Dialogue substitution, a Quick ESL reading and speaking activity | Dialogue for ESL Students
If you want to help your students out with remembering new vocabulary words, then check out this ESL dialogue activity. Instead of just reading an ESL dialogue mindlessly, students have to fill in the blanks with keywords that you’ve given them. Teaching English with dialogues is one of my favourite ways for students to see new words or grammar points in context.
This TEFL activity is a nice way to increase the difficulty of a simple ESL conversation dialogue that you can often find in textbooks. Try this out for dialogues for ESL students and you'll notice a difference in how engaged students are when reading it.
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Transcript for dialogue substitution:
Today, I'm going to talk about dialogue substitution. It's one of my favourite ESL reading and speaking activities.
Have you ever experienced this in your class? It happens to me all the time. You know, there are those little dialogues in the textbooks that are often kind of like the lead-in to the rest of the unit.
I put students into pairs and I tell them, okay read the dialogue with your partner and it is blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and they're finished. And then I say okay so that guy Bob and ask a question about Bob from the dialogue. Everyone's like, what who's Bob and they actually like legitimately have no idea who Bob is, what bob did, what bob said, even though they had just finished reading it with their partner.
Do you know what the problem is? It's not with my students, it's with me because I didn't give them a reason to actually read carefully.
This is the ultimate way to combat that so this does require a bit of prep. Photocopy the page in your textbook, take out some of the keywords and then students have to read it together with their partners but they have to fill in the blanks with these keywords. The keywords could be things like the verbs, like the past tense verbs, or they could be things related to food or drink if you're teaching food or drink.
Sometimes, I'll put a little word bank at the top. Sometimes I won't. It kind of just depends on the level of the students so it turns it from a simple reading out a loud exercise to an exercise that focuses on meaning as well. Students actually have to pay attention to what they're reading.
All right so that is my quick tip to make dialogues more interesting, engaging, difficult, and fruitful for your students. If you like this quick teaching tip, please be sure to hit like, subscribe, leave a comment below and let me know if you tried it out and what you think about it.
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