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Shoe Shuffle

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Develop imagination and mime skills using everyday objects.

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Family Portraits

Drama Games, Mime and Movement

Groups make family portraits by striking funny poses such as aliens, rockstars or dinosaurs.

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Action Clip

Drama Strategies

Action Clip is the perfect way to bring a freeze frame to life – with a clap of the hands!

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One Word At A Time

Drama Games, Language, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

A story is told by the group or in pairs, with each person adding one word at a time.

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Status Pictures

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

In pairs, create a still image where one of you has a higher status than the other.

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Three Word Sentences

Drama Games, Improvisation, Language, Speaking and Listening

Players improvise a scene and they always speak in three-word sentences.

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Open and Close

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

A brilliant method of performing a series of freeze-frames to tell a story in a drama lesson.

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Sculptor and Statue

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Students work in pairs and one mould the other’s body into a character, shape or emotion.

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Drama Games for Language Teaching (teenage to adult)

Download - Secondary

14 easy to use drama games and activities suitable for a range of ages and language levels.

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Adverb Game

Drama Games, Improvisation, Language

Guess the emotion/action and adverb in this hilarious mime guessing game

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