Listen and ReAct

Simone Buzzi

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!)

•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

•Plays

•Films

•Tv series

•News

•Cartoons

•Comics

•Photographs

•History

Drama resources

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?

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

Create story from a photographWho 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?Vocabularydescription of photograph

Grammar revisionPresent Perfect: What has he done up to now?Past simple:What is his past?Future: What are his plans and intentions?

Follow-up activitystudents write and act out a dialogue

Phonemic transcription

ækʃnwihəvtəfaɪnʖðərestɘvðɘplətu:nfəɹɡeðəplətuːn ðəplətuːnɪzɡɔnwʌtðəplətuːnɪzded feɪsfæktstoʊni

Work on:

Aspiration

Intonation

Stress

Liason

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)

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)

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

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)

THANKS:)