Suppose your teacher has taught a dialog and ask you to get ready for the next session to give an oral summary,before I start to give you my ideas I want you to share yours.What is your strategy to work on a dialog?
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Oh Thanks Alireza you give me a new thing on how teach Dialogue..very simple way to summarize a dialogue..
Now lets me to try your Idea...But please give me correction if I do mistakes.
here is my answer :
The characters of the dialogue are 1. Kristy, Theresa, dave and a women ( Theresa`s mother )..then there are olso; martha/matty ( kristy`s cat ), Benjamin/buddy ( theresa`dog ).. Ithink that all the characters in the dialogue above..
Ist right Alireza ?
Alireza said:
Look at this dialog and then try to write a summary for it. I will talk about your summary later.
There are many ways to summarize a dialog,This is one of the easiest one that I ask my students to do and even in very low levels they can summarize a dialog even a very short one let's say a two-line dialog.
The first thing I ask them to do in summarizing a dialog is introducing the characters in the dialog,even if there are some pets in the dialog they should introduce them too,the second part I ask them to say where the characters in the dialog are,they already made some sentences up to this point,then I ask to to make some simple sentences about what the characters are doing in the dialog.
Up to this point the students answered these questions about the dialog:
Who are they?
Where are they?
What are they doing?
The students up to this point used the picture(s) to answer these questions about the dialog.
Then they should use the dialog itself and extract any information they can about the main idea of the dialog and write them down and add them to what they previously have written or said.
The very important part of this task is that the students should have a bilingual dictionary to find words they don't know and of course I ask them to use the new grammar and words they have learned in the unit in their summary,I am using this techniques for many years and it is really working,we should not forget that after a student summarizes the dialog we jot down his/her mistakes so we can talk about them right after he/she finishes summarizing.
The thing that i do is that I will catch the main ideas and I will try to understand the whole meaning of the dialogue rather than understanding word by word. While listening, I will ask some questions like these: What am I listening to? What are they talking about? Where are they talking? When are they talking? How do they feel about the topic? What is the problem for them?
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Remember you should make sentences :
This is Theresa.
This is.....
continue like this...for every part I explained you should make sentences.
Now lets me to try your Idea...But please give me correction if I do mistakes.
here is my answer :
The characters of the dialogue are 1. Kristy, Theresa, dave and a women ( Theresa`s mother )..then there are olso; martha/matty ( kristy`s cat ), Benjamin/buddy ( theresa`dog ).. Ithink that all the characters in the dialogue above..
Ist right Alireza ?
Alireza said:
I will talk about your summary later.
The first thing I ask them to do in summarizing a dialog is introducing the characters in the dialog,even if there are some pets in the dialog they should introduce them too,the second part I ask them to say where the characters in the dialog are,they already made some sentences up to this point,then I ask to to make some simple sentences about what the characters are doing in the dialog.
Up to this point the students answered these questions about the dialog:
Who are they?
Where are they?
What are they doing?
The students up to this point used the picture(s) to answer these questions about the dialog.
Then they should use the dialog itself and extract any information they can about the main idea of the dialog and write them down and add them to what they previously have written or said.
The very important part of this task is that the students should have a bilingual dictionary to find words they don't know and of course I ask them to use the new grammar and words they have learned in the unit in their summary,I am using this techniques for many years and it is really working,we should not forget that after a student summarizes the dialog we jot down his/her mistakes so we can talk about them right after he/she finishes summarizing.
Thanks,
Warm regards,
Nafis