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This teaching idea combines acting with learning by having children act out the main parts of the fairy tale: Snow White and the seven dwarvesSeven Dwarves. With each scene the students will be able to get to know more about the story and are able to successfully play a game of "Guess Who?" with the main characters.

Target group and Time

This game is best for student groups with good enough grade 5-6 students with English skills to be able to understand written sentences and also know the past tense. Grade 5-6 is ideal but it also depends on the individual English levels. It is set out to fit into The activity is set to fill a 12 minute time slot but can easily be adapted for longer parts of a lesson.

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Through this activity the children will learn about a (new) fairy tale, practise practice their reading comprehension and acting skills and will also be able to get to know , and learn new vocabulary in a fun and engaging way. The guessing game (part two) will test tests their ability to connect the collected information from the acting scenes with specific character questions, also focusing on their comprehension of what they saw, read and heard.

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First, the students are introduced to the group theme of fairy tales and are asked, whether they know the story of Snow White or not . (“raise “Raise your hand if…”) . Afterwards, they get are told about the two parts of the activity: Part one being the acting and part two being the guessing game. Then the teaching starts by asking for the first volunteer to act out the first small scene.

Letting it run

Part one: acting Acting out the most important parts of the fairy tale:

- one One student gets a piece of paper containing the character they are portraying and a one sentence description of what they are doing do in this scene.

- when you are sure When the student has understood the text, you let them take the “stage” and they will start interpreting interpret the text into a small acting scene / or movement.

- once Once the scene is donefinished, you ask the watching students who watched what they think has happened in the scene and what which character(s) were visible right now. Let them explain what they see / what is happening.

- after that Now the next student ( volunteer ) takes the next piece of paper and acts their small scene, which is also talked about discussed after presentation to make sure every student understands every scene.

- this goes This process continues on until every scene has been acted out.

- (Note: Sometimes two scenes happen simultaneously, so you have it is necessary to know , when to keep a student on stage / or when to have two people characters acting together.)

Part two: playing Playing “Guess Who?”:

- five Five students are each secretly assigned one of the main characters (by giving them a piece of paper with the characters name on it).

- only Only the students with a character know which character they are.

- after that, After this yes/no-questions (see below) are distributed to the students until there are none left (characters all questions are taken. (Characters also get questions and so students can have more than one piece of paper.)

- once Once all the pieces of paper are gone you , ask for a volunteer with a character name.

-  this   This “character-student”, for example Snow White, can step steps into the middle of the circle.

- the The other students now have to guess which character the student represents, by asking the question written on their paper. The student in the middle hast has to answer truthfully wis with “Yes, I have.” or “No, I have not.”

- once Once the students have figured out the character in the center, for example, that it is Snow White, the next “character-student” can look looks at their paper and a new round of questions can begin.

Note:

- multilingual Multilingual aspects can be introduced at multiple stages of this game. For example:

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