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    Only the Best Intentions: Integrated Skills Through Drama, #2
    Only the Best Intentions: Integrated Skills Through Drama, #2
    Only the Best Intentions: Integrated Skills Through Drama, #2
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    Only the Best Intentions: Integrated Skills Through Drama, #2

    By Alice Savage

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    Teach pragmatics by getting dramatic in the classroom!


    Life's ups and downs do not slow down the busy Curry family, but when daughter Gigi breaks off her engagement to a computer gamer, everything comes to a stop. Everyone wants to help Gigi and Oscar, but in a modern romance, the rules the game are always changing.

    Runner-Up, Best Resource for Secondary and Young Adult Learners, 2018 English-Language Awards from the English-Speaking Union! 

    Only the Best Intentions is part of the Integrated Skills Through Drama series that teaches speaking and communication skills through the performance of a one-act play. This flexible curriculum is perfect for a class project, elective course, or drama club.


    As students prepare to perform the play, they study intonation and pronunciation skills such as sentence and word stress for clarity, as well as pronunciation and linking. They learn about body language and gesture as ways to communicate. They analyze the script as a work of literature and also mine it for language and rhetorical strategies discuss a personal conflict, complain about someone, give or receive advice and more. And they learn to apply those strategies to their performance and to real-life situations.

    A variety of performance options are featured, including Reader's Theater.
    Background readings on the history of competitive video games, the life of professional video game players, and the benefits and dangers of tech addiction fill out the curriculum. A number of creative writing projects to rewrite the script, adapt the play, or even write a sequel allow you to extend the learning further.

    This original drama-based coursebook is sure to engage and motivate your learners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlphabet Publishing
    Release dateJul 2, 2018
    ISBN9781948492072
    Only the Best Intentions: Integrated Skills Through Drama, #2
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    Alice Savage

    Alice Savage comes from a family of theatre people. Her grandfather was a professor of theatre arts, and her father is a playwright. The Integrated Skills Through Drama series has given her the opportunity to bring together this family experience in the theatre  with her love of teaching. In addition to the three plays in that series, Her Own Worst Enemy, Only the Best Intentions, and Rising Water, Alice has written many ELT books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Wayzgoose Press. Alice has a Master of Arts in Teaching from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She is currently a professor of ESOL at Lone Star College System, in Houston, Texas where she also does some teacher-training. She is grateful for the opportunity to spend time with young people who are exploring their own decisions about career and life.

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      Only the Best Intentions - Alice Savage

      ONLY the BEST INTENTIONS

      A Modern Romance Between a Guy, a Girl, and a Game

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      ONLY the BEST INTENTIONS

      A Modern Romance Between a Guy, a Girl, and a Game

      ALICE SAVAGE

      INTEGRATED SKILLS THROUGH DRAMA

      Copyright 2018 by Alice Savage

      ISBN: 978-1-948492-06-5 (paperback)

      978-1-948492-07-2 (epub)

      978-1-948492-10-2 (kindle)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017964682

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, introduced into or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

      Country of Manufacture Specified on the Last Page

      First Printing 2018

      Published by: Alphabet Publishing, 1204 Main Street #172, Branford, Connecticut 06405 USA

      info@alphabetpublishingbooks.com • www.alphabetpublishingbooks.com

      Designed by James Arneson Art & Design, JaadBookDesign.com

      All interior artwork licensed from Adobestock or Depositphotos, except as acknowledged below:

      GeForce GTX AllStar Tournament, page 19 Alper Çuğun (cc-by 2.0 license);

      3rd Place Match SLTV StarSeries Summer Split, page 20, Yuri Shornikov (cc-by 2.0 license),

      The author consulted a number of sources while researching the articles and we would like to acknowledge them below: Life in the Age of Screens—Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle; Connected, but alone?, a TED Talk by Sherry Turkle; In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air Oct. 17 2012 (https://www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163098594/in-constant-digital-contact-we-feel-alone-together); Irresistible: The Rise of Additive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked Adam Alter; Proteus paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us—and How They Don’t by Nick Yee; ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia by Paul Lewis. The Guardian, Oct. 5 2017.

      A Gamer in the Family—The Overwatch Videogame League Aims to Become the New NFL by Nathan Hall. WIRED, Dec. 5 2017. (https://www.wired.com/story/overwatch-videogame-league-aims-to-become-new-nfl/); Geguri to become first female competitor in Overwatch APEX by Young Jae Jeon. ESPN.com, Aug. 7 2017 (http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20269551/geguri-become-first-female-competitor-overwatch-apex); Faker apparently has a monthly allowance of $178 by Andrew Kim. Slingshot, October 26, 2017 (http://slingshotesports.com/2017/10/26/faker-parents-allowance/); Faker: ‘Now I do want to go on a date... If I ever have time, I will consider meeting someone.’ LOL Matrix, July 9, 2017. (http://lol.esportsmatrix.com/en-US/News/Detail?id=4853); Do You Have ‘Gaming Disorder,’ A Newly Recognized Mental Health Condition? by Bruce Lee. Forbes, Dec. 24 2017 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/12/24/do-you-have-video-gaming-disorder-a-newly-recognized-mental-health-condition/); Stefano Verbo Disalvo: Defining the Los Angeles Valiant Brotherhood Overwatch League. Nov. 21 2017. (https://valiant.overwatchleague.com/news/stefano-verbo-disalvo-defining-los-angeles-valiant-brotherhood); Gamepedia s.v. Faker (https://lol.gamepedia.com/Faker); The Rise of a Legend—The Story of Lee Faker Sang-hyeok by Zir0. Dot Esports. Apr. 8 2015 (https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/the-rise-of-a-legend-the-story-of-lee-faker-sanghyeok-7218) ; Gaming and Gamers by Maeve Duggan. Pew Research Center, Dec. 15 2015 (http://www.pewin-ternet.org/2015/12/15/gaming-and-gamers/); and interviews with the author.

      The Rise of Esports—The Sports Market AT Kearney (https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/6f46b880-f8d1-4909-9960-cc605bb1ff34); Esports revenues will reach $696M in 2017 and $1.5Bn by 2020 by Peter Warman. Newzoo, Feb. 14 2017 (https://newzoo.com/insights/articles /esports-revenues-will-reach-696-million-in-2017/); Dota 2’s $20 Million International Starts Today by Brain Albert. IGN.com, Aug. 3 2016 (http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/08/03/dota-2s-20-million-international-starts-today).

      Thank you to my family for loving theatre, especially Cyrus and Kaveh Shafiei because you remind me how much I love it, too. Also, Jorj for keeping on keeping on.

      I also want to thank Carnegie Theatre’s Steward Savage for his insight into the value of background research and the acting students for helping to workshop the script through readings and recordings. Cyrus, Jackson, Kaveh, Sadie, and Viviana thank you! Also, Davis and Sam, you showed up and worked hard!

      I am also extremely grateful to my colleagues at Lone Star College for believing in me, and for working with me on developing the material. Thanks Amy, Anne, Colin, David, Erin, Janet, Joy, Katie, Macarena, and Masoud. You are all gifted teachers, and I love working with you!

      Finally, I want to thank Ken Wilson for your wise counsel and Walton Burns for taking a chance on an unconventional manuscript. It has been a pleasure!

      —A.S.

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      How to Use This Book

      PREVIEW

      Think about the Topic

      Discuss the Title

      Read for Background

      Life in the Age of Screens

      A Gamer in the Family

      The Rise of Esports

      Practice Attentive Listening

      ONLY THE BEST INTENTIONS

      Read the Script

      Discussion

      PRODUCTION

      Analyze the Play

      Assign Roles

      Learn Your Part

      Rehearse

      Practice Pronunciation

      Sentence Stress to Clarify and Show Contrast

      Pronunciation and linking

      Stage Your Play

      POST-PERFORMANCE

      Lead a Talkback

      Write an Alternative Ending

      Gather

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