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(lesson 1)

PREPARATION
pretext
drama method
student role
teacher role
teaching objective
frame
signs

IN CLASS
introduction to drama

drama learning
contract

warm-up activity

keying into role

homework

Pretext

Drama method

No particular drama work was done at this point. The students engaged in a form of role-play when talking to each other about the foreign currencies and their corresponding countries.

- Reinforcing the structures of conditional 2 that were taught before the Christmas holidays.

- Establishing the first linguistic skills to work within the dramatic context of the topic of the drama unit: money, wealth and the consequences of having or losing it.

- Teaching mainly by auditive and visual means and comparatively little writing (as it would occur in a natural language context).

- coins from former European currencies

- vocabulary cards with words related to money and finances

1. Inform the students about the coming 4 lessons being devoted to drama.

2. Point out that a drama lesson consists of

- a warm-up (in order to tune into drama work, loosen one’s body and voice)

- a sequence to key into role

- a sequence to key into location

- further steps to explore the topic

3. Explain that the material used in the drama lessons is taken from Headway

New Intermediate, unit 8 and that thereby the students will learn the necessary
vocabulary and structures of the unit as well as become more familiar with the
use of conditionals.

4. Topic of unit 8: Money, wealth and the consequences of having or losing it

5. Show the drama learning contract and have 6 groups work on them
(additions, changes?).

1. Game with coins from different European countries

- Each student gets two coins from different countries and walks around the class.
S/he talks to classmates what country the coin is from, what currency it is, if s/he has ever been to that country or would like to go there.

2. Game with vocabulary concerning money at p. 52:

- Each person receives two cards.

- Find out if you can explain the word on your card and use it in a correct sentence.

- Walk around the class, show your card to a classmate and give your explanation or say your sentence.

- Ask your classmates for help if you are not sure about the meaning or use of your word.

- Make sure that you have explained your words to all your classmates.

- OHP : Correct word (WB p. 52)

- WB: sort words according to grammatical categories (p. 52)

 
Keying into role/writing in role [up]

Choose one noun, verb and adjective from the list that will describe yourself.
Develop a short portrait of yourself in which you describe yourself.
Use the three words from the list, but add more characteristics to describe yourself.