DRAMA FOR FUN COURSE OUTLINE (10 LESSONS)
1. Course Summary
Course Duration: 10 lessons of 1.5
hours each
Class size:
___ students
2. Course Objectives
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Aims to improve spoken English within a fun environment whilst developing better
interpersonal skills, teamwork and greater self-confidence
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Drama techniques and games ensures a more relaxed atmosphere which makes
language learning more accessible and applicable to daily life
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Facilitates the use and development of transferable skills
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Uses basic role-play techniques, improvisation, miming, short plays,
storytelling and video depending on students’ level and ability
3. Drama Activities
To ensure
effective and enhanced learning, we have selected the best-targeted
drama
activities including those listed below:
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Warm ups / Relaxation /
Vocal / Trust exercises
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Truthful Listening exercises
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Characterizations
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Movement |
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Role playing
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Improvisation
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Presenting skills
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Short Play
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Inter-class dialogues
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+ Much more |
LESSON 1
Introduction to the course
Let's get to know each other and discuss our aims. The aim is to improve English
and communication skills through drama and improvisation and so we have to learn
to trust and work together.
Let's tell each other more about ourselves - our likes and dislikes, our hobbies
and what we aim to gain from the course. In order for drama to work we must give
out energy in order to gain something back in return.
We will begin with drama warm ups, loosening up the body and vocal warm ups as
well. Simple drama activities will introduce us to the world of acting
e.g. mimes - can we do
different emotions on our face, happy, sad, excited, angry, serious etc.
miming of simple activities like combing the hair, cooking an egg, making a bed
etc.
The mirror game
- each person must copy exactly what the other person is doing (i.e. mirror the
other person ) take it slowly since you have to follow the other person.
Word chain story
- We must assist each other in building a story so each person says one word at
a time around the circle and must continue the story.
This can also be done one sentence at a time.
e.g of word chain. Person 1/ I
Person 2/ went
Person 3/ to
Person 4/ the
Person 5 / shop
Person 6/ to
Person 7/ buy etc
Some people in the chain can try and make it harder by throwing in a difficult
word but remember the next person then has the challenge of picking up where the
other person left off.
Energy game/
One person is holding a ball of energy and as they pass it around the circle it
gets hotter and bigger. See if we can mime and articulate this scenario.
LESSON 2
Animals and their sounds
LESSON 3
Puppet talk
LESSON 4
Body sound effects
LESSON 5
Body movement
LESSON 6
Matching Dialogues with person
LESSON 7
Role play
LESSON 8
Starlet
LESSON 9
Writing a piece for performance
LESSON 10
Rehearsal of performance piece