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1. Pavements and parks - 2. Busy streets

The second and final dance session in this unit.

2. Busy streets

In this session the children start at a rainy roadside, then go on a journey to the market where they perform dance actions for buying and selling. Out on the roads they drive large and small vehicles, travel in pairs as a dustbin lorry and become changing traffic-lights. At night the city buildings twinkle and fl ash, then everyone falls asleep…

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Lesson summary

• Warm up - rainy roadside: walking in the rain as a busy, tall person with an umbrella, then an older person in welly-boots, then a jogger keeping fit.

• Neighbourhood journey: performing individual movement-actions for getting dressed, eating breakfast and travelling to market by skipping and ‘scooting’ along the pavement.

• Market day: working in pairs as a ‘market-trader’ and an ‘adult-shopper’, performing buying-and-selling actions in role.

• Too much traffic! ‘Driving’ small vehicles on tiptoe in different directions, then large vehicles, which move more slowly.

• Dustbin collection: pairs move about slowly as a dustbin-lorry (one ‘driving’, one following with arms like jaws chewing up rubbish).

• Changing traffic lights: about half the class indicate ‘stop’ and ‘go’ as traffic lights, using arm-signals. The other half are vehicles, stopping and going, obeying the signals.

• Cool down - the city at night: standing up, flashing fingers like window-lights, then curling up sleepily.

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1. Pavements and parks - 2. Busy streets