About This Activity

Overview

This collection of Petshop Role-Play Kits make it easy to facilitate a realistic buying/selling interactions anywhere. The provided kits include a variety of pet animals (in different colors) and various pet accessories, including fish tanks and bags of pet-food.

With these materials, students can participate meaningfully in role-play interactions after memorizing as few as 10-20 vocabulary words.

Role-play activities are a type of communication practice exercise used regularly under the communicative language teaching (CLT) methodology as one of six common classroom activity types.

 

Activity Presentation Phase Instructions

 

Petshop Printable Example

Animals & Accessories

 

Petshop Printable Example

Bags of Pet Food

 

Petshop Printable Example

Part of the Fish Tank

 

Fast-Food Printable Example

Pet Bed Components

 

 

 

Download Printable Materials

 

 

How To Use

Groups: These materials are best used for pair role-play. One student can play the role of 'customer' and the other 'worker.'

Materials: One or more sets of role-play materials.

Time / Game Round: 1-3 minutes

 

  • The worker should ask their customer "What do you want?"

  • The customer should ask for a specific pet.

  • The worker should then ask their customer if they want/need any objects associated with that animal.

    For example, if the customer asks for a fish, the worker should ask if the customer also wants a fish tank.

  • If there is more than option for the customer requests, the worker should verbally clarify further.

    For example, if the customer asks for a fish and there is more than one type of fish available, the customer should ask what color(s) the fish should be.

 

There are MANY ways to use these materials for different levels of complexity and for various learning goals/purposes. However, the instructions above are a good place to start for beginners.

 

How To Play

 

 

Words to Learn Before Playing

The Core Vocabulary Words listed below are all words that students should learn BEFORE playing this game. Students will only need to learn the words listed for a specific set of cards to play this game with that set of cards.

 

Core Vocabulary Words Used in Activity
Materials Set A bird, cat, dog, fish, monkey, mouse, mouse
Materials Set B ball, banana, bed, blue, cage, cat, dog, fish, food, octopus, red, tank, turtle, white, 
Materials Set C ball, bed, blue, castle, green, red, yellow, white

 

 

Words to Learn While Playing

The following words will be used to the play this game (with every available set of cards). However, these words don't need to be pre-taught. These words can and should be learned WHILE playing the game.

 

Vocabulary Best Learned In Context
Used With All Sets a/an, are, do, have, here, like, need, no, one, some, thank-you, the, want, what, which, yes, you, you're-welcome

 

 

Sentence Patterns to Use While Playing

The following sentences and sentence patterns are recommended for use while playing this game. The best way to teach these sentences, is to use them in context while introducing the game and demonstrating how to play it.

 

Standard Sentences and Sentence Patterns
What do you want?
I want a _________________. / I want some _________________.
_________________ need (a) _________________. Do you want (a) _________________?
_________________ like _________________s. Do you want a _________________?
I have a _________________ _________________ and a _________________ _________________. Which one do you want?

(Example: I have a blue and white fish and a yellow and white fish. Which one do you want?
I want the _________________ _________________.

(Example: I want the blue and white fish.
Yes. / No.
Here you are.
Thank you. / You're welcome.