Role Play Your Dialogue

Good Evening buddies! 

Want to hear something about my group's role play?
Yeah, here it is! :)

My group had decided to do a dialogue role play on Chinese New Year Celebration.  

Since that we need to include at least five language functions based on ISL Week 1, so we did discussed together about the dialogue that we going to present so that we were able to include as many language functions as we can. 

The details of the role play are as followed: 

# Title: Chinese New Year Celebration

# Setting: Housemates were having a conversation during breakfast. 

# Characters: Naja, Jue, Liza & Iin   

CHARACTER	DIALOGUE
NAJA	Hi, girls! Good morning! Chinese New Year is coming. Do you girls go back for holiday? (To ask)
LIZA	Yes! I will go back for sure because it is my family celebration. (To reply) How about you girls?(To ask)
INN	I’m not sure yet because my parents are not at home for the time being    (To reply).
JUE	Same goes for me as we have not received our allowances yet. (To explain)
LIZA	So pity for both of you. Why don’t both of you come with me? Let’s celebrate the Chinese New Year with me and my family. (To invite)
INN	Hmm…I don’t think I can join you because I already have my own plans for this coming holiday. (To decline)
JUE	Cool! It’s a good idea! But, I have to ask permission from my parents first.   (To half agree)
NAJA	Anyway, are you serious Liza? Since I always dream of celebrating Chinese New Year, don’t you mind if I go along with you? May I? May I?                  (To request)
LIZA	Yes, why not? It’s my honor to have you as my special guest. (To agree)
NAJA	Wow! That sounds lovely. Thanks, Liza. (To thank) By the way, what is so special about Chinese New Year celebration? Come on, tell us! (To ask)
JUE	Oh, I know. I know! One of them is Lion Dance. I really enjoy the Lion Dance show. It’s what I’m waiting for every year. (To express)
INN	But, I know the most special one! (To express)
JUE	What is it? What is it? (To ask)
INN	Angpau! Since I’m not coming with you, so don’t forget my angpau, okay! (To remind)
LIZA	Yes, both of you are correct. But, I’m so sorry, my dear. (To apologize)  I’m not married yet so I can’t give you angpau. (To explain)
INN	Why can’t? (To confirm)
LIZA	It’s a tradition. I can’t change it. (To explain)
NAJA	Oh, I see. Actually I’m so excited to play fireworks. (To express)
LIZA	Yes, me too. It is the most exciting part in Chinese New Year celebration for me. (To respond)
JUE	Really? That sounds great! (To respond)
LIZA	So, what are you waiting for? (To convince)
JUE	Alright, I’ll try my best to convince my parents. (To agree)
INN	If that so, I have to think twice about this. (To confirm)
LIZA	Good! That’s my friend. (To praise)
NAJA	Awesome! Let’s shopping for a new cheongsam, girls! (To invite)
LIZA, JUE & INN	Let’s go!!! (To agree)

We managed to include 14 language functions in our dialogue. Yeah!


 to ask  

to reply  

to explain  

to invite 

to decline  

to half agree  

to request  

to thank  

to express  

to remind  

to confirm  

to respond  

to convince  

to praised

Frankly, I found this activity was really interesting and challenging.

Do you know why??? 

Okay, it’s better to tell the story from A to Z.

Actually the idea to present a dialogue on Chinese New Celebration came up as we have one of our group members celebrating the celebration (Liza). Plus, the Chinese New Year Holiday was coming soon.

As we all were looking forward towards the Chinese New Year Holiday during that time, so we all agree to transfer the excitement in the form of dialogue.

The reason I said this activity was interesting is because I really had fun watching others’ group role plays. Among all, the one that I really love was Nickelson’s group role play. It was about a salesman and a saleswoman recommending a hair shampoo for a choosy customer. To me, what made the role play interesting was the way the character of the choosy customer act which was effective and quite funny. Anyway, congratulation to other groups to for the good job!

Next, why I said this activity was challenging is because we all need to memorize our part well so that the role play goes smoothly. Thank god, everyone managed to do that. Huh…

From the pedagogical side, I managed to learn something new from my lecturer. I like the technique that when she asked the group present to choose a few persons to identify the language functions used in the role play presented. The technique is useful in teaching so that the pupils or student will pay attention during others’ role play, plus to check whether the pupils understand or not what they are learning.