❍ Identify the tone of voice, posture, facial expressions and gestures you think both characters should adopt.
Two students will now perform this scene, taking into account the thought-tracking notes compiled by the class.
What I will learn:
Dramatise and Perform
You will remember the characters of Billy and the landlady from the short story ‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl (Collection 2). For your Oral Communication task in that collection, you performed dialogue from this short story as a drama.
You will now dramatise and perform the fi nal dialogue from ‘The Landlady’.
❍ In preparation for the performance, thought-track Billy as he questions the landlady. In your copy, write down the thoughts you think might be running through Billy’s head at the points highlighted in the dialogue below.
how to dramatise and perform dialogue with the help of ‘thought-tracking’
Ending from ‘The Landlady’
BILLY: That parrot. You know something? It had me completely fooled when I fi rst saw it through the window. I could have sworn it was alive.
THE LANDLADY: Alas, no longer.
BILLY: It’s most terribly clever the way it’s been done. It doesn’t look in the least bit dead. Who did it? THE LANDLADY: I did. BILLY: You did?
