Drama and Role Play Activities
Acting Out Adverbs - A fun learning game ideal for a conversation class. One team acts out an adverb while the other team tries to guess what it is.
Acting Out Topics - An activity that is played out in pairs. Learners work together to role play situations given by the teacher.
Adverbial Charade - Adverbial Charades is a mime game that can be incorporated into any grammar lessons. A student peforms a pantomime in the manner of the adverb, while the rest of the class tries to guess what the adverb is.
Animal Game - This is activity is ideal for young children. Players walk around in a circle, while the teacher calls out an animal sound that the players have to make.
Charades - Charades is a popular game that every efl/esl learner of all levels will enjoy. Students act out a word or phrase while the rest of the class tries to guess what it is.
Dating Game - This is a great game that will encourage conversation and interaction. Students write their own profile for a fictional Lonely Hearts newspaper column, and try to find a suitable match.
Guess the Adverb - Guess the Adverb is an activity in which a volunteer tries to guess a particular adverb based on the way it was acted out.
Panel Guessing Game - In this efl/esl activity, learners form panels and try to guess a career field which is written from behind.
Sculpting Figures - a fun activity for teaching esl to young children. The teacher calls out a vocabulary while players go about "sculpting" their partner.
Sea Creatures - a fun game for young children. Players pretend to be a sea creatures and try to avoid been eaten (tagged) by the shark.
Start or End With An Image - teams work together to act out what they interpret a given photograph or painting to mean. They must either start from or end the scene in a frozen position that is as close as possible to the given photo or painting.
Story in a Bag - In this activity, students work in groups to invent a story based on items that they had randomly selected from a bag.
Verb to Adverb Acting - Verb to Adverb is a mime game. Players act out in pantomime a verb and an adverb choosen by another team.
Who Am I? - In this role play/drama activity, learners act out the mannerisms of another classmate. The rest of the class tries to guess who among them is been portrayed.