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The foreign guest game (business functional language review)

  Teacher’s instructions/ rules of the game 

Photocopy and cut out one pack of cards per group of 2 to 4 students. Give each group a pack of cards to shuffle and place face down on the table. Always starting with card 1, students must find the cards and do the roleplays in order from 1 to 16. Anytime they pick the wrong card next or don’t succeed in the roleplay, play passes to the next person, who must also start from card number 1. The game is easiest if played with two teams of two students playing against each other in a group.

1. Decide with a colleague where are the best places to take a foreign guest

2. Meet the guest (for the first time) at the airport

3. Make small talk in the taxi from the airport

4. Introduce the foreign guest to your boss

5. Take the guest on a tour of your company

6. Give them a presentation explaining your company

7. Decide with the guest where they want to go for lunch

8. Explain some things on the menu to the guest

9. Make small talk about the food

  

10. Have a friendly argument about who will pay for lunch

11. Explain the afternoon schedule to the guest

12. Give the guest instructions on how to get to their hotel

13. Greet the guest the next morning and ask them about the hotel

14. Explain some tourist sites in your city that they can visit in the afternoon

15. Exchange presents with the guest

16. See the guests off in a taxi to the airport