Role Plays for Today is a photocopiable resource book for use with adult and teenage EFL and ESOL students from elementary to advanced levels. It provides teachers with an instant resource of up-to the-minute role play activities which can be used to support or extend any English teaching course. The activities can be adapted for use with classes of any size. Features include: 39 enjoyable, ready to use role plays divided into five 'real world' categories - Services, Shopping, Social life, Lifestyle and Creative role plays - which provide extensive and varied speaking practice in pair and group situations Target language boxes on each worksheet to remind students and teachers of key expressions and functional language appropriate for the role play language activities and discussion questions in the teacher's notes which help prepare and motivate students for the role play, and suggestions for further activities, helping to ensure a well-rounded lesson grammar, functional language and vocabulary areas likely to be activated are given for each role play in the contents and teacher's notes an index of grammar, functions and vocabulary at the back of the book