10TH REFLECTION

Last week, we’ve covered the procedures in drama activities. For

this week some groups started to present their drama demonstrations.
The first group dealt with a “Song Contest” in their drama activity by using
some role cards in the shape of microphones, a jury and some singers as
characters whom the audience enjoyed thanks to obvious and a little bit
exaggerated characteristic features of singers and jury members. 2nd
presentation was about an ‘’Airplane Crash’’. Using storytelling effectively
and some accessories such as masks were the points I liked most, because
storytelling aroused our curiosity when they stopped suddenly. Moreover,
while one of the presenters giving the instructions, the other one showed
what the other one said nonverbally, I liked it very much, because it gave
a chance to show sth real from our lives, how important and real this kind
of nonverbal communication was and made the presentation more realistic
and enjoyable. On Wednesday two other groups presented their drama
activities. The first group used a “Wedding Ceremony” as a drama activity
and the second group chose “Dummy’s Dinner”. Both of the activities
were enjoyable. In the first drama activity we learnt some figures for tango
and this caused chaos because nobody followed the instructions of the
presenters and they just began to dance, actually at that point I thought
that the instructions should have been given before inviting the student to
the stage, but the part in which we participated in a wedding ceremony
and gave advices to the new couple was very creative and had us used
the language according to its function appropriately and using some
golden advice cards proved that how important using something from real
life in making the setting more realistic and enjoyable is. In the second
presentation I wanted the whole class to participate in the activity and in
order to make this happen, the presenters may have got the students
involved in the pre activity which was preparing meal for dinner. Finally,
the things became prominent for me were having the students involved in
the activities was the best way in order not to lose the house during the
presentation, but while trying to get the students involved we should care
the steps first in order not to cause a chaotic atmosphere.

Duygu ALDEMİR, 13TH AND 15TH DECEMBER 2010