Provide students with a soliloquy or important speech made by a principle character. Ask students to identify the different thoughts in the speech and then to identify the emotions.
This can be done in a different way. Break the speech up into individual thoughts and ideas. These should be numbered unless you want students to order the speech correctly in the first instance as a revision exercise.
Also provide a set of face cards. These face cards should show a face expressing a specific emotion- to avoid confusion write the emotion beneath the face. Ask students to match the different ideas contained in the speech to the different emotions. There should be one for each.
Now provide students with a flow chart- build the flow chart to show the way in which the character's emotions change during the course of his or her speech.
Ask students to mind map for each different emotion how the actor could show that emotion through the way that they speak - so how the emotion can be heard through the words. Then add to the mind map with physical actions and facial expression.
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