However, you can’t just put people into groups and give them a topic. Speaking and listening may be unpopular because it’s per-ceived as bring difficult to manage. In fact, it’s a management ally; it releases all kinds of classroom pressures; but, like everything else in teaching, it needs prepared structures. In fact, it’s an extremely disciplined set of activities. Good drama lessons are highly disciplined. Sport, where children wear odd clothes and charge about aggressively and competitively, is subject to the most complex of rule systems. Discipline and activity are mutually dependent and mutually supportive.