Invent dialogues

This video is also complex for children to understand. We will have to work on the meaning, plan several viewings, a preliminary step before moving on to writing the dialogues. At the 34th second, for example, we see parents scolding their child; then we see him grow up, which means that we find ourselves a few years later when he is a teenager, his parents have aged, and there he is the one who gets angry with his parents! At 3 minutes 18 seconds, we see a couple who are visibly going through a crisis. The man rejects her, then takes her back, then rejects her... The woman ends up leaving and forming a relationship with another. Except that she in turn rejects him when he changes his appearance (it seems that he has gained weight!). At 4 minutes 22 seconds, we see a little couple who love each other so much that they "drink" each other's words, then argue... and reconcile!

Other prerequisite: Work on dialogue. If this has not been done before, it is important to analyze a dialogue while reading, to identify and understand the punctuation marks in the dialogue, the hyphens, the quotation marks, etc.

Then we will offer them oral work. Show them an image from the film (freezing the image). Ask them to describe what they see and imagine the dialogues between the characters. Repeat the exercise once or twice until the children understand the instructions.

Finally move on to writing. Offer several images to the children. Below they will have to write the dialogues between the characters.

Print the materials for this activity...

Everyone will then be able to present their work. We can compare the different dialogues written for the same image.