What is a role play?  To act and speak as if you are the character you're portraying.  It means to keep your speech in the context of the setting in which your character (or avatar) exists.

Here is a sample of our students of 4th ESO in the Practical English classroom. We work using active learning methodologies. This is a role-play project. They are pretending to be in a restaurant ordering food. ¡They really enjoyed it!