Subject: Drama

Topic: Breathing and Relaxation

Grade/ age: Teens 2 (pupils between the age of 16 - 18)
Date: 25 January 2018
Teachers: Chanté Strydom, Jevano Julies, Belinda Moloi
Lesson Time: 60 Minutes

Context: Not Applicable

Lesson Aim: To practise effective breathing and relaxation

techniques.

Lesson Objectives: Non Behavioural: For students to explore their

bodies and listen to what their bodies are telling them.
Behavioural: 1.To complete a mental journey
which helps their bodies to relax.
2. To then learn how to sustain
breath in a relaxed manner.

Teaching Method: Welcome, Introduction, Warm up, games. Body

relaxation, breathing exercises, cooldown and conclusion.

Procedure: 1. Welcome: Students are welcomed into room and

introduced to their third teacher, Jevano Julies. We will have a brief
discussion on what they have done in the
past and what our aim for the lesson and term is.( 6 min)

2. Warm-Up: One of the teacher’s will do a warm up with

the kids; massaging the face, loosening up the jaw and warming up
the lips and vocal chords. Just to get a bit
of relaxation, they would also shake out their bodies. (5 min)

3. Drama Game: Students will play a game where

someone is chosen to sit in a chair or stand with their eyes closed.
The rest
of the class will walk up to the person
and say something using a different accent or animated voice that
makes them unrecognisable. The
learner standing or sitting in the chair would then have to guess
who the
person is that spoke to them. The
second game we would play with them is called “Kitty wants a
corner”, a
 game where the students stand in a
circle and 1 student is chosen to go into the centre of the circle and
be
the kitty. The kitty would then have to
go around the circle to each person and ask for a space in the
circle,
their response would be, “Go ask my
neighbour”. As the kitty is asking for a corner, the other students in
the
other students need to make eye
contact with one another and swap places in the circle. This helps
them to
stay energised and ready for lesson.
( 15 min)

4. Relaxation: The students would then be told to find a

space in the room and to lay on their backs, on the floor. Legs/feet
need to be hip width apart, arms at
sides, spine needs to be in alignment. They would then go on a
mental
journey to release tension in their
bodies, so they would have to think of the areas in their bodies that
are
storing tension, and then mentally tell
those body parts to relax. They would also go on a mental journey to
their “happy place” , the place that
makes them feel at home and tension free. ( 7 min)

5. Breathing: As their bodies become more and more

relaxed, the body becomes prepared for breathing exercises. At first
we want them to take deep breaths in
and out, but breathing into deep into the diaphragm and not the
chest.
Paying attention to their breathing and
the feeling of control when breathing in the correct manner. Then
they
breath in for 4 counts and then breathing
out for 10 counts. Another exercise that would make the diaphragm
work harder is to inhale for 4 counts and
as you exhale make a “sss” and “fff” sound. Planking and doing the
same exercise is also effective. ( 12 min)

6. Stretch: Students will then roll onto their sides,

then into the from into prayer position and stay in that position for a
while,
they would then tuck in their feet and
slowly walk their hands towards their feet and roll up for 8 counts,
then roll
down for 4 and roll up for 4, then roll down
for 2 and roll up for 2. They would also do some shoulder rolls.
( 5 min)

7. Recap/knowledge/cool down: We would then ask the

students to tell us what breath is important for and where it needs
to
be centred from. And if
they thought the exercises we used made them aware of what it
feels
like to breathe correctly
and and be in the correct aligned, relaxed posture. ( 10 min)

8. Thank you and Goodbye.