Meet My Pen Pal Role Play Activity
- Year levels
- Years 4–8
- File type
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Use
- Digital activity
- Subject
- ESL, Language Development, English
- Topic
- Pen Pals, Role Play
- Resource types
- Activities
- Use
- Digital activity
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9LC10EC06 — create spoken
From the author
About this resource
In Meet My Pen Pal, students imagine visiting a friend in China and create a five-slide travel presentation covering a city, travel arrangements, a restaurant, a sport and another activity. They add pictures and sentences, then present their story to the class.
The six-slide PowerPoint download provides directions, requirements, public-speaking tips and a marking rubric.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Plan and write a five-slide narrative describing an imagined trip, including logistics (cost, dates, flights), a restaurant choice, a sport, and a shared activity.
Compose a 10-word-or-longer descriptive sentence for each slide of the presentation.
Deliver a memorised oral presentation using public-speaking techniques such as eye contact and an attention-grabbing opener.
Apply grammar and vocabulary appropriately for a scored presentation, per the rubric's grammar and vocabulary criteria.
Teaching tips
Share the rubric with students before they begin drafting so they know their presentation will be scored on requirement completion, creativity, speech delivery, grammar, and vocabulary separately.
Review the public-speaking tips slide as a mini-lesson before presentation day, since it covers concrete techniques like using an attention-grabbing opener and rehearsing in a mirror.
Clarify the late-work policy up front — the rubric and requirements both note that late printed scripts lose points on a sliding scale by how many days late.
Skills covered
Narrative/descriptive writing — students write a 10-word-or-longer sentence for each of five slides describing an imagined trip.
Imagined travel planning — students name a city, restaurant, sport and activity to make their fictional trip concrete.
Oral presentation — students memorise and deliver their travel story aloud, following included public-speaking guidance.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How much of the trip's details are students expected to look up versus invent?
The directions frame it as an imagined trip — students name a city, restaurant, sport, and activity as part of the story, with no citation or outside-source requirement stated in the file.
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9LC10EC06 — create spoken, written and multimodal informative and imaginative texts, selecting vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences
Core concepts
Core concepts
Travel narrative writing
Oral presentation skills
Rubric-based assessment
Role play
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