Drama: Asking and Listening

Welcome to our toolkit for using What's Your Story? in your Senior Phase Arts and Culture: Drama lessons. These resources are categorised into two sections: asking and listening and telling. We recommend you always begin with asking and listening to build a helpful foundation for your learners. View the content for telling here.

In this section, there are five lesson plans that cover four topics. The lessons include presentations, keywords, handouts and audiovisual materials, which can be viewed and downloaded from the lesson module, or downloaded individually from our resources page.

In addition, we have a teacher training video that can be downloaded or watched online in preparation for doing these lessons in your class:

We also have a PDF of all the lesson plans available, if you would prefer to use them that way.

Topic 1: Dramatic skills development

  • Vocal development
  • Physical development
  • Lesson 1: Active listening
  • Lesson 2: Listening with our whole body

Topic 2: Drama elements in playmaking

  • Improvised drama to explore dramatic structure.
  • Drama reflecting culture practices.
  • Theme related to social and environmental issues. 
  • Lesson 3: How we view the world
  • Lesson 4: Story structure

Topic 3: Interpretation and performance of selected dramatic forms

  • Scene and dialogue work.
    • Lesson 4: Story structure
    • Lesson 5: Improvisation and asking

    Topic 4: Appreciation and reflection

    • Lesson 1: Active listening
    • Lesson 2: Listening with our whole body
    • Lesson 3: How we view the world
    • Lesson 4: Story structure
    • Lesson 5: Improvisation and asking