Mini movies

School and drama

Kick-off

Do you find it easy to get up in the morning on a school day? Does it make a difference which subjects you have that day? Think about this for a minute, then watch the mini movie about Alexander who goes to school in Norwich.

Alexander:Erm … I’ll wake up about 7.15 and er, smash my alarm until it’s about half past seven. Erm … I’ll wake up, I’ll … erm have … I’ll get changed, have breakfast … erm … I’ll miss the bus! Get … I’ll get my mum to er pick me up, and my friend. We’ll get to school … erm … and we have about fi- ten minutes of school. And then for our – School starts at 8.35, our first lesson is at 8.55. No, yeah. Our first- I’ll say 8 … at 8.35 and our Form is at 8.25 … erm …
Lindis:You said your Form is at 8.25. What is that?
Alexander:Our er … basically … er, there- It’s like our school group. So er there’s 25 people in each Form with one teacher, and er that Form is assigned a room each year. Erm … mo- most of the time it’s the same, but our Form Tutor … erm … is on maternity leave, so we got another one in another room. Erm, and then … Yeah, so we just basically get assigned the teacher for the rest of the year, erm … rest of the year … school years.
Lindis:But what do you do for those 10 minutes every morning?
Alexander:Erm, we’ll sit down, we’ll have a register taken, to make sure that we are actually here, erm, and then for the rest of the 10 minutes we’ll read out announcements, I’ll read out what I had from the last School Council meeting and then … go to the next lesson.
Lindis:OK. So how many lessons do you have per day?
Alexander:Five … yeah, five.
Lindis:And when do you finish your school day?
Alexander:Three o’clock.
Lindis:What’s your favourite subject?
Alexander:Drama!
Lindis:Tell me about it.
Alexander:Er … Drama is where you get taught how to act within situations, so there are like freeze frame or things where you have to act like a … a huge, er horrible disaster is about to happen. You have to freeze frame just before it and freeze frame after it. Things like that. So you learn how to act basically.
Lindis:So, do you put on plays at school?
Alexander:Er … I have done a play before, that was last year. Erm, but that wasn’t wi- with my er, Drama. That was just someone who set it up, doing it at our school. But I have, er, yeah ... We do set up plays quite a lot.
Lindis:What was the play you were in last year?
Alexander:Er, it was called “Looking Back, Looking Forward”. Er, there were 7 scenes. Erm ... the first scene was us in year 3, second – and it goes up until our last years and the last scene is like a reunion when we’re all 30. So, that was quite fun. The make-up was really fun.
Lindis:Yeah.
Alexander:I looked really old after that which I thought was quite rude.

Getting the gist

Listen to Alexander and answer the following questions.

Why does Alexander’s mother sometimes drive him to school?
What happens in Form?
What happens in Drama lessons?
What was the play “Looking Back, Looking Forward” about?
What did Alexander like best about the play?

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Mini movies

School and drama

Kick-off

Getting the gist

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