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Interact with ESL fulbrighters from all over the world Exchange materials, ideas and procedures about the teaching of English as a second language. Write plays and short stories for ESL students.

Improvisation in the ESL classes

Improvisation is a very  creative activity. I have tried it together with acting and it worked enormously. As in Morocco, generally job interviews are a mess, we told and acted out the story of one job interview. I just set the scene for my students and appointed the interviewer. after that students invented characters of interviewees. One was an old lady who spoke languages but was unable to move the mouse  of a pc, one was a young beautiful lady who had no qualifications whatsoever except her beauty. Another was a gentlemen who had all the qualifications but was too serious to charm his interviewer (a woman). And guess who got the job: the playboy whose assets were mainly his haircut, postmodern jeans and highly fashionable glasses. All the improvisation and the acting out were done in the funniest atmosphere to the point that I asked students to do it again in front of an audience of teachers and students from inside and outside the school.  
Published Monday, February 02, 2009 6:53 AM by rabia El Antaki
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About rabia El Antaki

I am a teacher of English as a second langage. I am very much interested in developing the teaching environment for my students. I also try to be innovative by exchanging the latest teaching experiences with teachers from all over the world. 2007: coached drama club, public speaking club. 2008: participated in Fulbright teacher exchange program. An American teacher visited me in Morocco for six weeks. She team taught with me. I am visiting USA for six weeks too to go through the same experience.

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