Why are some people passionate about puppetry?

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Why are some people passionate about puppetry? - BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content

How do puppeteers use a hunk of wood, some string and subtle hand movements to create the illusion of life? Puppetry is an ancient art, and the people who still practise it today have accumulated not only a great amount of passion, but also many tricks and techniques.

In this B2+ worksheet, students will 

• Study a video about puppetry
• Insert the correct dummy subjects into sentences
• Learn six string-related idioms
• See pun-ny jokes about puppets
• Read about the Macy's Day Parade inflatable dirigibles

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Lesson objectives:

1) To complete a spot-the-difference exercise, using prepositions of place to locate the stand-out features

2) To insert dummy subjects into sample sentences related to puppetry

3) To understand nuance and double-meaning by matching pun-ny jokes about puppets with the correct punchlines

4) To practise listening comprehension by studying a video about puppetry in the 21st century

5) To expand the students' repertoire of idioms, matching six string-related idioms/phrases with their definitions (to have many strings to one's bow, a string of bad/good luck, a shoestring budget, to string someone along, to be hanging by a thread, how long's a piece of string?)

6) To improve reading comprehension by studying a short article about the German-American puppeteer Tony Sarg, who introduced inflatable dirigibles to the Thanksgiving Macy's Day Parade in New York