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Possible follow-ups 
1. Give an account of the incident as it was seen by Anne, Mrs Brown's daughter.
2. Give an account of the investigation as it was seen and heard by a newspaper reporter 
(mind your style).
3. Write a letter which Mr Brown, the husband of the accused, might have sent to a local 
newspaper, protesting about the actions of the staff of the store (mind your style).

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AN INCIDENT AT SCHOOL 
Situation 
During the last week of the term the eighth form register goes missing from the staff 
room. The form tutor is worried since it's the time for .the end-of-term assessment which 
must 
The form tutor warned the pupils that if yhey did not produce the form register and the 
offender's name he/she would take the matter to the Head Teacher.
Two discussions are held simultaneously — by the pupils in their classroom and by 
the teachers in their staff room.
The pupils are trying to find the offender and the register while the teachers are 
concerned with the reasons for the theft and a possible punishment to be imposed on the 
offender which will also act as a deterrent for the future. The room should be arranged so 
that each group has its own "working area" in order to prevent the participants from being 
distracted. 
Cast list 
Teacher W. 
Teacher K.
Teacher R. 
Teacher B. 
Julia/Peter
Lucy/Eugene
pupils 
Nina/Alex
Helen 
Dorothy Parker, a visiting teacher from Great Britain 
Donald/Daisy, an English pupil 
What you must decide 
What can be the outcome of the confession and the punishment inflicted on the pupil? 
Role cards 
Teacher W. Aged 35
You are a math teacher and a tutor of the 8th form. The disappearance of the form 
register upsets you. You intended to 

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hold a tutor meeting with the pupils but they insisted upon dearing up the incident 
themselves and you let them. You discuss it with your colleagues in the staff room 
informally, asking for their advice. You personally think that it was Nick, who really is a 
nuisance and far from being the best pupil, who has taken the register, possibly to erase 
some bad marks (you've noticed some signs of this in his record book a few times). If he 
is found out you'll summon his father to school for a talk with the Head Teacher. 
Teacher K. Aged 54
You are an experienced teacher and have been a tutor for many years. You've had 
similar experience before and you've dealt with it quite efficiently. You are surprised that 
teacher W. let the pupils deal with the situation themselves accusing her of lax authority. 
You believe that to decide on the possible punishment of the offender teacher W. should 
call a special meeting of the tutors with the Head Teacher and subject teachers. Sus-
pension from school is, you think, an appropriate punishment serving as a deterrent for 
possible/potential offenders. 
Teacher R. Aged 23
You are a trainee teacher. You think that teacher W. is perfectly right in letting the 
children deal with the situation themselves as you strongly believe in pupils' self-
government. You object to teacher K.'s suggestion that the offender should be suspended 
from school as it may inflict a deep psychological wound and the poor child may never 
recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. You think that a telling off is sufficient 
punishment. 
Teacher B. Aged 30
You are a literature teacher, you've been teaching these pupils for four years and know 
them well. You know Nick as a kind-hearted, well-behaved, well-read boy and you doubt 
his being the offender. You would rather suspect Mary who is not popular with her 
classmates and tries to attract their attention by any possible means. She is also at the 
bottom of your literature class. You are more concerned with the reason for the offence 
than the actual punishment, believing the type of punishment would depend on the pupil 
involved. 

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Julia/Peter Aged 14
You are a class leader. You lead the discussion. Possible suspects you think are Nick 
and Mary. Nick is more likely since he is poor at maths and has had more than one 
conflict with teacher W., who is always finding fault with him and whose classes Nick 
finds boring. He is a real nuisance in her classes.
As class captain you've told him off more than once but it didn't work and you believe 
that if he is the offender he should be properly punished. To do so you need either 
evidence of his offence or Nick's confession. 
Lucy/Eugene Aged 14
You suspect Mary who is new to your class and goes out of her way to make friends 
with the girls and become popular. You resent it. You don't exclude the possibility of 
Mary stealing the register just to attract everybody's attention. 
Nina/Alex Aged 14
You are convinced that nobody in your class is capable of such an offence. So you are 
hurt by teacher W.'s suspicion and demand a thorough search of the staff room thinking 
the register is there and possibly overlooked. You refuse to discuss the possible suspects. 
Helen Aged 14
You follow the discussion without any comment as you are faced with a dilemma: to 
confess or not, since it was you who took the register from the staff room to erase your 
friend Nick's poor marks. He is totally unaware of it, as of your "special" attitude to him. 
You've been hopelessly in love with him for two years. But you can't let him be a 
scapegoat so you confess and take the form register to the staff room yourself ready to 
face the consequences. 
Dorothy Parker Aged 35
You are a visiting teacher and you happen to be in the teacher's staff room when the 
teachers discuss the incident. You explain that in English school there is no book similar 
to our "form register" (журнал). You may also mention the possible sanctions a teacher 
may use to punish a child in an English school.

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Donald/Daisy Aged 15
You are 16. You live with your mother, Dorothy Parker, in Moscow at the moment, 
and you go to one of Moscow schools. The pupils of your class let you be present and 
participate in all kinds of meetings and discussions they have. You are eager to learn 
more about their way of life. As that day the missing form register is the cause of an 
incident you explain that in your English school there is no register/book of the kind. The 
marks are entered in the subject teacher's book.