This pedagogical article documents the creation and implementation of online simulation tasks in the second language (L2) classroom. The materials created are intended to address the specific challenges of incipient learners of French as a second language in Montreal. Three simulation tasks were developed in an online format on the ImmerseMe platform aiming to prepare such learners for oral communication in their Francophone environment and thus reinforce their willingness to communicate (WTC) in L2 (MacIntyre et al., 1998) outside the classroom. As the WTC concept is still not very present in teacher training programs around the world (Gregersen and MacIntyre, 2014), we propose first to give a brief theoretical overview of it, before focusing on the description of simulation tasks that can be used to support it.