Acting art
Main Subject
Category
ELT: Functional language and non-verbal communication
Resource type
Student activity
Skills
Speaking
This lesson is fun for everyone and is particularly effective with mixed-level classes.
While recreating a famous painting in tableau form, students forge bonds of teamwork and cooperative learning, using planning and negotiation skills.
The first PDF contains images of suitable paintings for the tableaux, courtesy of Britannica Image Quest.
An extract from this resource:
Objectives
- Create a tableau representing a famous painting by interacting with group members.
- Negotiate the planning of this creation by speaking in a conversational group.
- Use conversation gambits for disagreeing, interrupting, and turn-taking during planning.
- Make decisions about a visual product by comparing the live tableau to the picture.
- Evaluate other tableaux during the performance phase; evaluate own group tableau.
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