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    Colorado Ghost Story: Short Plays for English Learners, #3
    Colorado Ghost Story: Short Plays for English Learners, #3
    Colorado Ghost Story: Short Plays for English Learners, #3
    Ebook51 pages31 minutesShort Plays for English Learners

    Colorado Ghost Story: Short Plays for English Learners, #3

    By Alice Savage

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    "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

    Trevor is an exchange student whose dream of the American west did not include a goat farm with a vegetarian host family. They won't even let him explore, especially at night.

    But Trevor and his friend soon find out there's a reason his host family is so protective.

    This engaging and suspenseful drama will get students talking about the difference between dreams and reality, as well as the realities of life away from the big city. They'll be practicing venting, as well as responding to venting.

    And, this play was written for English students to improve their communication and speaking skills. As they read, practice, and perform these plays, they will learn:

    • communication in cultural contexts
    • conversational moves, such as changing the subject, expressing doubt, seeking clarification, and persuading
    • use of intonation and body language
    • high frequency lexical phrases and grammar patterns
    • Short enough for a project in a speaking class, but expandable to fill a whole elective class, drama unit, or theater club production, Colorado Ghost Story makes drama in the classroom a good thing!

    About the Play

    4 characters, 8 scenes, about 17 minutes to perform.

    Language of the play is graded to A2+/B1 (intermediate) level, although the demands of performance may be higher

    In addition to the script, this book contains:

    • Preview activities
    • Pragmatics lesson on venting
    • Advice on producing a play
    • Pronunciation tips
    • Glossary of theater vocabulary
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlphabet Publishing
    Release dateMay 14, 2019
    ISBN9781948492591
    Colorado Ghost Story: Short Plays for English Learners, #3
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    Author

    Alice Savage

    Alice Savage comes from a family of theatre people. Her grandfather was a professor of theatre arts, and her father is a playwright. The Integrated Skills Through Drama series has given her the opportunity to bring together this family experience in the theatre  with her love of teaching. In addition to the three plays in that series, Her Own Worst Enemy, Only the Best Intentions, and Rising Water, Alice has written many ELT books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Wayzgoose Press. Alice has a Master of Arts in Teaching from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She is currently a professor of ESOL at Lone Star College System, in Houston, Texas where she also does some teacher-training. She is grateful for the opportunity to spend time with young people who are exploring their own decisions about career and life.

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      Book preview

      Colorado Ghost Story - Alice Savage

      Short Plays for English Learners

      COLORADO GHOST STORY

      A goat farm can be a surprisingly dangerous place

      by Alice Savage

      With a Foreword by Steve Hirschhorn

      ISBN: 978-1-948492-56-0 (print) 978-1-948492-59-1 (ebook)

      Copyright 2019 Alice Savage

      All rights reserved. Our authors work hard to develop original, high-quality content. Please respect their efforts and their rights under copyright law.

      Do not copy, photocopy, or reproduce this book, or any part of this book, for use inside or outside the classroom, in commercial or non-commercial settings. It is also forbidden to copy, adapt, or reuse this book or any part of this book for use on websites, blogs, or third-party lesson-sharing websites.

      For permission requests, write to the publisher at ATTN: Permissions, at the address below:

      Alphabet Publishing

      1204 Main Street #172 Branford, CT 06405 USA

      info@alphabetpublishingbooks.com

      www.alphabetpublishingbooks.com

      Discounts on class sets and bulk orders available upon inquiry.

      This book is set in CMU Typewriter Text, CMU Serif, and CMU Sans-Serif fonts distributed under the SIL Open Font License. Title set in Futura PT available from Adobe Fonts.

      Book design by Red Panda Editorial Services.

      Goat head image by Veronichka/Depositphotos

      Theater mask image by lhfgraphics/Adobestock

      Alphabet Publishing logo by Joshua Comen.

      Foreword

      There is probably little need for me to present and extrapolate on the manifold benefits of the use of drama in the English language teaching classroom but it is worth mentioning that there is a body of research which shows how much well-organised theatrical events can improve student-centred learning, encourage collaboration amongst peers and increase exposure to consistent real-world language. Of course the process isn’t magical and all concerned must be engaged and challenged to work together for the ultimate aim of generating a work of art together and that’s exactly what Alice Savage’s handiwork aims at.

      Alice Savage provides a much-needed response to the lack of dramatic material which is already prepared for classroom use, as opposed to adaptations of already existing plays or creating productions from other types of literature. The author has cleverly relieved busy teachers of the drudgery of changing a masterpiece into something English learners can access by creating her own mini masterpieces which are already accessible and graded or gradable.

      Not only are her plays beautifully crafted in terms of the scripting but they also carry important messages which are perfectly aimed at the age group for which these works are intended. Significantly, these tenets are not presented in obvious or condescending ways but are a subtle by-product of the story line.

      The stories themselves are engaging page-turners with the reader (and presumably the audience) waiting with bated breath to see how the situation might be resolved. Sometimes, in the

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