02-28-2007
shafiq
Due Date: 23rd February 2007Drama offers the teacher a wide range of techniques and strategies which can be applied in any classroom and in almost all subject areas for example a teacher’s objective is to enhance his/her students’ language skills such as speaking and vocabulary then he/she can use drama as a strategy. Another objective can be to enhance students’ confidence or stage phobias or arouse awareness about various issues such as corruption, values, customs, and traditions. In order to achieve such objective a teacher can organize drama classes for the students to assist them in achieving language skills, confidence and get rid of stage phobias the students may be facing. An attractive alternative is teaching language through drama because it gives a context for listening and meaningful language production, forcing the learners to use their language resources and, thus, enhancing their linguistic abilities. It provides situations for reading and writing. It is very useful in teaching literary texts as it helps in analyzing plot, character and style. It also involves learners more positively and actively in the text. As Wilga Rivers (1983) states, “the drama approach enables learners to use what they are learning with pragmatic intent, something that is most difficult to learn through explanation.” Introduction
To teach drama to the students, I will introduce the topic to the students after a careful planning. I will then provide a worksheet to the student and ask them to write their understanding of drama, what they know already know about drama. I will then divide the students in smaller groups and ask them to exchange their ideas about drama. The smaller groups will write their responses on a given butcher sheet and present their ideas about drama. I will then give example of great play writers such as Shakespeare, Euripides and Barnard Shah. I will also tell the students about the history Greek drama.
 Activity:
The activity is to demonstrate power, poverty, humility, shame and honour in
Pakistan studies
Technique
The students will be asked to walk in a circle and chant the idea of ‘power, humility, power, shame and honour’ three times and as they finish chanting they freeze with an action that demonstrate the above mentioned ideas.
This activity will give an opportunity to the students to speak, act and express their feelings in actions.
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Role-play can be the best activity that may provide an opportunity to the students to express their feelings and performance in actions. The teacher will give a topic ‘Child Labour’. The students will be divided into 4 groups of six students in each group and will be asked to discuss in the respective groups. Group ‘Pepsi’ will mine, group ‘Kangaroo’ will perform verbally and with actions, group ‘Dolphin’ will compose a song about child Labour and they will act out. This will improve the performance of different groups. The group will be listening and watching each other’s performance.
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