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Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com
Drama
in the Business English Language Classroom
VHS Leinfelden 12-06-09
Picture: RAWA drama by premasagar
Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com
Agenda
10.00 11.30 Role Play and Real Play
11.45 13.00 Where to find/ how to make
13.00 14.00 Lunch
14.00 15.15 Language awareness/feedback
15.30 17.00 Creating our own
Where are we?
What are we waiting for?
What are we talking about?
Icebreaker
Ask questions like: why are we wating? Who is it? How long have we been waiting? How do you feel? etc
Then ask trainees in smaller groups to come up with a story that fits picture -without discussing what they came up with in group.
Ask them to get up and get into similar formation as picture, ask them to talk to each other about 'celebrity' or whatever else they came up with.
Picture: drama, yesterday when I was you by Rene Schmalschlaeger
What are
ROLE PLAYS
REAL PLAYS
DRAMATIC ACTIVITIES
?
Elicit from trainees
Notes
Role Play: classroom activity in which learners take on a role. They play the part of someone else. Roleplays are spoken, (can be written emails).Roleplays usually involve role cards, but cards aren't necessaryRoleplays usualy mean learners pretending to be someone elseRoleplays usually involve preparation, but many classroom activites can made instantly into roleplay with little preparation.
Real plays or simulations mean learners play themselves. *Often more comfortable for BE learners.
Drama it's all drama but usually longer, can involve a script and /or famous characters. Can reactment of plays / movie scenes.
Sources: www.macmillanenglish.com/Straightforward - Lindsay clandfield/Jim Scrivener.
why?
when?
when
how?
Where2?
Elicit from the trainees
why?
Quieter students get to wear a mask
Learners experience unpredictable nature of language
Puts new language in context.
Forces students to think on their feet.
Source: Lindsay Clandfiled www.macmillan.com/straightforward
why?
Helps learners to work together
Provides a rehearsal for events students may encounter
Encourages learner-learner interaction
Gives learners more responsibility
Fun!
Source: Lindsay Clandfiled www.macmillan.com/straightforward
Beginning of a lesson not optimal.
Middle of class best, when attention levels /energy failing.
Students have tangible need, i.e. about to attend event / perform a task where English needed use for 'real' practice.
when?
when
Source: Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation www.oup.com/elt
In class
In meeting rooms
In the company cafeteria
At a restaurant
Outside
where?
Role play, case study activity books in ELT*
BE text books = decision dilemmas/case studies*
Books with dramatic activities*
Use scripts from movies /tv dramas
Create your own role plays, simulations or scripts*
Get your students to create their own
where to find activities?
Using props and/or realiaMobile phones and microphones
Memos, reports, data projectors, misc office items
Overhead projectors
Newspapers, books
Hats, sunglasses
Background photos and/ or music or sound files
how?
Source: Lindsay Clandfiled www.macmillan.com/straightforward
What can go
wrong?
Elicit from the trainees
Image d-d-drama by assbach
Students don't want to participate / think silly / have no input
Students don't have enough time to prepare or
Students don't feel prepared
Students over improvise loss of objective
Image d-d-drama by assbach
Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson
Break
What works best with
Business English Students?
11.45 - 13.00Published roleplays + case studiesvs.Activity books and ideasvs.Your own ideasvs.Your students ideas
Books
International Business Role Plays
Business Roles 1 and 2
Business English Pair Work
Keep Talking
Discussions that work
Business Rewards
InCompany Case Studies
Market Leader case studies
Intelligent Business decision dilemmas
Be Someone Else
What nationality are you?
Where do you work?
What are some of your responsibilities?
What is your name?
Adapted from Be Someone else - Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation www.oup.com/elt
Insta-roleplays!
Teacher led, tells:Students where they are can be based on textbook unit
Who they are
What they should talk about
(also can remind them of language to practice / review)
Source: Lindsay Clandfiled www.macmillan.com/straightforward
Discuss how
Insta-realplays!
Student ledStudents decide where they are
Who they are
What business situations they're 'in'
What they would like to practice talking about
What language they would like to review
Discussion
And! Action! Scripts!
Publisher preparedDrama & Improvisation, OUP by Ken Wilson
Improvisations:http://improvencyclopedia.org
Teacher prepared
Student prepared / group work
Download scriptshttp://www.imsdb.com/ (movies)
http://www.simplyscripts.com/(movies, tv, radio, anime)
Discuss
Published supp. materials/
Book 'case studies' vs
Homemade Role and Real Plays, Scripts (teacher vs student led)
SWOT
Group work discuss differences
Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Lunch break
Managing Task / Giving Feedback
14.00-15.15
During Performance- sticking to the story- feedback on the drama
Looking at the emergent language
Superhero, an item of office equipment
& a building in the city
What happened?
Adapted from Superhero, household object & location - Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation
Play game:
Get 5 trainees up to front of room. 4 have to tell the story and 1 is the detective.
Rest of group elicit from them a superhero, office equipment and an office in the city.
Director needs to get a story out of the participants, he indicates who should start the story and decide when to continue on the story by pointing at members of the team and at any time he wishes, changes the speaker until the story is wrapped up.
Managing the Drama
Concept and AddWhat someone says during an improvised scene should be accepted as reality.
Whatever people say to you, accept it, don't change it.
MayhemLaughter beneficial, don't control everything!
Source: Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation www.oup.com/elt
Ken's example:
Concept and Add is a central tenet of improvisation theatre. If someone says something important you have to accept what they say as the reality of the situation and add to it.
Say Student A starts an interview by saying what is your latest novel about? If B answers, I'm not a novelist, I'm a taxi driver, it can be funny but wrecks activity if the activity is depending on B being an author.
Feedback
?
Elicit notes on performance, talk about praising how to be specific
Language Feedback:
Conversation ControlTM
VocabularyNew words
Wrong words
New expressions
and
GrammarImproving structures
...and
PronunciationTone
Rhythm
...and
Hand out the Conversation Control Sheets teacher and student versions.
Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com
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unknown
Break
Make Your Own
15.30 - 17.00
Adding drama to your textbooks
Show and tell
The Chair
Get teachers to review the textbooks asked them to bring in.
Work in groups to create role or real plays
Explain
If time, act out.
What do you make?
Taylor Maylil
youtube video
And for fun.
End.
The Chair
Adapted from Experts - Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation, OUP
CC by Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English June 19, 2009
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Photographs: www.flickr.com
1,5-11 RAWA Drama by premasagar
3+4 Drama by Rene Scmalschlaeger
12-13 d-d-drama by assbach
15-16 portrait by trois tetes
17-20 headshift business card discussion by Lars2
22-24 it's not easy to be a superhero by Esparta
25-26 Streeter Seidell comedian by Zach Klein
28 Yesterday when I was you by Rene Schmalschlaeger
30 .45 r.p.m art chair by Gary Bridgman
Recommended resources:
Task based Language Learning and Teaching Rod Ellis OUP
The Practice of Language Teaching Jeremy Harmer Pearson Longman
Drama and ImprovisationKen Wilson Oxford University Press
Straightforward Beginner + Elementary Lindsay Clandfield Macmillan
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