STAND UP FOR SINGAPORE SCRIPT
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I. INTRODUCTION Host 1: John Griffith, Host 2: Miriam Anota
[All students enter to SONG: STAND UP FOR SINGAPORE, underscores through Host Intro and 3rd graders]
Host1: Welcome to Singapore.
Host2: Our ADOPTED country.
Host1: Some of you know it well.
Host2: And some of you are just getting acquainted.
Host1: In the next 12 minutes, our drama club is going to give you a crash course on Singapore culture.
Host2: So buckle your seatbelts…
Host1: -- It’s the law now.
Host2: …and get ready to celebrate Singapore!
[timed: 30 seconds]
II. OUR FLAG [3rd Graders: Benjamin, Silas, Cameron, Micah]
[Power point adds the elements each slide to “make” the elements of the flag appear.]
1: This is the Singapore flag.
2: Red stands for brotherhood and equality of every person.
3: White is for the nation’s purity and virtue.
1: The crescent moon represents a young nation which is growing,
2: and the five stars signify the ideals of democracy,
3: peace,
1: progress,
2; justice
ALL 3: and equality for everyone!
[Music transitions to Nightly News music as 3rd grades exit and 4,5,6th graders get in place.]
III. SPECIAL NEWS REPORT: Small in Size, Big in Records [4, 5, 6th Graders]
Stephen Weidler, Rachel Low, Sydney Findley, Ellie Anderson, Jennifer de Jong, Hannah Clary
Anchor: [standing @ mic#1 in a cardboard box with a square cut out in front and painted to look like a TV. 2 brings you on, turns on the “TV” then goes to her position]
Good evening. Tonight, we have a special report on Singapore: Small in Size, Big in Records! ICS News has placed a few students around the island to report on the many ways Singapore has shown themselves to be the biggest and the best! First Jennifer de Jongh is standing by at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve to give us the first of many impressive facts!
2: [start standing @ microphone #3, back to audience. When he says your name, turn around] Thanks Stephen. Would you believe that the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve here contains more species of plants than the entire North American continent!
Anchor: [hand to earpiece] That’s hard to believe Jennifer. But I’ll trust you’ve checked your sources.
2: The “Uniquely Singapore” website never lies.
Anchor: I would hope not. [2 turns her back to audience when he says Ellie’s name] How about we go over to Ellie Anderson who’s reporting from the center of the island.
3: [start standing @ microphone #2, turn around when he says your name] Yes, Stephen, I’m here reporting from the world's very first night time zoo, The Night Safari. If you haven’t gone, you should check it out. Ride the tram. It’s very cool.
Anchor: Singaporeans are known for their love of food. We have Rachel, Sydney, and Hannah standing by to report on the records set in Food Making.
[4&5 start standing @ mic #3, 6 at mic #2. Turn around when he says your name. NOTE: I want to take photos of you 4 girls this week]
4: Singapore entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1994 for making the longest popiah measuring over 50 metres in length.
5: What’s a popiah?
4: An Asian burrito.
5: What’s a burrito?
4: A soft taco rolled in a tube.
5: What’s a soft taco?
4: Oh man! You need to go to Taco Bell and find out for yourself!
5: Well I never heard of a popiah, but in 1994, Singapore set a world record for the longest satay, measuring over 50 metres.
4: What’s a satay????
5: Meat on a stick.
4: Sounds good!!
5: It is!!!!!
6: Longest Satay, Longest Popiah,. That’s nothing. A Chef at the Mandarin Hotel set a world record for pulling over 8,000 strands of noodles within a minute!
4: 8,000???!!!!
5: In a minute???!!!
Add 2, 4&5: NO WAY!!!
6: Way!
6 (not 4): Enough about food! Here’s the record that’s the most unbelievable of all:
ALL: The Great Singapore Duck Race!
[Director’s note: Here are some changes, look carefully]
2: In 2002 we set a new world record
4: AND raised funds for charity.
3: That was when we put more than 123,000 toy ducks in the Singapore River!
5: Can you imagine that?
Anchor: Wah. That’s a lot of rubber ducks! These wacky Singaporeans sure know how to put our little island on the world map!….And that’s our special report on Singapore:
ALL: Small in Size, Big in Records!
[6 goes to “turn off” the TV. 2 picks it up and carries it off (Anchor stays inside until off stage) to“Nightly News” theme.]
IV. “SINGLISH 101”LANGUAGE LESSON [7th & 8th Graders]
ROLES
1: takes this teaching opportunity seriously, Deborah Mc Connell
2: Great Singlish, Tyler Creasman
3: The rah rah and loud cheerleader type, Hope Alan
4: very few lines. Humorous. “Dead pan face.” David Rapa
3: We’re going to give you a chance to stretch your legs. So, if any of the next few things we say are describing you, we want you to stand.
1: Stand up if you’ve had to ask someone on the phone to repeat what they are saying because you can’t understand them.
2: Stand up if you think “lah” and “leh” “mah” and “meh” great ways to end a sentence.
4: Stand up if you want to speak like a local so you don’t get fish balls when you really wanted a filet of fish.
3: Okay, the rest of you who are still sitting. Stand up if you’d like to stretch your legs!!! ‘Cause, here we go for some “Singlish 101”
3: Tonight, we’re going to teach you a small collection of 'Singlish' terms which will help you fit in here.
1: And the first word is “Arrow” …Repeat.
AUDIENCE: Arrow
4: A verb.
1: Derived from the English language meaning to be given a task that you don't want to do.
3: For example—
1: [cuts in] --“They arrow me to take this Singlish lesson.
2: Yeah lor. And your Singlish no good what. But you like to action by being their teacher.
1: [ignoring him] Repeat: “They arrow me.”
AUDIENCE: “They arrow me.”
2,3: So clever you!
1: Next word: “Blur.” Repeat?
AUDIENCE: “Blur”
4: An adjective.
1: Derived from the English language meaning “does not know what is going on.”
3: Example:
2: “(s)he never come to practice for International Night. That why (s)he so blur what.
1: I am not!
3: And repeat:
2,3: “(s)he so blur what.”
AUIDIENCE: “She so blur what.”
1: Thank you. I think you’ve been stretching your legs long enough. I think NOW would be a good time for you to SIT DOWN. You don’t have to repeat after us any more! You all can just…. LISTEN now [she looks scornfully at #2 and clears her throat.] Here’s another great Singlish word: Chope
4: A verb
2,3: Chope
1: Derived from…well, no one seems to know where it came from.
3: But it means “to reserve”
1: And here’s another of _____’s fine examples:
2: _______’s mom came early tonight to chope seats in the front row.
1: You better watch it buster or I’ll have to chope you!
4: NEXT WORD!
1: Kiasu
4: adjective
1: Pronounced 'kee-a-soo'.
2: [corrects her pronunciation]
1: Derived from the Hokkien dialect meaning “afraid to lose out to others or not to lose face.”
3: Example:
2: __________________________________________________
3: You’re all doing great. Let’s have a quick review! Repeat after me!
[words show on Power Point, after each word, audience repeats.]
ALL: Arrow,…blur, …chope, ….kiasu.
[The rest of the drama team quickly passes out little slips with the new words to the audience]
3: Give yourselves a hand! You’re doing great! You sound like locals!!!
1: We don’t want you to forget what you’ve learned tonight, so we’re going to pass out the list of your new vocabulary words. And while we do, we’d like to teach you the last word of our lesson.
3: And this is such a great one, we want you to repeat it. Ready?
1: Shiok
AUDIENCE: Shiok
4: An adjective.
1: Derived from the Malay meaning “fantastic” or “marvellous.”
3: Repeat the example too:
2: Wah, we did such a great job on this presentation, the drama club shiok man!
AUDIENCE: The drama club Shiok man!
3: Oh, I don’t think you got it quite right. Say it again!
AUDIENCE: The drama club Shiok man!
2,3,4: [impersonating Elvis Presley voice and bowing] Thank you. Thank you very much.
1: I think by now, you’d like for us to say “class dismissed,” but I think there’s still a little left on the program….So, I’ll just say, “Singlish 101 students…. A+!!”
[Begin music for HOME [time 4:14], HOSTS return to center stage, drama club joins them in diamond ensemble. Words to song on screen]
V. WRAP UP
HOST1: Yes, while we are are different nationalities, Singapore is our new home. And we are proud of this adopted country.
HOST2: So, Study your Singlish, Keep trying those foods with strange names, Join in the fun when your neighborhood is trying to make a new world record, and soon, you’ll be singing with us this hit song from Singapore’s National Day 1998: “Home,” written by Dick Lee and sung by Kit Chan:
[SONG/ Diamond Ensemble with Singapore Flags: National Day song: HOME all of the drama club students participate in this one as their finale.]
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