Role Play

1. Role Play

2. Topic 1: How to educate our child? • 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.

3. 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.

4. Topic 3: Tom has an elderly parent who is no longer strong enough to live alone. How to solve this problem? • 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Topic 6: Steve has a problem with obesity. He is 50 pounds overweight. He has tried a number of diets, but nothing has worked. • 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.

8. 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 • Each of you should play one of the roles. • Candidate A: You are Susan. • Candidate B: You are Rose. • Candidate C: You are Peter. • Candidate D: You are a stranger.

9. 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. • 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.

10. Topic 9: Imagine that you are graduating from college with a degree in journalism. Now you mingle with each other at your graduation party. • 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.

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