Student handout 1.1: (Group 1) Role play

Agree on a representative of your group who will read aloud the short entry from the diary and the task for your group.

Appoint another member of your group who will take notes of your results and present them to the class.

Entry from Max’s diary:

“It is my first day in my new class. My family has moved here from another region and I still feel I am a stranger. Dear diary, a lot has happened to me in the last few days. I will tell you about some of it.

We now live in an apartment near the river. One of the boys in my class lives a few doors away. He already came up to me on the third day to ask me to go fishing with him. I said no because my fishing rod is still packed in one of the boxes.”

Tasks:

1. Collect a list of adjectives that you think Max’s fellow students in class would use to describe him (brainstorming in your group).
2. What do you think a student in Max’s class will tell the other students about him? Rehearse a short scene that you can act in class.