1. Drama and Speech Welcome!

2. Let’s Try! Warm-Up

3. Classroom Use How do you use drama and speech in your class? What are your techniques or/and routines for speeches or drama? What are the main goals you have for drama and speech?

4. Writing and Preparation Finding an approach Setting the tone

5. Which do you think is better? With a model textWith grammar list, or nothing Making a Worksheet that Works Speech writing without Models & Eliciting an Original Composition Topic: If you had a time machine, where would you go? Example: I’m very interested in trains. If I could travel through time, I would visit Tokyo Station in 1964. That’s because I want to see and get on the very first Shinkansen train. It is true that I can ride a Shinkansen now, but riding the first one would be a great experience. Your Mini-speech: _______________________________ _______________________________ Topic: If you had a time machine, where would you go? *Where? *When? *Why? Useful grammar: If ~ could / If ~ would, It is true that ~ but, because… It is YOUR Speech! Be Creative! _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________

6. +α: Rhetoric and Humor Rhetorical questions that don’t work well Rhetorical devices for beginners Being funny without forcing a joke Give your students freedom in their speech: For example: – Fewer platitudes: “I learned I must study harder.” – More negatives: “I think social studies isn’t interesting at all.”

7. Props and Demonstrations Performance starts with YOU! Try to use “performance” and theatricality in every class – not just in skit or speech classes Forgive grammar mistakes while encouraging enthusiastic acting. Let the class pass judgment on whether a skit was dramatic or interesting enough. Make time and effort to generate a theatrical atmosphere Use color-printed and laminated pictures for props Print posters or draw a backdrop on the blackboard Let students bring in personal items Batsu game for less captivating skits.

8. Let’s Try! Skit

9. Practice and Memorization Techniques

10. Reducing Nerves Use a graduated practice routine: individual -> pairs -> groups -> in front of the class. Let students present from their seats. Use a paper teleprompter. Do group/pair presentations in interview format. Use a voice recorder to record practice sessions (or speaking tests).

11. Let’s Try! Memorization Write script on a whiteboard while reciting it. Recite 2-3x, then erase some words. (Tip: make a mark where each word was.) Repeat until student can recite script while looking at a blank whiteboard. Can be done as a class. Also works as a fluency exercise for a known text.

12. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. The ___ in Spain falls mainly on the ____. The ___ in Spain ___ mainly __ the ___. The ___ in ___ ___ ____ ___ the ___. ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ _____ __ __ ____.

13. In the Classroom Building Confidence & Communication

14. Speech & Drama Ideas Do the same dialog in different styles. Do a similar dialog with different contents. Each group does a different dialog in the same theme. Teacher interviews students (or vice versa) like in a variety show. Radio Plays Commercials Dubbing popular scenes with an original conversation Recitation: poems, stories, speeches Original Written Speech Show & Tell

15. Improvisation: Warm-ups and Short Activities Use dramatic or speech-related warm-ups in most or all of your classes to habituate kids to performing. Use daily QA or basic sentence practice to promote speed. Having students pick out team names for activities in class Using gestures or familiar sentences structures in an activity to promote confidence: For example: – “Let’s” – Twenty Questions – “Gift Giving”

16. Let’s Try! Improvisation

17. Thank you so much for coming! Any questions?