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Tip 10: Parent/Teen Role Play
Purpose: To practice fluency and negotiating skills, requesting and granting requests. Uses vocabulary for household chores and free-time activities. Encourages the use of the first-conditional (if you do this, I will...). Best used with intermediate and higher learners.
Preparation Time: 30
minutes to prepare role play cards
Materials: one parent or teen role card for each student
Preparation:
Create the parent and teen cards. They could look
something like this:
| Parent You want your child to: clean room every day do homework for one hour a day babyside little brother on Saturday |
| Teen You want to: go to the movies this weekend have some money for a CD (you do not like your little brother) |
Procedure:
- Set the context for the role play,
drawing on the experiences of any learners who have teenagers at home.
Pre-teach any vocabulary from the cards that may be unfamiliar to the
students, maybe by making lists of what teens want to do and what their
parents want them to do. This would be a good time to address cultural
differences between American teens and teens from other cultures. You
may want to have learners listen to a similar conversation before doing
the role play.
- Give out the role play cards to students in pairs. Answer any questions students may have about their cards. Explain that they are going to have a conversation in pairs between teens and parents and that they must come to a compromise that both agree on. Give learners time to prepare if necessary and time limit to complete their role play. When students have finished, conduct a class feedback session about the agreements each pair made.
Variation: If you have an odd number of students, you could have one teenage speak with both parents.
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