EFL Role Plays to Spice Up Your Classroom

EFL Role Plays to Spice Up Your Classroom is an indispensable resource for any EFL/ESL teacher who wants to raise the fun factor in their lessons.

Key features:
- 60 role-plays for B2-C1 level learners
- Conflict-based scenarios
- Photocopiable and easy to use
- Built-in vocabulary explanations
- Organized by topics
- Gender-neutral and stereotype-free content

“I love this new EFL/ESL resource! Print-friendly and easy to use, these role play-cards are go-to warmups or an engaging time-filler activity. They could also be built into a thematic unit, as they are already organized by topics. I love the built-in vocabulary explanations too!”
Melanie Lubinus, International TEFL Academy Costa Rica

“A must-have addition to your ESL conversation classes.Students from all backgrounds will enjoy engaging in and resolving these serious, but not too serious, disagreements. The situations are super relatable and will get even the shy ones talking.”
Karina Johnson, English Communication Specialist, Spain

“As an English teacher, I know how important role-playing is in developing fluency and improving your ability to use language in real-life scenarios. Use this book to help improve your ability to communicate in English. This book would also be great for anyone teaching ESL/EFL.”
Michael Marusky, English Teacher, US

“This book contains not only very short and understandable scripts for role-play activities in class, but also interesting life situations which activate learners’ critical thinking and emotional intelligence. The minimalistic design with thoughtful ways of using layouts, icons, and notes makes this book a smart yet easy tool for teachers and learners.”
Ha Pham Ngoc, Educator, Vietnam

• Language: English
• Publisher: Step by Step Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781944409296

Book preview

EFL Role-Plays to

Spice up Your Classroom

Step by Step Publishing

Norfolk, VA, USA

Lisbon, Portugal

This book was designed using image resources from Smashicons, lconBaandar, xnimrodx, Good Ware, SBTS2018, Dinosoft Labs, Darius Dan, Freepik, Icon Home, Made Premium at Flaticon.com

What Teachers and Educators are saying about EFL Role Plays to Spice Up Your Classroom:

I love this new EFL/ESL resource! Print-friendly and easy to use, these role play-cards are go-to warmups or an engaging time-filler activity. They could also be built into a thematic unit, as they are already organized by topics. I love the built-in vocabulary explanations too!

Melanie Lubinus, International TEFL Academy Costa Rica

A must-have addition to your ESL conversation classes. Students from all backgrounds will enjoy engaging in and resolving these serious, but not too serious, disagreements. The situations are super relatable and will get even the shy ones talking.

Karina Johnson, English Communication Specialist, Spain

"As an English teacher, I know how important role-playing is in developing fluency and improving your ability to use language in real-life scenarios. Use this book to help improve your ability to communicate in English. This book would also be great for anyone teaching ESL/EFL."

Michael Marusky, English Teacher, US

This book contains not only very short and understandable scripts for role-play activities in class, but also interesting life situations which activate learners’ critical thinking and emotional intelligence. The minimalistic design with thoughtful ways of using layouts, icons, and notes makes this book a smart yet easy tool for teachers and learners.

Ha Pham Ngoc, Educator, Vietnam

Acknowledgments

This release was made possible thanks to a diverse group of talents:

Raimonda Agne, Ana Bliumke, Damian Glowinkowski, Gediminas Kanonenka, Jeff Luther, Donna Luther, Melanie Lubinus, Michael Marusky, Sarune Palioniene, Lea Pavlivic, Laura Wilkes, Katherine Zagnoli

Thank you and I hope we can share the fruits our labor in the future.

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Introduction

EFL Role Plays to Spice Up Your Classroom is an indispensable resource for any EFL/ESL teacher who wants to raise the fun factor in their lessons.

Key features:

60 role-plays for B2-C1 level learners

Conflict-based scenarios

Print-ready and easy to use

Built-in vocabulary explanations

Organized by topics

Gender-neutral and stereotype-free content

This collection of role-plays is created for you, teachers and educators, to have a wider arsenal of warmers and time-fillers to complement your EFL lessons.

The target audience is B2-C1 level high-schoolers and adults.

Each role-play card includes 2 phrases each student can use and check off, and 1 or 2 potentially new phrases for B2-C1 learners with their definitions.

Since these role-plays are designed to create a bit of tension and disagreement, I might recommend...

a) Establishing a safe space where students don't feel inhibited to express themselves.

b) Allocating some time to decompress after the task. It's worth discussing with the students what their role expectations were, how they managed to express them, what was difficult, fun, and unexpected.

c) Reminding students that they should seek compromise if they have encountered a deadlock.

d) In more conflict-avoiding cultural settings, highlighting the importance of learning to deal with situations where people are less amenable, which is more reflective of the real world.

Have fun teaching!

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Table of Contents

Cover

EFL Role-Plays to Spice up Your Classroom

What Teachers and Educators are saying about this book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Contents

Money

Winning the Lottery

A Small Favor

Another Business Proposal

Saver and Spender

Paying Back

Keeping Score

Allowance

Friend's Investment

Neighbors

Noisy Neighbors

Unbearable Smell

Early Birds and Night Owls

Nosy Neighbor

Spoiling the View

Suburban Joys

Housing

Fixing the A/C

The Washing Machine

Viewing a House

Renting Isn't Easy

I Live Here

Aren't We Friends?

Teachers

Tough1 Teacher?

Uni Studies

The Right Approach?