本书有效解决了课堂会话活动“形式单一、为练而练”的问题，介绍的1 10余个课堂活动不但趣味性强，而且将说与听、读、写巧妙结合起来。

书中将每个活动的目的、重点、适用水平、所用时间及需备材料清晰标明，除逐条说明活动步骤外，另附活动涉及的会话材料作参考。书末还提供了多篇材料供教师们使用。相信一线教师定能从中获益，师资培训者也可从书中的教学理念、方法受到启发。

Thanks and acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Understanding

1.1 Understanding dialogues：a basic procedure

1.2 Board grab

1.3 Reading versus listening

1.4 Dialogue interpretation worksheets

1.5 Jigsaw

1.6 Designing exam questions

1.7 What are they talking about?

1.8 Snippets

1.9 Fairy tale tableaux

1.10 Lame jokes

1.11 Working with interviews

1.12 Dialogue as a way into a graded reader

1.13 ThebitIlike

2 Analysing

2.1 Tricky words

2.2 Closed mouth minimal pairs

2.3 Fishermen

2.4 Stage directions

2.5 Authentic versus scripted dialogues

2.6 Dialogue scan race

2.7 Filling in

2.8 Speech acts

2.9 The teacher does the speaking test

2.10 Student dialogue reformulation

2.11 Backchannelling

3 Reproducing and reconstructing

3.1 Jumbled lines

3.2 Dialogue rebuilding

3.3 The ultimate gapfill

3.4 Listen again

3.5 Jumbled reconstruction

3.6 Dialogue pairs

3.7 Dialogue retranslation

3.8 Retranslated tapescript

3.9 Dubbing

3.10 From monologue tO dialogue

3.11 Turning news items into dialogue

3.12 Shadow dialogues

3.13 Mimed dialogues

3.14 Modernised voiceovers

3.15 Roughing up and censoring

4 Memorising

4.1 Who said what?

4.2 Reduced dialogues

4.3 Story tO dialogue

4.4 Adjacency pair turnover cards

4.5 Remembering the questions

4.6 Dialogue halves

4.7 Line byIine

4.8 Prompts

5 Rehearsing and performing

5.1 Chanted dialogue

5.2 Sounding like a gringo！

5.3 It'snotwhatyou say

5.4 Students perform the listening material

5.5 Improvising into a scene

5.6 Shadowing actors

5.7 Dialogues with movement

5.8 Who's next?

5.9 Conducted dialogue

5.10 Performance to writng

5.11 Reader's theatre

5.12 Direct speech

5.13 No wayJose

5.14 Let's have a drink

6 Co-constructing

6.1 By name and by nature

6.2 Half a conversation

6.3 Dialogue building

6.4 Community language learning

6.5 Writing dialogue articles

6.6 Famous last words

6.7 Dialogue into song

6.8 Conversational involvement

7 Creating and personalising

7.1 What did we have to say?

7.2 The words I'd like to own

7.3 Dice dialogues

7.4 Speech bubbles

7.5 Picture dialogues

7.6 Dark secret scenes

7.7 Soundtracks

7.8 Conscience alley

7.9 From depiction to dialogue

7.10 Semi-planned role-play

7.11 The room talks back

7.12 Intothe future

8 Communicating

8.1 Venn diagrams

8.2 Speed dating

8.3 Gibberish scenes

8.4 Dialoguewarm-ups

8.5 The status game

8.6 Cline debates

8.7 Gossip

8.8 Paper talk

8.9 Multi-speak dialogues

8.10 ABC dialogues

8.11 Odds versus evens

8.12 The yes/no game

8.13 Robinson Crusoe Island

8.14 Who's lying?

8.15 Interclass calls

8.16 Celebrity ball

8.17 Boring short stories

8.18 Read, turn and talk

9 Dialogue as learning

9.1 The closed question restaurant

9.2 Building a life

9.3 The dating agency

9.4 Talk and chalk

9.5 Never-ending dialogue

9.6 Would you give your teacher a job?

9.7 The tourists are coming

9.8 Dialogic text building

9.9 Cooperative storymaking

9.10 Teacher in role

9.11 Interrupting the tapescript

9.12 Dialogue versus internet

9.13 Difficult dialogues

Dialogue Bank A: From the film Mulholland Drive by David Lynch

Dialogue Bank B: Authentic snippets

Dialogue Bank C: Snippets from fairy tales

Dialogue Bank D: 25 Lame jokes

Dialogue Bank E: Situationaldialogues

Dialogue Bank F: Dating Agency (from the comedy series Little Britain)

Further reading and resources

Index