Strange Medicine
- Authors
- Alice Savage
- Publisher
- Alphabet Publishing
- Tags
- drama for students , drama in elt , plays for esl , short plays for students , esl , efl , oracy skills , speaking activities , teaching speaking , teaching pragmatics , prosody , pronunciation , reader's theater , theater for students , theater in language learning , germ theory
- Date
- 2019-09-24
- Size
- 0.20 MB
- Lang
- en
"These scripts will give students the opportunity to confidently practise language in a safe and structured setting where they can enjoy playing roles and bringing the story to life. ... they'll be having so much fun that they won't even realise that they are learning!"David Farmer, NILE training consultant, theatre director, and author, Learning Through Drama and 101 Drama Games and Activities
Strange Medicine is an original short play about a mysterious scientist doing secretive research while renting a guesthouse from a family. The engaging, suspenseful play hits on an important theme: how is truth decided in science?
This play was written for English students to improve their communication and speaking skills. As students read, practice, and perform these plays, they will learn cultural contexts, conversational moves, intonation and body language, high frequency lexical phrases, and grammar patterns
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