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    DRAMA INTRODUCTION

    Why use drama? Preparation and performance


    Drama provides students with the opportunity to bring
    language alive in a fun and entertaining way, and for Drama warm-ups
    this reason it is an incredibly useful tool for language These are fun games and exercises, which are linked to
    learning. Students reinforce what they have been each drama, to introduce the theme. They are designed
    learning in the Student’s Book, but, having a script, they to relax the students and break the ice before they
    don’t have the pressure of worrying about what they embark upon the performance. They can all be done in
    are going to say next. As soon as they start performing, the classroom.
    students will be communicating with each other, but
    using the language of different characters. This ‘getting Preparing the classroom
    into a role’ alleviates any anxiety students might have
    As with the warm-ups, each drama is designed to be
    about making mistakes.
    performed in a regular classroom. Decide where the
    performance space is going to be. Even if space is
    English Plus dramas limited, it is still possible for small groups of students
    Each drama is set in a different location and is written to perform for the rest of the class at the front of the
    to be performed by small groups of students for the rest classroom. Prepare the performance space before you
    of the class. There are roles for both confident and less ask the groups to perform the drama for the class.
    confident students.
    The dramas are easy to prepare, easy to perform and Preparing the students
    designed for use with mixed-ability classes. • Before performing the drama, play the recording for
    students to listen to whilst following the text. Check
    When to use the dramas that they understand what happens, especially the
    As each drama relates to and recycles the language stage directions.
    found in the previous three units of the Student’s Book, • Ask volunteers (seated at their desks) to read parts of
    use them as a fun, end-of-term activity, or after the text aloud.
    completing the following blocks of units:
    • Divide the students into groups and ask them to
    • Eco TV after Units 1–3 decide which character they are each going to play.
    • Meet a Celebrity after Units 4–6 Ask them to read the drama in their groups.
    • Gallery of Thieves after Units 7–8 • Ask the students to think about staging, e.g. the
    positions onstage of the various characters and where
    they are going to move.
    Teaching notes • Ask them to practise the drama again, this time
    Each drama is accompanied by individual teaching notes
    standing up and moving around, remembering to
    to help prepare the students for the performance. These
    speak loudly and clearly and thinking about their
    include:
    physical actions.
    • a summary outlining what happens in each drama
    • a list of character descriptions Performance
    • information about props required (objects needed Encourage students to read and act with as much
    in the drama) enthusiasm as they can. They shouldn’t just read their
    • any vocabulary and useful expressions that may lines without feeling – they should exaggerate their
    need to be pre-taught voices and their reactions. The performers and the
    There are also ideas for drama warm-up activities and audience will enjoy themselves much more if the drama
    notes on preparing the students for each drama. is performed confidently and with a sense of humour.

    Follow-up
    At the end of some of the dramas there are ideas
    for follow-up activities. These include videoing the
    performances and other exercises, such as improvising
    further dialogue between characters.

    PHOTOCOPIABLE © Oxford University Press Drama introduction ENGLISH PLUS 3 Second edition 1

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