[Creativity, Role Plays and Props]

Just before the end of semester exams students had to present a role play in English in front of class. Scores are also given to props and creativity, encouraging students to have fun with the role plays. One group in particular took the props to a whole new level.

The group (3 boys) started out by talking about a new product they wanted to sell to the market; guitars. The leader said, “hello, there is something in the guitar” and pulls out a live mouse.

To understand the context better, this is a Thursday morning 8am class, most students and teacher alike are still abit sleepy.

Now the girls in the class wake up with screams, especially those in the front row..

The role play goes on about how they want to make more guitars. The leader then says “Oh, there is something in my guitar bag”.

Remember the class is very awake now.

He pulls out a live snake! Girls are literally screaming and a few run to the back of the class room :-) Then the crazy student aggravates the snake by waving his hand in front of the snake and with in a minute the snake bites him on the hand and draws blood. This is part of the role play where they have to see a doctor. A very convincing reason.

Offcourse the class is hysterical as is the teacher. Eventually the class calms down and the role play goes on. And because they could, the cheeky boys later on in the play threw a fake snake into the crowd- even I flinched back when I saw it coming my way! Maybe their English wasn’t the best but they certainly engaged and captivated the audience. Obviously they got full marks plus for props.

(Turns out the student in question with the pets studies biology and uses the mice to feed his many water snakes. Now that’s what I call self-education)
















Actually this class was really creative. Another funny role play was when a chubby girl gets dumped by a cameo appearance of another student. That is, the student wasn’t on my score list to present – he spoke for about 1 minute, told her she was too fat and that it was over. The rest of the role play was about how she suffers bulimia and has to go to a doctor to recover.

About 3 presentations later the boy who did the cameo appearance is now doing his role play. He is in Korea with his gay lover. (Thai students love to play with different sexual preferences.) At the end of this romantic role play in Korea the chubby chick that was dumped earlier, comes on all hysterical and finds her ex-boyfriend with a new lover. “Now I know why you left me, you have a gay lover!” and then promptly produces a toy gun and shoots the couple dead. Bloody brilliant it was.


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