Half the story (intermediate)
Objective
The primary objective of the worksheet is to encourage creative writing and critical thinking by requiring students to reconstruct the missing half of a conversation.
Content and Methods
- Content: The worksheet presents a "half-dialogue" regarding a specific topic of your choice.
- Methods: The worksheet uses an incomplete dialogue completion task ("Half the story") to practice conversational flow and context clues.
- It concludes with open-ended reflective questions to transition from creative writing to personal opinion and argumentative expression.
Competencies
- Creative Writing: Drafting coherent and contextually appropriate responses to maintain a logical conversation.
- Sociolinguistic Competence: Understanding and using conversational fillers and responses common in informal English dialogues.
- Thematic Reflection: Evaluating a specific topic.
- Perspective-Taking: Inferring the hidden side of a discussion based on the reactions of the remaining speaker.
Target Group and Level
- Target Group: Grade 7 and above
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Target group and level
Grades 7 and above
Subjects
English
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Half the story (intermediate)
