Cutting Edge Advanced Module 7
Part One: Roleplays
Choose the easiest or most interesting situation below, divide the roles between you, and have that conversation. Then switch to another.
| Ask your boss to move departments because you can’t stand the person sitting next to you |
| Demand your money back from an alternative therapist because it hasn’t worked |
| Make a complaint about a male chauvinist (= sexist) boss to his boss |
| Complain about the people that a dating agency has set you up with and demand your money back |
| Complain about your boarding school and try to persuade your parents to take you home |
| Tell your parents why you are leaving home at the age of 18 |
| Complain about compulsory military service to your MP and ask them to introduce a bill scrapping the system |
| Complain to your parents that all your friends are going abroad for a gap year but you don’t have the money |
Part Two: Leaving home discussion questions
What are the options for the person in the last situation?
What do you think about becoming an au pair? What do you think the experience would be like?
What do you think boarding school is like?
What do you think military service in the UK was like (before it was scrapped in 1961)? How do you think that situation was similar to and/ or different from your country?
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