I �m in desperate need of an easy play about dinosaurs, if you happen to know where I could find one, I �d be more than grateful!

 

I need to prepare it with my 13-year-old students for an special book fair that is held every year and I had this great idea but haven �t found what i need yet.

 

Thanks a lot in advance!!

 

Kisses!

 

Miss Yanis

I don �t think you can find it that easily. And even if it �s somewhere out there, you �ll probably need to adapt it to suit your students. I suggest that you try and write your own. You probably did a topic on dinosaurs, or similar, so you can build on it and on the language that the ss are already familiar with. You can try and find the Dragosourus song from English Together 1 (Longman) (i have it on the cassette, so i can �t help you) and fit it somewhere in the play. Also, theme music from ... say, Jurassic Park, might help ...

 

if anyone has any other ideas.... they �ll be welcomed!!

 

Thanks a lot!

Sorry I can �t give you a great idea, although my kid is completely mad about dinosaurs, but I can suggest cartoons and movies he likes a lot and which might give you an idea. It �s not very original, I know, but it might help. There �s the TV series called Dinotopia and a cartoon by the same name, and all kids like it. Also Aladar is a good one(the cartoon is called Dinosaur, Aladar is the main character). Then there �s a cartoon series Land Before Time Spielberg produced it) which can be used really well, because there are also amazing songs, and you can use images of characters to make puppets if it �s a puppet show (Songs like Creepy Crawlies, Big, big Water are really catchy). I wanted to do it myself, but decided on something else(The Jungle Book).

What I did use was this song/rhyme I found online(I apologize to the author - I �m not sure who it is, but it was among free materials of children �s rhymes)... My students didn �t sing it, we acted it out using lots of movement and sounds, and we had a story preceding it about this old, grumpy dinosaur who was annoyed because all the kids(sorry, I know it �s historically impossible: kids and dinosaurs, but this happened in fairytale land) liked to slide on his back, so one day he decided to pretend he was really mad, scary and mean, but in the end he realized he actually liked kids, so instead of catching them, he tickled them. I know you said teenagers, but who knows - this might give you an idea...

Dinosaur Song
Youngsters participate by sing and acting out the motions to this dinosaur song by Kay who says, "My older three �s loved it".

http://www.juniorengineering.usu.edu/lessons/dino/dinoscript.php

 

http://www.playscripts.com/playview.php3?playid=257

 

http://www.singlelane.com/proplay/scripts/dino.pdf

 

http://www.lessontutor.com/lvDino.html

 

http://www.teacherstoolkit.net.au/images/TTPDF_lesson/HI/TT05_page10-11_Dino1&2.pdf