Online Learning Materials
Academic Session-2077
Grade:10
English
Unit 1
Giving, Withholding and Reporting Permission
Day 2
Writing Task: A
Dialogue Writing with Listening Cues
Lesson: 2 Time: 40 Minutes
Full Marks 12 Pass Mark: 08
Please note that all the tasks and items prepared below are authentic materials and will be used as they are in your terminal, Pre SEE, and SEE Preparation Examinations. You are therefore required to sincerely complete these tasks on a daily basis. Parents are kindly requested to be with the children to monitor and supervise their studies as most of these contents contain a number of materials on the internet, especially YouTube.
a. Reading Time: 10 minutes
b. Audio Visual Time: 10 minutes
c. Writing Time: 20 minutes
Read these columns as to how we give and withhold permission.
Giving permission
a) Of course.
b) You can… but you mustn’t …..
c) Yes, certainly, you can.
d) Don’t let them ……….
e) By all means.
f) Please, don’t hesitate to …
g) Yes, that’s fine.
h) Sure.
i) OK/Fine/Alright.
c) Yes, certainly, you can.
d) Don’t let them ……….
e) By all means.
f) Please, don’t hesitate to …
g) Yes, that’s fine.
h) Sure.
i) OK/Fine/Alright.
Withholding permission
f) Sorry, I’m afraid………
a) I’m afraid you can’t…..
c) I am afraid not.
d) I am afraid I can’t let you.
e) I can’t possibly….
Some Dialogue Writing Tips and Tricks
1. State the situation and introduce the characters in the form of a short narration before you begin the dialogue.
2. Have a minimum of six exchanges from the examination point of view.
3. Make use of contraction like- ‘won’t, doesn’t, haven’t, didn’t, aren’t isn’t’, etc. not the full words like ‘will not, does not, have not, did not, are not, is not’, etc.
4. Write the dialogue the way you speak in person, over the phone, or face to face.
5. Write very short sentences as it is not a speech or a one-way presentation; it is a conversation where all the speakers are speaking one after another for a very short while.
6. Keep your text in a box
7. Write all the dialogue exchanges in alternate lines.
8. You are allowed to use colloquial diction and shortened forms of words like ‘coz for because c’mon for come on, yah/yep for yes along with other pause fillers or hesitation devices like uhmm…, oh…, shh…, yuck…, ah…, phew., by the way… etc.
9. Make use of the nicknames of the characters instead of the formal full names like Liza for Elizabeth, Kate for Katherine, Willy for William, etc.
10. Make use of a lot of punctuation marks as and when necessary to create a lifelike effect.
Links Related to Dialogue Writing
1. Based on the reading task in the previous lesson, write a telephone conversation between Ravi and Asha or Sita and Gita where they are talking about the cultural practices of people of different ethnicities in different regions of Nepal. Ensure that you have a minimum of six exchanges. [6]
2. Watch and listen to the speakers on the second link carefully and summarize their conversation in a paragraph of about 100 words. [6]
Note: Please use a separate Notebook for all your tasks or A4 size paper well managed in a portfolio/file in the same order for submission and evaluation.
The End
Compiled, Edited and Prepared by Jaya Narayan Bhusal
Department of English
