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Practice 5





              I SPEAK ALONE;
              I SPEAK FOR YOU



              Activity 1
              • When they have completed this
               practice, your students will be
               ready to say a monologue. At
               B1 level, your students should
               be able to hold their own
               and be ready to deliver long
               stretches of oral production with
               a minimum of hesitation and
               without veering off topic. This
               is good evidence of
               being an independent user of
               the language.
              • You may want to start the
               questions by asking your
               students if they have been
               to the theater. Maybe they
               participated in a school play as
               part of the classwork in their
               mother tongue. As they will see
               throughout this practice, while
               monologues are not exclusive of
               theater, they are used frequently
               in plays as a way of linking
               different parts of a play or to convey the inner thoughts and emotions of a character. Because there is no
               narrator in theater, there are only two ways of understanding the thoughts of a character: by means of their
               actions, or by having them express their thoughts and emotions via a monologue directly to the audience.
              • A note of interest: the monologue is the oldest form of theater expression. In the first plays in Greek drama
               (about 2500 years ago), a single character used to appear on stage. This preceded the appearance of two
               or more actors conversing between themselves, so monologue gave way to dialogue, not the other way
               around, as we may think.
               -  Go to Track 60 and use the visual resources to support your teaching strategies.
              • Some answers for the questions might be:
               -  In the pictures, the person is singing or acting.
               -  Because it’s a monologue (he is addressing the public directly).
               -  In both, about a story.
               -  Because he has stage fright.
               -  Because he is talking in a big venue.
               -  I’d like to be the character on image 3, because he shows trust and self-confidence. I would like to talk
                 about my childhood.
              Students may give longer answers than these. The examples are only indicative.




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