A selection of English ESL role play cards printables

These cards will provide the students to practice PERMISSION/OBLIGATION/PROHIBITION. The teacher gives each ss a card with the  role play they need to improvise. Each card contains a different character with a point of view about the situation. The students need to make a funny and creative dialog concerning the situation/problem contained in the card.

Conversation Drill Cards - Situations

It is a worksheet to practise the usage of collective nouns and classifiers on topis Food and Shopping. At first students match the pictures with the words, then they fill in the blanks with these words. Then the teacher can ask students to role play  the dialogues and make ones of their own using the worksheet.

Shopping (Vocabulary In Context)

Game to practice/revise standard phrases used on the phone according to function. Suitable for adults or teens. Print onto card and cut up into smaller cards. Aim of game is to link the phrases on one set of cards with the functions on the other set. Then practice speaking through role play. Can be used by individuals, pairs or small groups.

On the phone

In this  activity students practice the conversation in pairs and role play. after that they create a conversaton using the dialogue as a model. the second part of the worksheet, they have to complete the chart using their own information, interview a partner as well to finally share the information with the class. I hope you enjoy it, the students as well.

MY HOUSE OR APARTMENT HAS INTERVIEW  AND DIALOGUE

This role play is for two students, ESL, with Korean translation of key phrases, about the procedure for buying data and a SIM card for your phone at the Cebu airport. It is for beginner to intermediate students,and would be good for high school students in Korea. They probably already know how this is done, so they should know what is happening. 

Buying a SIM card at the airport in the Philippines

This is a worksheet with ***18 PROMPTCARDS*** about famous people. Use it as a filler or revision for upper elementary, lower intermediate students and get them talking.*** HOW TO PLAY: Choose a card and use the prompts given to make sentences about the people. The info get more recognisable with every sentence. Let your classmates guess who it is. Whoever gives the right answer first gets the card/gets a point. HAVE FUN!!!

GUESS WHO? - The Famous People Game - Speaking About Personal information

A complete phrasal verb project on the subject of travel. It has bingo, mix-and-match, a cloze exercise, a reading cloze exercise with story and role-play/debate. The answers are at the back along with the personality cards for the debate. I haven´t used this worksheet yet so if anybody finds any mistakes, could you send me a PM and let me know? Thanks!

Phrasal Verbs about Travelling 

QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE TOPIC `LAUGHTER` 
PRE-TASKS.
DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER  THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
1.	What role does laughter play in our daily lives?
2.	What makes you laugh the most?
3.	In your opinion, what information about laugher will be in the video?
FOLLOW -UP TASKS.
WORK IN PAIRS.
1.	Briefly retell the main points of the video about laughter.
2.	What have you learned about laughter?


PRE TASKS AND FOLLOW UP TASKS

Learners should go through the menu card first. Then, there are phrases said by a customer or a waiter/waitress, where the learners should put them into the correct colomn. Last, they should write a restaurant-dialouge according to the phrases and the menu. I usually divide the class into small groups to do the exercises and create a creative dialogue and they have to do a role play (heading "at a restaurant"). 

ordering food in a restaurant - menu card + activities

I got this idea from the Dear Abby column from my local newspaper.  My students really enjoys this. Split the students into 2 groups, one group plays the part of Dear Abby and have to give advice in response to the role cards.  Students should take it in turn to give advice. Finally compare the different solutions to each of the six problems.  Ask which solutions students are the best/worst/funniest

Dear Abby

A fun and engaging lif-size game to learn action verbs. It requires a giant foam or cartboard dice and some tape. You can use all the cards, only the ones your students know, or add your own.
Print and cut out the cards. Lay them on the floor in any shape you like (spiral, line, square, etc.) and tape them down so they don’t slip and cause accidents. 
Students take turns rolling a die (a giant foam die is ideal, or you can make a large cardboard die). The student moves forward the same number of spaces as shown on the die. When they land on a card, they must read the action out loud and mime it. (If students cannot read, the teacher reads the card for them). If they do the action correctly, they stay on that card. If they make a mistake, they move back the same number of spaces they rolled. TIP: Encourage other students to help check if the action is correct! The first student to reach the end with an exact roll wins! 
NOTE:
This game can be easily adapted for higher levels. Instead of just reading the action, students can make short sentences to practise the present simple or present continuous.
For example:
•	Monkeys climb on trees.
•	The cat is sleeping on the sofa.




Giant action verbs game

This activity should practise small talk skills in a working environment. Work in pairs or groups. There are more possibilities how to work with it. 

E.g. one student takes a slip, read aloud the situations and with a partner try to play roles (B2 students). Or divide your students to groups, each group has a situation and together finds out (or write down) possible questions and answers. Or you can discuss it with all class etc. 

Small talk activity for Business English

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

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how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

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how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

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how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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333 Role play cards English ESL worksheets pdf & doc