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Learning English through drama is very effective. You can teach your students not only how to speak but also how to express their feeling. Acting and speaking unites in one scene. The result is that your students are exposed in language target intensely.
When you search on the internet to find a drama script for free, you will find many sites that give free resources. In fact, most of them don’t really give free scripts. Some of them only give a part of the scene and the other scenes are bundled a package that you should buy. It is not convenient to have this offer. There is a great site that you can find many resources of drama script for free. That is kidsinco.com. That site gives free drama scripts. There are hundreds collections from one character to multiple characters. I used few of the script to be practice in my classroom. However, I modified some the conversation. Instead of creating my own script, I will got crazy to get inspired. I just copy from kidsinco.com and change the conversation a little that suits to my students characters and theme.
MADAM CROW sits in the tree. Enter MISS CROW. She carries a large piece of cheese in her mouth.
MADAM. O joy! O joy! Come, dear daughter, come! We’ll dine as if we were queen and princess!
Miss Crow flies to Madam Crow. Enter MASTER FOX.
FOX. I bid you good morning, dear madam.
MADAM. Good morning to you, dear sir.
FOX (sitting under tree). With your permission, I’ll speak with your daughter.
MADAM. She’ll be pleased to listen, that she will—you are so clever.
FOX (modestly). Nay, madam, not so clever, only thoughtful.
He sighs deeply twice.
MADAM. You have something on your mind.
FOX (sighing). Yes, dear madam,--I am thinking of your daughter.
MADAM. Then speak! Speak now, sir!--at once, sir!
FOX. I speak. O sweet Miss Crow, how beautiful your wings are!
MADAM (pleased). Do you hear that, daughter?
Miss Crow nods, spreading her wings proudly.
FOX. I speak again. How bright your eye, dear maid! How graceful your neck!
MADAM. Bend your neck, child! Now bend it well that he may better see your grace.
Miss Crow bends neck twice.
FOX. But oh, that such a sweet bird should be dumb!--should be so utterly dumb!
He weeps gently in his little pocket handkerchief.
MADAM (indignantly). Do you think, sir, she cannot caw as well as the rest of us? FOX. I must think so, dear madam. Alas!
Weeping again in his little pocket handkerchief.
MADAM. You shall think so, then, no longer! Caw, child, caw, as you have never cawed before! MISS CROW (opening mouth; dropping cheese). Caw! Caw!
Fox quickly snaps up the cheese.
FOX (going). Thank you, Miss Crow. Remember, dear madam, that whatever I said of her beauty, I said nothing of her brains. He goes, waving the crows a farewell with his little pocket handkerchief
The MAN, his WIFE, little HANS, and the GRANDFATHER sit at the table eating the noon meal.
MAN. Be careful, father! You are spilling the soup on your coat.
GRANDFATHER (trying to steady his trembling hand). Yes, yes, I’ll be careful.
Short pause.
WIFE (sharply). Grandfather! You have spilled the soup on my clean tablecloth!
GRANDFATHER (embarrassed). Dear me! Dear me!
Short pause.
MAN. Here, father, is your plate of meat.
The old man takes the plate, but lets it fall.
WIFE (angrily). There now! Just see what
you have done!
GRANDFATHER. My hand shook so—I’m sorry—so sorry!
WIFE. That won’t mend the plate!
MAN. Nor buy a new one!
WIFE (to her husband). He should eat from wooden dishes.
MAN (nodding, pointing to a wooden dish). Let him have that one for his meat.
The Grandfather sighs sadly. The Wife gets a wooden dish and fills it with meat. Little Hans leaves the table and plays with his blocks on the floor.
WIFE (handing the wooden dish to the Grandfather). Here’s one you can’t break. Go now and sit in the corner behind the oven. You shall eat there hereafter. I cannot have my tablecloths soiled—that I cannot!
The Grandfather takes his wooden plate and goes to the seat in the corner behind the oven. His eyes are filled with tears.
MAN. Come, little Hans, and finish your dinner.
WIFE (turning to Hans). Bless me! What are you making, child?
HANS. A wooden trough for you and father to eat out of when I grow big.
The Man and his Wife look at each other; there is a pause.
MAN (showing shame). He will treat us as we have treated father!
WIFE (weeping). ‘T will serve us right!
MAN (kindly). Father, throw that wooden dish out of the window. I am ashamed of what I have done; forgive me!
WIFE (kindly). Father, come back to the table. I too am ashamed. Forgive me, dear father.
The TWO TRAVELLERS journey along the road. A hatchet lies in the dust at one side.Footnote: The explanations in brackets may be read by the teacher.
FIRST TRAVELLER (seeing the hatchet, taking it up).Footnote: The words in parentheses are not intended to be read aloud; they will give the child the cue as to how the part should be rendered. Ah, see what I have found!
SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say I, but rather, what we have found.
FIRST TRAVELLER. Nonsense! Did I not see the hatchet first? And did I not take it up?
SECOND TRAVELLER. Well, then, claim the hatchet, since that is plainly your wish.
Enter the CARPENTER.
CARPENTER (to First Traveller). Aha, thief! Now I have caught you!
He seizes the First Traveller.
FIRST TRAVELLER. No thief am I, sir!
Illustration: THE TRAVELLERS AND THE HATCHET
CARPENTER. But my own hatchet is in your hand, sir. Come along to the judge, sir! FIRST TRAVELLER (to Second Traveller). Alas, we are undone!
SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say we. You are undone, not I. You would not allow me to share the prize; you cannot expect me to share the danger. I bid you good day, sir.
