Strange Medicine
About this ebook
—David Farmer, NILE training consultant, theatre director, and author
Strange Medicine is an original short play about a mysterious scientist doing secretive research while renting a guesthouse from a family. The engaging, suspenseful play hits on an important theme: how is truth decided in science?
This play was written for English students to improve their communication and speaking skills. As students read, practice, and perform these plays, they will learn cultural contexts, conversational moves, intonation and body language, high frequency lexical phrases, and grammar patterns
Short enough for a project in a speaking class, but expandable to fill a whole elective class, drama unit, or theater club production,Strange Medicine makes drama in the classroom a good thing!
In addition to the script, this book contains Preview activities, Pragmatics lesson on changing the subject, Advice on producing a play, Pronunciation tips, Glossary of theater vocabulary.
About the author
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. She blogs at https://englishendeavors.org/
With an educational career spanning around 40 years, Steve Hirschhorn has worked as a teacher, DoS, Trainer, Senior Lecturer, Principal and Vice President in the ELT industry. In the 1980s Steve trained in Silent Way and Suggestopedia and later trained teachers in both. He has been External Examiner to three UK universities’ ELT related programmes and has twice won the Walpole Prize for Excellent in Teaching. Although officially retired, Steve continues to lecture and deliver workshops all over the world.
