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Company Presentation Role-Play Activity

The document provides guidance for an activity where students practice explaining their company's products or services. Students are asked to bring marketing materials from their own company or from sample companies. They then work in pairs or groups to imagine visitors coming to their company and have a dialogue where they discuss details from the marketing materials. They write out questions the visitors may ask and then role play the conversations, with one student taking on the visitor role and asking the prepared questions. The goal is to help students practice using less formal language than marketing materials when discussing a company with visitors.

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Company Presentation Role-Play Activity

The document provides guidance for an activity where students practice explaining their company's products or services. Students are asked to bring marketing materials from their own company or from sample companies. They then work in pairs or groups to imagine visitors coming to their company and have a dialogue where they discuss details from the marketing materials. They write out questions the visitors may ask and then role play the conversations, with one student taking on the visitor role and asking the prepared questions. The goal is to help students practice using less formal language than marketing materials when discussing a company with visitors.

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Dealing with visitors

■ C O M PA N Y R U N D O W N
Students practise explaining or discussing some of their company’s
products or services, using authentic materials as a starting point.

Language any
Level intermediate and above
Time 1 hour

Preparation
Ask students to bring in copies of their company’s sales literature. As
well as bringing in brochures or leaflets, they should print off any web
pages their company may currently use or even try and obtain copies
of responses to customer enquiries about specific products or services.
(Note: You may prefer to obtain some authentic material yourself, if this
is feasible.) If your students are not yet working, obtain a range of sales
literature which you think may interest your students. Obtain all this
material in advance of your lesson and make copies for all your
students.

Procedure
1 Tell students to imagine some visitors are coming to their company.
Ask them to decide precisely who the visitors are (in pairs or groups
of three) and what they might want to know or discuss. Suggest,
perhaps, that they might imagine visitors coming from their
company’s head office or from a potential partner for a joint
venture.
2 Using the sales literature for inspiration or information, students
should then write out a possible dialogue with a visitor. They can
continue working in their pairs or groups of three. While you are
monitoring, encourage students to use less formal language than that
used in the sales literature (or other material) and to imagine and
include interesting ‘background’ details which their visitor might
want to discuss. Correct and provide language as necessary.
3 Ask students to extract from their script a list of questions the visitor
might ask. Get them to write these out on a separate piece of paper.
4 Finally, ask students to role-play their conversations with various
partners, having first given their ‘visitors’ a list of questions to ask.

■ ADVERBIAL BALLS
Students throw a ball around and make sentences using time
expressions. If you dislike throwing things around the classroom you
can use a more conventional approach – but balls work better!
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