Character Opposites Roleplays
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Roleplays to practise personality adjective antonyms, ending with brainstorming opposite pairs.
Lesson Plan Content:
Character opposites roleplays
Roleplay the discussion or discussions below that your teacher tells you to (or choose which ones you want to discuss if you teacher tells you that you can).
One of you has just recruited a new member of staff. The other person thinks that the new recruit is the opposite of what was needed and so should criticise the other person for their choice, giving reasons why that new member of staff isn’t suitable. The person who chose that person should sometimes accept the criticisms, and sometimes “fight back”. Then together decide what the best solution is.
Two people have applied for jobs in your company. There are good and bad things about each person. One of you thinks that overall one is better and the other person thinks the other candidate is better. Take turns saying how your person is good and the other person is bad. When you run out of ideas, try to agree on who actually would be best (based on what you have said about them up to that point).
Reminisce about people who you both knew at junior high school (fellow students, teachers, etc). You both remember their personalities differently, so discuss why you describe them the way you do, including sometimes describing them in ways which are the complete opposite of how your partner describes them.
Talk about who would be the best and worst romantic matches for someone (imaginary) who you both know, talking about things like compatibility (“opposites attract” or not, etc) and previous failed relationships. You should mainly talk about personality, but you can also talk about looks, etc.
Describe what you decided in one situation and see if other groups think that is a good decision or not.
Ask about any situations above that you don’t understand, can’t think of what to say in, etc.
Write as many pairs of character words with opposite meanings as you can, including different opposites of the same words if you can/ if you like.
Compare with another group. Did the other group write any which don’t really seem like exact opposites?
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