Lesson Plans

A.6.08– Introduction to role play for grouop facilitation

45 minutes

  • For this activity, the tutor appoints a third learner to take on the role of facilitator.
  • The facilitator distributes copies of R.6.3 to all learners and reads through the role play activities described.
  • The facilitator invites 3 learners to volunteer to play the roles of Susan, Bobby and John.
  • The 3 volunteers are given some time to prepare their scene (3-5minutes).  During this time the facilitator leads a short group discussion on ‘how useful role play could be to their work with migrants’.
  • The 3 volunteers act out their scene, and after this the 3 actors provide feedback to the group on how they found the experience.
  • The facilitator then divides the other learners into groups of 3 and asks them to act out the role play; with the 3 volunteers acting as observers for each group.
  • The facilitator then leads a short whole group discussion on how the learners felt assuming the various roles in the role play, i.e. the facilitator first asks for feedback from all the Susans, then all the Bobbys and then all the Johns.
  • The facilitator records this feedback on a flipchart.
  • The Tutor then conducts a group feedback on how the faciliator felt and on how the group felt the activity was facilitated.


Flipchart and marker; Copies of R.6.3 for each learner.