Role Play Writing and Performance
Assignment Prompt
Objective: Develop your conversational skills in Chinese by writing and performing a role play with a classmate.
Part 1: Writing Your Own Lines
- Choose a Scenario: Think of a scenario for a conversation. It could be a typical daily interaction, such as ordering food at a restaurant, meeting a friend at the park, shopping for clothes, or any other situation where a dialogue might occur.
- Write Your Lines: Create your lines for the roleplay based on the chosen scenario. Aim for at least 10 lines of dialogue, ensuring that your lines reflect a natural conversation flow. Include greetings, questions, responses, and any necessary expressions to make the conversation engaging and realistic.
- Use Variety: Incorporate a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures. This will help you practice different aspects of the language and make the role play more interesting.
Part 2: Exchanging Lines
- Partner Up: Pair up with a classmate and exchange the lines you have written. Each student will then complete the dialogue by adding in their own lines for the role play in response to what your partner has written. Make sure to maintain consistency and coherence in the conversation while adding your own touch to the dialogue.
- Review and Revise: After exchanging lines, review the lines written by your partner. Make any necessary revisions to ensure the dialogue flows smoothly and is grammatically correct.
Part 3: Practice and Performance
- Practice: Use the revised dialogue to practice the role play with your partner. Focus on pronunciation, intonation, and fluency. Try to memorize your lines, but understand the meaning so you can respond naturally during the performance.
- Class Performance: In the next class, you and your partner will perform the role play in front of the class. You should not read directly from your notes. Instead, use the dialogue freely in conversation, responding naturally to your partner.
- Evaluation: You will be graded on your pronunciation, fluency, ability to convey meaning, and how naturally you can carry out the conversation.
This assignment aims to enhance your ability to think in Chinese, improve your writing and speaking skills, and build confidence in using the language in practical situations. Have fun and be creative!
Below is an example of Part 1, lines written before a partner adds their content:
A: Hello Erik! You look very nice! I have been doing well. How are you?
你好，Erik！你看起来很好！我做得很好。你好吗？
A: How is your family?
你的家人怎么样？
A: Great! Where do your mom and dad work?
太好了！你妈妈和爸爸在哪里工作？
A: Great! My family is good. My parents are moving to a new house. My brother is very excited to be living in California.
太好了！我的家人很好。我父母要搬去新房子。我哥哥住在加利福尼亚很兴奋。
A: I have not been on an airplane. I hope to travel with my family to Hawaii.
我没坐飞机。我希望和家人一起去夏威夷旅行。
A: Wow! That’s very cool!
太好了！非常好。
A: My family travels by car. My parents like to drive the car. It is much easier for them to drive places, but if we travel to Hawaii we will have to take a plane.
我家坐车旅行。我父母喜欢开车。他们开车去很多地方要容易得多，但如果我们去夏威夷旅行，我们就得坐飞机。
A: My family has never been on a train. Is it fun to ride on a train?
我家从未坐过火车。坐火车很有趣吗？
A: That sounds like fun! Did you parents enjoy the trip?
那听起来很有趣！你们父母喜欢这次旅行吗？
A: You were very busy! Do you have any photos?
你当时很忙。你有照片吗？
A: What restaurants did you go to?
你去了哪家餐厅？
A: No, I do not like lobster. I really like crab but I like a lot of seafood. How about you?
不，我不喜欢龙虾。我真的很喜欢螃蟹，但我喜欢很多海鲜。你呢？
A: I am hungry too! What are you cooking?
我也饿了！你在做什么？
A: I love seafood. I eat crab and salmon all the time. I’m very excited.
我喜欢吃海鲜。我一直吃螃蟹和鲑鱼。我很兴奋。
A: Erik, this is very good, thank you so much.
Erik, 这個很好，非常感谢。
A: What kind of movies do you like?
你喜欢看什么样的电影？
A: Oh wow, is there a horror movie showing at the movie theater this weekend?
哦哇，这个周末电影院有恐怖电影上映吗？
A: I can drive us to the movie theater.
我可以开车送我们去电影院
A: Let’s take my car, it is new and smells nice.
我们坐我的车吧，它很新，闻起来很香.
A: Goodbye Erik, see you this weekend!
再见Erik，这个周末见.
