BA, BA, BLACK SHEEP (ELENA CALLEJO)

 Ba, ba, black sheep. I think this rhyme is very usefull because it´s a simple rhyme but it contains different characters which can be adapted on a play. The characters can be some sheep, one of them black, the farmer, the master, the dame, the little boy who lives down the lane... you can even add some more animals at the farm, so we can use the topic of farm animals, or the people who live in a village.

You can also use the past tense to talk about old times in a village.
I think chidren like to get involved in the creative process of writting, so I would ask them to write some kind of simple dialogues about farm animals or any other topics I said before.
They can work in groups with a different topic each so at the end we can put them together and form a big play with all the parts. If some children feel shy they can help making decorations.
The final task could be representing the play to the rest of the school at the end of the course, and it could be live or online, even we can record a video of the play.
This would give them a lot of practice and confidence in writting and speaking.