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.
Lesson Plan Content:
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
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Phone a shop and check if the Xmas supplies that you want is available before you go shopping there.
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Phone a friend and invite them for Xmas dinner.
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Phone the restaurant to book a table for Xmas dinner. Ask a few questions before you make your reservation.
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Phone a hotel to book a place for a company Xmas party.
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Phone someone to thank them for a Xmas present.
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Phone the printers that supplies your company’s Xmas cards to complain about them.
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Phone your boss to ask for some (extra) time off at Xmas.
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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.
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Phone someone who is coming to your Xmas party to check if they don’t like or can’t eat particular food.
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Phone a party planning company and try to negotiate a good price for them to cater your company’s Xmas party.
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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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