Task 3

Skills building 3: writing a dialogue

Teaching objectives:

To develop writing skills by reading the tips.

To understand the mood of the Mum’s and Jack’s feelings.

Important and difficult points:

Writing a dialogue.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1  Lead-in 

The language you use in writing a dialogue:

not too colloquial

not too redundant

descriptive

Step 2  Reading

1  Read the instructions and know some tips of writing a dialogue. 

Read Part A and discuss what is wrong with the underlined sentences.

  a.‘Umm’ or ‘hmm’ shouldn’t be included in a written dialogue.