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3. Look at the chart below. Read the activities you will do in this practice in
order to compose a monologue. Remember to tick each activity as soon as
you finish it.

Week 1-2 WARM-UP STAGE

• Explore and comment on monologues.
• Recognize subgenre of monologues (dramatic, stand-
Listen to
up comedy, interior, etc.).
and review
• Select one monologue and review its features.
monologues.
• Review repertoire of words and expressions.
• Define themes and ideas for monologues.
Week 3 BUILDING STAGE

• Agree on rules for one performance (turns, duration of
the monologue, genre, etc.).
• Propose adressee for your monologues.
Plan the • Define protagonist for the monologue.
monologue.
• Review ways to start a monologue.
• Analyze ways to introduce and develop the monologue.
• Define body language for the monologue.

Week 4 BUILDING STAGE

• Practice improvisation.
Improvise • Control emotions.
monologues. • Consider the audience.
• Present improvisation.

Week 4 CLoSURE STAGE-SoCIALIzATIoN
• Explain strategies used.
Offer and receive • Offer and receive opinions of a performance
feedback. in improvisation.
• Assess process and product.
Genres of monologues IT movie The Great Dictator while reading the transcript TRACK 28 Remember
4. Listen to the final monologue of Charles Chaplin´s

in your Reader’s Book.

If you want to watch the monologue above, look for it online.
The British Charles
1977) is one of the
5. Discuss the purpose of Charles Chaplin´s
most important
monologue and who the protagonist is. Reader's Chaplin (1889-
Book pages 38-40
actors and
• Explain your reasoning. Look at the example. directors in the
history of cinema.
session 2 I think the protagonist is parodying a that you just read
The monologue
Example:
character from World War II. His mustache
and listened to is
and his uniform remind me of...
part of the movie
The Great Dictator
In my opinion, because of some words and
Chaplin’s first film
sentences I understand, the purpose of the
with dialogue.
monologue is to take a stand in favor of... (1940), and it was
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