Activity 4 : Role Plays: Selection of Varied Plots, Characters and Settings

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1. Interview with a famous athlete

Not all students love sport, but for those that do, this is a great exercise. They can watch/listen to
the model role play (which can also be used as a listening exercise) and then create a role play
about their sports hero.

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2. Gift shop conversation and role play
A gift shop customer – salesperson role play is nice because there are so many kinds of gifts and
a big variety of conversations/role plays can be created.
3. Bad restaurant role play
Bad restaurant is a listening speaking and role play exercise for talking about restaurant
food and service.
4. Interview with a famous celebrity role play (with audio)
Easily the most popular and appealing role play activity is the celebrity interview role play. I
suggest that the teacher models this activity with a student as a warm-up and to get students in
the mood. Then students can be put in pairs and groups to carry out the interviewer-celebrity role
play themselves. The teacher can roam the room to monitor grammar and language. At the end of
the role play exercise, it may be a good idea to get the students to write out the complete
questions and answers so the teacher can check on accuracy. This is a fun communicative
exercise that allows students to to be creative and to improvise. This activity can also be done as
a listening activity. Listen to the interview and take notes of Selena’s answers.
5. Checking into a hotel
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring hotel language and vocabulary.
Students try to complete the conversation. Then they can listen to the conversation and check
their answers.
6. Bad vacation
This is a role play about a bad vacation.