CHARACTER ROLE PLAY: Each student takes one of the central characters in the article. The teacher can add more. Students with the same roles discuss their characters and plan what they will say in the role play. The teacher sets the scene for the role play.
STUDENT DECIDED ROLES: The teacher outlines the nature / situation [...]

Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course
The Four Strands
The basic argument, is that a well-balanced language course should consist of four roughly equal strands:

Learning through meaning-focused input; that is, learning through listening and reading where the learner’s attention is on the ideas and messages conveyed by the language.
Learning through meaning-focused output; that is, [...]