## Step 5 - Speaking

#### Role play

You are going to role play a discussion between people who have different opinions about reading dreams.

- Form groups of four pupils.
  (In groups of five one of you can be the director)
- Read the roles you can choose from.
- Decide who is going to play which role.
- Act out the role play.

Read the roles.

Role A: Pro-dream reader You think the ability to read dreams and thoughts is fantastic. Tell the others three reasons why. The technology could cure all mental illnesses. It could cure the world's mental health and we would all love each other. You think most people would love to look back at their dreams.
Role B: Anti-dream reader You think the ability to read dreams and thoughts is very dangerous. Tell the others three reasons why. You think it is ethically unsound to read dreams and thoughts. There is a reason why we cannot read dreams. You think this ability would change humans too much.
Role C: Troubled relationship person You are having trouble with your partner. You think (s)he is seeing someone else. You are sure that if you read his/her dreams, you could find out the answer. You think dream-reading is a fantastic way of keeping marriages and relationships together.
Role D: Person X You are incredibly rich and powerful and want to be a dictator. You want to invest in this dream-reading technology to control everyone in your country. Support everything the pro-dream reader says. Strongly disagree with the other two. Tell everyone nothing gets in the way of science.