/ Learner Resource /
School Name / Upper Coomera State College
Subject / English / Topic / Procedure / Year / 3
Description / Sample pre-assessment taskUnit 4
Instructions / This pre-assessment will assess student’s ability to create a spoken procedure between two characters.
Read ‘Wombat Stew’ by Marcia K. Vaughan to the class.
Students then:-
  • create and present a dialogue between two characters from a story, where one character is telling another character how to do something.
  • present their dialogue with a partner using appropriate interaction skills.
Think about the following:-
  • how procedures are structured and created differently to suit purpose and context
  • the way different characters would tell somebody what to do
  • the degrees of formality, that will change between addressing the audience and addressing characters in role.

Task designed by / Judy Rose-Cooper & Hannah Bigbee / Contact / Janelle Dickman 0467 777 965
RESOURCE PAGE

Using the text from Wombat Stew below, create and present a dialogue between Platypus & Dingo, where Platypus is telling Dingo how to do something.
Present your dialogue with a partner using appropriate interaction skills.
Wombat Stew
Platypus came ambling up the bank.
‘Good day, Dingo,’ he said,
snapping his bill.
‘What is all that water for?’
‘I’m brewing up a gooey, chewy stew
with that fat wombat,’
replied Dingo
with a toothy grin.
‘Well if you ask me,’ said Platypus,
‘the best thing for gooey stew is mud.
Big blops of billabong mud.’
‘Big blops of mud?’ Dingo laughed.
‘What a good idea.
Righto, in they go!’
So Platypus scooped up big blops of mud
with his tail
and tipped them into the billycan.
Around the bubbling billy,
Dingo danced and sang…
‘Wombat stew,
Wombat stew,
Gooey, brewy,
Yummy, chewy,
Wombat stew!’
Student Name / Class / Date

Consider characterisation and dialogue

  • Record words to show your knowledge about the characterisation and dialogue in the scenario.
  • Spoken and written procedures contain many verbsthat represent doing.
  • Think about the kinds of verbs your character would use.

Write your ideas below.

Create the dialogue

Write down what you want the characters to say.

Dialogue
(attach additional pages if required)
Character name / What they say

Plan and rehearse presentation

Choose a partner or work with a partner your teacher has chosen.

Plan, read and rehearse your presentation with your partner.

Remember to formally introduce your presentation and thank your audience at the end.

Think about interaction and speaking and listening skills, e.g. volume, tone, pitch and pace.

TEACHER NOTES

Further instructions to share with students for the writing of the dialogue:

Write down what you want the characters to say.

This is not a copy of what is written in the stories; you need to adapt the language features and patterns of the story to create an extended dialogue between the characters.

Your dialogue should fit into the appropriate section of the story.

The characters who are telling how to do or make something will do the most talking.

The characters that are listening may make some comments, suggestions or statements that indicate that they do or do not understand. They may ask questions as well.

South East Region Learner Resource template V1 – Feb 2014