This document provides information and suggestions for using drama activities in the classroom. It discusses benefits such as building students' confidence and stimulating imagination. Potential issues are also outlined, such as students feeling uncomfortable. A variety of drama resources and activities are then described in detail, including role playing characters from films or books, analyzing photographs to create stories, and practicing dialogues from movies. The document aims to provide ways to integrate drama into language learning in an engaging manner.

1. Listen
and
ReAct
Simone Buzzi

2. Benefits of using drama in
class
•Transforms the artificial world of the classroom in a
quasi-real world
•Promotes empathy and mutual understanding within
the class
•Builds students’ confidence
•Stimulates students’ imagination (and teachers’ too!)

3. •ISSUES
•students may feel uncomfortable or may seem disinterested
•Lack of space
•Lack of funds
•Lack of colleagues’ support
• Teacher may feel uncomfortable or unprepared

4. •Plays
•Films
•Tv series
•News
•Cartoons
•Comics
•Photographs
•History
Drama resources

5. Charades/miming (eg. movie/book titles/actions)
One student mimes an action or a film title
and the other students have to guess it
Goal: grammar and vocabulary practice
and revision (eg. continuos tenses)
How to integrate drama in class?

6. Hot seating
One student plays a
movie/book/historical character
and other students act as reporters
Goal: speaking practice/vocabulary
practice and review/
grammar practice and review

7. Create story from a photograph
Who is he?
What is doing?
Why?
What is he thinking of?
Where is he going?
When is the action taking place?
Who is he going to meet with?
Vocabulary
description of photograph
Grammar revision
Present Perfect: What has he done up to now?
Past simple:What is his past?
Future: What are his plans and intentions?
Follow-up activity
students write and act out a dialogue

9. Phonemic transcription
ækʃn
wihəvtəfaɪnʖðərestɘvðɘplətu:n
fəɹɡeðəplətuːn ðəplətuːnɪzɡɔn
wʌt
ðəplətuːnɪzded feɪsfæktstoʊni
Work on:
Aspiration
Intonation
Stress
Liason

10. Speaking activities: quote dialogues
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" Dr Strangelove (1964)
“The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting”. Paris
France (1970)
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network (1976)
“Just pretend I was never here...” 500 Days of Summer (2009)
“I am vengeance. I am the night!” Batman-the animated series
“The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so” Maxim 199 Francois La Rochefoucauld
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions
and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.
And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next." Gladiator (2000)
"You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver (1976)
"After all, tomorrow is another day!" Gone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” Gone with the Wind (1939)
" What we've got here is failure to communicate” Cool Hand Luke (1967)
"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" A Fish Named Wanda (1988)

11. A "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant
to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this
life or the next."
Gladiator (2000)
B “The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting”. Paris France (1970)
A “I am vengeance. I am the night! ” Batman-the animated series
B "You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver (1976)
A "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network (1976)
C "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" Dr Strangelove (1964)
B " What we've got here is failure to communicate” Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" A Fish Named Wanda (1988)
B “The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so” Maxim 199 Francois La Rochefoucauld
A “Just pretend I was never here...” 500 Days of Summer (2009)
B "After all, tomorrow is another day!" Gone with the wind (1939)
A “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” Gone with the wind (1939)

12. Students , a parody of the (film/book/comics), write the dialogue and act it out.
At the end of the activity the best parody is chosen

14. Amadeus main themes
•Genius of the few vs mediocrity of the many
•Relationship between talent and vulgarity
•Talent vs hard work
Activity
Socratic debate (a group of students has
to prove a statement right, another group
has to prove it wrong)

15. THANKS:)