Drama and Speech

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Drama and Speech

• Welcome!

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Lets Try! Warm-Up
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Classroom Use

• How do you use drama and speech in your class?
• What are your techniques or/and routines for
  speeches or drama?
• What are the main goals you have for drama and
  speech?

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Writing and Preparation

• Finding an approach
• Setting the tone

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Which do you think is better?
Making a Worksheet that Works Speech writing
without Models Eliciting an Original
Composition

• With a model text

• With grammar list, or nothing

Topic If you had a time machine, where would you
go? Example Im very interested in trains. If
I could travel through time, I would visit Tokyo
Station in 1964. Thats because I want to see and
get on the very first Shinkansen train. It is
true that I can ride a Shinkansen now, but riding
the first one would be a great experience. Your
Mini-speech ____________________________________
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Topic If you had a time machine, where would you
go? Where? When? Why? Useful grammar If
could / If would, It is true that but,
because It is YOUR Speech! Be Creative!
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a Rhetoric and Humor

• Rhetorical questions that dont work well
• Rhetorical devices for beginners
• Being funny without forcing a joke
• Give your students freedom in their speech
• For example
• Fewer platitudes I learned I must study
  harder.
• More negatives I think social studies isnt
  interesting at all.

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Props and Demonstrations

• Performance starts with YOU!
• Try to use performance and theatricality in
  every class not just in skit or speech classes
• Forgive grammar mistakes while encouraging
  enthusiastic acting.
• Let the class pass judgment on whether a skit was
  dramatic or interesting enough.

• Make time and effort to generate a theatrical
  atmosphere
• Use color-printed and laminated pictures for
  props
• Print posters or draw a backdrop on the
  blackboard
• Let students bring in personal items
• Batsu game for less captivating skits.

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Lets Try! Skit
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Practice and Memorization

• Techniques

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Reducing Nerves

• Use a graduated practice routine individual -gt
  pairs -gt groups -gt in front of the class.
• Let students present from their seats.
• Use a paper teleprompter.

• Do group/pair presentations in interview format.
• Use a voice recorder to record practice sessions
  (or speaking tests).

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Lets Try! Memorization

• Write script on a whiteboard while reciting it.
• Recite 2-3x, then erase some words. (Tip make a
  mark where each word was.)
• Repeat until student can recite script while
  looking at a blank whiteboard.
• Can be done as a class.
• Also works as a fluency exercise for a known text.

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The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
The ___ in Spain falls mainly on the ____.
The ___ in Spain ___ mainly __ the ___.
The ___ in ___ ___ ____ ___ the ___.
___ ___ ___ ___ ____ _____ __ __ ____.
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In the Classroom

• Building Confidence Communication

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Speech Drama Ideas

• Do the same dialog in different styles.
• Do a similar dialog with different contents.
• Each group does a different dialog in the same
  theme.
• Teacher interviews students (or vice versa) like
  in a variety show.
• Radio Plays
• Commercials
• Dubbing popular scenes with an original
  conversation
• Recitation poems, stories, speeches
• Original Written Speech
• Show Tell

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ImprovisationWarm-ups and Short Activities

• Use dramatic or speech-related warm-ups in most
  or all of your classes to habituate kids to
  performing.
• Use daily QA or basic sentence practice to
  promote speed.
• Having students pick out team names for
  activities in class
• Using gestures or familiar sentences structures
  in an activity to promote confidence
• For example
• Lets
• Twenty Questions
• Gift Giving

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Lets Try! Improvisation
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Thank you so much for coming!

• Any questions?