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Using Drama Activities to Teach Pronunciation

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33 minutes, 38 seconds

There are many drama activities that actors use to warm up their voices and improve their projection, enunciation and overall vocal delivery.  Many of these activities can be used with English language learners to help them improve different features of their English pronunciation, such as phoneme articulation, intonation, word stress, sentence stress, volume and pacing. They can also help our students learn how to express emotions and ideas correctly and accurately.  In this session we take you through a variety of fun and effective voice activities for you to use with your students.

Agenda:

  1. Why Use Drama Activities to Teach Pronunciation?
  2. Posture and Breathing
  3. Warming up the Vocal Instruments
  4. Activities for Consonant and Vowel Production
  5. Activities for Word and Sentence Stress
  6. Activities for Intonation
  7. Activities for Volume and Pacing
  8. Activities for Expressing Emotion

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