Stimulus 2

The Burns Supper

Order of the Supper

• Piping in the guests at top table.• Welcome and ‘Selkirk Grace ’. • Haggis piped in and ‘Address to the Haggis’.• The Bill o’ Fare (the menu) sample menu.• The Immortal Memory – speech to Burns, his life

and works.• Toast to the lassies.• Reply from the lassies (Toast to the laddies).• Closing poems and songs.

Toasts to the lassies/laddies:a humorous, but not offensive, speech

• Brainstorm relay game. Boys stand in a line, girls in another line.

• Two teams – the person at the front has the marker pen.

• Two pieces of paper are stuck on the wall. You must all take turns ‘in relay’ to write something on the paper associated with ‘female’ and ‘male’.

• From this list, speeches will be written revealing what boys think of girls and vice versa.

Scenario

• Improvise a scene where a boy is leaving school and wants to be a nurse or nursery teacher or a girl wants to be a mechanic.

• The parents have very traditional ideas and find it difficult to accept what their son/daughter wants to do.

• What happens?

The man who ordered a soufflé at a Burns Supper

Hugh Dodd's picture© Hugh Dodd

The Disastrous Meal• Look at the picture in the previous slide.• Look at all the different characters.• Pick a character and make up a character card for

them – name, age, background, personality.• Think about as many different things as possible

that could make a dinner party a disaster, eg. fly in the soup, people arguing, secrets revealed….

• Improvise a scene at a dinner party that goes horribly wrong. Be the character that you created.