Role play

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 384.

Role 1. You are Steve Boggan, a reporter making a TV programme about the Pro-Test campaign. Interview the people who are involved in it (see roles 2, 3, 4, 5). Find out as many details as possible about what they have done since the article given above was written.

Role 2. You are Laurie Pycroft. Answer the reporter's questions.

Your cues: You – to organize several marches in support of the construction of the Oxford laboratory since you – to be the leader of the Pro-Test. You – to receive many threats from the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). They – to send letters to your neighbours saying you are a murderer. Your family – to be given security advice by the police. They – to install a panic alarm. You – not to give up until the lab – to build.

Role 3. You are a researcher, a victim of intimidation who asks not to be named.

Your cues: You – to carry out a lot of experiments which – to lead to a breakthrough in medicine. You – to receive many threats from the ALF since you – to be engaged in research. They – to threaten violence. You – to receive a phone call threatening to kidnap your daughter. It is the first time you – to receive such a threat. You are going to give up your research before something – to happen to your family.

Role 4. You are Robin Webb, a member of the ALF.

Your cues: You – to do a lot to protect animals' rights since you – to be with the ALF. Tests on animals – not to be of any use (humans and animals are much too different). The ALF – to make threats and to intimidate, but that – not to be serious. ALF members – also to receive threats from the Pro-Test group.

Role 5. You are Police Inspector Ronald Clark.

Your cues: You – to be concerned about the situation. In the past few weeks, the ALF – to organize marches, to threaten murder, to scare people in the streets, to slash car tyres, to break windows. You might have to take measures before they – to carry out their threats.