This low-level activity exploits one of the listening dialogues from our Audio bank and shows how the script and audio files can be used to develop students' speaking abilities.

Preparation
Take the script of a dialogue and blank out one half of the conversation.

Example blanked script 46k
Complete script 46k

Procedure

• Hand out a gapped version of dialogue with only Steve's utterances showing and Sharon's blanked out.

• Get your students to try to write in Sharon's lines using the clues given in Steve's subsequent respective answers.

• Play the dialogue and get the students to compare what they hear with what they have written.

• Give them some feedback. They may not have predicted what the speaker said exactly, but they may have given some good possible answers, so be sure to acknowledge that.

• Write some keywords from each part of the dialogue on the board
  • Example:
    Sharon: "…you?"
    Steve: "I….. You?"
    Sharon: ."I….. What…..?
    Steve: "Not…..Busy….We….I…..go….."
    Sharon:"…That…..When….?"
    Steve: "….week…..know."

• Ask the students to listen again then work in pairs to rehearse and act out the dialogue.

To find more audio dialogues and scripts go to our Audio bank

Elisabeth Boeck

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