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or picture that the class has recently studied. It should be a
fictional character, not a real-life person. Prepare questions to
ask as described below.
2. Assign the role(s) of the character(s) to one (or more) of your
better students. Tell them to respond to the questions you will
ask them. These should be questions that do not have answers
in the story you have chosen. Simply invent the questions as
you go along once you have used all your prepared questions.

3. Once the students are familiar with the activity, let the group
members themselves assume the roles of reporters interviewing
the others. Finish with the discussion of how convincing the
characters’ accounts are. How would the other students have
responded to the questions?

Variation:
Instead of characters from the story, have students interview
famous people they are interested in or people they are currently
studying.

Role-Play Situations

Role-playing is an excellent tool to create spontaneous
communication in the target language.

FRIENDS
1. Three friends are together, sitting at a café. One friend says, “I
have a problem…”. The other friends help solve the problem.
2. Two friends are together, sitting at a café. One friend says, “I
hate when you…!”
3. Three friends are together, sitting at a café. One friend says, ”I
really like…”.
4. You and a friend discuss what you will do in summer. Make a
plan for the summer.
5. A friend says to you, “Do you know what happened
to…yesterday?” Tell a pretend story about “what happened”.

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