Role Play
Topic 1: How to educate our child?
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Place: The living room.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are Grandpa.
Candidate B: You are Grandma.
Candidate C: You are Father.
Candidate D: You are Mother.
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Topic 2: Tom can’t get away from his job to
pick up his mother at the airport. His
friend has offered to pick up his mother,
but his friend doesn’t know what his mother
looks like.
Place: The airport.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are Tom.
Candidate B: You are Tom’s friend.
Candidate C: You are Tom’s mother.
Candidate D: You are a passenger.
Topic 3: Tom has an elderly parent
who is no longer strong enough to
live alone. How to solve this problem?
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Place: The bedroom.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are Tom.
Candidate B: You are Tom’s wife.
Candidate C: You are Tom’s mother.
Candidate D: You are Tom’s brother
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Topic 4: Rose is taking a test in class.
Her classmate Peter keeps trying to
look at her test to see her answers.
Rose does not want Peter to look at her
test. She is afraid the teacher will get
angry.
Place: The classroom.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are Rose.
Candidate B: You are Peter.
Candidate C: You are a calssmate.
Candidate D: You are the teacher.
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Topic 5: College romance has become a
common phenomenon on campus. Different
people have different opinions about it.
Some take it for granted. They think it is
quite natural for students at this age.
Others take a negative view about it.
Place: Campus.
Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are a student in love.
Candidate B: You are a student not in love.
Candidate C: You are a student’s parent.
Candidate D: You are a teacher.
Topic 6: Steve has a problem with
obesity. He is 50 pounds overweight. He
has tried a number of diets, but nothing
has worked.
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Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are Steve.
Candidate B: You are Steve’s classmate.
Candidate C: You are Steve’s sister.
Candidate D: You are Steve’s parent.
Topic 7: Susan has a friend Rose who is
looking for a date. And then, Susan wants to
make a blind date between Rose and Susan’s
brother Peter.
• Preparation time: 5 mins
• Role-play time: 10 mins
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roles.
• Candidate A: You are Susan.
• Candidate B: You are Rose.
• Candidate C: You are Peter.
• Candidate D: You are a stranger.
Topic 8: There are many arguments about violence in
the media (i.e. films, television, newspapers,
magazines etc). Your group is going to discuss
whether the media should be regulated.
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Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are a reporter.
Candidate B: You are an editor.
Candidate C: You are a child.
Candidate D: You are a parent.
Topic 9: Imagine that you are graduating
from college with a degree in journalism. Now
you mingle with each other at your
graduation party.
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Preparation time: 5 mins
Role-play time: 10 mins
Each of you should play one of the roles.
Candidate A: You are a student who wants to get a
graduate degree.
• Candidate B: You are a student who wants to be a
broadcaster.
• Candidate C: You are a student who wants to be a
photographer.
• Candidate D: You are a student who wants to be a
teacher.
Germany
Egypt
Russia
U.S.A
England
Japan
Spain
China
Holland
France
Thailand
Mexico
Italy
Singapore
Australia
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