KS4 · Spanish · Year 10
Situaciones: role play
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Your learning goal
I can prepare and perform a role-play in a service setting.
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Situaciones: role play: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can prepare and perform a role-play in a service setting.
Key learning points
- When preparing and performing role-plays, it is important to answer using short phrases or sentences.
- You must avoid giving one-word answers in role-plays.
- Role-play answers must be kept brief. Overcomplicating answers runs the risk of introducing ambiguity.
- It is important to be aware of different forms of address, 'tú' and 'usted', when preparing and performing role-plays.
Words to know
- role-play
- task in which the student responds to several prompts in the format of a role-play
- 2nd person
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'you (informal)'
- 3rd person
- form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'she, he, it, they', or 'you (formal)'
Common mistakes
When performing a role-play, one-word answers are enough.
When preparing and performing role-plays, it is important to answer using short phrases or sentences, avoiding one-word answers.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Slides 8, 9 and Task A2 contain Higher Tier vocabulary. Students can have a tendency to rush or mumble their answers in a role-play, so encourage them to speak clearly in Task A1c.

