Play It For Real: Drama Lessons for Speaking, Listening and Life

Play It for Real provides a variety of carefully structured drama activities which are meant to be:

• performed
• looked at
• listened to      
• responded to
• evaluated

so that students will:

• develop self confidence
• develop communication skills
• be at ease under performance conditions

As well as a comprehensive introduction, there are three groups of activities, each with a series of photocopiable worksheets:

88 pages photocopiable

Play it for Real Contents

Warm ups, Games and Exercises

1 We Can All Act
2 Who's Leading?
3 Moving into Orbit
4 What to Say Last
5 A Cluster of Quickies
6 The Boss Banana Game
7 Find the Next Note
8 The Yes/No Search. Worksheet The yes / no search

Improvisation

• Using the Scenes
• Worksheet – looking at other people's work
• About lmprovisation
• Recreating Language
• Worksheet – early people speak
• Living Statues
• Worksheet – living statues 1
• Worksheet – living statues 2
• Stressed Words
• The Unseen Character
• Where Are We Now?
• Worksheet – where are we now?
• Waxworks
• What Card am I?
• Worksheet – What card am I?
• 1 The characters
• Worksheet - What Card am I?
• 2   The factory scene
• Mistaken Identities
• Worksheet – mistaken identities
• Worksheet – the portrait and the painter
• Quick Scenes for Good Players

Asking and Answering Questions

• Talk Back
• Worksheet – talk back
• Whodunit?
• Worksheet – Entry and exit cards
• Worksheet – A whodunit
• The Job Interview
• Worksheet 1
• Worksheet 2
• Worksheet 3
• Worksheet 4