This document provides guidance for improving English language skills through role playing conversations. It outlines steps to take before, during, and after a role play conversation. Before conversing, readers are advised to activate prior knowledge about the topic, make predictions, and highlight new vocabulary. During the conversation, they should make eye contact, use gestures, monitor intonation and fluency, and take note of difficult sounds. After conversing, readers should change roles, evaluate their progress, and identify areas for improvement. The document also provides tips for setting goals to improve identified areas and monitoring progress.

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Whilereading
• Focus on familiar content
• Highlight new vocabulary
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 Become familiar:
• Notice pictures, charts, etc.
 Activate:
• What do you know about the topic?
 Predict:
• What will the conversation probably say?

3. • Focus on familiar content as I read
• Say something about the topic
Excellent Very good Area to improve How to improve it
Assessment – Please explain
• Speculate on what the characters will say
• Say something about the pictures, etc.
• Highlight new vocabulary

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During
• Keep eye contact
• Use gestures to show interest
• Monitor intonation & fluency
• Keep record of difficult sounds
After • Change roles
Before
• Use class language:
• Do you want to be “A” or “B” ?
• I’ll be “A”, you can be “B”

5. • Monitor intonation & fluency
• Keep eye contact (look up technique)
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Assessment – Please explain
• Use gestures to show interest
• Use classroom language
• Keep record of difficult sounds

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During
 Change key information: Personalize
 Expand ideas: Activate previous content
• (Who, where, when, how often, comment , anecdote, etc.)
• React to new information in different ways
• Ask follow-up questions to continue interaction
• Who…?, Where…?, When…, How often…, Why…?
 Keep a record of areas to improve
After
 Evaluate your progress

7. • Expand info : Give additional info fluently
• Personalize : Change some information
Excellent Very good What to improve How to improve
Assessment – Please explain
• React to new information in different ways
• Ask follow-up questions to continue
interaction

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• Identify the area you need to improve
• Set your goal
• Plan the action to achieve your goal
• Establish clear steps to reach your goal
• Monitor the progress done

10. • What material / strategies are you going to use ?
• What is your specific goal ?
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Language
What is the area that you need to
improve?
• What activity are you going to do ? / When ?
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GrammarExpansion Punctuation
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Monitoring

12. • What can you do differently to maximize results?
• How effective was the activity? Why?
• What is the evidence of your progress?