Speaking – role-play mobile phones – Foundation tier
Role plays give you a chance to have a more structured conversation.
Question
What would you say for this roleplay?
- How do you access the internet? Say that you have a new mobile phone.
- What are the differences? Say that there are no differences, it has the same SIM card as before but the camera of the new phone is much better.
- Describe the new features. Say that you have a new ringtone and updated software.
- Who pays for your account? Say that it costs more but thankfully your parents pay for your account.
- What do you do on your favourite app? Say that you post lots of photos and type short captions underneath on your favourite app.
- Do you think it is important to have the latest mobile phone in the market? Say that you don't think that it is that important and that you only renew your device when your contract expires, every two years.
Listen to an example roleplay.
Transcript:
- Comment est-ce que tu as accès à internet?
- J’ai un nouveau portable que j'utilise pour accéder à internet.
- Quelles sont les différences entre les deux portables?
- Il n’y a pas de différences majeures, j’ai la même carte SIM qu’avant, mais l’appareil-photo du nouveau portable est bien meilleur.
- Décris les nouvelles fonctionnalités.
- J’ai une nouvelle sonnerie et j’ai mis à jour le logiciel.
- Qui paie ta facture?
- Le tarif est plus cher mais heureusement mes parents paient mon compte.
- Qu’est-ce que tu fais sur ton application préférée?
- Sur l'une de mes applications préférées je mets beaucoup de photos en ligne et je mets des légendes en dessous. En fait, ma nouvelle application préférée est celle à laquelle je télécharge des vidéos de moi en train de chanter ou jouer en play-back des musiques ou des dialogues de film. Bizarrement, j'ai eu plus de 1000 vues pour l'une de mes vidéos.
- Est-ce que tu penses qu'il est important d'avoir un portable à la dernière mode?
- À mon avis, ce n'est pas très important d'avoir le dernier modèle de téléphone portable, mais je connais des gens qui pensent que c'est le cas. Normalement, les nouveaux téléphones ont de meilleurs appareils photo, mais je trouve que tant que je peux utiliser mes applications préférées, contacter mes amis et télécharger de la musique, cela suffit. Je ne reçois un nouveau téléphone que lorsque mon contrat expire – c’est-à-dire tous les deux ans.
Translation:
- How do you access the internet?
- I have a new phone that I use to access the internet.
- What are the differences between the two phones?
- There are no major differences, I have the same SIM card as before, but the camera on the new phone is much better.
- Describe the new features.
- I have a new ringtone and I have updated the software.
- Who pays your bill?
- The tariff is more expensive but luckily my parents pay for my account.
- What do you do on your favorite app?
- On one of my favorite apps I upload a lot of photos and put captions below. In fact, my new favorite app is one where I upload videos of me singing or playing back music or movie dialogues. Surprisingly, I've had over 1000 views for one of my videos.
- Do you think it's important to have a trendy phone?
- In my opinion, it's not very important to have the latest phone model, but I know people who think it is. Normally newer phones have better cameras, but I find that as long as I can use my favorite apps, contact my friends, and download music, that's enough. I only get a new phone when my contract expires - that is, every two years.
