In this activity plan you will learn about teaching animals vocabulary through the folk tale of the Ugly Duckling and using mime and movement. The activities include expressive mime, games and project activities.

Below are a list of aims and materials that will be required for this lesson.

Tips for using this Activity Plan. Notes about timing:

• With any improvisation activities, it is hard to be exact about timing as the children may get very involved and want to continue for longer, or may not respond as you expected. However as a rough guideline, you could spend approximately 15 minutes on each activity. With very young learners it is better to do a little and often.

• When rehearsing for a performance, spend at least one lesson making sure everyone knows where to move and when.

• For Trinity Stage One, performances should last from 5-15 minutes.

Getting started..

These concepts will be introduced over the following sections of the activity plan. To begin click on the next button at the bottom of the page.