This is a short exercise to put a telephone dialogue in the right sequence, appropriate for elementary level.

Need some novel way to enliven your class? The traditional way of practising dialogue is to have students work in pairs (or groups), prepare their dialogues, then role-play them, maybe in front of the classroom. Instead of doing that, why don't you get them to prepare a comic strip first (after working on expressions, vocabulary, etc., of course). ...

Last published on 15 Nov 2009. This version has been reworked and supersedes the older version.         Do you have trouble making a telephone call in English? Do you get nervous when you don't understand the person on the other end? Are you familiar with most of  the basic telephone language? In this post, I will  ...

This supersedes this post: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2009/08/dialogue-at-airport-check-in-matching.html You may also like this one: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2010/03/at-airport-putting-dialogue-in-sequence.html

See also At the Airport: Putting Dialogue in Sequence, Matching, Jigsaw

It would seem that quite a few games on dialogues published last year have disappeared from one of my file hosting sites, so I'll be recreating them and moving them to Google Sites. These are two parts of a dialogue on ordering a meal in a restaurant. It's also an idea to jumble the dialogue, and get the students to put them in order. Later, they ...

This game was first published on 23 July 2009, but I noticed that the source file has gone missing. I re-created it, and so, here it is. Students match the dialogue between a shop assistant and a customer. There isn't any time limit. I've also added another game based on the same dialogue. In this one, students need to put the dialogue in the ...