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26 Once again Detective Inkomba will take centre stage. He will be your main character trying to solve another mystery that is baffling the world. This time around he can be involved in world affairs, inter-planetary travel, covert affairs, local affairs or even a love affair! We need you to tell us what the story / movie / play is about, give us some dialogue with oompf! and then let us know how it all ended or concluded. The way you do this is by: 1. Firstly, describing the story you are telling in broad terms. Give a summary of what has happened before the dialogue took place. Then describe who is in the dialogue that is to come. 2. Secondly, write a dialogue that will tell us more about the story and about the characters in the scene. It can be a conversation, a court case interrogation, a shouting match between angry people or a whispered conversation at a stake out. 3. Thirdly, conclude the story in a paragraph that will let us know how everything worked out and what happened to our hero, Detective Inkomba. NoTes! We want you to be creative, brave and free, so say what you want to say and describe what you want to describe. The only thing we don’t want is any swearing. Remember that your words can create pictures in the reader’s mind, so make sure to describe what you see in your mind in your introductory and final paragraph. Have fun, and remember, its ok to be dramatic and funny. Requirements: • A short paragraph or two to give us an idea of what the story is about. (summary) • A page and a half of dialogue. • A final paragraph to give us a satisfactory ending to your story. (conclusion) The competition is open to learners between the ages of 9 – 16 years. The description and dialogue must not be longer than two A4 pages of 4 A5 pages. Write your name, your age, your contact details, your school’s name, followed by the contact number of the school and your teacher’s name at the end of the letter. send your letters to: READ by 31 oct ober 2020 email: [email protected] or P. o. B ox 30994, Braamfontein, 2017 READ is a registered NPO: 000774 ; PBO 930011907 The Word Warrior Competition 2020 is all about writing engaging, fresh and authentic dialogue – for a play, for a movie or to use in a story. setting the scene Detective Inkomba has had a hard year. But he now has a week’s holiday and he is spending it at home, where he is resting on a lounger next to the pool, reading a novel and nibbling on some sweet things. He has been on holiday for a full day. And he still must find some rest. His young son and a group of his friends have been playing cops and robbers the whole morning, running in and out of the house, shouting and shooting and causing havoc. Detective Inkomba is longing for his office. While thinking that he will never find peace, a loud scream, followed by equally loud crying rips through the air. Detective Inkomba almost falls into the pool from shock. Then he literally falls into the pool as a horde of running young boys, bumps into his lounger and up-ends him. What on earth! It turns out that the big chocolate cake everyone was waiting to eat a bit later has gone missing leaving an empty plate and a huge mess in the kitchen. sCeNe 1 The scene opens with the small son of Detective Inkomba standing looking up at Inkomba. Detective Inkomba has his hands on his hips, and his small son has chocolate all over his face. They are in a kitchen. On a counter near the two is a plate with a very small leftover amount of chocolate cake on it. Dialogue extract Detective Inkomba: So, no-one ate the cake. But there is no cake left? Mini Inkomba: Yes, no-one ate anything. Now there is nothing for us to eat. It was the invisible bird that did it. Detective Inkomba An invisible bird did this? Mini Inkomba: Yes, he came here. He saw the cake, he ate it all up and he made a mess! Detective Inkomba: I can see the mess he made. How did you see this invisible bird? Mini Inkomba: Uuhhmm ……… Detective Inkomba: Perhaps we should follow the cake crumbs and the chocolate smears on the walls to find this invisible bird? Mini Inkomba: Yes, let’s find him papa. Detective Inkomba: Our first clue is the suspicious crumbs around your mouth. What do you think it means? Mini Inkomba: I think the bird planted the evidence on my face. Detective Inkomba: That is possible. Shall we ask some of the witnesses to the cake tragedy to tell us what they saw? Dialogue continues Conclusion After talking to a group of very excited little boys, getting descriptions of the invisible bird that did not match any known bird on earth, Detective Inkomba concluded that the Invisible Bird, also known as an HLB (Hungry Little Boy) must have swooped down on the cake in a feeding frenzy that left the poor HLB without any memory of what had happened. Therefore, the mystery of the missing chocolate cake remains a mystery to this day. exampl e of a short scene and a bit of dialogue ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ EDUCATIONAL TRUST WIN: R5000 worth of books for the winning school and R1 000 for the i ndividual winner
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Once again Detective Inkomba will take centre
stage. He will be your
main character trying to solve a
nother mystery that is baffling the world.
This time around he can be involved in world affairs,
inter-planetary travel, covert affairs, local affairs or even
a love affair!
We need you to tell us what the story
/ movie / play is about, give us
some dialogue with oompf! and then let us know
how it all ended or concluded.
The way you do this is by:
1. Firstly, describing the story you are telling in broad
terms. Give a summary of what has happened before
the dialogue took place. Then describe who is in the
dialogue that is to come.
2. Secondly, write a dialogue that will tell us more
about the story and about the characters in the scene.
It can be a conversation, a court case interrogation, a
shouting match between angry people or a whispered
conversation at a stake out.
3. Thirdly, conclude the story in a paragraph that will
let us know how everything worked out and what
happened to our hero, Detective Inkomba.
NoTes!
We want you to be creative, brave and free, so say
what you want to say and describe what you want to
describe. The only thing we don’t want is any swearing.
Remember that your words can create pictures in the
reader’s mind, so make sure to describe what you see
in your mind in your introductory and final paragraph.
Have fun, and remember, its ok to be dramatic and
funny.
Requirements:• A short paragraph
or two to give us an idea of what the story is about.
(summary)• A page and a half of dialogue.
• A final paragraph to give us a satisfactory ending to your story. (conclusion)
The competition isopen to learners betweenthe ages of 9 – 16 years.
The description and dialogue mustnot be longer than two A4 pages of
4 A5 pages. Write your name, your age, your contact details, your
school’s name, followed by the contact number of the school and
your teacher’s name at the end of the letter.
send your letters to:
READ by 31 october 2020email: [email protected] P. o. Box 30994, Braamfontein, 2017
READ is a registered NPO: 000774 ; PBO 930011907
The Word Warrior Competition 2020 is all about writing
engaging, fresh and authentic dialogue – for a play,
for a movie or to use in a story.
setting the sceneDetective Inkomba has had a hard year. But he now has a week’s holiday and he is spending it at home, where he is resting on a lounger next to the pool, reading a novel and nibbling on some sweet things. He has been on holiday for a full day. And he still must find some rest. His young son and a group of hisfriends have been playing cops and robbers the whole morning, running in and out of the house, shouting and shooting and causinghavoc. Detective Inkomba is longing for his office. While thinkingthat he will never find peace, a loud scream, followed by equallyloud crying rips through the air. Detective Inkomba almost falls intothe pool from shock. Then he literally falls into the pool as a hordeof running young boys, bumps into his lounger and up-ends him.
What on earth! It turns out that the big chocolate cake everyonewas waiting to eat a bit later has gone missing leaving an empty plate and a huge mess in the kitchen.
sCeNe 1The scene opens with the small son of Detective Inkomba standing looking up at Inkomba. Detective Inkomba has hishands on his hips, and his small son has chocolate all over hisface. They are in a kitchen. On a counter near the two is a platewith a very small leftover amount of chocolate cake on it.
Dialogue extractDetective Inkomba: So, no-one ate the cake.
But there is no cake left? Mini Inkomba: Yes, no-one ate anything. Now there is nothing
for us to eat. It was the invisible bird that did it.Detective Inkomba An invisible bird did this?Mini Inkomba: Yes, he came here. He saw the cake, he ate it
all up and he made a mess! Detective Inkomba: I can see the mess he made.
How did you see this invisible bird?Mini Inkomba: Uuhhmm ………Detective Inkomba: Perhaps we should follow the cake crumbs
and the chocolate smears on the walls to find this invisible bird?
Mini Inkomba: Yes, let’s find him papa. Detective Inkomba: Our first clue is the suspicious crumbs around
your mouth. What do you think it means?Mini Inkomba: I think the bird planted the evidence on my face.Detective Inkomba: That is possible. Shall we ask some of the witnesses
to the cake tragedy to tell us what they saw?Dialogue continues
ConclusionAfter talking to a group of very excited little boys, getting descriptionsof the invisible bird that did not match any known bird on earth, Detective Inkomba concluded that the Invisible Bird, also knownas an HLB (Hungry Little Boy) must have swooped down on thecake in a feeding frenzy that left the poor HLB without anymemory of what had happened. Therefore, the mystery ofthe missing chocolate cake remains a mystery to this day.
example of a short scene
and a bit of dialogue
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EDUCATIONAL TRUST
WIN: R5000 worth of
books for the winning schooland R1 000 forthe individual
winner
