OBJECTIVES:

• have the students get into the role play
• make them understand what an entertainment agency is
• each school using its favourite way
• do you have entertaining environments that could help?
• learn the entertainment vocabulary
• learn thinking processes

ACTIVITY:

1. suggest your students the best way for them to brainstorm the idea and the vocabulary of "entertainment agency"
2. share your activity on this page to see if it can help the other schools as well.

IN FRANCE:

1. We browsed websites of entertaining agencies and the students made mind maps on Framamind or Coggle; here are some examples.

Victoria:

Carla Maria:

Mathis

Lucien:

2nd: We studied books on entertainment topics:

Charlie and the Notting Hill Carnival:

• The students learnt how to organize a carnival with the different jobs and participants and so on...
• They work on how to tell stories properly.
• They acted part of the book.
• they looked up for information about other carnivals in the world. (Rio, Venice...) and their particularities.

Romeo and Juliet in Las Vegas:

• the students learnt about W. Shakespeare and the Globe reading a biography and working on London places
• they learnt about Shakespearian theater
• we read this novel and drew comparison with the original novel
• we acted scenes and sang songs
• we discuss gender equity
• we listened and looked up fro info about the mentioned bands and singers.

We created and are creating entertaining environments to host our "STARS & CREATIVITY Entertaining Agency France":

• a webradio and recording space to record podcasts and songs
• we have ordered a green screen to make video clips
• a lab to create decorations, visual and virtual entertainments with the Art teacher
• a dance room to work with the dance and PE teachers
• a theater space with costumes
• robot performances with the maths teacher

INTERDISCIPLINARITY:

The French students worked on theater with their French teacher at the same time.We prepare the Italian topic together on Gender equity.