2. Gary Anderson Cambridge ELT ‘A roomful of human beings’

3. Drama techniques as communication activities in language learning

4. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Drama Techniques A resource book of communication activites for language teachers Third Edition by Alan Maley & Alan Duff

5. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Third edition Added new/cut old activites Activites completely rewritten in new series format

6. Aim Focus Level Time Preparation Procedure Follow-on Variation(s) Note(s)  Follow-on +150 (ideas for) activities

7. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Third edition Activites rewritten Added new activites Reorganised structure: reordering activites and adding chapters on Voice and Performance

8. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Getting ready Working with … x 8 Into Performance

9.  Integrates language skills in a natural way  Integrates verbal & non-verbal aspects of communication  Draws upon both cognitive and affective domains  Contextualizes the language and brings the classroom to life  Offers opportunities for catering to learner differences  Transfers responsibility for learning from teacher to learners Why use drama?

10.  Fosters self-awareness, self-esteem, confidence and motivation  Sustains motivation through variety and expectancy generated by activities  Encourages open, exploratory style of learning  Positively effects classroom dynamics and atmosphere  Offers an enjoyable experience  Low-resource: ‘All you need is a roomful of human beings.’ Why use drama?

11. Know thy…  School  Class  Student…s  Self Why not use drama?

12. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Words Sentences Scenes

13. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Working with/from words Back-writing (Actv 1.22) Favourite word (Actv 8.1) + Breathing (Actv 4.3) The Great Conductor

14. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Working with/from sentences Elastic sentences (Actv 4.14) ‘Say Cheese!’ (Actv 2.3) + Warming up the voice (Actv 4.4) The Mouth, Nose & Throat Doctor and Thinking about my voice (Actv 4.7) Me and my voice

15. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Working with/from scenes Group orchestration of texts (Actvs 4.17 & 4.11) ‘Where did you get that hat!?’ (Actv 5.9) Mix & mingle (Actv 1.32)

16. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. Emily Dickinson Complete Poems: Random House, 1924.

17. Drama techniques as communication activities in language learning

18. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers Drama Techniques A resource book of communication activites for language teachers Third Edition by Alan Maley & Alan Duff

19. Gary Anderson Cambridge ELT ganderson@cup.fr ‘A roomful of human beings’