Speech and Drama 2010

The award winning performance of "Never Talk to a Stranger" by the illustrious thespians from P2L!!



Well done! We are all very proud!

What Will the Weather be Like Today?: It's a rainy day.

 

It's a rainy day;
It's a rainy day.
It's raining outside,
And I can't go out and play.
Why do we need the rain anyway?

Rain falls everywhere,
Fills the rivers and streams,
Flows into the reservoirs
Purified and clean.
Water to do the wash,
Water to drink,
Water is flowing
Through the pipes into our sink.

It's a rainy day;
It's a rainy day.
It's raining outside,
And I can't go out and play.
I guess I'll stay at home today.

Every living thing needs water;
Every living thing needs the rain.
Every living thing needs water;
I guess I really can't complain.

It's a rainy day;
It's a rainy day.
It's raining outside,
And I can't go out and play.
Why do we need the rain anyway?

Water to do the dishes,
Water to brush your teeth,
Water to take a shower,
Water to wash the street.

Water for the forest,
Millions of thirsty roots;
Water for the garden,
Flowers, vegetables, and fruits.

It's a rainy day;
It's a rainy day.
It's raining outside,
And I can't go out and play.
Don't you know I love the rain anyway?!

Food Fit for a King: A modern chef thinks of the menu for modern kings.

Jamie Oliver, a famous British chef, plans the dinner menu for modern kings - presidents and prime ministers of several countries.

Food Fit for a King: Food for an Indian King or Maharajah

What would an Indian King serve at his Royal Feast?

Food Fit for a King: Middle Ages Food for a King

Do you know what Kings eat when they have a Royal Feast? The historian of French cookery, Legrand d'Aussy, describes a great feast given in 1455 by the Count of Anjou, third son of King Louis II of Sicily. This description illustrates the theatrical representation of the banquet:

• On the table was placed a centre-piece, which represented a green lawn, surrounded with large peacocks' feathers and green branches, to which were tied violets and other sweet-smelling flowers
• In the middle of this lawn a fortress was placed, covered with silver
• The fortress was hollow, and formed a sort of cage, in which several live birds were shut up, their tufts and feet being gilt
• On its tower, which was gilt, three banners were placed
• The first course consisted of a civet or hare, a quarter of stag which had been a night in salt, a stuffed chicken, and a loin of veal
• The two last dishes were covered with a German sauce, with gilt sugar-plums, and pomegranate seeds
• At each end, outside the green lawn, was an enormous pie, stacked with smaller pies, which formed a crown
• The crust of the large pies were silvered all round and gilt at the top
• Each pie contained a whole roe-deer, a gosling, three capons, six chickens, ten pigeons, one young rabbit, and, no doubt to serve as seasoning or stuffing, a minced loin of veal, two pounds of fat, and twenty-six hard-boiled eggs, covered with saffron and flavoured with cloves
• For the three following courses, there was a roe-deer, a pig, a sturgeon cooked in parsley and vinegar, and covered with powdered ginger
• A kid goat, two goslings, twelve chickens, as many pigeons, six young rabbits, two herons, a leveret, a fat capon stuffed, four chickens covered with yolks of eggs and sprinkled with spice, a wild boar, some wafers and stars
• A jelly, part white and part red, representing the crests of the honored guests
• Cream covered with fennel seeds and preserved in sugar
• A white cream, cheese in slices, and strawberries
• And, lastly, plums stewed in rose-water
• Besides these four courses, there was a fifth, entirely composed of the prepared wines then popular, and of preserves. These consisted of fruits and various sweet pastries

Can you imagine how grand a Royal Feast was? Can you draw a picture of what you would see if you were there?

Life in a Shell: Pearly Shells.

Pearly shells from the ocean
Shining in the sun
Covering the shore
When I see them
My heart tells me that I love you
More than all the little pearly shells

For ev'ry grain of sand upon the beach
I've got a kiss for you
And I've got more left over
For each star that twinkles in the blue

Pearly shells
Shining in the sun
Covering the shore
When I see them
My heart tells me that I love you
More than all the little pearly shells

(Webley Edwards / Leon Pober)

Life in a Shell: She Sells Seashells.

She Sells Seashells

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She sells seashells,
By the seashore.
The shells she sells,
Are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells,
On the seashore,
I'm sure she sells,
Seashore shells.