Speech and Drama Class Day3

Activity number ONE (revision)
Drop yourself down with a big vocal Sigh~!
Lift your spine one by one and head is the last thing to lift (3 times with bigger and bigger sigh)

Revision of catch sound from air pass it through my body and throw into the big circle we formed
“Harmph”
”Harmph Hymph”
”Harmph Hymph Haymph”
”Harmph Hymph Haymph Hormph”
”Hamph Hymph Haymph Hormph Huuumph”
”Gerh”
”Gerh Kerh”
”Gerh Kerh LLLL”
”Gerh Kerh LLL mmm”
”Gerh Kerh LLL mmm fff”
Gerh Kerh LLL mmm fff ssss”

Activity number TWO
Look across the room, find your destination
Pronounce “JErh Jerh JErh…” while marching across the room
(Because we 47 or us standing in a huge circle so imagine everyone pushing themselves through in the middle congested while JERH’ing’ and stomping)

Activity number THREE
Form yourselves a group with at least 2 person and above…
She close her eyes and start counting… we simply grab anyone from beside in panic situation.. haha
She need 16 groups
Each group will just have to deconstruct the word under their group number..
Group one is the word “VVVaaasssssT!”
So they have to explore every alphabet sound in that word and create an artistic gesture

(10 minutes discussing and practicing)

She rearrange the circle in group order…
Like reading a poem one group flow straight after another .. but do wait until others finish their sound in silent then continue…

(Everyone deconstruct the words until we barely recognise the word itself)
Some like dancing fairy.. some like transformer… really interesting and the pronunciation is so precisely clear…

Now make it sound more like a word but still take your time and others time yet let it flow like the poem…

HOMEWORK: memorize this for next lesson.. go around with big gesture.

Closing activity 5 minutes
”Back to the big circle”
Instructor gave a conclusion of this lesson…
”Everyone imagine there’s a big golden hoop in front of us.. we bend down and pick it up together.. step back and toss it into the air”
And everyone silently follow the instructor.. everyone hold the imaginary hoop together very slowly
Hold it up high then put one of our foot back, swing our arms back slowly.. and toss the hoop into the air… watch it float away in the air…
Then she close her eyes holding her hands on her chest for few second…
Then she smile and say thank you to the class…. Everyone thank her back and gave her an applause…. It was a lovely lesson…

Speech and Drama Class Day2

Activity Number ONE 15minutes
”Scatter yourself around the room… Here’s the rule.. Do not let the ball touch the ground…
you may tap slap play like a volley ball.. anything.. as long as you keep it off the ground…
BUT know your limit.. we are not fighting for Olympic champion.. I don’t want anybody to fall over…
If you miss the ball.. it’s ok.. We just going to count again…
So everyone count together and see how many touch can we keep the ball off ground..”
(Round 2)
”Now New rule is.. those who touched the ball must go and touch the wall before touching the ball again.. Count
End of this round
”Those who didn’t get to touch the wall go and touch the wall now”
(Round 3)
same as round 2 again
End of this round
”Those who didn’t touch the wall tap on someone else shoulder and say well done to them”
(Round 4)
Don’t have to touch the wall now
End of this round
”For those who haven’t get to touch the ball, kiss yourself at your inner elbow”

Activity Number TWO (Sense of space and movement) 15minutes
Section 1
”Walk into the space around this room… feel your movement…
Feel your feet connected to the floor each step…
Walk slower and feel your heel, roll to the palm of your foot to the toe…
Walk like normal again… feel your spine.. your shoulder while you walking into the space
Walk slowly again and feel the movement of your body…
Walk like normal again…”

Section 2
”Now while we are still walking into space.. You will slowly form the formation of the letter or number that I am going to announce…
DO not point with your finger… No indication… No talking.. Silently adjust yourself into the formation
… Give me a ‘2’…”
(45 of us walk silently and form ourselves a straight line.. and it took another 5 minutes for the nice curve of ‘2’)
”Still slowly adjusting there… good… No speaking… No pointing…”
(Round 2)
”Break the formation and walk into the space between yourself again…” (2minutes walking as she give us relaxing explanations and instructions)
”… Now form yourself into a capital letter H”
”Just incase you don’t know what kind of H I want, I’ll draw on the board…”
”No pointing.. No speaking…and slowly get yourself into the formation…”
(We are more comfortable with the space and movement together.. 1 minute we formed it)
”Ahh.. seems like the earlier ‘2’ was a warm up… Now you all are very well aware now…”
(Round 3)
”Break the formation and walk into space again… This will be the last one…” (1minutes walking as she keep our concentration of being silent again)
”…Now form yourself into capital letter ‘R’, I will draw on the board again”
(We spent 2 minutes adjusting… and one group of people suddenly aware that the R we form is in mirror image)
(Immediately we change the formation and we giggle)

Activity Number THREE (Acknowledge the uniqueness of each sound) 15minutes
Section 1
”go into a big circle now…”
”We believe that sound is constantly stored in the air… just like spirit…” (She explained a lot more)
”So we will catch the ‘harmph’ sound from the air.. let the sound past through our body and throw it out into the circle..”
(Everyone copy her movement.. catch the air above our head swing our arm throw it into the middle of the circle when we said ‘Harmph’)
(That sound amazing)
”Now I catch the sound and pass to the person next to me.. and you catch it from me and pass to the next person..”
(Both her arms raise in the air.. catch and toss to the next person “Harmph”.  And the next person pass on.. one circle around)
(She caught it back and hold it like a ball in front of her chest, with her eyes close.. harmph.. softly)

Section 2
”Now catch the sounds ‘Harmph Hymph” from the air and toss them into the circle..”
(Everyone does it together… the sound is powerful…)
”Harmph Hymph Haymph” (Same movement)
”Humph Hymph Harmph Hormph” (Same movement, We were so pushed by the sound and toss further into the circle.
”Humph Hymph Haymph Hormph Huumph” (Same movement…)
”Everyone say “Girhh” (everyone reply “Girhh”)
”Feel the sound produce at the back of our throat “Girhh”
”Khhh…. “(Everyone reply “Khhh”)
”LLLL” (Curl tongue inward)
”Feel the sound from the back of our throat “Girhh” to slightly forward “Khhh”, then to the middle “LLLLL”
”And now to much more forward MMMMMMMMMM…..”
”More to the front of our lips…. FFFFFFFFFFFF……..”
”And out of our lips… SSSSSSSSSSSSS…..”
”Catch the sound from the air and we going to do the Girhh Khhh LL MM FF Ss…” (Everyone do together toss the sound into our circle)

Section 3
”Every alphabet have it unique sound and expression.. not just ABCDEFG (singing the alphabet song)
”I want you to feel the energy of each alphabet sound.. So you will be partner up… One person catch the sound from the air”
”let the sound go through you.. pronounce it and toss it to your partner and the partner catch it and toss it back while pronounce it…”
”So team up with the person next to you and each of you will get different alphabet..”
Pair one – AAAh
Pair two – Berhhh
Pair three – Kirhh
Pair four – Derhh
Pair five – Ehhh
Pair six – Girhhh
Pair seven – Herhhh
Pair eight – Eeeee
Pair nine – Jerhh
Pair ten – Kirhh
Pair eleven – LLLLL
Pair twelve – mmmmm
Pair thirteen – Nerhh
Pair fourteen – Oooooo
Pair fifteen – Perhh
Pair sixteen – Rrrrrrr
Pair seventeen – Sssss
Pair eighteen – Tirhhh
Pair nineteen – Uuuuu
Pair twenty – Virhh
Pair twenty one – Wirhh
Pair twenty two – Kirhhsssssss
”spread around anywhere and start tossing….” (some go out into the foyer some stay in the movement room…
and we were tossing air to each other like playing ChiGong for one minute)

Activity number FOUR (Exploring sound through body expression) 10minutes
(She stop everyone from the last activity and add on instruction)
”Now when your partner give you the sound let the sound go through you and express it through your body gesture…
Then pass it back to your partner.. and partner will do the same thing.. explore every possible gesture of the sound that impact you…”
(sound tossing from one to another and everyone come out with different posture and gesture each time we receive the sound) 2minutes
”Discuss with your partner which gesture is the best and practice it.. then we will have everyone to perform…” 2 minutes

“For taking turn to present your “thing” we try to make it flow.. one group go down and the other group move in immediately…”
(It was really interesting each pairs presented their gesture of each alphabet sound.. some jumping up some melting down.. some wiggly off…)

Closing activity 5 minutes
”Back to the big circle”
Instructor gave a conclusion of this lesson…
”Everyone imagine there’s a big golden hoop in front of us.. we bend down and pick it up together.. step back and toss it into the air”
And everyone silently follow the instructor.. everyone hold the imaginary hoop together very slowly
Hold it up high then put one of our foot back, swing our arms back slowly.. and toss the hoop into the air… watch it float away in the air…
Then she close her eyes holding her hands on her chest for few second…
Then she smile and say thank you to the class…. Everyone thank her back and gave her an applause…. It was a lovely lesson…

Speech and Drama Class Day1

Activity number ONE 20minutes
Everyone stand in a big circle:” many people lost connection with their body, they are not aware what is going in some parts of their body.”
”Wiggle your toes… feel the connection of your toes with your feet…”
”Feel the palm of your feet move them.. feel them connected to the toes…”
”Feel the knees.. let your knee say hi to the other person knee… move them in all direction.. and feel them connected to the feet and to the toes…”
”Feel your thighs now… move them so that you knowledge their existence… feel them connected to the knees.. feet .. to the toes…”
”Feel the hips… connected to the thighs.. knees.. feet… to the toes…”
”Feel the spine… feel every joint… how they stack on top of each other… feel the connection to the hips.. thighs.. connected to the knees.. feet .. to the toes”
”Feel your shoulder.. your neck.. how they sit on top of your spine.. connected to the hips.. thighs.. down to your knees.. feet.. to the toes”
”Feel your head how it placed on your neck down to the spine.. connected to the hips.. thighs.. .. knees.. feet.. to the toes..”
”Give your face a massage… give your ear a little pinch.. they are now connected to the toes…“
”Tap the top of your head… and tap the head of the person next to you… and tap back your head.. now it’s connected to the toes”
”ready to give your self a big SIGH and your body fall all the way down to the ground.. HUuuuuhhh…”
”hanging your head. Slowly feel your spine lifting up one by one .. slowly lift up your body … feel your neck and then your head sit on top of your spine.
relax again… and ready for the big vocal sigh and drop to the ground again…. HUUuuhhhh….
Lift up your body from stacking up the spine slowly… and make sure your head is the last thing to bring up… (just like above)

Activity number TWO 10 minutes
”I’m going to clap two time and then follow by an action…then everyone copy…
and then the next person will do two claps follow by another action.. everyone copy as well…
NOT STRESSING anyone up.. any action will be fine.. just keep the rhythm going..”
(One round)
”Now clap twice then follow by your name with an action.. then everyone copy as well…”
(One round)

Activity number THREE 15 minutes
Quickly form yourself into 4 groups by the count of TEN… (Instructor closed her eyes and start counting immediately)
We are going to stretch out our arms.. close our eyes..
Some people will go like this (She showed with her eyes closed stretching her arms but a very scared expression)
Some people go like this (With her eyes closed stretching her arms, she showed a smiley cheeky curious expression)
But we will have fun…
In the circle stand with your shoulder close to each other.. close your eyes, stretch your arms and walk forward slowly…
Eventually you’ll touch someone’s else hand… open your eyes and if you’re by yourself then the whole group do it again…
If everyone is entangle in the circle now start unhook yourself without letting go your hands…

Closing activity 10 minutes
”Back to the big circle”
Instructor explain what her class is all about and the criteria and expectation.
We will put up a play by the end of the term~!
”Everyone imagine there’s a big golden hoop in front of us.. we bend down and pick it up together.. step back and toss it into the air”
And everyone silently follow the instructor.. everyone hold the imaginary hoop together very slowly
Hold it up high then put one of our foot back, swing our arms back slowly.. and toss the hoop into the air…