Drama It's all Talk: Speaking and Listening Through Games and Drama

This resource book uses drama to help develop speaking and listening skills and at the same time make students comfortable with drama and performance, including role play, scripted and unscripted plays.

It contains lots of lesson ideas, each with warm-up activities, development and extension, and photocopiable worksheets.

Drama: It's all Talk Contents

• Introduction
• Introductory games and warm-ups
• Listening to and Following Instructions.
• When I Speak
• The Name Game Main activities
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Worksheet
• It's not what you say
• Worksheet
• Conversation Pieces
• The Pilot Game
• Talk with Twisted Tongue
• The Ace Game
• 32 Lines
• Worksheet
• Better Endings
• Noughts and Crosses
• The Alphabet Game
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Worksheet
• Mime and Movement
• Giving a Scene Shape
• Words and Actions
• Worksheet
• Characters at Random
• Worksheet
• NewsWeek
• Worksheet
• Helplines:  timing, starting and finishing a scene, applause, presentation, audience involvement, voice and speech, social problems, simulated violence, endings.