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[celticjay]

I have 40 students and 45 mins to teach a dialogue.
In the past I've tried a speed reading competion, breaking the dialogue into scripts and making them memorize and present.
I'm looking for some new fresh ideas to keep the class lively

[crazylemongirl]

My dialogue lessons are structured so that everyone can understand a little bit of the dialogue.

1. Vocab slides, talk about basic concepts. Make your slides interesting and attractive.
2. Listen and repeat with teacher.
3. Teacher and Students play a part. At the end of this ssession some open-ended questions about the dialogue which will come up in the worksheet at the end of the lesson.
4. half the class takes one role the other half the other. More questions from worksheet.
5. Volunteer time. They usually get candy for this.
6. Worksheet. Complete worksheet on dialogue. Has vocab identification, term defintions, and then some questions to answer. Final section is 'extra for experts' with some harder quetions for the higher level students.
7. check answers.

I think it's really important with dialogue lessons to keep them well structured and realtively consistent. My classes are tested on so the goals of the lesson are always clearly stated and the worksheets will make the basis for those questions.

The way to have fun is how you present the material and with drilling. Make your vocab slides funny and intersetng and your worksheets the same. Over dramatizing dialogues is fun too.

[I_Am_Wrong]

I don't spend an entire class doing a dialogue because the Korean teachers cover the dialogues in their classes. However, I do brush upon the dialogues, review them, and prepare extra activities around them. I spent half of my class on one today. Here's what I did,

1)Reviewed the dialogue expressions and had them repeat after me for pronunciation practice.

2)Quickly practiced the dialogue with partners

3)I broke the dialogue into 6 different parts. I typed the 6 different parts onto paper and cut out each part. Each group of 6 students got the cut up dialogue. They each had to randomly choose a piece of paper and then practice saying their parts in order. I had them change parts and practice about 3 times.

4)Speed Game--Time how fast each group could say the dialogue in the proper order. The winning team got candy.

Took about 20 minutes.

[Hater Depot]

Frankly I find that spending class time on something they can do at home -- memorizing a dialogue -- is mostly a waste of time. Either a student is smart enough and motivated enough that he/she memorizes it, or not. I did go over the dialogue every week and have them repeat it, but overall I found that it was a much better use of time to explain vocabulary and grammar, give them worksheets, ask them questions about the dialogue, think about similar situations, etc. Basically I gear much more towards encouraging as much productive speech as possible, because talking with a native speaker is not something they can do anywhere else.

[idealjetsam]