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 learners to look beyond conventional communicative strategies and practise spoken language in a fresh contextualised way.

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