The document describes how drama activities can be used in a primary school English class to promote creativity, thinking, and oral skills. It outlines a drama project where students work in groups to create and perform a short play. The project involves students exploring different drama techniques, learning about the elements of a story and play, describing characters and settings, writing a script, rehearsing their performance, and presenting their play to an audience. Students provide peer and self-assessment and their work is also assessed by the teacher.

1. The Use of Drama to Promote
Creativity and Thinking
César Mairal
CEIP Odón de Buen (Zuera)

2. DRAMA IN OUR SCHOOL
Innovation project within the English subject.
1 session per week with half of the group (around 12 students).
Promotion of oral skills, non-verbal communication, emotions,
creativity and thinking.

3. ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
For warming up and promoting group cohesion:
- Pass the movement and sound.
- Count to 20.
- Follow your…
- Who is the leader?

4. ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
For identifying and expressing emotions:
- Walk and guess the emotion.
- Improvisations with emotions.
- Read and guess emotions.

5. LINKING TO STORYTELLING
- Tableaux.
- Flashback and flashforward.
- Open and Close.
+ THINKING AND DISCUSSING WHAT THEY SEE.
+ THOUGHT TAP.
Lots of resources: www.dramaresource.com by David Farmer.

6. LINKING TO STORYTELLING
Creating chroma vídeos…
Students learn how chroma works.

7. LINKING TO STORYTELLING
PLANNING
“4 groups of 3 students…” “2 groups of 6 students…”
“6 GROUPS OF 2 STUDENTS!”

8. LINKING TO STORYTELLING
RECORDING AND EDITING

9. LINKING TO STORYTELLING
Creating a simple script to act out a story.
Students use translators when necessary.
They decide on the accessories they will use and create some of
them.

10. Preparing a Play
3rd Grade of Primary
English as a Foreign Language/Literacy

11. Expected Learning Outcomes
At the end of this project students will…
…Know vocabulary and structures for: describing a person’s
physical aspect and personality, describing a place and asking
and giving personal information.
…Understand the main elements of drama and the parts of a
story.
…be able to write and perform a short play, describe its
setting and characters and do an interview.

12. 1. Activation of schemata, previous
knowledge and language &
presentation of challenge
-Letter from the management team with challenge
brief.
-Carousel to activate and analyze previous
knowledge.
ACTIVATING

13. Letter

14. Challenge Brief

15. Carousel

16. Carousel

17. Carousel

18. - Learning centre on parts of a story and
elements of a play.
- Learning centre on how to prepare an
interview.
- Learning centre on describing people.
- Learning centre on describing a place.
2. Discovery and internalization of
Comprehensible Input: Explore,
discover, observe, experience, ask and
organize.
Process Input through Interaction,
Negotiation of Meaning and Focus on
Form: Define, explain, share, give
examples
DISCOVERING

19. Learning Centre on Elements of a Play

20. Learning Centre on Elements of a Play

21. Learning Centre on Elements of a Play

22. Learning Centre on Elements of a Play

23. Learning Centre on describing people

24. Learning Centre on describing people

25. Learning Centre on describing people

26. Learning Centre on describing people

27. Learning Centre on Describing a Place

28. Learning Centre on Describing a Place

29. Learning Centre on Describing a Place

30. Learning Centre on Describing a Place

31. Learning Centre on Preparing an Interview

32. Learning Centre on Preparing an Interview

33. Parts and whole: Elements of a play.
Venn diagram: Language for describing a person and a place.
Think of questions for given answers.
DEEPENING

34. Whole and Parts of a Play

35. Whole and Parts of a Play

36. Describing a Person VS Describing a Place

37. Describing a Person VS Describing a Place

38. For describing a person we can use...
For describing a place we can use...
For describing a person or a place we can
use...
Describing a Person VS Describing a Place

39. - I live in Manchester.
- I am 20 years old.
- My name is Philip.
- I am a musician.
- My favourite food is rice.
- I like playing football.
Think of questions for these answers

40. Check-lists and rubrics are shared with learners.
Students decide...
Will you choose a play or create a new story? Will you
perform it as a song?
When will you present your characters and setting?
When will you do your hot seat?
When will you perform your play? Who will be your
audience?
PLANNING

41. Think Chart

42. Think Chart

43. Think Chart
After analyzing different scripts, students
decide that none of them fit our needs and
possibilities so they decide, with the help of
the teacher, to create a short play/sketch.

44. Writing the script.
Drawing and describing their character.
Drawing and describing their setting with their team.
Writing the questions to interview a character in the
class.
CREATING

45. CREATING OUR STORY AND THE SCRIPT
Students brainstorm and decide on the setting and the
characters. The title will be decided later.
They use “Google Translator” as a source of language for their
script. The teacher goes through the teams and revises the
language, giving and asking for examples of how to use those
chunks in different contexts.
They practice the pronunciation of the script using “Google
Translator” and “From Text to Speech” also under the
supervision of the teacher.

46. CREATING OUR STORY AND THE SCRIPT

47. Hot seat: Interview one character in
the class. You are interviewed as if
you were your character in the play.
Presentation of the character to the
class individually. Presentation of
the setting with your team.
Performance of the play. Publishing
the video on the School’s Facebook
page, blog...
PUBLISHING

48. PUBLISHING

49. - Students use check lists to provide and receive feedback
before, during and after the creation of products and also
for self-assessing and peer-assessing the final products.
- Students use the learning assessment rubric to assess
their learning.
- Teams use their Team Journal to track their progress as a
team.
-The teacher uses the assessment rubric to assess
standards.
ASSESSMENT

50. CHECK-LISTS

51. CHEK-LISTS

53. TEAM JOURNAL

54. TEAM JOURNAL

55. ASSESSMENT RUBRIC

56. THANK YOU!
I will be glad to help you with your
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