Drama Techniques by ANNYSHA ANAK SEMILAN IPG-Pelajar

How it reinforces ESL skills

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Students practice speaking, listening, and vocabulary in real-life or imaginary contexts. It encourages improvisation and spontaneous use of English.

Example (Primary ESL):

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Students role-play “At the Market.” One plays the seller, others play customers buying fruits.

Learning Objective:

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Pupils will be able to use simple phrases to buy and sell items in English.

How it reinforces ESL skills:

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Students take on a character’s role and answer classmates’ questions. This builds questioning skills, comprehension, and critical thinking in English.

Example (Primary ESL):

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A pupil pretends to be “Cinderella.” Other pupils ask questions like, “What did you lose at the ball?”

Learning Objective:

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Pupils will be able to ask and answer questions in full sentences related to a character.

How it reinforces ESL skills:

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Students create a frozen picture of a scene. It helps develop descriptive language as peers describe what they see and imagine what happens before or after.

Example (Primary ESL):

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Pupils create a freeze frame of “The Three Little Pigs” when the wolf is blowing the house. Other pupils describe the scene using present continuous (“The wolf is blowing.”).

Learning Objective:

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Pupils will be able to describe actions in a scene using present continuous tense.

How it reinforces ESL skills:

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Students act without words, and others guess the meaning. This strengthens vocabulary recall and reinforces the link between action and language.

Example (Primary ESL):

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A pupil mimes brushing teeth, and others guess: “You are brushing your teeth.”

Learning Objective:

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Pupils will be able to recognise and say common action verbs based on mime.

How it reinforces ESL skills:

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Students use voices, body, and simple objects to create sounds that represent a place, event, or story. It develops listening, imagination, and descriptive vocabulary.

Example (Primary ESL):

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The class creates a soundscape of a jungle. Some pupils make bird sounds, others rustling leaves, and some make animal noises. Another group describes what they hear: “I hear birds. I hear the wind.”

Learning Objective:

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Pupils will be able to identify and describe sounds using simple sentences.

How it reinforces ESL skills:

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Students or the teacher narrate parts of a story while others act it out. This strengthens listening comprehension, sequencing, and storytelling vocabulary.

Example (Primary ESL):

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Teacher narrates “Jack and the Beanstalk” while pupils act as Jack climbing, the giant stomping, etc.

Learning Objective:

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Pupils will be able to follow and act out a story sequence based on simple narration.

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Soundscape

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Hot Seating

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Mime

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Freeze Frame

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Narration

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Role play

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