Drama for Language Teaching
Drama is an effective way of supporting students in language learning, including English as a Foreign Language (EFL), as it uses active teaching and learning styles which motivate and sustain the attention of a wide cross section of pupils. Activities include role-play, drama games, improvisation, group discussion and individual or pair work.
This Macmillan Education video outlines five drama games for language teaching. These can easily be used to support other teaching techniques, and are suited to a range of learning levels.
Five Drama Games for Language Teaching – Macmillan Education ELT
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Drama Games for Language Teaching (teenage to adult)
These fourteen fun drama games and activities are suitable for a range of language levels. Activities include: Where Am I?, Adverb Game, Word Tennis, Magic Scarf, Giving Presents, Guess the Emotion, Count to 20 and Ten Second Objects.
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Ten Second Objects is a super fun way of reinforcing new vocabulary as well as encouraging physical awareness and group cooperation. It is very quick to organise (if you have the space) and always interesting, as you can never predict what groups may come up with! Once groups have made a few objects suggested by you, they could make up some of their own for the rest of the class to try and guess.
What do you think this Ten Second Object is? (Answer at the bottom of the page)
Many of the games and strategies on this site are very suitable for language teaching, including
Answer: ¡ɐɟos ɐ sᴉ ʇɔǝɾqo puoɔǝs uǝʇ ǝɥʇ
