This document discusses using drama techniques to teach English. It outlines that drama appeals to different intelligences, personalizes learning experiences, and increases concentration. Drama can be used to improve speaking, listening, reading, writing, thinking, and memorization skills by practicing vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and spelling through activities like warm-ups, movement, voice exercises, and improvisation. The workshop structure introduces drama techniques including warm-ups, miming, pronunciation drills, and storytelling to enhance English language skills and benefits like increased confidence and empathy.

1. Learning English through Drama An introduction to the drama technique

2. Traditional perception of drama sketches, role-plays, plays emphasis on interpretation, rehearsal and performance textcomes first: students have to deal withit

3. Drama as a method provides techniques thatimprovecreativeskills appealsto different intelligences personalisesexperiences increases the learners’ capacity to concentrate

4. Drama technique for English learners to improvespeaking, listening, reading, writing, thinking and memorizingskills to practisevocabulary, pronunciation, stress, intonation, grammar, spelling to explore feelings, thoughts, situations

5. Structure of the workshop warming-up / concentration body / movement / miming voice / pronunciation improvisation / story-telling -> focus:the benefits for learners of English

6. Warming-up / concentration Slap/slap/clap/clap I wantsomebodysittingnext to me who…

7. Body / movement / miming Face-throwing Word formation Freeze-frame Back-writing

8. Voice / pronunciation Stepping: American; Japanese; Japan; complication; fascinating; interesting I didn’tsay... I didn’tsayI’dgiveyou £10,000. I didn’tsayyoustoleMum’schocolates. -> How many subtexts are there?

9. Improvisation / storytelling Tenses Race Story-tellingwarm-up Story telling in pairs (walkingaround) Tell me about elephants

10. Beyond English Drama providestools for languagelearning It prepares for acting and performing It increases self-confidence It enhancesempathy + open-mindedness It trains learners to becreative, to find solutions and come up withideas