Create a series of mood cards- e.g. happy, sad, thoughtful, angry.
Discuss how we express emotions in the way that we speak.
Now give each student a mood card and a soliloquy. Ask them to speak the words in an appropriate tone to their mood card. They will need time to rehearse this. You may wish to allow them to do the activity in small groups depending on the size of the class.
When the individuals/groups have had enough time to practise ask them to do their readings for the rest of the class who must guess the mood that they have been given.
The next stage is to identify what frame of mind the character really is in during their soliloquy and how the students known this- dialogue, plot development, lexis, pace provided by punctuation etc. How do they think it should really be spoken. Make notes of the kind that a director/actor might make before a production of the play. Ask them also to consider the kinds of gestures and facial expressions that the actors might make and use so that their non verbal communication add to the words.
Show students a video clip containing the soliloquy.
Students ipsatively assess how similar or different their 'take' on the soliloquy was from the performed version.
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