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Festivals and Celebrations- Telephoning Roleplays

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Telephoning practice on Xmas topics and then about other life events and celebrations, good for adding a lighter touch and some seasonality to Business English classes.

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Festivals and celebrations telephoning roleplays

Part One: Xmas telephoning roleplays

Choose roleplays from the next page and act out the whole telephone conversation (from greetings at the start to goodbye at the end).

Part Two: Other festivals and celebrations telephoning roleplays

Roleplay similar phone calls related to other special times such as these:

  • A child entering university
  • After a big business success
  • After a big product launch
  • After finishing a big project
  • An important birthday of a child (e.g. first birthday or eighteenth birthday)
  • April Fool’s Day
  • Armistice Day/ Remembrance Day/ War Memorial Day/ Poppy Day
  • Birthdays
  • Bonfire Night/ Guy Fawkes Night
  • Buddhist festivals
  • Carnival
  • Cherry blossom viewing
  • Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year
  • Diwali
  • Easter (Good Friday etc)
  • Eid
  • First day at work
  • Gay Pride parades
  • Getting divorced
  • Getting engaged/ married
  • Halloween
  • Hanukkah
  • Having a baby
  • (American) Independence Day
  • Last day at work
  • Lent
  • May Day protests
  • National election days
  • National holidays/ Bank holidays
  • New Year’s Day/ Eve
  • Oktoberfest
  • Ramadan
  • Retirement
  • Saint Patrick’s Day
  • Shrove Tuesday/ Pancake Day
  • Special birthdays (40th etc)
  • Summer festivals
  • Valentine’s Day
  • Wedding anniversaries
  • When an important visitor comes to visit

Xmas telephoning roleplays

 

Phone a shop and check if the Xmas supplies that you want is available before you go shopping there.

 

 

Phone a friend and invite them for Xmas dinner.

 

 

 

Phone the restaurant to book a table for Xmas dinner. Ask a few questions before you make your reservation.

 

 

Phone a hotel to book a place for a company Xmas party.

 

 

 

Phone someone to thank them for a Xmas present.

 

 

 

Phone the printers that supplies your company’s Xmas cards to complain about them.

 

 

 

Phone your boss to ask for some (extra) time off at Xmas.

 

 

 

Someone you need to speak to is on holiday for Xmas but you really need to speak to them, so phone them on their mobile.

 

 

Phone someone who is coming to your Xmas party to check if they don’t like or can’t eat particular food.

 

 

Phone a party planning company and try to negotiate a good price for them to cater your company’s Xmas party.

 

 

You will be visiting your partner’s country during the Xmas and New Year period. Phone them to see if they have any recommendations, warnings etc about that time.

 

 

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