Gary Anderson

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A roomful of human beings

• Gary Anderson
• Cambridge ELT

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• Drama techniques
• as communication activities
• in language learning

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Drama Techniques
• A resource book of communication activites for
  language teachers
• Third Edition
• by
• Alan Maley Alan Duff

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Third edition
• Added new/cut old activites
• Activites completely rewritten in new series
  format

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150 (ideas for) activities

• Aim
• Focus
• Level
• Time
• Preparation
• Procedure
• Follow-on
• Variation(s)
• Note(s)
• Follow-on

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Third edition
• Activites rewritten
• Added new activites
• Reorganised structure reordering activites and
  adding chapters on Voice and Performance

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Getting ready
• Working with x 8
• Into Performance

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Why use drama?

• Integrates language skills in a natural way
• Integrates verbal non-verbal aspects of
  communication
• Draws upon both cognitive and affective domains
• Contextualizes the language and brings the
  classroom to life
• Offers opportunities for catering to learner
  differences
• Transfers responsibility for learning from
  teacher to learners

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Why use drama?

• Fosters self-awareness, self-esteem, confidence
  and motivation
• Sustains motivation through variety and
  expectancy generated by activities
• Encourages open, exploratory style of learning
• Positively effects classroom dynamics and
  atmosphere
• Offers an enjoyable experience
• Low-resource All you need is a roomful of human
  beings.

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Why not use drama?

• Know thy
• School
• Class
• Students
• Self

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Words
• Sentences
• Scenes

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Working with/from words
• Back-writing (Actv 1.22)
• Favourite word (Actv 8.1)
• Breathing (Actv 4.3)
• The Great Conductor

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Working with/from sentences
• Elastic sentences (Actv 4.14)
• Say Cheese! (Actv 2.3)
• Warming up the voice (Actv 4.4)
• The Mouth, Nose Throat Doctor
• and
• Thinking about my voice (Actv 4.7)
• Me and my voice

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Working with/from scenes
• Group orchestration of texts (Actvs 4.17 4.11)
• Where did you get that hat!? (Actv 5.9)
• Mix mingle (Actv 1.32)

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• A word is dead
• When it is said,
• Some say.
• I say it just
• Begins to live
• That day.

Emily Dickinson Complete Poems Random
House, 1924.
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• Drama techniques
• as communication activities
• in language learning

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Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

• Drama Techniques
• A resource book of communication activites for
  language teachers
• Third Edition
• by
• Alan Maley Alan Duff

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A roomful of human beings

• Gary Anderson
• Cambridge ELT ganderson_at_cup.fr