On the Road to Excellence : Plays for Young English Learners - an EFL Teacher's Handbook

Plays for Young English Learners is a new title in the On the Road to Excellence series written especially for you and your students.
This manual will help you as the teacher develop and enhance oral fluency, giving students one more opportunity to use and practice the language.
Acting is an art, a craft, and a talent, but not everyone is a natural actor; however, always keep in mind that acting can be taught and developed. Students, when exposed to new experiences, grow and build an interest where none had existed before.
This manual also presents teachers with a guide to enhance or strengthen student’s intelligences, according to Dr. Howard Gardner, and learner preferences, too.
Another important aspect to consider in using this Manual is the expansion of vocabulary. The goal of vocabulary enhancement is to build fluency and accuracy, based on the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) emphasis in second language
acquisition.
The idea for the necessity of CLIL developed from the CEFR (Common European Framework of reference), which is a scale to identify the communicative level of any language.
The plays in this Manual are divided into Beginners (Grades K-2), Basic (Grades 2-4), and Basic + (Grades 4-6) and also by months or themes.
The Bibliography includes suggested books to read or to show to children. Furthermore, the Annex consists of vocabulary lists from first through sixth grades; use these lists as a guide to know the level of words your students use.
We wish you luck with the use of this new Manual and hope your results are even more successful than we expected.

I. BACKGROUND for TEACHERS: Plays and Acting in the Classroom 3

II. ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP AND ENHANCE ACTING 5
A. General Information
B. Multiple Intelligences and Learner Preferences
C. Expansion of Vocabulary (Grades K-6)
D. Role playing and other activities
E. Chart showing a summary of CEFR language levels: A1-C2

III. PLAYS FOR ENGLISH BEGINNERS A-1 (Grades K-2) 19

A. August-September-October
B. November-December
C. January-February
D. March-April
E. May-June-July

IV. PLAYS FOR BASIC ENGLISH LEARNERS: A-1 to A-2 (Grades 2-4) 38

A. August-September-October
B. November-December
C. January-February
D. March-April
E. May-June-July

V. PLAYS FOR BASIC + ENGLISH LEARNERS: A-2 to B-1 (Grades 4-6) 60

A. August-September-October
B. November-December
C. January-February
D. March-April
E. May-June-July

VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY 84
VII. ANNEX 94