Originally published in 1980. This book is a collection of language learning activities in the area of drama, mime, roleplay, problem solving, group work, music and song all classroom tested and ready for use in teaching English, no matter the level. The exercises are designed to promote and stimulate real language communication and to involve teachers and students on a personal level. The authors taught on training courses for ELT teachers and developed these excellent techniques and ideas for educators looking for whole-person learning ways of teaching.
Preface Part 1: English Through Drama
1. Introduction
2. Arranging the
Classroom
3. A Way of Starting a Lesson
4. Tense Drills Through Mime
5.
Questions through Mime
6. Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs through Mime
7.
Vocabulary through Mime
8. Ways of Stimulating Oral Narrative Work
9.
Questions and Roleplay
10. Register through Roleplay
11. Intonation through
Drama Part 2: Am I Me? Roleplay for Intermediate to Advanced Students
12.
Introduction
13. Arranging the Classroom
14. How to Use These Lessons
15.
Correction/Rectification Techniques
16. Lead-in Exercises
17. Curiouser and
Curiouser
18. Airport
19. Emergency Landing
20. Character Eyes 1
21. A
Fable
22. Imprisonment
23. Desert Island
24. Character Eyes 2
25. Commedia
1
26. Commedia 2
27. Commedia 3 Part 3: Music, Music, Music
28. Introduction
29. Exercises in Microlanguage
30. Exercises in Macrolanguage Part 4:
Teacherless Tasks
31. Introduction
32. Sequencing Leading into Problem
Solving or Evaluation. Tasks 1-14.
33. Sequencing and Re-telling Two or More
Stories. Tasks 14-18.
34. Question and Answer. Tasks 18-19.
Maggie Melville, Lydia Langenheim, Mario Rinvolucri
