Our main concern is ___.
Protect or Redevelop a Historic Place?
Negotiate whether to protect or redevelop a fictional historic place by clarifying interests, testing options, and agreeing on measurable safeguards.
Your goal
By the end of this lesson, you can represent different stakeholders, clarify priorities, and negotiate a decision about a historic place..
Why this roleplay matters
Use English to reach a practical outcome with another person. Learn a complete exchange, practise both roles and then change the details so the final conversation is not a memorised script.
TF26 · Culture, Traditions & HistoryProgress Focus
Progress focus: CMLISTFP
Use the final independent attempt to apply the 0–2 scoring guide consistently.
30-minute lesson route
- Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
- Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
- Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
- Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
- Run the main task: Roleplay a meeting about a fictional old market. Represent residents, conservationists, small businesses, and housing planners; agree on a conditional proposal.
- Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
Engduo Audio: Licensed voices prepared for this lesson. Audio never starts automatically. Use the transcript after the first listening attempt.
1. Understand the situation and roles
Identify who each person is, what each person needs and what successful communication must achieve.
- heritage value
- community need
- option
- safeguard
Engduo Audio • British English
Transcript — open after listening
We could support mixed redevelopment provided that the original hall remains public and local businesses receive affordable leases.
Engduo Audio • American English
Transcript — open after listening
The proposal is more workable than full demolition because it creates housing without removing the place that gives the area its identity.
Teacher Help · Stage 1
Clarify the two roles and the shared outcome. Model the situation briefly, but do not perform the learner’s role for them.
2. Build the useful exchange
Choose the opening, request, response, clarification and closing phrases needed for one complete conversation.
What would protection involve?
A possible compromise is ___.
That would only work if ___.
How would we measure ___?
We can support the proposal provided that ___.
Teacher Help · Stage 2
Select four to six useful chunks that form a complete exchange. Demonstrate how the turns connect; avoid reading the whole phrase bank aloud.
3. Rehearse one complete exchange
Practise the conversation once with visible support, then swap roles and change one detail.
- Separate fixed positions from underlying interests.
- Convert objections into conditions.
- Create measurable safeguards for access, cost, design, and review.
Teacher Help · Stage 3
Run one supported exchange, then swap roles. Change one concrete detail so the learner must listen and adapt.
4. Complete the roleplay with a new detail
Use the role information to solve the situation. Listen and react instead of reading every line.
Roleplay a meeting about a fictional old market. Represent residents, conservationists, small businesses, and housing planners; agree on a conditional proposal.
Teacher Help · Stage 4
Give each role the information it needs. Let the conversation continue until the practical outcome is reached; correct only when communication stops.
5. Final practice: Roleplay independently
Complete a new round with keywords only, receive one focused correction and repeat the weakest turn.
Negotiate a final redevelopment plan with two preserved features, two new uses, three safeguards, and one review date; summarise why it is more workable than the rejected options.
Retry: Repeat once with clearer meaning, stronger evidence, more accurate listening, or less support.
Teacher Help · Stage 5
Remove the model and use keywords or role notes only. Give one communication correction and one language correction, then rerun the weakest turn.
Exit check
Complete this without reading a model: State one agreed safeguard and the concern it addresses.
Success looks like: The group reaches a conditional agreement that addresses heritage and present community needs.
Evidence: speaking · Repeat the weakest part once after one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most.
CM · Communication Management
2: Organises ideas, turns, clarification and response coherently.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
LIST · Listening Comprehension
2: Understands and uses the required spoken evidence accurately.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
FP · Functional Performance
2: Completes the real communication outcome independently.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
Use these scores after the independent attempt. Give one specific success note and choose one next practice focus.
Teacher Help · Stage 6
Score the stated Progress Focus from the independent round. Point to one successful interaction move and one next practice focus.
คำอธิบายภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็นเท่านั้น
เริ่มจากผลประโยชน์และความกังวลจริง ไม่ยึดแค่จุดยืน ใช้เงื่อนไขและมาตรการที่ตรวจสอบได้เพื่อหาทางออก
Teacher Guidance · How to conduct this class
30-minute must-do route
- Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
- Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
- Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
- Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
- Run the main task: Roleplay a meeting about a fictional old market. Represent residents, conservationists, small businesses, and housing planners; agree on a conditional proposal.
- Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
60-minute extension
- Introduce a budget reduction and require the group to protect its highest-priority safeguard.
- Change the role, information, listener, or constraint so the learner transfers the skill rather than repeating the same answer.
- Compare the first and second performance and record one specific improvement.
Make it easier
Use role cards with one concern and two acceptable conditions.
Make it harder
Introduce a budget reduction and require the group to protect its highest-priority safeguard.
Likely difficulty
The learner may repeat a position, reject options without conditions, or agree vaguely.
Correction priority
Prioritise interests, conditional compromise, and measurable safeguards.
Thai support rule
Keep the Thai panel closed unless examples, visuals, replay, reformulation, and simpler English do not allow progress. Explain only the key distinction, then return to English.
Progress record
Use the 0–2 guide after the independent attempt and identify one recurring need for the next lesson.
Retry
Give one meaning-focused correction and one language-focused correction at most, then ask for a second attempt with fewer visible prompts.
- Council of Europe — CEFR Companion Volume — Supports action-oriented language learning through age- and level-appropriate interaction, descriptions, goal-oriented co-operation, written interaction, and observable communication outcomes.
- British Council LearnEnglish — Conditionals: zero, first and second — Supports the B1 first-conditional distinction between a realistic future condition and its probable result.
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