Role Play

 It is not enough merely to provide students with opportunities to speak English, as teachers we need to encourage students to speak in a variety of different situations, and hence help them to speak with confidence.

 Role Playing is a fun way to lighten up the mood and ‘shake things up’ a bit. The effective use of role-plays can add variety to the kinds of activities students are asked to perform. It encourages thinking and creativity; lets students develop and practice new language and behavioural skills in a relatively safe setting, and can create the motivation and involvement necessary for real learning to occur.

 These are my T1 students using those techniques to practise the Present Continuous. They created and wrote their own scripts, reherased and each had the chance to play the "interviewer". Fun, fun, fun!