Write the scenario
Describe the situation in your own words, drawn from the lesson you are already teaching.
Product experience
Practice a real conversation before it matters.
Set the situation, give the student a role, and choose what they should practice. The conversation stays attached to the activity, and you decide what the student sees.
Walk through it
What a student actually sees.
A simulated walkthrough. Nothing is recorded and no AI is used on this page.
Role-play
Ordering at a café
You are at a busy café in the late afternoon. You want a hot drink, and you are not sure what is included with it.
- Your role
- Customer
- Practice partner
- Café server
Things to practice
- Order politely using “I would like…”
- Ask one question about the order
- Change your mind and correct yourself
How a role-play is built
You describe the situation. The student steps into it.
Assign the roles
Choose who the student is and who they are speaking with, so nobody starts confused.
Choose what to practice
Add the specific things you want to see attempted, or leave it open.
Review the transcript
Read the conversation that happened and decide what the student needs next.
What you control
Open practice, or a conversation with a purpose.
- The scenario, written in your own words.
- The student’s role and the role their partner plays.
- Practice goals, or none at all if you want open practice.
- A practice partner that stays in character for the whole conversation.
- A conversation attached to one attempt, with no memory carried between students.
- Teacher preview, so you can check an activity without creating a student session.
Built for the lesson you are already teaching.
A role-play is most useful when it rehearses something a student is about to do for real.
Because the scenario is yours to write, the practice can follow the unit, the trip, the interview, or the conversation a learner is nervous about.
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