STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS
- Go over the Role-playing handout and add the following points:
- Mention that using topics that matter to people adds meaning to learning a new language. Knowing learners often go through challenges adjusting to
life in Canada, some role-plays may be about topics such as finding work, finding an affordable place to live or handling racism.
- Eventually you want the learner to be able to do role-plays without any script. The situation and characters will eventually be all that is needed.
- Help prepare the learner by practising vocabulary, appropriate small talk, necessary grammar and structured dialogues on the same subject you’re using for the role-play.
- Ask the two tutors to demonstrate one of the role-plays. Read the scene note (talking about the long weekend or the tutor arriving late) to the rest of the class before they start. Tell the other tutors that the role-players have cue cards to assist them as if they were learners who weren’t too familiar with role-plays.
- The two tutors do the role-play.
- Ask the two tutors to read their cue cards. Ask the other tutors if they communicated well. Thank the two tutors.
- Say that there are many other ways to work on conversation skills, such as having topic or starter sentence strips to pull out of a container for two-minute talks.
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