Whiteboard Dialogues
Board Dialogues work in much the same way as Board Stories. The teacher starts the dialogue off, asks the students for help, etc. Once finished it is read out by the class as one. Then team A can be [Person 1] and team B can be [Person 2]. Roles can be reversed. Finally pick two students to read in front of the class – and as a final task you can get the whole class into pairs to role play the dialogue.
Let us say that the FCs / target language are/is for weather:
Person 1: It is [sunny] today, what can we do?
Person 2: We can go to the park!
Person 1: I don’t want to go to the park. It’s too [hot].
Person 2: But it’s a little [windy]. I think we’ll be ok. We can wear hats and sunglasses.
Person 1: I hate the park. Let’s go to the beach. We can go swimming.
Person 2: Oh, no! Look out the window. It’s [raining].
Person 1: Don’t worry. I think the [rain] will stop. I want to go to the beach.
Person 2: Oh, no! Look, it’s [snowing].
Person 1: It’s ok. We can make a snowman on the beach.
Person 2: I don’t want to go outside with you. I want to stay at home and play computer games.
An option that can be used with both dialogues and board stories is to draw little pictures in place of some of the words. This makes the board story or dialogue visually more accessible.
In the above dialogue, which words can be replaced with pictures?
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