| Thanks and acknowledgements | p. IX |
| Introduction | p. I |
| Understanding | p. 18 |
| Understanding dialogues: a basic procedure | p. 18 |
| Board grab | p. 21 |
| Reading versus listening | p. 23 |
| Dialogue interpretation worksheets | p. 24 |
| Jigsaw | p. 26 |
| Designing exam questions | p. 27 |
| What are they talking about? | p. 28 |
| Snippets | p. 29 |
| Fairy tale tableaux | p. 30 |
| Lame jokes | p. 31 |
| Working with interviews | p. 32 |
| Dialogue as a way into a graded reader | p. 35 |
| The bit I like... | p. 37 |
| Analysing | p. 39 |
| Tricky words | p. 40 |
| Closed mouth minimal pairs | p. 40 |
| Fishermen | p. 42 |
| Stage directions | p. 45 |
| Authentic versus scripted dialogues | p. 47 |
| Dialogue scan race | p. 49 |
| Filling in | p. 53 |
| Speech acts | p. 55 |
| The teacher does the speaking test | p. 56 |
| Student dialogue reformulation | p. 57 |
| Backchannelling | p. 61 |
| Reproducing and reconstructing | p. 62 |
| Jumbled lines | p. 63 |
| Dialogue rebuilding | p. 65 |
| The ultimate gapfill | p. 68 |
| Listen again | p. 70 |
| Jumbled reconstruction | p. 71 |
| Dialogue pairs | p. 73 |
| Dialogue retranslation | p. 76 |
| Retranslated tapescript | p. 77 |
| Dubbing | p. 78 |
| From monologue to dialogue | p. 79 |
| Turning news items into dialogue | p. 81 |
| Shadow dialogues | p. 82 |
| Mimed dialogues | p. 84 |
| Modernised voiceovers | p. 86 |
| Roughing up and censoring | p. 89 |
| Memorising | p. 91 |
| Who said what? | p. 92 |
| Reduced dialogues | p. 93 |
| Story to dialogue | p. 95 |
| Adjacency pair turnover cards | p. 97 |
| Remembering the questions | p. 99 |
| Dialogue halves | p. 101 |
| Line by line | p. 103 |
| Prompts | p. 104 |
| Rehearsing and performing | p. 107 |
| Chanted dialogue | p. 108 |
| Sounding like a gringo! | p. 110 |
| It's not what you say... | p. 112 |
| Students perform the listening material | p. 114 |
| Improvising into a scene | p. 115 |
| Shadowing actors | p. 117 |
| Dialogues with movement | p. 118 |
| Who's next? | p. 119 |
| Conducted dialogue | p. 121 |
| Performance to writng | p. 124 |
| Reader's theatre | p. 126 |
| Direct speech | p. 128 |
| No way Jose | p. 130 |
| Let's have a drink | p. 132 |
| Co-constructing | p. 134 |
| By name and by nature | p. 135 |
| Half a conversation | p. 137 |
| Dialogue building | p. 140 |
| Community language learning | p. 143 |
| Writing dialogue articles | p. 145 |
| Famous last words | p. 147 |
| Dialogue into song | p. 148 |
| Conversational involvement | p. 151 |
| Creating and personalising | p. 155 |
| What did we have to say? | p. 156 |
| The words I'd like to own | p. 157 |
| Dice dialogues | p. 158 |
| Speech bubbles | p. 159 |
| Picture dialogues | p. 160 |
| Dark secret scenes | p. 161 |
| Soundtracks | p. 163 |
| Conscience alley | p. 164 |
| From depiction to dialogue | p. 166 |
| Semi-planned roleplay | p. 167 |
| The room talks back | p. 168 |
| Into the future | p. 169 |
| Communicating | p. 170 |
| Venn diagrams | p. 171 |
| Speed dating | p. 172 |
| Gibberish scenes | p. 174 |
| Dialogue warm-ups | p. 175 |
| The status game | p. 176 |
| Cline debates | p. 177 |
| Gossip | p. 178 |
| Paper talk | p. 180 |
| Multi-speak dialogues | p. 181 |
| ABC dialogues | p. 182 |
| Odds versus evens | p. 184 |
| The yes/no game | p. 185 |
| Robinson Crusoe Island | p. 185 |
| Who's lying? | p. 187 |
| Interclass calls | p. 189 |
| Celebrity ball | p. 192 |
| Boring short stories | p. 194 |
| Read, turn and talk | p. 195 |
| Dialogue as learning | p. 196 |
| The closed question restaurant | p. 197 |
| Building a life | p. 199 |
| The dating agency | p. 200 |
| Talk and chalk | p. 202 |
| Never-ending dialogue | p. 204 |
| Would you give your teacher a job? | p. 206 |
| The tourists are coming | p. 208 |
| Dialogic text building | p. 210 |
| Cooperative storymaking | p. 212 |
| Teacher in role | p. 213 |
| Interrupting the tapescript | p. 216 |
| Dialogue versus internet | p. 217 |
| Difficult dialogues | p. 220 |
| From the film Mulholland Drive | p. 222 |
| Authentic snippets | p. 226 |
| Snippets from fairy tales | p. 230 |
| Lame jokes | p. 232 |
| Situational dialogues | p. 234 |
| 'Dating Agency' from the comedy series: Little Britain | p. 237 |
| Further reading and resources | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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