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10. Read the following dialogue. Report the main points of what was said. Use the opening phrases of Ex. 9.
Newsagent's shop. Sunday morning. A young married couple, Anne and Jim, meet Ronald Marcer, a middle-aged librarian, while buying the Sunday newspapers.
Ronald: "Sunday Telegraph", please. Thank you.
Jim: We would like all the Sunday papers. Why ... hullo, Mr. Marcer.
Ronald: Hullo.
J i m: You know my wife, Anne, don't you?
Ronald: Yes. We've met once or ... How are you?
Anne: Yes, of course. How are you, Mr. Marcer?
Ronald: Buying up the whole of the paper shop this morning?
J i m: Well... We want to plan our summer holiday you see. And it's about this time of year especially that... that all the holiday adverts appear in the ...
Anne: So we thought we'd have a good look at about everything that's going.
Ronald: I see ... Yes ... You have to book up early these days. Are you thinking of going somewhere?
J i m: Yes ... we are. The trouble is ... the money.
R о n a 1 d: Ah yes. Now there's the rub. Now why don't you try the same holiday as my wife and I had last year? Does a package holiday attract you?
J i m: Well that sounds OK. What do you think, Anne-?
Anne: A package holiday ... But ... well you know these organized holidays ... you know what they are like. Everybody doing everything together, ... all at the same time. You sometimes need to lose the others for a bit.
Ronald: That does surprise me. You wanting to escape from the madding crowd. As I remember, you were always the life and soul of...
Jim: If that's how you'd care to put it. But getting away from the others at times ... you know ... never harmed anyone.
Ronald: Look ... How about a walking tour?
Anne: But how do we go about arranging it?
Ronald: Let's walk, shall we? We're going the same way I think. Let's cross here, shall we?
Anne: Watch out. You will get run over.
Jim: Whew. Narrow escape. We nearly didn't have any holiday ...
11.Decide how you can make your narrative of the story
"Picnic" as interest
ing as possible. Add detail and dialogue. Imagine what happened before the
first
scene and after the last scene.
12.Dramatize the story "Picnic". Bring necessary accessories.
13.Work in pairs. Put the story "Picnic" into a dialogue form.
14.Controlling a narrative.
You can signal the beginning of a spoken personal narrative like this:
Did I ever tell you about the time I...
That reminds me of the time I...
Funny you should mention this, because something similar happened to me once...
A story often has changes of direction and digression. You can signal the end of digression like this:
Anyway ...
As I was saying ...
To get back to the story ...
And we can speed up the end of the story by cutting out irrelevant detail and saying:
To cut a long story short...
Anyway, what happened in the end was ...
15. Read this simple story and try to memorize the
main points. When you
are ready tell your partner the story and be prepared for interruption. Tell the
story from memory. Use narrative technique. When you have told this story, lis
ten to your partner's story and keep interrupting with questions.
A Traveller's Tale
In the autumn of 1935, when I was a young man, I was travelling in the north-west of India. One evening, after hunting in the forest all day, I was returning alone to the place where I had put up my tent. It was getting dark, and I was walking along a narrow path. On my right was a wide river; on my left, a thick, dark forest. Suddenly I saw two green eyes looking at me from among the trees. A man-eating tiger was getting ready to jump on me.
What could I do? Should I jump into the river and hope to save my life by swimming? I looked to the right. In the river there was an immense crocodile waiting to welcome me with its mouth wide open.
I was so frightened that I shut my eyes. I heard branches moving as the tiger jumped. I opened my eyes. What do you think had happened? The tiger had jumped right over me and was now in the jaws of the crocodile. That's a true story, believe it or not.
1. Do you believe this story? 2. Try to describe a very improbable experience like the traveller in "A Traveller's Tale", making your account sound as truthful as possible. 3. Do you know of any stories (legends, popular beliefs) that might or might not be true? Give all the details you can and express your attitude to them.