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12 ESL Negotiation Role-plays: Real-life situations

We want to teach our students real-life skills, don’t we? It sure is nice to read Shakespeare and discuss metaphors, but it is not what our ESL/EFL/EIL (or whatever you call it) students need. They need to practice their speaking skills in a way which resembles real-life situations as closely as possible.

Again, which situation is a 16-year-old teenager most likely to experience?

Imagine you are the CEO of a big company and you need to make an important decision.
You are a 16-year-old teenager and you want to talk to your friend about a problem you have.

You get my point.

What skill do we apply every day? The skill teenagers apply every day with their parents, teachers, friends? The skill that can be immensely beneficial at work and that can improve not only our working but also our private relationships?

Negotiation.

A negotiation, simply put, is a compromise. Two or more parties come together, have a discussion, and reach an outcome that addresses the needs of everyone involved. Sounds much less threatening when it’s put like that, doesn’t it?

We’ve put together 12 ESL negotiation role-plays based on real-life situations. Situations teenagers experience every day. When using these role-plays, students will learn how to:

prepare for everyday negotiations
look at real-life situations from a different perspective
know their goals
prepare to accept not to get everything
identify non-negotiables
adapt their strategy
ask questions
listen

Here is one of the negotiation role-plays you can find in the ebook.

A	You have too much on your plate right now and you need help with your English essay assignment which is due on Friday. Ask your classmate for help. What would you be willing to do for them if they helped you? Think of the things you are willing to offer: • • •
B	Your classmate needs your help with the English essay assignment which is due on Friday. You might consider helping them if they can provide the right incentives. Think of four things you want for helping them(can’t be money): • • • • If they agree with three of the four, you might consider helping them.

Download the PDF ebook 12 ESL Negotiation Role-plays here or click on the picture below.

Other speaking resources:

Balderdash Speaking Game

Unfinished Sentences Speaking Activity

Reported Speech Activity

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ESL Reported Speech Speaking Activity: Gossip

This is a fun ESL/EFL reported speech speaking activity which I like to throw in when the students start to feel tired and bored by the theory and dull practice exercises.

It is a great activity to energize them while practising reported speech in the most natural way – gossiping. Not prep and a lot of fun.

Let’s gossip!

Ask students if they like to gossip. Most of them do.
Ask them to tell you some of the latest gossips they’ve heard. They’ll get excited, so keep it short.
Explain that they are going to play a game of gossip. Tell them to prepare a gossip (it’s best not to use real gossip as someone might get offended). It can be about celebrities, friends, classmates, teachers(that’s one of the favourites).
Give each student a copy of the worksheet and explain that they will talk to each other and gossip. Every time they hear a new gossip they write down the name of the person who told them and the gossip itself.
Allow them to gossip for 10-15 minutes, depending on the class size.
When they get back to their seats, tell them to report the gossips they’ve heard into the reported gossip column.
When they are ready, ask them to report the gossips they’ve heard.
Be prepared to hear some shocking news!

Esl Reported Speech Speaking Activity: Gossip Download

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ESL Video Lesson Plan: Stand Up Comedy With Shayne Smith And The Prisoner of Azkaban

STANDUP VIDEO LESSON PLAN

WARM-UP QUESTIONS

What do you think about people who have a lot of tattoos?
Do you have any tattoos? If not what tattoo would you like to have?
What do you think about body modifications? (piercing, implants, scarification)
Have you ever got looks from strangers because of the way you dress?
Do you ever judge people by their looks?
What do you know about Harry Potter? What is Azkaban?

VIDEO

VOCABULARY

This is some of the vocabulary you are going to hear in the video. After watching the video, match the words and phrases with their definitions.

to be on board
assume
interaction
weird
call it
tank top
judgment call
white trash
do time
mess with someone
impress

think, or expect something is true
poor white people
a subjective decision
spend time in prison
to be a part of a team, to agree with something
cause someone admire and respect you
to treat someone in a bad, rude, or annoying way, or to start an argument with someone
strange
when two or more people or things communicate with each other
a sleeveless shirt
saying as it is

Download the printable PDF: ESL Video Lesson Plan: Standup

TEDtalk Video ESL Lesson Plan: What Makes Something Go Viral

This TedTalk ESL video lesson is based on a talk by Dao Nguyen. In this video she is talking about how media spreads online and the technology and data that publishers can use to understand why.

Level: Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate

Time: 45min (video 10min)

Skills: speaking, listening, reading

Topic: Internet, social media, technology

Download:
Ted Talk Lesson What Makes Something Go Viral SW
Ted Talk Lesson What Makes Something Go Viral TN

Dao Nguyen: WHAT MAKES SOMETHING GO VIRAL?

STUDENTS’ WORKSHEET

WARM-UP QUESTIONS

What do you mostly use the Internet for?
What are your favourite websites or apps you use?
What do you think about social media?
Which social media do you use and what for?
How do you decide if you should share something that you see online?
How do you protect your privacy on the Internet?

VOCABULARY

Read the sentences and try to work out the meaning of the underlined words/phrases.

Last year, some BuzzFeed employees were scheming to prank their boss, Ze Frank, on his birthday. They decided to put a family of baby goats in his office.
Ze kept on getting delayed: he went to get a drink, he was called to a meeting, the meeting ran long, he went to the bathroom

But it performed so much better than we had expected. What was it about the goats in the office that we didn’t anticipate?
The following week, armed with the additional knowledge that food videos are very popular, we dressed two people in hazmat suits and wrapped rubber bands around a watermelon until it exploded.
It wasn’t the biggest live video that we had done to date. The biggest one that we had done involved a fountain of cheese.
This is who I am. This is my upbringing, this is my culture, this is my fandom, this is my guilty pleasure, and this is how I laugh about myself.
This is the group of jobs that makes me feel something — makes me curious or sad or restore my faith in humanity.
Turns out that this quiz went extremely viral among a group of 55-and-up women who were surprised and delighted that BuzzFeed determined that they were 28 and 5’9″.

This quiz was successful not because it was accurate, but because it allowed these ladies to do a very important job — the humblebrag.
One brainstorming session involved the job of bonding. So, could we make a recipe that brought people together?

Match the words/phrases (1-14) to their explanations (a-n).

to prank
to delay
to anticipate
hazmat suit
rubber band
to involve
upbringing
to restore
to turn out
delighted
determined
humblebrag
session
to bond

to pretend to be complaining but in reality to be proud of something
to bring back
the way a child is raised
to expect or predict
a meeting
to form a close relationship
to happen in a particular way
to play a practical joke on someone
to have a firm decision or a strong desire to do something
a circle of elastic rubber
to have or include as a part of something
a suit that protects against hazardous materials
to make someone late, not on time
very pleased

TED TALK VIDEO

Watch the video and answer the questions.

What animal did the BuzzFeed employees put in their boss’s office as a prank?
Why was their boss (Ze Frank) delayed?
Why was their Facebook Live experiment video so successful?
What are some of the “jobs” that the content is doing for the reader or the viewer?
Which “job” did the video about baking involve?
According to the speaker, which questions are important to answer if we want to create better content?

Have a look at our communicative activities. Click on the picture below.

TED Talk ESL Video Lesson Plan: How To Grow New Brain Cells.

This TedTalk ESL video lesson is based on a talk by Sandrine Thuret. In her talk she is asking two questions:

How can we help our healthy brains create new nerve cells throughout our lives, through diet and behavior changes?
How can we study the effects of diseases such as depression and Alzheimer’s on our brains’ ability to grow?

Level: Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate

Time: 45min.(video 11min.)

Skills: speaking, listening, reading

Topic: science, the human body

Download:
Ted Talk Lesson Brain Cells SW Ted Talk Lesson Brain Cells TN

Ted Talk Lesson Brain Cells SW

Sandrine Thuret: YOU CAN GROW NEW BRAIN CELLS. HERE’S HOW.

STUDENT’S WORKSHEET