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Role Play Scenarios

Directions: In groups, have students write appropriate formal


and informal conversation to portray the following scenes. Be
sure that students include body language in their portrayals.

1. A family of four is dining at a sophisticated restaurant (you


might want to name a restaurant in your city that students are
familiar with.)
2. A family of four is dining at a local fast food restaurant
3. A group of students are on a picnic outing with their
minister, priest, or some important individual of your choice
4. A group of students are at a beach party, birthday party,
etc.
5. A group of students are attending a wedding
6. A group of students are gossiping on the telephone
7. Students are applying for a job

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T nT
(Tag the Terminology)

Directions: Place an X before words or phrases that are


formal language and XX before words or phrases that are
informal language. As a Bonus, if the word is informal, identify
it as s (slang) or c (colloquialism).

_____1. bummer
_____2. fly off the handle
_____3. hassle
_____4. annoy
_____5. bizarre
_____6. nerd
_____7. abandon
_____8. weirdo

Extra Bonus: Use the jargon “snake” in 2 sentences according


to the appropriate use. Example: “love” – I love my mother.
The score in the tennis match was love-15.

1. _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________

2.
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________

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Suggested Activities
1. Qualify real life scenarios as appropriate or inappropriate
for a specific audience, purpose, and situation.
2. Role play scenes with varying languages from television,
radio, textbooks, and home and school environments and
distinguish the appropriateness to audience, purpose, and
situation.
3. Play Who Said What When? In this activity the titles are
clipped from the article or portions of the article and
students read an excerpt aloud, write a portion on an index
card or the chalkboard, or if it is a recorded piece of media,
play it aloud to the class. Pose questions that center on the
language used, the possible situation surrounding the
language, and the audience to whom the language is
directed.
Who do you think said this?
Who or what audience is this directed to?
What is the situation that this is centered around?
What type of language was used?
When could this have occurred?
4. Play Tag the Terminology. In this activity, students are
given a list of slang and colloquial terms to tag (identify).
You can allow them to make up their own with language of
their peers.

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Formal Assessment
The teacher will formatively assess students’ success through
their role-play demonstrations of skills learned with
concentration on varying the language to accommodate the
targeted audience, situation, and purpose. (Suggested role-play
activities are listed in this associated file.)

VOCABULARY APPROPRIATENESS

_____ to situation

_____ to audience

_____ to purpose

RUBRIC:

Commendable: vocabulary appropriate to all three elements


Satisfactory: vocabulary appropriate to two of the three elements
Need Improvement: vocabulary appropriate to one or less of the
three elements

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