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How to plan ESL events

2/26/2016

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Well, so far, everything was very simple and easy, and you can limit your preparation for lessons down to the essential and take baby steps from there.

But, honestly, for events, I would lie if I told you it is that easy.
It takes time.
It needs skill.
It needs experience.
It needs responsible people you can get feed back from and juggle around with ideas.

So, again, my only advice here is:  Start small!  and take Baby Steps.
 Let the time and experience teach you and go with this flow.

Let me concentrate on PERFORMANCE today:

I had my first performance of the kids in front of parents more than 10 years ago:  I held it in my house.  About 15 kids and their moms.  They were sitting on floor and sofa~very unprofessional but cozy and unforgettable for the ones who joined.

I did this about 2 times, after that we had a space that was a bit bigger.
30 kids and their moms, a piano and guitar.



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Again 2 years later I rented a cafe for about 40-50 kids and it was the first performance with some handmade nice preps, and costumes.

From there I found a big community space for everyone to get to easily;  and I kind of know how to create my program and when to start.

Basically I am just NOW (February) writing down what plays, skits, songs, dances I want to do with each class end of July.
I actually wrote the scripts already and am thinking of who gets what role.

I have my notebook and whenever I notice something or see something that gives me more of an idea for anything concerning the performance I write it down and see how it fits in.

Doing it now, gives me an idea of what topics to cover, still~ and what other skills to pull out.

In April I start with the actual topics they will need for the performance.  I don't want them to get too stressed right before, and in my experience the whole thing will stay longer (for ever) if they have practiced the same sentences for a longer time.
Also I do all the other stuff (Phonics, some new topics and review of GE topics) during that time.

July then is run-through ONLY!  Getting the right expressions, being genki having fun and feeling comfortable with the whole thing.  We also make props here.

If anyone is interested in how a program looks, what is on, let me know.

​This is our last performance, by the way.
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Jaynie
3/1/2016 09:13:53 am

Thank you so much for the video.I really enjoyed it.
The show looked very impressive.Your students are wonderful.

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Dacha
3/11/2016 02:51:13 am

Hello Margit,
this is great and right on time as I'm starting to think about my end of school year play as well...(Actually all of your posts in these "series" are very useful!). I see in the last scene that you have all the kids on stage, but in between performances are by age/level group. Do you calculate in any way how much time for each group of students (total): 1 or 2 skits per group or something like that? I see that you've used a theme- a central topic to unify everything- "Aladdin". Why did you choose it? And could you tell us what is your theme this year, please :)? We're working on Eric Carle this year- I'm preparing right now a big mail package to him with letters from the kids. So the performance might be around his books... Anyhow - thank you very much for the video and all your posts!

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Margit
3/11/2016 09:25:19 am

Thanks for inspiring me for another blog post.
I will write up the details ASAP.
As for this year (end of July) we will perform:
"I love my white shoes"
"The very hungry caterpillar"
"Little Red Riding hood"
and
"Goldilocks"

Let me copy your questions into my blog and answer there directly.

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