Lesson 5

Teacher Training Module IX

Situational Dialogs

Competency: To be able to teach students to compose and enact situational dialogs.

Note: The purpose of the situational dialog exercise is to help students improve their listening and speaking skills through listening to, composing and acting out dialogs. It is not intended that students memorize the dialogs but rather that they read them. The situational dialog can be centered around a particular case or it may be centered around a particular sentence pattern or situation.

Preparation:

Step 1: Select and assign students to read through the dialog.

Choose as many students as there are characters in the dialog and assign them to read it through several times in preparation for enacting it before the class.

Step 2: Obtain visual aids and realia (real objects) for use with the lesson.

Teaching:

Step 1: Narrate the dialog and have students read the parts before the class.

Step 2: Ask discussion questions to the class.

Step 3: Explain the discourse strategy used in the dialog.

Step 4: Pair the students off and have them write situational dialogs following the model (suggest topics and situations).

Step 5: Have students read their dialogs and act them out before the class.