Drama Activities
Drama Activities
Dramas include various types of language teaching activities, such as:
Role-Play
Students can explore realistic situations by interacting with other people in a managed way to develop experience and trial different strategies in a supported environment. It provides the possibility of significant learning.
Mime
It involves non-verbal language. The students use movement, gestures, and expressions to act a story or some ideas without using any words. Usually, students employ a visual component that allows memorizing language for memory is extremely reinforced by visual associations.
Simulation
Simulation enables the students to see the usefulness of the language they are learning. Also, it create an environment in which the participants are involved in a personally meaningful activity.
Scripted Play
It provides the opportunity to improve speaking and interaction with other people as well as enriches the learners’ vocabulary and functional language like agreeing or disagreeing, apologizing, refusing, offering help, etc. (Scrivener, 1994: 69)
Improvisation
It is a spontaneous action without any script or rehearsal with minimal instruction or framework from the teacher. In improvisation, the students employ their ideas and imaginations to collaborate.
Examples of activities / games
Activity objectives:
- Stimulate Imagination
- Improved social kills (empathy, observing)
- Improved communication skills
Let the group walk around, think of and pick a character. While they are walking side coach them with questions to build their character. Ask: How does he/she: Walk, move etc. what do her/his feet, legs, belly, chest, shoulders, arms, neck, head, face (eyes, mouth, and nose) look like? What about strong/weak, big/small, happy/sad? Let the participants not verbally anwswer your questions, but rather react upon them!
After this,
- You can have interviews with the characters, ask questions about this person..
- You can place the characters in many different situations: party, on the bus, on the market, getting to know each other, waiting in line, etc.
- Variation on ‘normal’ characters: Superheroes, Animals, Kings/Queens (of a fictional country)
Activity objectives:
- Developing/Freeing creative imagination
- Emotional expression
- Developing communication skills
Instructions:
- Ask the whole group to get into a circle and face each other in pairs.
- Then, ask them to create their own unusual ‘foreign language’ etc. using anunusual or funny voice.
- Ask them to introduce themselves to each other in this language and to have a short conversation about what they have done today and where they are going next.
- Give the children different settings and situations where they can talk to each other in their new Jabber languag.
- Children can change pairs and create a new Jabber language with each other.
- Speech: leader of the group gives speech to his people in Jabber.
- Person 1 tells story in jabber, person 2 translates, and person 3 acts out (or doesthe translation for deaf people)
- Stimulate Imagination
- Practice forming questions and responding in an appropriate manner.
The students use mime, providing a chance to use the “teacher in role” drama technique. Get each student to imagine that they are a dog owner. They must each mime interacting with their dog. Once they have done this and gotten used to the size of their dog, get them to imagine they are competing in a dog show. The teacher takes on the role as a judge of the show. She/he interviews each of the dog owners individually and asks them the following questions:
- What type of dog is it?
- Where did you get him from?
- What type of personality does he have?
- What dog tricks can he do? Can you show us?
- Why should you dog win the show?
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