Going to the Dentist - Role Play
Explain dental discomfort, discuss options and ask for clear instructions. 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
Ask about dental plans, costs and discomfort while making questions and consent explicit.
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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.
- Read the plan and nervous-patient models; identify the written estimate request and agreed pause signal.
- Practise comparing fictional Plan A/Plan B, calling about discomfort and requesting explanations before a procedure.
- Confirm how questions will be answered, what the estimate includes and how a pause can be requested.
Support and extension
Keep Plan A and Plan B abstract rather than inventing procedures. Offer question stems. No dental diagnoses, medicine advice or promises of painless treatment; a clinical concern belongs with the dental team.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
