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Play it for Real

  Drama lessons for speaking, listening and life

    Stan Barrett

 

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

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     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

The Good, the Bad and the Unacceptable