The Drama Book by Alice Savage

The Drama Book by Alice Savage

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This easy-to-use, comprehensive teacher-resource book has lesson plans and practical activities that integrate theater into language learning. Plus ten original scripts so you can put the activities into action immediately Drama and play scripts can be used to teach pronunciation, pragmatics, and other communication skills, as well as provide grammar and vocabulary practice

Conveniently organized into two parts, Part 1 includes pragmatics mini-lessons, community builders, drama games, and pronunciation activities. There are also lesson plans for producing a play (either fully-staged or as Reader's Theater), as well as guidelines and activities for writing plays to use with (or without students, ) and suggestions for integrating academic content. You'll even find rubrics and evaluation schemes for giving notes and feedback.

Part 2 includes 10 original monologues and scripts of varying lengths that can be photocopied and used in the classroom. Specifically designed to feature everyday language and high frequency social interactions, these scenes and sketches follow engaging plot arcs in which characters face obstacles and strive to achieve objectives.

With a foreword by Ken Wilson, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in using the performing arts to help students become more confident and fluent speakers.

ALICE SAVAGE was born into a theatrical family, but she chose to become an English teacher instead. But she couldn't get away from her history. She eventually realized that theater is a terrific method to learn a language after many pleasant years in the classroom. She now resides in Houston, Texas, the United States' most international city, where she teaches, writes, and produces plays alongside her students at Lone Star College. Alice has books with Oxford University Publishing, Cambridge University Press, and Wayzgoose Press, in addition to the Integrated Skills Through Theatre series.