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🎤 Celebrity Interview Role Plays

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate

A K-pop idol. A celebrity chef. A champion fighter. What would you ask them — and how would you answer back? In this collection students step into the spotlight and play a famous person facing a live interview, choosing their own angle first — a spy action star, a vegan chef, a hip-hop choreographer — then building answers from guided starters. Along the way they pick up vocabulary like stunt, blockbuster, breakout hit, signature dish, knockout, red carpet, typecast, Grand Slam, and showmanship. The interviews stretch across film, music, sport, food, comedy, and fashion — from a Bollywood superstar and a stand-up comedian to a supermodel, a tennis champion, and a voice actor who’s famous but never seen.

🤝 Soft Skills Workplace Role Plays

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate

What do you say when you have to deliver bad news, push back on your boss, or admit you got it wrong? These are the conversations most people dread — and the ones students rarely get to practise. This collection drops learners into the workplace moments that really test communication, with each scenario built around a single skill: giving feedback, negotiating, de-escalating, setting boundaries. Students play both sides — manager and employee, agent and customer, client and freelancer — picking up vocabulary like de-escalation, self-advocacy, accountability, take ownership, core hours, push back, capacity, deliverables, and going forward. Scenarios range from a hybrid-work request and a tense performance review to a wellbeing check-in, a cross-cultural mix-up, and a freelancer rate negotiation — all scaffolded with sentence stems and word banks so pre-intermediate learners can hold their own.

🎭 Grammar Role Plays

Updated: 2026 • Level: Elementary – Pre-Intermediate

Grammar sticks better when it comes wrapped in a story. Across twenty-two speaking scenarios, students practise real structures by stepping into real roles — an eyewitness questioned by police, a customer chasing a missing order, a nervous candidate in a job interview. Each role play targets one grammar point: past continuous, present perfect, first and second conditionals, phrasal verbs, passive voice, modals of deduction, and indirect questions. Highlights include The Eyewitness, The Warranty Call, The Big What If, and The Tech-Support Mystery. Every title comes in two versions — “You Answer” and “You Ask” — so pairs swap roles and practise both sides of the conversation.

🎤 Famous People & Experts Role Plays

Updated: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate – Intermediate

An astronaut, a celebrity surgeon, a World Cup footballer, a wildlife photographer — what would you ask if you could interview them? This set of speaking activities turns students into talk-show hosts and famous guests across twenty-five interviews, each with the interviewer’s questions on one side and answer starters on the other. Guests range from an aid worker and a marine biologist to a street artist, an esports champion, a tech startup founder, and a stunt performer, with each interview supplying its own topic vocabulary — the aid worker draws on refugee, shelter, crisis, burnout, and relief. Pairs simply swap seats to play both roles.

🖼️ Picture Discussions & Questions

Updated: 2025 • Level: Elementary – Intermediate

Engaging image-based speaking activities featuring relatable everyday situations. Each lesson uses
carefully selected images to prompt discussion about common scenarios students encounter in daily life.
Perfect for building vocabulary and conversation skills around hotels, cafes, shopping, waiting in public
spaces, and workplace interactions. These visual prompts help students describe scenes, speculate about
situations, and share their own experiences – ideal for getting quieter students talking.

💼 Role Plays for Modern Day Interactions

Updated: 2025 • Level: High Elementary – Pre-Intermediate

Contemporary role plays featuring real-world situations students encounter in daily life and business settings.
This collection includes practical scenarios like accepting deliveries, shopping at markets, handling late arrivals
to meetings, discussing sales performance, and navigating HR interviews. Perfect for building confidence in
common workplace and everyday interactions with authentic dialogue patterns and useful expressions.

🛎️ Essential Face-to-Face Customer Service Dialogues

Updated: 2025 • Level: Pre-Intermediate

Practical customer service role plays covering common retail and service industry scenarios. Students practice
handling customer inquiries, complaints, and transactions in settings like repair services, retail stores, and
pharmacies. These exercises build essential communication skills for anyone working in customer-facing roles,
with focus on polite language, problem-solving, and professional service interactions.

🎓 Classic Elementary to Pre-Intermediate Role Plays

Updated: 2025 • Level: Elementary – Pre-Intermediate

Foundational role play activities perfect for beginning and lower-intermediate learners. These classic scenarios
help students build confidence with everyday English conversations, focusing on clear communication patterns and
essential vocabulary. Ideal for classroom practice or self-study, with structured dialogues that gradually
increase in complexity to support progressive language development.

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