Buying Train Tickets - Role Play
Buy train tickets, check connections and ask for help when travel plans change. A B1–B2 speaking lesson with useful phrases, two extended model conversations and three paired role-play scenarios involving choices, clarification and negotiation.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Useful phrases for both speakers
- Two extended model conversations
- Three paired role-play scenarios
- Explain choices and negotiate a solution
Choose train tickets and disrupted routes by checking flexibility, arrival time and total extra charges.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use both pages. Read the two model conversations before distributing the paired role cards; partners should see only their own instructions.
- Contrast the fixed and flexible returns in the model, then identify how acceptance on another train is checked.
- Practise the uncertain work trip, cancelled connection and moved travel date; calculate the change fee plus fare difference.
- Confirm the selected trains, changes and restrictions; write down the itinerary for a partner to check.
Support and extension
Support with a fare/arrival comparison grid. Extend by weighing a direct train against two changes with luggage. Ticket rules are fictional; no universal entitlement or refund should be invented.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
