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Theater as a tool for

improving OralCommunication in English.

By: Alba Luz Duran

Erika Adriana Rojas

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JUSTIFICATION

Nowadays a phenomenon

seems to be present in

English classes. It is

students panic when

speaking . Thus, we havethought of a strategy that let

them acquire confidence in

order to improve their

English speaking skills.

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DETAILS

Age: 11 to 19 High Schools (Sixth to Eleventh grade)

Time: 2 weeks

Tools: Interesting plays according to students

motivation. Videos concerning plays. VocabularyWorksheet.

Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sleepy Hollow by

Washington Irving, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Short stories or scary tales such a Supernatural Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, The House of the Baskervilles by

Arthur Conan Doyle, or a classical play like Hamlet by

William Shakespeare.

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OBJECTIVES

General Objective: To foster the oral communication in Primary and High School students.

Specific Objective: To help students to overtake their fears in English speaking.

To improve the English pronunciation in students.

To allow students to uncover their talents concerning to theater.

To avoid routine in English Classes.

To enhance students autonomy. To acquire Cultural, literary, and artistic knowledge.

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PROCESS

First Week: Watching a video about the play in

order to motivate students to take

part in.

Reading of the play explaining themain theme of the story.

To develop a short analysis about

the play.

To study the main characters and

the context of the story.

To explore about the author of the

story

To teach vocabulary with specific

exercises

To work the pronunciation and

intonation of linguistic patterns

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SECOND WEEK

Second Week

To rehearse the playbearing in mind teachers

instructions, providing atheater workshop.

(Pronunciation, Intonation,

body language)

To perform the play in frontof the class, then in a school

festival.

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EVALUATION

To organize a round table where students can tell

their experiences.

To write a comment concerning the experience.

To give a feedback in order to correct some mistakes,and also to motivate students to go on performing

plays.

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Reflection

Learning English through theatre activities allow students

to use the target language in a meaningful

communicative manner.

Activities such as studying the script, memorizing lines,

learning characterization, rehearsal, working with native

speakers, and finally

Performance immerses learners in the target language in

two contexts the text and the production.

Through Theater students enjoy English learning

themselves.

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QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT

PLANNING PROJECT

What important cognitive

skills my students should

develop?

What emotional and social

skills I want my students

develop?

What concepts or principles

I want my students be able

to apply?

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QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT

PLANNING PROJECT

What kind of problems

do I want my students

be able to solve?

What kind of resourcesdo students need to

perform in the stage?

What do teachers have

to do?

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