The study sheds light on the use of role-plays in speaking activities in primary school and considers its contribution to students motivation to mastering the language. The work describes the specific features of the use of role-plays at the English language lessons in primary school and suggests guidelines to the most effective ways of its organizing at the lesson. The value of the research lies in the development of pedagogical and methodological aspect of the use of role-plays in primary school. The obtained data may be used by teachers of English as a foreign language at schools and kindergartens and by lecturers on methodology of the English language teaching and pedagogic.