Drama Techniques: A Resource Book of Communication Activities for Language Teachers

by Alan Maley , Alan Duff

• ISBN13: 9780521601191
• ISBN10: 0521601193
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book offers a large selection of drama-based techniques focussing on communicative tasks or activities for learners of English. The techniques are suitable at all levels and involve the whole personality of the learner providing real reasons for expressing feelings and opinions.

Table of Contents

Thanks and acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(204)
1 Getting ready	6	(32)
Non-verbal warming-up activities	7	(11)
1.1 Handshakes	7	(1)
1.2 Hand catching	8	(1)
1.3 Mirror hands	9	(2)
1.4 Numbers in your head	11	(1)
1.5 Clap around the circle	12	(1)
1.6 Swings	13	(2)
1.7 Catch the ball	15	(1)
1.8 Beat out that rhythm	16	(1)
1.9 Touch it	17	(1)
1.10 Blind	17	(1)
Non-verbal cooling-down activities	18	(8)
1.11 Breathing	18	(1)
1.12 Feeling my space	19	(1)
1.13 Feeling your muscles	20	(1)
1.14 From seed to plant	21	(1)
1.15 Slow motion	21	(1)
1.16 Just relax	22	(1)
1.17 Directed relaxation	23	(1)
1.18 Going with the flow	24	(2)
Verbal exercises	26	(9)
1.19 Football wave	26	(1)
1.20 Can you do this?	27	(1)
1.21 The sun and the moon	27	(1)
1.22 Back writing	28	(1)
1.23 Gobbledy-gook	29	(1)
1.24 And I'm a butcher	30	(1)
1.25 Let me tell you something about X	30	(1)
1.26 Something in common	31	(1)
1.27 Directed group visualisation	32	(1)
1.28 Childhood memories	33	(1)
1.29 Personalities/celebrities	34	(1)
Group formation activities	35	(3)
1.30 Strings	35	(1)
1.31 Atom 3!	36	(1)
1.32 Mix and mingle	36	(1)
1.33 I've got my eye on you!	36	(1)
1.34 I know what I like	37	(1)
2 Observation	38	(12)
2.1 Freeze!	38	(1)
2.2 Back-to-back	39	(1)
2.3 Say 'Cheese'	40	(1)
2.4 Just listening	40	(1)
2.5 I said, he said, she said...	41	(1)
2.6 Minimal differences	42	(1)
2.7 My potato	43	(1)
2.8 Kim's game	44	(1)
2.9 Familiar scenes	45	(1)
2.10 Like me? Like you?	46	(1)
2.11 First this, then that...	47	(1)
2.12. Picture memory	48	(2)
3 Working with mime	50	(19)
3.1 What am I doing?	50	(3)
3.2 My word	53	(1)
3.3 Metronome mime	54	(1)
3.4 Difficulty with large or small objects	55	(1)
3.5 Exchanging objects	56	(1)
3.6 Taste, touch, smell...	57	(2)
3.7 What time of day is it?	59	(1)
3.8 Mimes from the past	60	(1)
3.9 Miming a poem	61	(2)
3.10 Miming noises	63	(1)
3.11 Normal, slow, fast	64	(2)
3.12. Hotel receptionist	66	(3)
4 Working with the voice	69	(30)
Preparing for voicework	69	(10)
4.1 Relaxation	70	(1)
4.2. Physical warm ups	71	(2)
4.3 Breathing	73	(2)
4.4 Warming up the voice	75	(2)
4.5 Preparing the articulators	77	(1)
4.6 Volume	78	(1)
Working with the voice	79	(20)
4.7 Thinking about my voice	79	(2)
4.8 Changing voices	81	(2)
4.9 Delayed repetition	83	(1)
4.10 Working on words	84	(1)
4.11 A vocal tapestry	85	(2)
4.12. Shifting the stress	87	(1)
4.13 Listing	88	(1)
4.14 Elastic sentences	89	(3)
4.15 Playing with the text	92	(3)
4.16 Listen to me!	95	(1)
4.17 Group orchestration of texts	96	(3)
5 Working with objects	99	(17)
5.1 What am I holding?	99	(2)
5.2 My special object, your special object...	101	(1)
5.3 Metamorphosis	102	(1)
5.4 The envelope	103	(1)
5.5 The all-purpose object	104	(1)
5.6 Stone, wood and metal	105	(2)
5.7 It meant a lot to me...	107	(1)
5.8 Fashion show	107	(1)
5.9 Where did you get that hat?	108	(2)
5.10 Masks	110	(1)
5.11 What am I bid?	111	(2)
5.12. Symbols and icons	113	(1)
5.13 Who's the owner?	114	(2)
6 Working with visuals	116	(29)
6.1 Self-portraits	116	(2)
6.2 Identikit	118	(1)
6.3 From my album	119	(1)
6.4 Space invaders	120	(3)
6.5 High points	123	(1)
6.6 Portraits	124	(2)
6.7 Becoming a picture	126	(1)
6.8 Bringing a picture to life	127	(2)
6.9 Picture sets	129	(1)
6.10 Faces and places	130	(1)
6.11 Split cartoons	131	(4)
6.12 Mood pictures	135	(1)
6.13 Pictures from music	136	(2)
6.14 Recreating the scene	138	(1)
6.15 Guided visualisation	139	(3)
6.16 Characters from fiction	142	(3)
7 Working with the imagination	145	(15)
7.1 Something in common	145	(1)
7.2 Statues	146	(1)
7.3 Amazimbi	147	(2)
7.4 Patent pending	149	(1)
7.5 Making a machine	150	(2)
7.6 Waking dream	152	(1)
7.7 Festival	153	(1)
7.8 It's against the law	154	(2)
7.9 Time's arrow	156	(1)
7.10 Our new constitution	157	(3)
8 Working from/into words, phrases, sentences	160	(29)
8.1 My favourite word	160	(1)
8.2 The feel of words	161	(2)
8.3 Real English or not?	163	(2)
8.4 What's in a name?	165	(1)
8.5 Words and movement	166	(2)
8.6 Tableaux	168	(1)
8.7 Praise songs	169	(1)
8.8 Group story	170	(1)
8.9 Off the cuff	171	(1)
8.10 Mirror words	172	(2)
8.11 Charades	174	(1)
8.12 Split headlines	175	(2)
8.13 Split exchanges	177	(3)
8.14 People, places, problems and things	180	(2)
8.15 Odd news	182	(2)
8.16 Proverbs in action	184	(2)
8.17 First lines	186	(3)
9 Working from/into texts	189	(16)
9.1 Mini-texts	189	(5)
9.2 What next? 192.
9.3 Starters	194	(2)
9.4 Tops and tails	196	(2)
9.5 Jumbled stories	198	(2)
9.6 What are they saying?	200	(2)
9.7 Stop press	202	(3)
10 Working from/into scenarios and scripts	205	(24)
10.1 One-word dialogues	205	(2)
10.2 Dialogue interpretation	207	(2)
10.3 Alibi	209	(1)
10.4 Just a minute	210	(3)
10.5 Telephone conversations	213	(3)
1o.6 Conflict	216	(2)
10.7 Tension	218	(2)
10.8 The hole	220	(2)
10.9 Role reversal	222	(2)
10.10 A real bargain	224	(2)
10.11 Real theatre scripts	226	(3)
11 Into Performance	229	(11)
Benefits from performance	229	(1)
How to tackle the 'Play project'	230	(1)
Selecting a play	230	(2)
Getting to know the text	232	(2)
Warming up	234	(1)
Improvisation	234	(1)
Rehearsal	235	(2)
Involving everyone	237	(1)
A few practical considerations	238	(1)
Some possible sources for plays	239	(1)
Bibliography	240	(4)
Index	244