Teaching English Through Drama: KNU Teacher Training 2013
Teaching English Through Drama: KNU Teacher Training 2013
Teaching English Through Drama: KNU Teacher Training 2013
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Pass the Clap/Clap Around the Circle Gobbledy-gook Back Writing Catch the Ball Telephone Freeze! Back-to-Back Trust Falls
Combine gesture and movement with songs, poems, or chants, with drama, and with stories. TPR (total physical response )
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Teacher give commands, models them, students carry out commands Students acquire receptive language, especially vocabulary and grammar. TPR fits within comprehension-based approaches (e.g. Natural approach)
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Dramatic activities
Children can be engaged in a lesson through drama more easily than through explanations or instruction.
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Commercially published skits and plays are available in magazines for children. Assign the children to role play Dramatic retellings of favorite fairy tales
e.g. Jazz Chant Fairy Tales (Graham 1988)
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little red riding hood Rumpelstiltskin The fisherman and his wife- suitable for
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Readers theater
teacher can write script on a childrens book or purchase or get them on website or children read aloud a story, being the narrators, making up skits
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Dramatic activities
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Dramatic activities
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