Lesson video

Hello, I'm Adam.

And this is Panda.

We are now on lesson four of unit four using the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Let's see, what's on the agenda then today.

So for our warmup, we're going to think about the three billy goats gruff and how they walk across the bridge and the things that they say.

And then we're going to do some more drama for the main challenge of the lesson, which is how to mime the story using actions only to tell it without any words, but of course, using the words that are in our head.

So lots to do.

Let's start with the warmup.

So we've got three billy goats gruff, we've got a little one, a middle sized one and a great big one.

And in the story, when they're going to the bridge, all of them sing a little song.

And the little one would have a little voice.

He went something like ♪ I'm a little billy goat ♪ ♪ With a little furry coat ♪ ♪ A little billy goat ♪ ♪ With a little furry coat ♪ ♪ I'm just a little billy goat ♪ ♪ In a little furry coat ♪ ♪ A very little billy goat ♪ Want to try that with me? It's quite nice to do this.

I can imagine that's how the little billy goat would trot, almost skip down to the bridge.

You ready? ♪ I'm a little billy goat ♪ ♪ With a little furry coat ♪ ♪ A little billy goat ♪ ♪ With a little furry coat ♪ ♪ I'm just a little billy goat ♪ ♪ With a little furry coat ♪ ♪ A very little billy goat ♪ Brilliant.

We could do it with the horns as well, couldn't we? The horns get bigger as the billy goats get bigger.

Now, the middle-sized billy goat gruff was the clever one.

So, might have a deeper voice and be even more confident.

And their song might be ♪ I'm a middle-sized billy goat ♪ ♪ With a middle-sized furry coat ♪ ♪ A middle-sized billy goat ♪ ♪ With a middle-sized furry coat ♪ ♪ I'm just a middle-sized billy goat ♪ ♪ With a middle-sized furry coat ♪ ♪ A middle-sized billy goat ♪ And the big one.

Are you ready? Big horns.

♪ I'm a great big billy goat ♪ ♪ With a great big furry coat ♪ ♪ A great big billy goat ♪ ♪ With a great big furry coat ♪ ♪ I'm just a big billy goat ♪ ♪ With a great big furry coat ♪ ♪ A very big billy goat ♪ So it'd be nice to do that when we tell the story, have slightly different songs for each of them.

And do you remember when they get to the bridge? There's something else that we do with our storytelling.

We went trip, trap, tripping, trip, trap trip.

Should we do that together? They went trip, trap, tripping, trip, trap, trip.

So today when we're miming, we do that action, they will be the words that are in our head.

Very good.

There's one other thing to remember with the goats.

Each time when the troll comes out, do you remember what he says? "I'm going to eat you up from your tail to your snout." They all have a trick part of the plan.

They give the troll a wink, and then before we can think, they've gone and the troll hears a song.

But they all say, "Don't eat me.

"Eat my big and juicy brother.

"He's bigger than me." So we try and make ourselves sound a bit like a goat.

So go, don't eat me.

Should we do it together? Don't eat me.

Eat my bigger brother.

He's juicier than me.

Brilliant.

So if we remember those things, the little song, we do that for the song, and that for the trip trap tripping, and that for "don't eat me" in the miming, we know now the words that would be in our head.

Okay, let's have a very quick look at the map before we do our miming challenge.

Here we go.

So before we mind the story, Panda and I thought it'd be a good idea to just have a quick look at the map that we drew in lesson two of this unit.

So here are the three billy goats gruff, and the problem is the troll who lives under the bridge.

He's as mean a sour cream.

They come up with a plan.

The middle-sized Billy goat has a plan and they all gather around.

And the plan is that the first billy goat will go to the bridge first.

And he goes, here he goes ♪ I'm a little billy goat ♪ ♪ In a little furry coat ♪ ♪ A little billy goat ♪ ♪ In a little furry goat ♪ And he gets to the bridge and goes, trip, trap, trapping, trip, trap, trip, and the troll leaps out and says, "I'm going to eat you up from your tail to your snout." And he gives the troll a wink, and before he can think, the little billy goat zaps by shouting, "Don't eat me! "Eat my bigger brother! "He's juicier than me." And the trolley is so confused 'cause he can hear another song now, sung by the middle-sized one.

♪ I'm just a middle-sized billy goat ♪ ♪ In a middle-sized furry coat ♪ When he gets to the bridge, the middle-sized one goes trip, trap, tripping, trip, trap, trip, and the troll leaps out and says, "I'm going to eat you up from your tail to your snout." And he gives the troll a wink, and before he can think, he runs by saying, "Don't eat me! "Eat my bigger brother.

"He's juicier than me." And the poor troll is confused.

And then he hears another song.

♪ I'm a great big billy goat ♪ ♪ With a great big furry coat ♪ And when the big billy goat goes, trip, trap, trip, trap, tripping across the bridge, out he jumps and goes, "I'm going to you from your tail to your snout." But the big billy goat uses his great big horns and he butts the troll splash out to sea.

And the three billy goats gruff brothers three, eat the grass on the other side of the river.

Okay, shall we act out the story without speaking? I'll show you what I mean mean.

So you can see that I've chosen to stand up to show you this activity.

So stay where you are for a moment and I'm going to show you how I would do it.

And then you could practise how you would do it.

So I'm going to do it twice.

And the first time I'm going to say what I'm thinking, and then I'm going to do it without speaking.

So all storytellers, we like doing this, because it means we remember the words, "Once upon a time." So here we go.

My first step when I'm miming would be that once upon a time, there were three billy goats gruff, and they lived on a hill.

So I might draw a hill in the air.

And they you look across the hill to the other side of the river and they see the grass, and they want to eat it.

So I try and remember to do those things.

Uh-oh, there's a problem.

A troll.

And he will eat them.

So they make a plan.

So I might do that to remind me that they're making a plan.

The first Billy goat, the smallest one, goes trip, trap, trapping.

So when I do that with my fingers, it reminds me of the trip, trap, trapping, trip, trap, trip.

The troll jumps out.

And do you remember what he says? "I'm going to eat you from your tail to your snout." So I just did those actions.

And he winks and he runs by.

He says, "No, don't eat me.

"Eat my bigger brother.

"He's juicier." Next is the middle-sized one.

He comes singing.

He goes, trip, trap, tripping.

The troll jumps out.

"I'm going to wait you from your tail to snout." He winks.

"Don't eat me.

"Eat my bigger brother.

"He's juicier than me." And then the big one comes, trip, trap, trapping, trip, trap, trip, singing his song.

The troll jumps out again, says, "I'm going to eat you." And this time, he butts him, wee, splash.

Finally, they eat.

So I was explaining what I was thinking then.

But now I'm just going to keep those words silently in my head, and I'm going to try and show you the story without speaking, only using actions.

Just watch, see if I can do it.

Ah.

Remember, every word in your head is still said.

And now it's time for you to stand up, if you're able to, and act out using your body, the story of the three billy goats gruff, keeping all the words in your head.

I'm going to pause the video.

Time for work.

So how was that? Did you enjoy being a storyteller only using actions, miming the story? Panda prefers it like that.

But I always say to her, every word in your head quietly spoken is still said.

And it said by you, the storyteller, and that's important to know that.

I liked jumping around and pretending to be a troll.

You might be that kind of a storyteller, too.

But we're all different in the way that we tell stories.

So what have we done today? The first thing we did is that we practised the song that the billy goats sang on the way to the bridge.

And we practised a trip trap trapping bit as well.

We practised what it meant when as storytellers, we wagged our finger, it reminded us that the goat said, "Don't eat me.

"Eat my bigger brother.

"He's juicier than me." Actions help us remember the words.

You are doing so well with learning so much.

Panda and I are really looking forward to the next session when we'll do a little bit of everything.

We'll sing the story, we'll look at the map, I'll tell the story again with all the actions and all the words.

And by then, you will be ready to do something amazing.

And that is be a storyteller in your own way.

So until the next session, Panda and I look forward to seeing you then.

Keep on showing your work.

Bye bye.