STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)
(1) | What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘violence’? |
(2) | How often do you see violence in your country? |
(3) | What makes people violent? |
(4) | Is there a cure for violence? |
(5) | Do you think there’s too much violence on TV and in video games? |
(6) | Do you think humans will ever be nonviolent? |
(7) | Do you think men or women like violence more? Why do you think so? |
(8) | Why are the words ‘sex’ and ‘violence’ so often used together in the phrase ‘sex and violence’? |
(9) | Sam Peckinpah said: “There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.” Do you agree? |
(10) | Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Do you agree? |
STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)
(1) | Do you enjoy watching violence in real life or in the movies? |
(2) | How big a problem is domestic violence in your country? |
(3) | Does violence ever achieve anything? |
(4) | Have you ever resorted to violence? |
(5) | Is violent crime on the increase in your countries? |
(6) | Do people learn to be violent? |
(7) | Is there much ethnic violence in your country? |
(8) | Do you think countries can be violent? |
(9) | Gandhi said: “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.” Do you agree? |
(10) | Madge Micheels-Cyrus said: “Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.” Do you agree? |