How to Approach Speaking and Listening through Drama
1. How to Begin with Teacher in Role - Why use teacher in role? Many teachers consider TiR as a difficult activity. However, that when a teacher takes a role, he becomes 'attractive' to children, so there are fewer control problems because they are involved. Many times we witness teachers trained with children's classes struggling to get attention when giving instructions in traditional teacher mode. However, once they begin to play a role, they get that attention more effectively. All of this introduces a series of interesting problems that children begin to experience and understand about their relationships with parents and about their relationships with the opposite sex. Even if the main purpose of this work is not the study of Shakespeare's play, that role can be used to open up areas that are very important for personal and social education that can be identified by children. That will motivate them and produce a very strong involvement with Hermia a...