abstract: The article discusses a role-play offered to university students of a history faculty in the framework of a meaning-focused speaking activity in the ESP class conducted in a zoom session.The motivation stimulated in students by this productive task fuelled their interest in the topic of the lesson and enhanced their enthusiasm to discuss the historical issues which the role play centred around.The study also looks into the possible implications for the use of task-based method in ESP lessons of 
journal: Science and Education a New Dimension