A great website to use when teaching dialogue.

Today I taught an English lesson which focused on dialogue between characters.  I wanted to motivate the students and found an excellent website to do so.

First, I paired the students up and they did some hot-seating in character.

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Next the students got their ipads and loaded ifaketext.com .  It is a great website which allows you to create a fake text message conversation – perfect for a whole range of lessons.

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Have a look at my short video tutorial on how to use the site:

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The students created conversations and they really enjoyed doing it in this format.  Here is an example of the outcome:

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Next, I taught the class how to write in formal direct speech.  Here’s a fun way to do it:

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After I set up a classroom chat-room on TodaysMeet.com (click here for a tutorial) and the children came up with a range of words to use instead of ‘said’.  Here is a transcript from the session:

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Finally, the students turned the fake text messages into formal direct speech in their exercise books.

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How do you teach dialogue?  Share your ideas by commenting below.