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Q: Does anyone know of any good open-source plays for highschool students?
I teach High school students, and want to do something different with them.
I originally wanted to introduce them to Shakespeare, but most native English speakers can't understand it, let alone them. I know that there are "modern English" versions out there, but I don't know if any of them are any good.
Can anyone recommend any appropriate sites?
Any alternative suggestions?
Has anyone tried anything like this? If so, how did it turn out?
9 years 36 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
I tired the following with some English Major Uni students.
I gave them a selection of short simple stories,
broke them into random groups
they had to then interpret and perform the stories in their own way.
This was an expansion on giving them a role-play scenario
it was a hoot for all
I'd have to check if i still have the links i used
sorrel:
anything that had the possibility of over-dramatic situations was a good jump-off point for their creativity
Spiderboenz:
I was thinking of doing something along those lines, but wasn't sure if the level would be too high from them.
sorrel:
maybe stories like that are at too high a level now
I found once the students got used to the idea over a few months by doing preliminary simple role-plays, they really became creative and more flexible.
In fact it became something of a competition between the different groups to perform outrageously - with hilarious results for all
icnif77:
I want to see them too, Sorrel! You can post them here. Why PM?
I did this once, take one of his short works and make it into a project to first re-write it into modern English and then they could perform it.
sorrel:
I found that the students became more expressive in their English and the flat tone used by most speakers became less and less heard.
Spiderboenz:
Great way to incorporate reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension (I hate how students here just regurgitate crap here verbatim)
Englteachted:
I love doing exercises like this. Makes for a great class especially after seeing the finished product
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