1. Find something you can talk about to the other person you are working with, a movie you have seen, a new video game, your vacation or something about what you did last weekend.
2. One of you do the talking and the other one is clearly not interested. Give signals showing your lack of interest by looking at your watch, yawn or look at something or someone else. Put on your 'stone' face, don't show any sign of interest on your face.. (no smile, laugh etc..)
3. After a while, you stop and talk about how this felt for both of you. Remember to change the roles.

Exercise 4

A volunteer tells a story to the whole class. At first everyone is looking at the person talking and listening very closely. Then, one by one drop out and start talking to some of the others about other things. It is important that the person talking to the class just goes on talking. After a few minutes, all talks are interrupted. Then you all discuss these questions:

1. How did you feel while talking to someone who wouldn't listen?
2. Does it often happen in our class - that the teachers or any of the students say something and nobody listens?
3. When does this happen most often - when the teacher is talking or when a student is talking?
4. Why does this happen?
5. Is there anything we can do to change this from happening in the future?

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