Conversations when you move abroad step by step roleplays game

Conversations when you move abroad step by step roleplays game

Roleplay a conversation/ conversations in the first step below with you as the person moving abroad and your partner as anyone you talk to. When you finish, your partner will give you one point if you do well or two points if you do perfectly, but no points if you didn’t communicate well. Then switch roles and do the same with your partner as the person moving abroad. You then do the same for the second step, but you can use your points at any point during the game to skip steps below, e.g. using two points to skip steps 8 and 9 because they are difficult or not things that you will really need to do.

Useful phrases for playing the game “I’ll give you no points/ one point/ two points because…” “I’m going to use one/ two/ … of my points to skip…, so the next one for me is…”

1. On the plane
2. At immigration
3. At customs
4. At airport shops (mobile phone, car rental, money exchange, etc)
5. Being met at the airport
6. In a taxi, bus or train from the airport
7. At your hotel
8. In reception of your hotel the next morning
9. Buying a ticket to travel to work
10. Travelling to work
11. Going to reception of your new workplace
12. Being taken to your office and being shown your desk for the first time
13. Being given a tour of your office (including being introduced to people)
14. An orientation session
15. Your first meeting or training session
16. Your first lunch
17. Finishing work on your first day
18. Socialising after your first day
19. Starting your second day at work
20. Finding more permanent accommodation
21. Your first meeting(s) outside the office
22. Your first Friday night
23. Your first weekend (shopping, sorting out a bank account, registering with a doctor, etc)
24. Monday morning after your first weekend
25. Moving into your house or flat
26. Receiving deliveries at your new house or flat
27. Sorting out problems with your house or flat (getting something repaired, getting something installed, asking how to do something, etc)
28. Meeting your neighbours
29. Socialising at your new house or flat (housewarming party, dinner party, barbecue, having your neighbours around for a cup of tea, etc)

If you finish the game before other groups, roleplay the steps that you skipped. Then when your teacher stops you, ask about any steps which you are not sure what to say in, etc, working together as a class to think of what to do each time.