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11. Compare the following dialogues from The Giant’s Wife. Underline
the differences you find. Then follow the instructions.

FIN: Oona, me love! (heartily, with FIN: (heartily, with arms Remember
arms outstretched) outstretched) Oona, me love! Stage directions
OONA: Ach, Fin, it’s glad I am to OONA: (warmly) Ach, Fin, it’s glad I are instructions
see you. I hope you’re a bit hungry, am to see you. I hope you’re a bit written into
for I fixed a little something when I hungry, for I fixed a little something the script of a
saw you coming. (warmly) when I saw you coming. play, indicating
stage actions,
NARRATOR 2: She sat him down to NARRATOR 2: She sat him down to movements
a grand meal of three whole roast a grand meal of three whole roast of performers,
oxen, thirty boiled cabbages, and a oxen, thirty boiled cabbages, and a or production
pile of her best bread loaves, which pile of her best bread loaves, which requirements.
she’d just taken from the oven. she’d just taken from the oven.
FIN: A finer cook never filled this FIN: (starts eating) A finer cook Remember
great belly! (starts eating) (keeps eating, but distractedly) When you do a
never filled this great belly! (keeps
eating, but distractedly) your most
dramatic reading,
powerful resource
is your voice. By
• Try to act out the dialogue both ways. First, modulating it,
take advantage you can transmit
act out the one on the left and then, the one of (phrasal verb):
aprovechar algo emotions and
on the right. Which one is more natural? ideas so the
• Tick the one you think is the proper way to write a dialogue. audience can
feel what they are
12. Read the following extract from The Giant's Wife and listening to. Take
advantage of it!
match the dialogues to the corresponding illustrations.

Extract from The Giant’s Wife Illustrations

a. OONA: (warmly) Come in now and eat.
NARRATOR 2: She sat him down and put his food
before him, with a big pile of bread loaves —the
ones she’d made with the iron griddles inside.
CUHULLIN: Now, that’s fine-looking bread.
NARRATOR 3: Cuhullin picked up a loaf and
sunk his teeth into it.

b. CUHULLIN: (bites down, then jumps up, roaring
with pain) Aaahhhhhh! A thousand thunderbolts!
Woman, what did you put in your bread?

c. OONA: (acting surprised) Nothing! What
ails you, tall man? That’s the bread my husband
eats six dozen loaves of, every day!

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