A n n e : Yes, of course. How are you, Mr. Marcer?
R o n a l d : 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 ad -
verts appear in the ...
A n n e : So we thought we'd have a good look at about everything that's going.
R o n a l d : 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 o 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"?
A n n e : 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.
R o n a l d : That does surprise me. You wanting to escape from the madding crowd. As I remember, you were always the life and
soul o f . . .
J i m : If that's how you'd care to put it. But getting away from the others at times ... you know ... never harmed anyone.
R o n a l d : Look ... How about a walking tour?
A n n e : But how do we go about arranging it?
R o n a l d : Let's walk, shall we? We're going the same way I think. Let's cross here, shall we?
A n n e : Watch out. You will get run over.
J i m : Whew. Narrow escape. We nearly didn't have any holiday .
11. Decide how you can make your narrative of the story "Picnic" as interesting 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.