Dialogue Activities Book

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