Role-play in the TEFL Classroom

Drama Activities: Role-play

Customer and Manager – Tell your students that they will either take on the role of a customer or a manager at a hotel. The

customer has a complaint and approaches the manager.

Questioning in Role or Hot Seating – Involves one of the learners sitting on a chair at the front of the classroom. This student taks on

the role of a well-known or famous individual. The other students in the class

then have an opportunity to ask this “famous” person any questions about movies,

character and attitude.

Telephone Conversations – The TEFL class is divided into groups of two learners. The

learners sit with their backs to each other so they can only hear their conversation partner

The learners in each group are to imagine that they are two different characters. They

have a telephone conversation.

Bus Stop – Split the class into two groups for simultaneous group improvisations, or have one group be the audience and then switch

with the other group. Students improvise that they are at a bus stop waiting for the bus to

arrive. As each new passenger boards the bus, everyone on the bus adopts the attitude,

personality, accent, movements, etc of the new arrival until the bus is full.

Physicalisation – ou decide either on an object or a scene. You should out the object

scene and the students have to create the picture or object using their bodies. This is a great deal of fun and the students really get

involved.

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