LITERATURE COMPONENT FOR FORM 4 Drama TABLE OF CONTENTS ae Introduction Elements of Drama Suggested activities -Warm ups -Pre-production Production -Beyond the Text Assessment Glossary Appendices Panel of Writers © Curriculum Development Division. Ministry of Education Malaysia, 2008 GpGULP AND GASP a |ntroduction Dear Colleagues, This guidebook aims to show you how to approach and use drama in classrooms. It also hopes to remind us all the enormous potential that exists when drama is used as a tool in the learning situation to improve the not-so-favourable perception teachers have on drama and the use of English Language among our students. Reading and doing ‘Gulp and Gasp’ by John Townsend is not about training our students to become actors and actresses but rather to explore human conditions and to stimulate our students to have a better understanding of themselves and the world around them. We are not trying to prescribe how or what you should do when you take ‘Gulp and Gasp’ to. class but we do have some ideas to share. Thus, this guidebook contains some teaching ideas. It also contains some relevant but basic factual information as well as photocopiable handouts or task sheets for busy teachers. in the section on ‘Suggested Activities’, we have divided it into 3 parts: Part 1 : Warm-ups Part 2 : Pre-production Part 3 : Production We hope that teachers find this arrangement friendly and useful. You are most welcome to use, make changes and use, or not use them! What matters is that you are able to bring joy and fun in learning by using the most suitable ideas to suit your teaching environment and your students. We hope the experiences you create or bring to class through drama will leave your students “gulping and gasping" for more! - Panel of Writers for Teacher's Guidebook; “Gulp and Gasp’