Dialogue Activities
Using dialogues in different contexts, this book provides over 100 practical activities for teachers to adapt for their classrooms. These activities encourage learners to look at the English language through dialogues and spoken interaction from coursebooks, literature and media, as well as authentic conversation extracts. The book explores using dialogue to communicate personal meaning effectively. It covers dialogue as both 'product' and 'process' in language teaching and will encourage...
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Using dialogues in different contexts, this book encourages learners to look beyond conventional communication strategies and practise spoken language in context.
Thanks and acknowledgements IXIntroduction IUnderstanding 18Understanding dialogues: a basic procedure 18Board grab 21Reading versus listening 23Dialogue interpretation worksheets 24Jigsaw 26Designing exam questions 27What are they talking about? 28Snippets 29Fairy tale tableaux 30Lame jokes 31Working with interviews 32Dialogue as a way into a graded reader 35The bit I like... 37Analysing 39Tricky words 40Closed mouth minimal pairs 40Fishermen 42Stage directions 45Authentic versus scripted dialogues 47Dialogue scan race 49Filling in 53Speech acts 55The teacher does the speaking test 56Student dialogue reformulation 57Backchannelling 61Reproducing and reconstructing 62Jumbled lines 63Dialogue rebuilding 65The ultimate gapfill 68Listen again 70Jumbled reconstruction 71Dialogue pairs 73Dialogue retranslation 76Retranslated tapescript 77Dubbing 78From monologue to dialogue 79Turning news items into dialogue 81Shadow dialogues 82Mimed dialogues 84Modernised voiceovers 86Roughing up and censoring 89Memorising 91Who said what? 92Reduced dialogues 93Story to dialogue 95Adjacency pair turnover cards 97Remembering the questions 99Dialogue halves 101Line by line 103Prompts 104Rehearsing and performing 107Chanted dialogue 108Sounding like a gringo! 110It's not what you say... 112Students perform the listening material 114Improvising into a scene 115Shadowing actors 117Dialogues with movement 118Who's next? 119Conducted dialogue 121Performance to writng 124Reader's theatre 126Direct speech 128No way Jose 130Let's have a drink 132Co-constructing 134By name and by nature 135Half a conversation 137Dialogue building 140Community language learning 143Writing dialogue articles 145Famous last words 147Dialogue into song 148Conversational involvement 151Creating and personalising 155What did we have to say? 156The words I'd like to own 157Dice dialogues 158Speech bubbles 159Picture dialogues 160Dark secret scenes 161Soundtracks 163Conscience alley 164From depiction to dialogue 166Semi-planned roleplay 167The room talks back 168Into the future 169Communicating 170Venn diagrams 171Speed dating 172Gibberish scenes 174Dialogue warm-ups 175The status game 176Cline debates 177Gossip 178Paper talk 180Multi-speak dialogues 181ABC dialogues 182Odds versus evens 184The yes/no game 185Robinson Crusoe Island 185Who's lying? 187Interclass calls 189Celebrity ball 192Boring short stories 194Read, turn and talk 195Dialogue as learning 196The closed question restaurant 197Building a life 199The dating agency 200Talk and chalk 202Never-ending dialogue 204Would you give your teacher a job? 206The tourists are coming 208Dialogic text building 210Cooperative storymaking 212Teacher in role 213Interrupting the tapescript 216Dialogue versus internet 217Difficult dialogues 220From the film Mulholland Drive 222Authentic snippets 226Snippets from fairy tales 230Lame jokes 232Situational dialogues 234'Dating Agency' from the comedy series: Little Britain 237Further reading and resources 239Index 241
