15th October 2009 Parody- It’s Like Having Theatre All Over Again!

How long has it been since we had to come up with different kinds of stage performance every single week? Oh, it feels so good to be able to dramatize those eccentric ideas which lost its wittiness when penned onto pieces of papers. Once again, we are given the golden opportunity to perform on stage just like what we did in the theatre course under Pn. Juridah a year ago. This day, we are to perform a parody on any fairytale of our choice and gosh, you wouldn’t have imagined the level of excitement in each of us! I bet all you would not disagree with my claim that today’s lecture was one of the best in the past 10 weeks. Don’t you think so? Every group put so much effort in creating their parodies; in fact I think all the groups deserve a pat on the back for the hard work they have shown. Everyone was laughing throughout the two-hour tutorial session! Wouldn’t it be great to see every Literature in English lessons in schools as lively as today’s? If teachers are ready to put in effort in designing interesting activities like this, I believe there will be no more complains about how the Literature in English lessons bored our students to death. I think it is possible to implement what we have done today in any English classrooms in our schools. Although students need to master a certain level of fluency in order to dramatize their ideas, I believe this activity works equally well with students who are of low level of proficiency in the target language because they students can always opt for a pantomime to present their ideas. Students in schools are no different compare to us. Like how we enjoyed laughing our hearts out during our friends’ hilarious parodies, students will also feel the joy and fun if they are given interesting tasks like this! What I see is that each day, students go to school anticipating creatively-planned lessons that will liven up the dull and boring classroom and I think English teachers should be the first to bring such excitement to the schools!