19. Relay - The Ambassador
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Communication
Friendship
Outdoor game
Indoor Game
All
Mimic a character to your team as quickly as possible.
Activity details
Duration: 25 minutes
Participants: 12 - 24 people
Cost: $ 0
Age range: 7-25 years old
Equipments
- Papers
- Pencils
Goal:
- Know how to face your shyness, and mime in front of others.
- Unite a team.
What we like:
- Hilarous game
- Possibility to play at 40!
- Very dynamic game
- Complete "Trivial Pursuit" + "Presentation of France"
- One of the most popular games
Warning:
- Teams to space out so as not to hear the others
- Be discret
Steps
- Divide the players into several equal teams. The facilitator stands in the center of a fictitious circle, each team is on a point of the circle.
- The leader has a list of about ten proper names (famous characters, fictional heroes, character from the players' entourage)
Variation: give lists of words by theme: school / country / ...
Have the mime guess a list of words, going faster than the other teams.
The ambassador relay is a game of mimes. The game leader has a list of words to act out.
- He calls one ambassador per team to tell them the first word to guess (or give them a word tag).
- The ambassadors then leave to mime this first word, each in their team.
- In each team, the first player who guesses the mimed word, runs to tell the game leader.
- ... And so on.
If an ambassador wants to "pass" because he can't get the mime to guess the word, he must go back to the host to receive a second word to guess. No other pledge than to have wasted time
CONCRETELY :
- What criteria did you mimic to have your character recognized?
- an event related to his life; a typical gesture; disabilities ; a way of walking; ...
FOR FURTHER :
- What happens if you mimic someone's disability?
- What happens if you mimic characters such as the president, the prime minister?
#public opinion #oral codes
Laws :
- In some countries, mimicking political figures and expressing what one thinks of them is impossible because the consequences could be very difficult: trial, imprisonment, conviction.
- In other countries, open criticism of politicians is allowed as long as it is decent.
- It is the laws that authorize or not this type of expression.
Public opinion :
- Disability :
- In some countries, mimicking a disabled person is not shocking, like in Thailand for example.
- On the other hand, in other countries, in France for example, mimicking a mentally handicapped person is badly perceived. It's the same thing for most disabilities, which are not often mimed by comedians because a Frenchman would see it as mockery.
- The look :
- If we call a child "hey, fat!" in Cambodia, no one will be shocked.
- On the other hand, the same nickname in France will be considered shocking, demeaning.
- It is public opinion that authorizes or not these types of expression.
Public opinion can be influenced by:
- the culture of a country, the traditions of the inhabitants of a country for several generations.
- religions, each of which distinguishes between what is good and what is bad.
- the media, which choose to highlight a product (a brand of car, for example) or a way of thinking (is it good for women to smoke cigarettes?), depending on the financial advantages they derive from it.
Good advice: when you see that a foreigner is doing something that is not suitable in your country, find a way to tell him, it will help him: most of the time, he does not know that it is shocking for locals#opinion publique #codes oraux
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