11 The Thesportswoman sportswoman The 35 year-old is heavily addicted to The 35 year-old is heavily addicted to sleeping pills in the evenings and sleeping pills in the evenings and uppers in the morning But she knows uppers in the morning But she knows all about navigation, and she is an all about navigation, and she is an excellent sportswoman with an excellent sportswoman with an Olympic medal in rowing Olympic medal in rowing 22 The Thegirl girl Lizzie is a 7-year-old girl who Lizzie is a 7-year-old girl who behaves really unbearably She behaves really unbearably She keeps asking about her games keeps asking about her games console and chocolate She doesn’t console and chocolate She doesn’t want to speak to anybody and is want to speak to anybody and is grumpy grumpy 33 The Thepoet poet 44 The Thegrandmother grandmother The young man hasn’t learnt a The young man hasn’t learnt a proper job He spends his time proper job He spends his time writing romantic poetry Since his writing romantic poetry Since his parents support him, he has no parents support him, he has no financial problems He is an financial problems He is an enthusiast without much sense enthusiast without much sense for the necessities of life for the necessities of life She may be 75, but she wouldn’t She may be 75, but she wouldn’t call this old She is vigorous and call this old She is vigorous and energetic and very much likes energetic and very much likes things having her own way She things having her own way She used to be a maid in a hotel used to be a maid in a hotel 55The Theboy boy 66 The Theathlete athlete The ten-year-old doesn’t talk The ten-year-old doesn’t talk much He is quiet and shy His much He is quiet and shy His hobbies are astronomy and hobbies are astronomy and technology He is friendly, but technology He is friendly, but weak and sickish weak and sickish A man with enormous physical A man with enormous physical strength, but little brain He needs strength, but little brain He needs precise instructions and can’t work precise instructions and can’t work independently Sometimes, he is independently Sometimes, he is rather stubborn and quarrels with rather stubborn and quarrels with the others the others 77 The Thenanny nanny She has been working with She has been working with children for all her life, but can’t children for all her life, but can’t have own babies She is tolerant have own babies She is tolerant and patient and can tell and patient and can tell wonderful stories wonderful stories 88 The Theteacher teacher A rather strict math teacher A rather strict math teacher whose hobbies are stamp whose hobbies are stamp collecting and cycling He is a collecting and cycling He is a factual person without much factual person without much humor, but a wide knowledge humor, but a wide knowledge in technical things in technical things Communicative teaching: Role plays - Petra Ullrich 2011 You were on a cruise across the Atlantic But there was an accident in the machine room and the cruise ship sank Some people were able to reach a lifeboat But the weather is terrible and the waves are high The small lifeboat is about to sink; there are too many people on board At least one must leave the boat, only equipped with a lifebelt You cannot tie that lifebelt to your boat And you must be quick: You must take your decision within thirty minutes Otherwise the boat will sink and all of you will drown Decide which person(s) must leave the boar and justify your decision My own decision LIVE Group decision DIE LIVE DIE The sportswoman   The sportswoman   The girl   The girl   The poet   The poet   The grandmother   The grandmother   The boy   The boy   The athlete   The athlete   The nanny   The nanny   The teacher   The teacher   Live or die? Give your reasons The sportswoman because The girl _ because The poet _ because The grandmother _ because The boy _ because The athlete _ because _ The nanny _ because _ The teacher _ because _ Communicative teaching: Role plays - Petra Ullrich 2011