0+Roleplay+Bankrobbery

__**1)http://eslsite.com/rd/Drama-Role_Plays/quick_drama_ideas.html**__

__Improvised situations__


 * 1) Give out an occupation to each student and put the students into pairs.
 * 2) Then write on the board 10 am yesterday.
 * 3) The students should then mingle and explain what they were doing at that time according to their jobs.
 * 4) They can mime what they were doing and the other students should explain what they were doing in words.
 * 5) Keep changing the times i.e. say "now it's 12 pm."
 * 6) The students should move around the room and mime something that they were doing at that time.
 * Teacher || Doctor || Nurse || Shop assistant || Window cleaner ||
 * Clown || Tennis player || Model || Baseball player || Footballer ||
 * Politician || Hair stylist || Actor || Sailor ||

2) Alibi
http://eslsite.com/rd/Drama-Role_Plays/alibi.html

**Activity type**: A role play based on a very old idea in which students have to act as criminals and police people.

 **Level**: Pre-intermediate and above

 **Teacher's notes:**

> > //Last night between 6pm and 9pm a diamond was stolen from a store on the main street of our town. The diamond was priceless. Nobody knows exactly when the diamond was stolen but it was certainly taken between 6pm and 9pm. Two people were seen outside the shop last night and have been taken in for questioning by the police. At present, they are the prime suspects and unfortunately they are in this very room!// > **Note**: You can have more than two suspects e.g. three suspects and three police stations or four and four police stations. The amount will depend on your class size. Always make sure that you have the same number of stations as suspects because they all need to speak to each suspect.
 * 1) Tell the whole group about a crime which has recently been committed, for example:
 * 1) Point out two ‘suspects’ in the group. Choose the most confident students who do not mind being suspected of a crime. Make sure that they feel suitably surprised! Ask the students what needs to happen now i.e. that they need to be interrogated and that they need to have a strong alibi. Actually they have to think of one story i.e. that they were together and they need to think, in detail, what they did between 6pm and 9pm.
 * 2) They might say, for example, that they went to a restaurant, they ate fish, they shared the bill and that they went home on the bus. The stories MUST be identical. If the stories are not the same, they are ‘GUILTY’
 * 3) Tell the two students to leave the room and to think of an alibi; it must be watertight.
 * 4) Tell the remaining students that they are police people and what they are going to do is to interrogate the suspects. Arrange the classroom so that you have two equal groups and put one group on one side of the room and the other group on the other side of the room. Ask them to think of questions that they would like to ask the suspects. Tell them that they need to find differences between the two suspects’ stories.
 * 5) After a few minutes preparation, allow the two suspects back into class. Seat one suspect in front of one police station and the other in front of the other police station. Tell each group to interrogate the suspect with their prepared questions. After 10-15 minutes (this will depend on the group), swap the suspects over i.e. move one suspect to the other police station and move the other suspect to the other.
 * 6) Allow time for the new interrogations.
 * 7) After both police stations have spoken to both suspects, ask the stations to confer as to whether they think the suspects are guilty or not i.e. were there any differences in their stories.
 * 8) As a follow-up, you can do error correction, ask the students to write up a report of what happened and also decide on an appropriate punishment!

 This is a very good review of the past simple and past continuous.

 This activity can take up to an hour possibly over that.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">**__3) Bank Robbery__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">**Bank Robbery**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco; text-align: left;"> Activity type: Role play in which students have to act as witnesses to a bank robbery.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco; text-align: left;"> Level: Intermediate and above

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco; text-align: left;"> **Teacher's notes:**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco; text-align: left;"> **Note**: this is a good activity for practicing past tenses e.g. past simple, and past continuous.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">Before you begin this activity, print out the roles below and fill out students’ names in the gaps provided i.e. in roles 10, 11 and 15. Pick confident, dominant students for this because they ultimately will be accused of a crime and so they need to be happy to accept that role.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">Put the students into pairs to talk about types of crimes that they have read about lately in the news. As they are talking monitor and correct. Also try to question some of the students about robberies and whether they have heard of a robbery recently.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">Bring the group back together and ask the students to tell you what they discussed. Once they have done this explain that they were all witnesses to a crime and that they will each be given a role.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">Hand out the roles and allow the students time to read them and to remember them. If there are any questions from the students, deal with them then.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">Ask the students to stand up and to mingle with each other explaining and listening to each other. Remind them to speak to everyone because only by doing this will they be able to piece together the whole story.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">After they have mingled for about 20-30 minutes, tell the students to get into pairs and to try to put together the whole story. The result should be that students tell you that there was a bank robbery yesterday at around 4pm. Three robbers went into the bank and demanded money. They were wearing black and one had a gun etc.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;">The students who have been added to the roles are the ones that actually committed the crime. Make sure that this comes out during the feedback; it should be fun for the students to realize that they were involved in the crime.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco; text-align: left;"> **Extension**: Ask the students to write up a crime report about the incident. If they need to, they can re-interview some of the witnesses

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were standing next to the bank at 4pm yesterday. You saw one person standing outside the bank.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were in the bank changing money, you heard someone shout “Get on the floor” and so you lay down.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You saw three people dressed in black. They ran to the counter and demanded money.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You saw one person in black with a gun. He/She was pointing it at the bank teller. She was putting money into a bag.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were standing outside the bank. You saw a blue car stop in front of the bank and three people got into it.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were standing next to the bank manager in the bank. You were asking about the bank. Suddenly, he ran passed you and left the bank.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were waiting on line when you heard a gun shot, you screamed and fell to the floor.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were waiting buy the bank and you saw one person shoot a gun into the sky. He was shouting to three other people.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You saw three people take a bag of money out of the bank. They were wearing black masks.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were standing by the telephone outside the bank. You heard one person shout come on _!

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were waiting for a telephone. You saw three people in black run to a blue car. They had a big black bag. One said his name- !

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were trying to use the cash machine outside the bank when you heard a gun shot and three people. They were running to a blue car. There was a fourth man in the car.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were standing next to a blue car outside the bank. You saw three people run out of the bank. They jumped into the car and it drove off. You then saw the police came.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were walking to the bank when you saw a police car speed towards the bank.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Courier New,Courier,Monaco;"> You were waiting at the airport. You saw a blue car arrive; four women got out. You heard two names __and__ _! They tried to get to a plane but the police caught them!


 * Witness to a crime**

Level: Intermediate

Teacher's notes:


 * 1) Explain to the students that they have witnessed a crime.
 * 2) Tell them to read the roles that you give them carefully.
 * 3) Give each student a role.
 * 4) Allow them time to read their roles and then tell them to stand up and mingle with the entire group.
 * 5) As they mingle they should explain their roles to one another.
 * 6) At the end of the activity put the students into pairs and ask them to tell each other all of the information that they found out from the other students.
 * 7) As a follow up activity ask the students to write a report of the crime based on the information that they found out.



You were standing near the drug store; you were talking to a friend who had just come back from vacation. You were listening to her tell you all about her time in Mexico. Suddenly, you noticed three people running from the store.



You were talking to a friend about your vacation outside the drug store, suddenly, your friend shouted, "Look!" You noticed three people running from the store; one was carrying a large bag.



You were waiting in the drug store for a prescription, you were angry because you had been waiting for a very long time. Suddenly, a man pushed in front of you and started shouting. It was 3.30pm; you knew because you had been waiting for your prescription since 3pm!



You were behind the counter in the drug store - serving customers. You were hungry and angry because the customers were being so impatient and you had missed lunch. Suddenly, a man ran up to the counter and told you to handover the money.



You were helping your friend behind the counter in the drug store, you actually work in the bakery next door but it was your break and so you decided to visit your friend – now you wish that you hadn't! Suddenly, a man shouted, "Give me the money!" You tried to hide but he saw you! He had blue eyes and was wearing a green shirt and a black sweater with a hat. Your friend gave him $2,000.



You heard a man shouting in the drug store; you were looking for headache tablets. Suddenly, you heard a man shout, "Give me the money!" It was 3.30pm; you were going home to watch Oprah Winfrey, she was doing a special program on violent children.



You were standing near the counter in the drug store, you saw a man wearing a casual pair of black pants and a sloppy sweater. You were surprised because it was the middle of the summer. Suddenly, he shouted, "Give me the money!"



You were holding the door of the drug store open for a woman with a baby. She had a lot of things to carry and so you tried to help her when suddenly two men pushed you; you almost fell! As they ran away, you saw that they were wearing black sweaters.



You were walking into the drug store with your baby. You wanted to buy some diapers. You noticed a man open the door for you, but as you walked through the door two men came out and pushed you out of the way.



You were standing by the mailbox near the drug store trying to mail some letters, when you saw three men running from the store. One had a bag and two were wearing black sweaters, the last man was following them, he was wearing a red shirt.



You were working at the front of the drug store putting cans on the shelves. You were wearing a red shirt and a black pair of pants. Suddenly, you saw two men running from the store with a bag. You ran after them to try to stop them.



You are a police officer. You were standing on the street corner. You suddenly saw three men running toward you; you knew that they were in trouble. You chased them but you only managed to catch the one wearing a red shirt and black pants. When you told him to stop he resisted.



You were watching TV at home; Oprah Winfrey was on - your favorite. It was about 4.15pm when the phone rang, it was the police, they said that John had been arrested for stealing money from the drug store. You couldn't believe it- not your son and not when your favorite program was on!



You own the drug store. The police called you at 5pm to say that they had arrested John. You have no idea what happened but you always thought that he was a problem.




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