Doing a play is child's play

I really believe that putting on a play in the language being learnt is one of the simplest, most engaging, most inclusive and most effective language learning activities we can offer to young learners of English.

Have a look at the video below of young kids in Portugal (from Agrupamento de Escolas Vallis Longus) doing their own performance in English of the traditional Palestinian story - Juha and the meat. This simple play is available for free download for teachers (along with 9 others) in the book I wrote for British Council Palestine about 10 years ago - Stories Alive

As we move towards the start of a new academic year in Palestine and many other places around the world, maybe you might consider doing something similar with your young learners of English? What would you say these kids are getting from the experience of doing this play? Please write a comment below.