We can use drama to create immersive, exciting, and meaningful learning experiences filled with emotion and curiosity. Drama is a useful teaching tool for developing English. There are more ways to use drama than just doing plays.
If I asked you to talk about your happiest memories, I’m sure your spoken and body language would be very expressive, compared to asking you to describe your office desk!Īs you’re reading this, you too can go anywhere – where would you go, what would you see, hear, touch, or smell?ĭrama in the EFL classroom doesn’t have to be complicated or stressful in essence drama is about using three things: spoken language, body language, and imagination.
Memories link our experience and senses – we have an emotional connection to those moments. I can smell the freshly cut grass and feel the warm sunshine on my face. Imagination allows us to be anywhere when it’s a cold rainy day, I daydream back to a warm summer afternoon. Among other things when students are emotionally engaged, their motivation to speak increases and so too their willingness to try.
Drama connects these two worlds and can breathe life into our English lessons.ĭeveloping students’ awareness of this and their English doesn’t require magic you just need to give them a reason to start speaking.
#HONG KONG DRAMA 2020 FULL#
Our students live in two worlds the world inside classroom with its hard desks, rows of chairs and the backs of people’s heads, and the world outside full of new things to see, touch, smell, taste and feel.
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