Act and Speak 2010: Drama Steps + Face2Face Teachers' Guide

(Please see a detailed version of the Interactive Role Model further below)

Here you can see all steps of how to apply drama as a productive complement in your English class.

This is what you need:

Once you have finished working on grammar and vocabulary with your students, you simply analize your textbook and invent a situation from real life according to the level you teach. Then you look for apporpiate images in google images. After you have selected the image you add useful phrases and a task to solve. Now you are ready to expose the image on the screen.

Face2Face Topic: Simple Present / Present Continuous

Step 1: Situation analysis (5min)

Student get togehter and form groups. Than they analize the situation and start creating dialouges.

Situation: At the discoteque

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Step 2: Students preparation (10 minutes)

The teacher estimulates, motivates and activates students perfomancesby walking around the classroom. Students invent a story and apply given structures from the board.

Click here to see "Students' Preparation"

Step 3: Students' performance

Students present their prepaired role-play to the class. They normally are very shy for the first time, so they probobly depend a lot on the provided lexic by the teacher posted on the screen.

Click here to see "Students' performance"

Step 4: Teachers' Analysis

Teacher provides students with ideas and hints in order to improve their oral performance speaking of creativity.

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Step 5: Reflection

Students watch the video together with the teacher observing their performance. Once they can see themselves, they are able to recognize their own errors better than usually during class. This raises their learning concsious and theirfore their learning ability and in this case thier speaking ablility.

Click here to see 4 videos about "How to apply drama in class"

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Teacher’s guide

with expansion of the "Get it right" activities located in units
1-6 of student's book Face2Face Intermediate Level through

simulation of real-life drama with specific tasks and appropiate

educational material for communication situations.

Speaking exercises

In the following chapter you can see a variety of real life situations (58 tasks) for your students to act out in class, espeacially designed for the speaking section of Face2Face Intermediate Level / Units 1-6.

Overview:

Real Life Situations 1 AB

Classroom Scenes

Click here to see "At the discotheque 1"

Click here to see "At the discotheque 2"
Click here to see "At the discotheque 3"
Click here to see "At the discotheque 4"

Click here to see "The Date 1"
Click here to see "The Date 2"

Click here to see "The annoying Trainride"

Real Life Situations 1 CD

Scripts

Classroom Scenes

Click here to see "She is crazy isn't she ?" (from rehearsal)

Click here to see "Happy Marriage" (from rehearsal)

Click here to see "What a strange name"

Real Life Situations 2 AB

Classroom Scenes

Click here to see "Angry wife part 1"

Click here to see "Angry wife part 2"

Click here to see "Working late part 1"

Click here to see "Working late part 2"

Real Life Situations 2 CD

4 STEPS OF HOW TO PRACTICE AND PERFORM ROLE-PLAYS IN THE EFL CLASSROOM

Classroom Scene

1. Student's Preparation

2. Role-Play-Practice created by students outside the classroom

3. Rehearsal shortly before classroom performance

4. Performance

Click here to see the 4 steps drama usage in the EFL Classroom

Real Life Situations 3 AB

Classroom Scenes

Click here to see "Finding your way 1"
Click here to see "Finding your way 2"
Click here to see "Finding your way 3"
Click here to see "Finding your way 4"
Click here to see "Finding your way 5"

Click here to see "At the travelagency 1"
Click here to see "At the travelagency 2"
Click here to see "At the travelagency 3"

Click here to see "At the travelagency 4 part A"
Click here to see "At the travelagency 4 part B"

Click here to see "At the travelagency 5 "

MIDTERM EXAM

Procedure

1. Students choose a partner

2. Students chose situation from previous drama activities

3. Students create their own Role-Play

4. Students perform their Role-Play

reacting to unexpected interaction from an anonymous participant.
(for example the Teacher)

Click here to see 5 performances of the the "Midterm exam"

Real life Situations 4AB

Adevnture - Storytelling

This is the most simple and straightforward technique. The story can be read or told orally. After reading or telling a personal, adventure or love story to the class, students can act them out. Another possibility could be making gestures and mimes while telling the story to the audience in order to make the story more livable and believable. This requires both careful planning and flexibility.

Click here to see "Telling adventure stories 1"
Click here to see "Telling adventure stories 2" (incl. Teachers' analysis)
Click here to see "Telling adventure stories 3" (working with images)
Click here to see "Telling adventure stories 4" (working with gestures)

More possible adventure stories

Real Life Situations 4 D

Tasks: The Soccergame

Student 1

You are a soccer player trying to make a goal. Somebody fouls you and you really get mad. You are a violent and aggressive person.

Student 2

You are a soccer player trying to get the ball from your rival player. While you are trying to do this you commit a foul. First you try to apologize and then you get a bit violent.

Student 3

You are the referee observing the players. They are really arguing. You are trying to calm them down.

Classroom Scenes

Click here to see "Crazy soccer game 1"

Click here to see "Crazy soccer game 2"

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Task: At the party 1

Student 1

There are cookies at the party. You looove them, so you are eating them all. You are being very selfish. You don’t want to share them with your friends.

Student 2

You want to get some cookies which are on the table, but somebody is eating them all alone. You really get upset.

Classroom Scene

Click here to see "At the party 1"

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Task: At the party 2

Student 1

You are giving a Party. Everybody is dancing. You are having fun and you are very noisy.

Student 2

Your neighbors are having a party. They are very noisy. You want to sleep. You are really getting mad.

Classroom Scene

Click here to see "At the party 2"

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Task: At the party 3

Student 1

You are at a party and it’s very boring. Bad music and you are tired. You fall asleep.

Student 2

You see a really nice boy at a party. You are interested in him, but he is asleep. What do you do?

Classroom Scene

Click here to see "At the party 3"

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Task: At the party 4

Student 1

You are at a party with your date. You are talking and dancing.

Student 2

You like the guy over there standing with another girl. You want to get his attention.

Classroom Scene

Click here to see "At the party 4"

Real Life Situations 5 A

Location

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House types

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Parts of the houses

Apartment hunting

At the apartment / housing rental agency (mother, father, 2 children + landlord)

Task 1:

You (woman / man) are new in town looking for a nice apartment/house for rent. You are married and have 2 children.

Problems:
You forgot your credit card. / You think the guaranty is too much. You actually don’t like / don’t trust the landlord / you don’t know what a semi-detached house is. Your children are very noisy. They want a play yard. Your wife wants a swimming pool.

You are the landlord who advises people in order to get the right home they are looking for. First you present them different options like location, house types and parts of the houses. Tell them to make notes about things they like. Talk about contract and conditions. (see paper)

Problems: You are not very friendly. You are smoking in the office. You ask for a high guaranty. No dogs allowed.

Classroom Scene

To see the video Apartment hunting 1 click here

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At the apartment / housing rental agency (2 woman actresses + landlord)

Task 2:

You are models. You are just travelling through town. (woman, woman) You are looking for a furnished apartment in downtown for just a month. It has to be close to a subway station and shopping centre.

Problems:

You have to go to a photo shooting, so you don’t have much time. You want to leave your stuff right now at the apartment. The landlord offers you an apartment in a bad neighborhood. You want to pay later the deposit

You are the landlord (Sergio) who advises people in order to get the right home they are looking for.

Problems:

You start flirting with the woman. Then you realize she is superficial. You dumb her.

Classroom Scene

To see the video Apartment hunting 2 click here

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At the apartment / housing rental agency (4 students + landlord)

Task 3:

You are a group of students (girls and boys) who want to share a house. It has to be close to the university campus, soccer-stadium and some nice bars.

Problems:
You are all different…some of you are real study freaks, others are laid back students who want to party. Who wants to share a room? Who wants a single room? One of your room mates wants to bring his own furniture. You think there won’t be enough space for it. Some of you don’t like the colors of the walls. You don’t behave very well.

You are the landlord (Martha) who advises people in order to get the right home they are looking for.
Problems: You realize they don’t have enough money to pay. They want extra favors. They are noisy.

For the landlord

Step 1:
A landlord might ask you for a non-refundable deposit in order to hold an apartment for you. This means that if you decide that you don't want to rent that specific apartment, you won't get the deposit back.

Step 2:
Most landlords will do a credit check on anyone who wants to rent an apartment because they want to know if the potential tenant pays his/her bills on time and in full.

Step 3:
Most people have to fill out a rental application in order to be considered for an apartment rental. They have to fill in both personal and professional information on this type of form.

Step 4:
If a landlord accepts an applicant, the tenant must then read and sign a rental agreement. This is a contract that stipulates the rights and obligations of tenants as well as landlords.

Step 5:
A landlord may also ask a potential tenant for two or three references in order to verify his/her employment, integrity and character

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Classroom Scene