Could we talk about the noise from ___?
Solve a Neighbourhood Noise Problem
Raise a neighbourhood noise problem respectfully, exchange perspectives, propose options, and agree on a specific trial solution.
Your goal
By the end of this lesson, you can raise a concern and negotiate a reasonable solution.
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.
TF08 · Town, Directions & CommunityProgress 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: Neighbours receive different schedules and priorities. Discuss three options and agree on a one-week trial with quiet times, exceptions, and a review date.
- 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.
- observable problem
- effect and timing
- other perspective
- trial solution and review
Engduo Audio • Australian English
Transcript — open after listening
Could we talk about the music after ten? It has been difficult to sleep on work nights. I understand you sometimes finish late.
Engduo Audio • Indian English
Transcript — open after listening
Would it be possible to use headphones after ten thirty? Let’s try that for one week and check again next Sunday.
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.
It has been difficult to ___ when ___.
I understand that ___.
Would it be possible to ___?
How about we try ___ until ___?
Let’s check again on ___.
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.
- Describe the behaviour and effect without attacking the person.
- Acknowledge one legitimate need on the other side.
- Make the agreement specific enough to test.
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.
Neighbours receive different schedules and priorities. Discuss three options and agree on a one-week trial with quiet times, exceptions, and a review date.
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.
Handle a new noise situation, including one rejected proposal, and reach a workable alternative.
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 the problem and effect calmly, propose one option, and confirm a time-bound agreement.
Success looks like: The language stays respectful and the final agreement specifies what, when, and how it will be reviewed.
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
พูดถึงพฤติกรรมและผลกระทบ ไม่ติดป้ายคน เช่น noisy person ให้ใช้ the noise from… และทำข้อตกลงที่ตรวจสอบได้
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: Neighbours receive different schedules and priorities. Discuss three options and agree on a one-week trial with quiet times, exceptions, and a review date.
- 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
- Add an occasional exception and require a review plan acceptable to both sides.
- 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 one problem and choose from three solution cards.
Make it harder
Add an occasional exception and require a review plan acceptable to both sides.
Likely difficulty
The learner may sound accusatory, overuse you always, or accept a vague promise with no timing.
Correction priority
Prioritise neutral observation, perspective-taking, and specific agreement language.
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 B1 communication through connected speech, descriptions of experiences, opinions with reasons, travel situations, goal-oriented co-operation, written interaction, and action-oriented outcomes.
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