Role plays – Videos
Role play serves a number of valuable purposes. It can be used to support learners in the development of new language skills. Alternatively, it can help you, the tutor, gain an insight into how far they have progressed already, and what support they need to improve their skills. The same role play can be run in different ways for different purposes. And it can be run to suit the levels of particular groups and the individuals within it. At a lower level, role play may be used to prepare learners for specific situations, whereas at higher levels you can use it to help learners develop communicative fluency, for example in reasoning and hypothesising.
In the clips that follow, you will see groups at different levels taking part in role play activities. These activities are available for you to download.
In clip 1, a group learning Italian is taking an active part in 'Court case'. Some learners act as prosecutors, while the others act as the defence. The case focuses on a planning application. In clips 2 and 3, groups learning Spanish and German are engaged in 'A mystery to solve', a scenario based on the investigation of the theft of a work of art from a gallery. The learners play the roles of various protagonists, employees, guards, the detective and so on.