These 27 role plays for adult ESL students cover the full range of everyday life from ordering in a restaurant and getting a haircut to apologizing gracefully, saying no without offending anyone, and figuring out the unwritten rules of a new culture.

Real life doesn't wait for students to feel ready. It shows up as a neighbor dispute, a dental appointment, a job interview, a moment where someone needs to set a boundary and doesn't yet have the words.

These 27 packs were created around those moments. You get the practical ones and the emotionally complex ones because adult students need practice with both. A student who can order at a restaurant but freezes when she needs to apologize, say no, or ask a professor for help, is only partly prepared.

WHAT'S INSIDE EACH ROLE PLAY PACK:

Every pack in this bundle (except How to Talk to Teachers & Professors; it has a unique set up) includes all of the following components.

• teacher pages
• anticipation page(s); rate-it activities to open the topic and get students thinking
• essential vocabulary handout
• conversation matching worksheets
• dialogue prompts
• scripts
• scenario cards

Some also include writing prompts, discussion questions, script starters, and/or idioms & expressions.

THIS IS DESIGNED FOR YOUR ADULT ESL STUDENTS

Every scenario, every script, and every conversation in these packs was written with adult students in mind. That means no childish situations. You get the real moments your students are already handling or will face soon.

These role play packs also work well with older secondary students in life skills classes who are building the same practical communication skills. If your students are mature enough to come up against these situations on their own in the real world, they're the right audience for these materials.