Hello! Finishing a short dialog
Most short dialogs have three parts: a greeting, questions with answers, and a goodbye. We greet with Hello or Good morning and ask How are you? A good reply answers and asks back: I’m fine, thank you. And you? To ask about habits we use do: What do you eat for breakfast? To ask about the timetable we say Do you have science today? and answer Yes, I do or No, I don’t. Look at the words before and after a gap: they show which question fits. Small words need care too. Use a before a consonant sound (a book) and an before a vowel sound (an apple). Use some with food and drink we do not count (some water). With would like we ask politely: Would you like some tea? Use on for a surface, under for below, and at for a place or a time: on the desk, under the chair, at school, at 7 o’clock.
| Part of the dialog | Example |
|---|---|
| Greeting | Hello, Dalia! How are you? |
| Reply and ask back | I’m fine, thank you. And you? |
| Question about breakfast | What do you eat for breakfast? |
| Question about class | Do you have science this afternoon? |
| Goodbye | See you later! |
Good morning, Dalia! How are you?
I’m fine, thank you. And you?
Very well, thanks. What do you eat for breakfast?
I usually have beans and bread. And you?
I like eggs and cheese. Do you have art this afternoon?
Yes, I do. I have art at two o’clock.
Great! See you later, Dalia.
See you later!
Dialog relay. The child and a grown-up write a six-line dialog on paper: greeting, How are you?, a breakfast question, an answer, a question about a lesson today, a goodbye. They act it out, then swap the parts.