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ESL English Language Learning - Adult Literacy - Listening & Reading - Audiobooks - Stories

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ESL English - Adult Literacy - Listening, Reading, Audiobooks, Short Stories, Songs, PET exam

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by Stacia Levy 143,380 views

Drama is about dialogue, about language, and interacting with others in specific "scenes" with appropriate language--all activities we as teachers try to get our students to engage in.

Reasons for Incorporating Drama in the ESL Classroom

Drama can be a valuable teaching tool. It gets students up and moving around and interacting with each other. It's particularly appealing to kinesthetic learners but can be used successfully for all learners. It also contextualizes language, making real and three-dimensional that which is on the printed page.

Students will improve the speaking and listening skills in performing scenes and also their writing skills through such activities as dialogue writing. Drama also teaches the " pragmatics " of language, how we appropriately use language to get something done, like make a request. Finally, drama promotes class bonding: in drama classes, there is usually a great deal of comradery.

Methods for Incorporating Drama in the ESL Class

1. Act out the Dialogue
One of the easiest ways to incorporate drama in the classroom is to have students act out the dialogue from their textbooks. Simply pair them up, have them choose roles, then work together to act out the dialogue, figuring out for themselves the "blocking," or stage movements. This is effective for a beginning activity of incorporating drama in the classroom.

2. Perform Reader's Theater
Another good beginning exercise is to do Reader's Theater. Hand out copies of a short or one-act play, have students choose roles, and then read the play from their seats without acting it out. However, do encourage them to read dramatically, modeling as necessary.

3. Act out the Story
If students are reading a short story such as " The Chaser," about the man who buys a " love potion " for his unrequited love, have students act out the story or part of the story, working in groups and assigning roles and determining the blocking. This is particularly effective with "short-shorts": brief, one-scene stories with limited characters.

4. Write the Dialogue for a Scene
Watch a brief clip of a movie without the sound on. Have students write the dialogue for it and act it out.

More Advanced Activities

1. Once students have had some experience with the basics of character, dialogue, and stage movement, they can move on to some more advanced dramatics, involving more of students' own creativity and critical thinking skills.

2. Act out and Put Words to an Emotion
Give students an emotion, such as " anger" or " fear ". Have students, either singly or in groups, first act out that emotion then put words to the emotion.

3. Give "Voice" to an Inanimate Object
What would a stapler say if it could talk? Or an apple? Have students write monologues with inanimate objects as the character. A monologue is a short scene with just one character talking, either addressing the audience, God, or himself or herself. Hamlet's "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy might also be termed a monologue, for example.

After writing them, students can read the monologues aloud.

4. Create a Character
Have students develop a character, writing a one-page profile on the character's background, appearance, personality, etc. Have them introduce the character to the class, explaining what interests them about their character.

5. Write a Monologue
Using the character they've already developed, have students write a monologue for that character then perform it.

6. Mime and Dubbing
Have students act out short scenes without dialogue. The rest of the class then supplies the dialogue, developing the "script."

7. Improvise
Put students in groups of two or three, and assign the characters and the situation to the groups, perhaps using 3x5 index cards. Give a time limit of two to three minutes per scene. Students go from there, extemporaneously creating the dialogue and movement themselves.

Drama is an effective tool that can be used to promote interaction and language skills in the ESL classroom as well as create a class bonding experience.

With careful planning, use of drama can enhance your English classroom curriculum.

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10 Methods to Incorporate Drama in the ESL Classroom

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by Stacia Levy 143,380 views Drama is about dialogue, about language, and interacting with others in specific "scenes" with appropriate language--all activities we as teachers try to get our students to engage in. Drama can be a valuable teaching tool. It gets students up and moving around and interacting with each other.

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Bored of book work?

Tired of teacher-talking?

Want something exciting for your students?

Then watch a movie!

Now, I know what some of you might be thinking: Isn't watching a movie a cop-out?

It's tempting to think that putting on a movie is simply a great excuse for the teacher to sit at the back of the room, dim the lights and fall asleep clutching the remote. But it's not true, I tell you!

Creating a lesson around a popular movie is a sure-fire way to have fun, engage your English learners and gain some much coveted popularity!

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How Does Watching a Movie Help ESL Students?

There are countless ways in which movies can support your lesson.

For example, they can be used to:

Reinforce a grammar point

Listen for gist

Practice vocabulary

Discuss and debate

Role play

Movies are a brilliant way for students to hear up-to-date authentic speech and be exposed to various accents. And because there are countless movies based on an infinite amount of things, you can use them to introduce or spark discussions about a certain topic, be it a historical event, a time period or the culture of a foreign country.

And of course, by bringing popular movies into your lessons, you show students how they can learn from and practice English when watching movies in their own time.

Kieran Donaghy, the genius behind the site Film English, takes advantage of all of these features in his ready-to-use free ESL lesson plans that go with an accompanying creative short film.

To help your ESL students improve their English using any movie or short film, try out the following activities!

5 Great ESL Movie Comprehension Activities

Movies can be implemented into any lesson, with the purpose of getting students to comprehend and gain meaning from free-flowing speech. Here are five great activities to check comprehension.

How Observant Are You?

This activity is good for getting students to talk in the past tense about observation-based facts.

Before the movie clip, don't tell the students what they are looking for, but tell them to watch with a keen detective's eye. Afterwards ask them a question about a specific item in a room, or a character's words or actions. You can make this a group exercise, getting teams to write their answers together. Repeat as many times as you want!

Vocabulary Meaning Match

Use a movie to reinforce or teach vocabulary with this simple activity.

Give students a worksheet with a list of vocabulary words in one column, and scrambled definitions in the other. As students watch the movie clip, they have to match the vocabulary to the adjacent list of meanings.

Order the Events

This is a reading-based activity, good for building up students' recall power.

After watching the clip, give students a set of event cards (no more than ten), in pairs or individually. Each card should contain one or two sentences of events from the movie clip. These can be as significant or insignificant as you want, depending on the length of the clip and what the focus of the lesson is. Students have to rearrange the events into the correct order.

Buzz Game

Here's another activity to test students' powers of observation.

Put the students into teams. Ask a question such as, "What color is [character's name]'s sweater?," and then start the clip. When a student sees the answer, they "buzz" by making a pre-decided comical noise, or by standing up. If the student is correct, move onto the next question and the next section of the movie clip.

Choose a Word

A simple and lively activity for practicing listening skills, this one works better the more repetition of words there is within the movie clip.

Give each student a word that will appear at least once in the movie clip. While watching, when any student hears their word, they stand up. Sit back and watch the students bob up and down!

For supplementary materials beyond these five comprehension activities, you can find tons of worksheets for video clips from the following two websites:

And if you're ever in need of a short video clip instead of a full-length movie or movie part, FluentU has loads of pre-selected video clips to choose from.

FluentU takes authentic videos-like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks-and turns them into personalized language lessons.

Now, along with helping comprehension, movies are also a perfect way to introduce some more creativity into your ESL lessons!

5 Creative Activities for ESL Movie Lessons

The aim of these activities is to get your students using English in an informal and fun way, with less structure than the comprehension exercises above. Choose a popular movie for maximum excitement and participation from students!

Act it Out

This activity will get students up, out of their shells and speaking English in a fun, relaxed way.

Watch a movie clip that's anywhere between five and twenty minutes long, depending on the length of the lesson and the level of your students. Afterwards, tell the students that they will be performing the clip to their peers. Put them in groups, according to how many characters there are in the movie clip. The aim is to have the right number of characters for the number of students in a group, but when this is not possible, two students can play the part of one character, splitting the lines between them. Alternatively there could also be a narrator.

There are several different ways to do this activity. You can give students only a short amount of time to practice, and not allow them to write anything down. You could even give them no time at all, and see if they can create an improvised version, although this should be reserved for higher or more confident students.

Another version is to allow students to prepare a script of sorts before they begin practicing, or even to print an extract of the script for them to use. After an adequate amount of rehearsal time, students perform for each other.

To ensure hilarity, provide costumes or props of some sort.

What Happens Next?

Students use their powers of deduction and observation to predict the next part of a movie. This activity is better if they haven't seen the movie before, but it doesn't matter too much if they have, as you can use it to test their memory!

Either create multiple choice answers or let the student come up with their own ideas. Play a short (2 minutes) clip of the movie, then press pause. Have students guess what happens next-either in teams, as a whole group or as individuals. Play the next part to find out if anyone was right. Repeat using several different clips of the movie, or continue on with consecutive clips.

Character Questionnaire and Role Play

The aim of this activity is for students to get inside the mind of a character, and have that character respond accordingly to a situation. It's great for practicing dialogue, stress patterns and intonation.

Before the movie, assign each student a character and give them a questionnaire to fill out while watching.

When the movie clip is finished, put students in pairs and give them pre-prepared scenarios. For example, "The characters both want to buy the last umbrella in the store," or "The characters are at a restaurant when one of them is rude to the waiter."

Students use what they collected in their questionnaire to decide how their character would react in the given scenario. Give them five minutes to practice, then perform to the class.

Describe the Place

Hone your students' powers of observation and oral description with this simple activity.

Watch a scene from a movie. Ask students to describe what the place looked like, giving as much detail as possible. This could be a room, a street, a café or the outside of a palace. Make it a team game, getting students to write down all the details they remember. The team that writes the most, wins!

Another version of this activity is to get students to draw a picture of the scene and explain what they've drawn.

Alternative Ending

In this activity, students are encouraged to practice story-writing techniques, in the present or future tense, depending on what suits your lesson. Don't worry if some students have seen the movie already-knowing how the story really unfolds will only enhance their creative prospects. Remember to be clear that they cannot simply write the real ending of the movie!

Play part of a movie-as short or long as you want-which can be from any point in the movie. Afterwards, put students in small groups to create a new ending. They can write it out, or present it in a graphic novel style with pictures and words.

The presentation part of the class involves the groups reading their alternative ending to the group. Top marks for the wildest, wackiest ideas!

All in all, movies are an invaluable tool for teaching a topic while engaging and holding students' interests. So don't be afraid to use them!

You have all the tools you need for successful implementation right here. Enjoy!

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10 Creative Ways to Use Popular Movies in Fun ESL Lessons

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Want to watch a movie in your ESL class, but make it useful and fun? Here are 10 creative activities using popular movies in ESL lessons!

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How do we know these worksheets work? Because every single one of them has been created and tested in the classrooms of real ESL teachers just like you. And each one is completely free to download, modify, and share - you don't even have to register on our site. But if you have a worksheet of your own that's been a hit in your classroom, we'd love for you to share it with our international community of ESL teachers. It's as easy as clicking the "Submit a worksheet" button at the bottom of this page.

Ready to find a worksheet for your class? You might want to start with the top ten most popular movie and video worksheets. Or you can browse BusyTeacher.org's complete collection of 1,099 movie and video worksheets - all available to view in thumbnail mode, so you can see exactly what you'll be getting when you download each one.

So take a look at what we have to offer. We're confident that any BusyTeacher movie worksheet you choose will make you the star of your classroom.

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