIC B: Ch. 1 / PIC G: Ch.3 / PIC I : Ch.7 / PIC F: Ch. 7 / PIC A: Ch. 10 / PIC C: Ch. 16 / PIC H: Ch. 18 / PIC D Ch. 27 ACTIVITY 3C - STORY SUMMARY < ADVANCED > Photocopy: page P6 (1 each or 1 between 2) Instructions: Give the photocopies to your students. They should fill in the gaps with the words provided. NB: Our performance will be simpler as we have eliminated Lucy, Seaward, Holmwood, Quincey and many minor characters. Dracula Teachers’ Material page 5 © 2016 / www.theplaygroup.eu Answers: a) solicitor b) remote c) property d) hospitable e) prisoner f) Brides g) stealing h) fiancée i) marriage j) friends k) crashes l) wheel m) dog n) earth o) transform p) vivacious q) holes r) eats s) sensor t) news u) deteriorates v) specialist w) transfusions x) cemetery y) stake z) struggle ACTIVITY 4 – MAKING A MASK < BEGINNERS / INTERMEDIATE > Photocopy pages P7 and P8 and P9 (1 for each student) Materials: scissors, glue, paint or crayons, elastic, cardboard (to strengthen the mask).
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