Role cards. 1. Discuss the following:

What you must decide

Cast list

Situation

Possible follow-ups

1. Discuss the following:

a) Is one's authority as a teacher undermined by seeking the aid of senior members of the staff in dealing with discipline problems?

b) Is one ever justified in punishing a whole class for the misbehaviour of one or two unidentified offenders?

c) Discussions of discipline and control often focus on the negative question of sanctions. What possible strategies ("awards") are available for encouraging desired pupil behav­iour?

2. Write up the role-play as a letter of the form teacher to her friend.

NB: topics suggested for oral discussion may serve/be used as topics for home or class

composition.

NICK'S BIRTHDAY

M.N. Semenova, an English teacher, and her colleague, N.M. Petrova, are receiving Mrs Dorothy Parker, a visiting Eng­lish teacher, at M.N. Semenova's. Her elder daughter, Helen, is helping by laying and clearing the table.

The ladies are discussing many things and mainly the com­ing birthday of M.N. Semenova's younger son Nick who is sup­posed to be at school at the moment. When the tea is in full swing the bell rings and Nick's form tutor, L.G. Bobrova, ap-

pears in the doorway to inform M.N. Semenova of her son's truancy. The hostess and guests are surprised at the news, and now M. N. Semenova is in two minds whether to arrange the birthday party or cancel it.

M.N. Semenova, mother

Helen Semenova, daughter

L.G. Bobrova, a form tutor

N.M. Petrova, an English teacher

Dorothy Parker, a visiting English teacher

Should M.N. Semenova arrange her son a birthday party at all? If not, when should she punish her son, before or after the party?

M.N. Semenova Aged 45

You are very much annoyed at the news. You love your son who is the apple of your eye and you've been looking foreward to the birthday party. Under the circumstances you have to punish your son and cancel or at least postpone the party. You are aware that you must say something but words fail you.

Helen Semenova Aged 20

You are a student of the English faculty, a future teacher and full of your own ideas on upbringing. You are very critical and think it only fair to punish your brother by cancelling the party. You think it will serve him right, as he has always been mother's pet.

L. G. Bobrova Aged 24

You are a young and inexperienced teacher. You have no patience with Nick who is a bright boy but a nuisance. You are a little bit embarrassed. You don't want to ruin his birthday party either. You also feel shy in the presence of the efficient teachers and mature women.

N.M. Petrova Aged 30

You are M.N.'s friend and a teacher who is very popular with the pupils, but you have no children of your own and do not want to interfere in the heated discussion. Now and then you ask Dorothy about the English holidays, system of educa­tion, their way of life, entertainments, fashion.

Dorothy Parker Aged 25

You are an English teacher on an exchange visit to Mos­cow. You are very excited but reserved because it is your first social experience in Russia. You like the people and the dishes. You describe how you celebrate birthdays and other holidays in Great Britain. As for Nick's truancy you tell them what punishments teachers can use at school.

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