The Emperor's New Goals (Part I) - Script for Teaching English

Are you looking for resources to help give fun, memorable & effective English classes? 🎯🎭 Why not use the power of stories and drama - your students will thank you for it! 🎬🧑‍🚀

A teacher myself (10 years experience), I could not find the kind of short, relevant scripts I was looking for. So, I decided to create my own (with the help of a talented scriptwriter)!

---------- Why use scripts? ----------

✔️ Source of rich comprehensible input

✔️ Elicit a lot more engagement from your students

✔️ Stories demonstrably increase retention*

✔️ Drama demonstrably increases understanding*

✔️ Mimic real-world interactions

✔️ Reduce class prep time with tried and tested resources

☝️ Lingoscripts are short, engaging scripts, covering a wide array of human intentions (such as recounting, persuading, arguing, enticing, problem solving, negotiating, etc) and real world topics (such as travel, social media, relationships, entrepreneurship, technology, history, food etc). 

Thus, making classes rich in language and engagement, while reducing prep time for the teacher 😊

---------- What is provided? ----------

This script involves a dialogue between 2 characters in an entertaining and slightly humorous scene. In this instance, a Roman General returns from battle and announces to his aide that the Emperor has died.

Each LingoScript comes in the following format:

1. PDF of advanced version (2-4 pages including cover)

2. PDF of intermediate version (2-4 pages including cover)

3. JPEG of advanced version (designed to fit on one page/screen)

4. JPEG of intermediate version (designed to fit on one page/screen)

---------- Who is it for? ----------

- English as a foreign language teacher (EFL)

- English as a second language teacher (ESL)

- English teacher in secondary school

- Drama teacher

- Teachers of other subjects who wish to bring classes to life

The script is designed for adult and secondary learners

The advanced version for upper-intermediate to proficient level

The intermediate version for pre-intermediate to upper-intermediate level

---------- How to use Lingoscripts? ----------

⚙️ Ideal for online classes as well as in person classes

⚙️ Set the scene with a brief story and/or images beforehand, and ask questions to make the topic relevant to the students (e.g. "What could go wrong in XYZ situation?")

⚙️ Run through the script - e.g the teacher can go through the dialogue with a student

⚙️ Go through again taking time to focus on word meaning, pronunciation and making sure students understand the story

⚙️ Depending on class size, students can practise in pairs or the teacher can practise further with students (one at a time); as students get more comfortable, the reading can get more and more dramatised

💡 Follow up activities could include:

- Breaking the scene into parts and getting students to recreate the scene without the script (tip: ask them to throw in a random word like "cucumber" to add a bit of variety, complexity and fun)

- Creating before & after scenes

- Having a debate based on the topic in the script

- Learning the lines of one of the characters for the following week

Note: the cover page of the PDF version offers some ideas of areas/topics to expand on.

---------- Miscellaneous ----------

Lingoscripts are written in British English, though occasionally slightly Americanised. The genre is drama with a humorous undertone📜

This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped to you. Download files are instantly available after payment has been received.

For personal use only. But you're welcome to share the link to the store with others who might benefit. 

How to get hold of the scripts? Click the 'ADD TO CART' / 'I WANT THIS' button to gain access ↗️

* Theory & Evidence - References:

Krashen, S. (2000). What does it take to acquire language? ESL Magazine 3(3), 22-23.

Mason, B. (2005). Vocabulary acquisition through storytelling. Texas TESOL Newsletter.

Tejada, H. (2016). 'What Does the Data Say - Does TPRS Really Work?', Crookedtrailslearning.com, 27 October. Available at: http://www.crookedtrailslearning.com/blog-2/2017/1/14/what-does-the-data-say-does-tprs-really-work? (Accessed: 9 March 2021).

Gascon, D. (2019). The impact of Drama Pedagogy on Student Achievement, Attitude and Empathy: An Action Research Study. (Doctoral dissertation) University of South Carolina.

Shackleton-Jones, N. (2019). How People Learn: Designing Education and Training that Works to Improve Performance. Kogan Page.

Walter, Claire. (2020). 50 first stories vs. Textbook: Do stories contain infrequent words?