Very young children are easy to teach because they are so full of curiosity and excitedly explore new ideas. They love acting and playing. Using situations and dialogs from teaching materials and acting out some dramatic situations help to teach vocabulary, lines, and the dramatic elements needed for a role play situation. When pupils practice in pairs or small groups, every pupil can be involved in the role play exercises and enjoy the b         I offer some examples of role play situations in teaching English in primary school.  An excellent way of testing speaking is an oral interview since listening and speaking can be assessed in a natural situation.           Situations for the interview. 1. Topic “Personal Identification”. A pupil is an English journalist. He needs some information about Russian pupils. He comes to school and what questions will he ask the pupils? (ask 6-10 questions). 2. Topic “Famous English and Americans writers”. A pupil is a Russian reporter. He is interviewing a well-known writer (Mark Twain, William Shakespeare…) to find out about his life.            Unprepared dialogue. a)     This is one-sided dialogue. You meet an English boy (girl): Pupil 1: Hello! My name is Misha. And what’s your name? Pupil 2:  .   .   .   .   . Pupil 1: Are you from Great Britain? Pupil 2:  .   .   .   .   . Pupil 1: I’m from Russia. I’m ten. And you? Pupil 2:  .   .   .    .   . b)    This dialogue takes the form of an incomplete dialogue with prompts.  Two classmate s are talking over the telephone. The line is bad and some sentences    are missing. Pupil 1: Hello! Is that you, Paul? Pupil 2:   .   .   .   . Pupil 1: Would you like to come to play chess? Pupil 2: When? Pupil 1:    .   .   .   . Pupil 2: I’d love to but I can’t. Pupil 1:   .   .   .   . Pupil 2: Because at 6 o’clock I usually help my sister to do her homework. Pupil 1: Oh, what a pity, your sister isn’t good at doing her homework. What about 7? Pupil 2: I’m sorry I can’t.   .   .   .   . Pupil 1: Is 8 o’clock all right with you then? Pupil 2:   .   .   .   . Pupil 1: Goodbye. Pupil 2:   .   .   .   .                          Role play card is a very useful tool.           One side of the cards is the same for all pupils and tells the main information about the role play situations and about the problem which need to decide. The other side of the cards is different for different pupils. They give the information about the person, his behaviour. Topic : “Free time”. Two friends meet and decide to go to the cinema. Pupil 1: You are a cinema-goer. Try to invite your friend to the cinema to watch some    interesting film. Pupil 2: You want to go to the cinema. But you don’t know where and what to watch. Ask your friend. Topic: “Travelling”. Two classmates meet after summer holidays. Pupil 1: You spent your holiday at home. Ask your classmate about his holiday. Pupil 2: You spent your holiday in village with your grandparents. Tell your classmate about the village life.                TV programmes and shows as a role play where two forms of speaking: monologue and dialogue are used. “Magic Wonder – Field” Pupil 1: (The pupil has the card with some phrases and questions – the plan of the game). Today we are going to play the game… . First of all I’d like to remind you the rules … . We need 3 players. Who would like to take part? You are welcome! Let’s applaud them! The first game. Pupil 1: Turn the drum. Tell us some words about yourselves. What’s your name (surname)? Have you got a family?  .   .   . Pupil 2:    .   .   .   . Pupil 1:(explain the word); guess the word! Name the letter! There is such a letter in this word. Pupil 1: You turn, please! I’m sorry but you are a bankrupt. Pupil 1: Oh! Prize! Will you get a prize or will you go on playing!  .   .   . enefits of role play.