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IELTS Speaking Roleplays

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Students answer IELTS Speaking questions in good and bad ways, then discuss how useful or not those ways of speaking are.

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IELTS Speaking roleplays

Choose one of the cards below or one of the cards that you are given. Do that thing as you answer IELTS Speaking Part One questions, answer IELTS Speaking Part Three questions and/ or do IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks that your partner sets you. Don’t tell your partner what is on the card. Continue doing the same thing until they guess what your card says, exaggerating that action and/ or giving hints if they can’t guess correctly. After they get it right, discuss together how good or bad that thing is (or if it doesn’t matter one way or the other). Then take turns doing the same thing.

When you finish the game, look at the whole list and discuss if each thing is good or bad, or whether you don’t have to worry about it.

Ask your teacher if there are any which you don’t know the advisability of.

 

 

ask questions back to the examiner (“Do you know…?”, “And you?” etc)

 

 

avoid eye contact

 

 

be critical/ sarcastic/ negative in your answers

 

 

be very positive/ enthusiastic about the things you talk about

 

 

change your mind halfway through your answers

 

 

check if you can or should talk about something before speaking

 

 

check if you have answered the questions

 

 

check the meaning of (many/ most) questions before you answer them

 

 

check what the questions were halfway through your answers

 

 

correct yourself when you make language mistakes

 

 

correct yourself when you say something that isn’t (exactly) true

 

 

don’t check the meaning of any of the questions – just answer what you imagine the questions might be

 

 

express lots of doubt (giving weak opinions, not remembering exactly, etc)

 

 

fill all silence

 

 

give imaginary answers (= lie or use your imagination in your answers)

 

 

give very strong opinions

 

 

 

go off topic

 

 

go off topic and then come back to the topic

 

 

just ask the examiner to repeat each time you don’t understand the questions (with phrases like “Pardon?”)

 

 

make all your answers as long as possible

 

 

use lots of gestures

 

 

make lots of eye contact

 

 

say that you don't (exactly) remember in many different ways

 

 

say you don’t understand the questions, using the same couple of phrases each time

 

 

say “Let me think” and “Let me see” many times

 

 

smile a lot

 

 

speak as quickly as possible

 

 

think aloud (= say everything that comes into your head to fill silence)

 

 

use lots of informal spoken language (phrasal verbs etc)

 

 

use phrases with “That is a… question” many times

 

 

use words from your own language and then explain what they mean

 

 

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