You already have a short dialogue draft between two characters from your anchor text (the class text this unit has been working from), or you will build one today. Either way, you finish it in this lesson.

If you do not have a draft yet, join a pair and rebuild from theirs, or start from the four seed lines in the script builder. Working alone is fine: write both voices yourself.

You will swap one line note, finish the script, say the scene out loud, and write a short contribution note naming what was yours. That pack (finished dialogue plus contribution note after you say it out loud) is your M1 KA3 evidence in the Communication Portfolio. Even if the period is short, that pack is the bit that must get done.

Before you touch your own scene, read a finished one. Notice two things: the voices do not sound the same, and the contribution note names exact work.

Model scene (kitchen, late; neither will say they are sorry):

AOIFE (not looking up): You kept the light on.
TOM: Habit.
AOIFE: Habit for who?
TOM (already turning away): Leave it.
AOIFE: I waited up.
TOM: I know.
AOIFE: Then say it.
TOM: There's nothing to say.

Model contribution note: "I wrote Aoife's lines and the two stage directions. Tom's short answers were my partner's. In rehearsal I added the pause after 'Leave it' so the silence does the work."

Two reminders for your own draft:

• Contribution: name the lines, directions, or performance choices that were yours (so KA3 can be verified).
• Two-voice dialogue and role play: two people who sound different on the page, then spoken in character, not read flat.

Finalise your dialogue in the script builder below. If you wrote a one-change note last lesson, make that change first. Your finished lines in the builder are what you take to performance; any notes under the builder are optional only.

In pairs: take about three minutes to say one specific line note each (use a stem like "Change line __ so it sounds less like you"), then spend the rest of the time rebuilding the stronger scene together. Say the note out loud; you do not need to type it.

Working alone, write both voices so a stranger can tell them apart. If you have no earlier draft, start from the four seed lines, rename the speakers to your anchor-text characters, and build both voices.

Aim for about twelve to fifteen lines at a moment of tension. If time is short, lock at least eight distinct-voice lines and stretch to twelve to fifteen when you can.

First: rehearse once, then deliver the scene in character (pair performance, or both voices yourself if you are working alone). Pair live delivery with teacher or peer sign-off is a full valid route; recording is optional, not required. Keep your notes in the studio to short cues; do not paste the full script there to read word for word.

Only after you have said it: open the KA3 pack in the work box. Paste the finished script, note how it was delivered, and write your contribution note naming the lines, directions, or performance choices that were yours and why they matter. Do not file until the contribution note names specific lines. You will make one last change after the quick review next, then file as m1_l18_dialogue_ka3_<your-initials>. This pack is the only M1 KA3 file for this lesson.

Look back at the scene you just did. Score each row, comment on anything below Strong, and name the one change you would make if you had five more minutes.

Then go back to your m1_l18_dialogue_ka3 pack from the previous step, apply that one change (to the script or the contribution note), and only then file.