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World Cup Football – What it Takes To Be A Winner – 5 mini plays – 6 speakers each – guided reading scripts
5 mini plays – 6 speakers each – based on P.R.I.D.E.”
- Positive Mental Attitude
- Respect
- Intelligent Choices
- Dreams and Goals
- Effort and Education
This set of 5 group readers is intended to promote the concepts behind PRIDE – standing for (as above) Positive Mental Attitude, Respect, Intelligent Choices, Dreams and Effort (Education). In short, the promotion of healthy, positive self-esteem among young people, highlighting the fact that ‘being the best’ takes time, effort and all-round commitment.
Sample texts:
1. POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE
Speakers:
- Player 1
- Player 2
- Player 3
- Player 4
- Fan
- Coach
Fan: Excuse me! Could I have your autograph?
Player 1: Yeah! But make it quick. Coach will be onto us!
Player 2: No time to lose
Player 3: Not in our training schedule.
Player 4: Hours and hours of hard labour!
Fan: But you’ve already got the skills! You don’t need to practice!
Coach: (Snorting) Oh really?
Fan: Yeah, really! You guys are, after all, the best in the world. Course, for the rest of us it’s different. It wouldn’t matter how many hours I spent practicing, I’d still be bottom of the heap! My school mates always said I was rubbish and they were right!
Coach: So. Let’s talk about the real issue here.
Fan: Which is?
Coach: Positive mental attitude.
Fan: Sorry. You’ve lost me!
Coach: Seems to me more like you’ve lost yourself.
Fan: Pardon?
Player 1: What coach is saying, is that without a good positive mental attitude, you’re lost!
Fan: (Sighing) I guess he’s right. Once a loser, always a loser.
Player 2: But that’s where you’re wrong.
Player 3: Yeah. I used to think I was no good – I’d never have dreamt I’d be playing for this team one day!
Fan: (Exclaiming) No! Really? But how could you not believe in
yourself?
Player 4: All too easily!
Player 1: I was lucky – I had loads of support from my family.
Player 2: But not all of us are that lucky.
Player 3: You have to develop your own mental strategies.
Fan: But nobody’s ever told me I’m any good at anything!
Player 3: You’re not listening! I’ll say it again. You have to develop your own mental strategies.
Coach: You have to believe in yourself!
2. RESPECT
Speakers:
- Player 1
- Player 2
- Player 3
- Player 4
- Fan
- Coach
Fan: Hey! About that autograph! I know you’re busy but come on! Have a bit of respect for your number one fan!
Player 1: (Laughing) Respect? You wouldn’t recognize respect if it came up and shook you by the hand!
Coach: Besides. You’ve got to earn it first!
Fan: I could do that!
Player 2: Yes, but you’ve also got to give respect, too.
Player 3: Every time we, as a team, run out onto that pitch – we respect each other.
Coach: These players are a team when they go out there to play.
Player 4: We’re not individuals looking for fame
Player 1: We’re a team, looking to each other for support.
Player 2: Without that kind of respect for each other, as teammates, we’d be nothing.
Coach: And then there’s the opposition
Fan: Boo! Hiss!
Coach: And there’s someone else out there we need to respect
Fan: (Sheepishly) I’m guessing – not me then?
Coach: Not even close!
Player 3: This guy may not always be our favourite person, but hey! We sure don’t want to
get on his wrong side!
Player 4: The ref! Bless his cotton socks!
Player 1: And any other part of his clothing – if it keeps him sweet!
Coach: Yup! Love him or hate him, he’s there to do a job
Player 2: Just the same as we are!
3. INTELLIGENT CHOICES
Speakers:
- Player 1
- Player 2
- Player 3
- Player 4
- Fan
- Coach
Fan: So. About that autograph?
Player 1: You again! You don’t give up! I admire your determination.
Coach: That will certainly stand you in good stead! Let’s just hope you apply it when making important choices in life.
Fan : Like?
Coach: Well, like what you’re going to do with your life.
Fan: Oh that’s easy. It’s football for me, all the way! No difficult choice there. What? Between a life of study and the life of a superstar? (Scratching chin) Hmm, let’s see! Loadsa books or ….. loadsa money, celebrity, flash cars, smart clothes, girls falling around my feet …Yup! I think the superstar has it!
Player 1: You make it sound so glamorous!
Player 2: We wish!
Player 3: Yeah, if only!
Fan: Oh c’mon guys! Look at where you’re at? What I wouldn’t give to have your
status! Give me a break!
Player 4: Give you a break? What about, give us a break!
Player 1: Do you seriously think all we do in our spare time is drive Lamborghinis in and
out of shopping malls?
Fan: I can think of worse ways of spending my time!
Player 2: And do you seriously think money’s what it’s all about?
Coach: First, let’s put this misguided pleasure seeker right about what it takes!
Player 3: Commitment!
Player 4: Heartbreak – taking the good times with the bad.
Player 1: Peak fitness along with injury
Player 2: Sacrifice – hours and hours of your time
Player 3: All to one common end.
Coach: Achieving your personal best
Player 4: Whatever it takes
Player 1: Physically or mentally.
Player 2: Wherever you have to be
Player 3: In your home town
Player 4: Or half way around the world.
Player 1: No excuses.
Player 2: And for a lot of the time, just sheer hard grind.
4. DREAMS AND GOALS
Speakers:
- Player 1
- Player 2
- Player 3
- Player 4
- Fan
- Coach
Coach: OK you lot! Liven up! Enough of these dreams! Time to come back down to
earth!
Fan: What a spoil sport! And we were having such fun!
Player 1: (Sighing) My Lamborghini!
Player 2: (Sighing) My desert island!
Player 3: (Sighing) My chocolate fountain!
Player 4: (Sighing) My ..
Coach: (Interrupting) Oh please! Enough of all this indulgence! What’s going on here?
You boys are living your dream – what more could you want?
Player 1: (Yawning) Nothing, boss! We were just having a little time out.
Coach: Time out?! In case you’ve forgotten, it’s me that calls your time outs, not you!
Player 2: (Yawning and stretching) OK gov. Chill out a little, won’t you?
Player 3: (Rubbing eyes) Yeah, cool it, man. Let’s slow things down a little.
Coach: Slow things down a little? Try reverse – you’re pretty close!
Fan: Ooh! Someone round here sure could do with a chill pill!
Coach: Silence! Where is my normal team of prize athletes! Enough of this dreaming nonsense and on with proper business.
Fan: (Sulkily) No harm in dreaming!
Coach: Only when those dreams are based in reality.
Player 4: Coach is right. We are all living the dream. And that means a lot of hard work.
5. EFFORT AND EDUCATION
Speakers:
- Player 1
- Player 2
- Player 3
- Player 4
- Coach
- Fan
Fan: About that autograph? Or am I out of luck?
Coach: Luck? No, you will have won your autograph today through sheer dogged determination!
Player 1: Like kids at school. They’re not there through chance. They’re there because they’ve made the effort.
Player 2: And they know they’re in the right place, to make that effort.
Player 3: It’s not luck that’s brought them there. It’s brains.
Player 4: They’re smart kids. They know that if you want something badly enough in life,
you have to work for it.
Coach: They know that life doesn’t just hand everything over to you on a plate. You have to put in the hours.
Player 1: You have to be with people that will nurture that desire to improve.
Player 2: Teachers. People who care about your futures.
Player 3: People who will do all they can to help you achieve your potential.
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