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Teaching Dialogues
Steps:
1. Set the scene - Stick figures. - Flannel board figures - A nice picture showing the situation - Puppets 2. Teacher reads the dialogue at normal speed once or twice and indicates the speaker. Students’ books are closed. 3. The teacher reads the dialogue again sentence by sentence. The students are put into groups. Each group repeats the part of speaker after the teacher. The groups can exchange their parts. Long sentences are broken into meaningful parts. Group choral repetition after the teacher. 4. Students open their books. Groups or individual students read the part for one speaker. Pronunciation errors can be corrected. 5. Teacher asks questions on the dialogue. 6. Dialogue Reconstruction. The teacher puts key words on the blackboard. These words should normally be content words not structure words. The teacher gets the students with books closedto reconstruct the dialogue from these key words. Mimes, pictures can also be used instead of or in addition to the key words. 7. Dialogue continuation. a. Get the students to continue the dialogue. b. Get the students working in groups yo compose other dialogues depending on the situation in the dialogue.
Steps:
1. Set the scene - Stick figures. - Flannel board figures - A nice picture showing the situation - Puppets 2. Teacher reads the dialogue at normal speed once or twice and indicates the speaker. Students’ books are closed. 3. The teacher reads the dialogue again sentence by sentence. The students are put into groups. Each group repeats the part of speaker after the teacher. The groups can exchange their parts. Long sentences are broken into meaningful parts. Group choral repetition after the teacher. 4. Students open their books. Groups or individual students read the part for one speaker. Pronunciation errors can be corrected. 5. Teacher asks questions on the dialogue. 6. Dialogue Reconstruction. The teacher puts key words on the blackboard. These words should normally be content words not structure words. The teacher gets the students with books closedto reconstruct the dialogue from these key words. Mimes, pictures can also be used instead of or in addition to the key words. 7. Dialogue continuation. a. Get the students to continue the dialogue. b. Get the students working in groups yo compose other dialogues depending on the situation in the dialogue.