Задание

Complete the task

Listen to 6 speakers talking about bullying at school. Choose the point each speaker talks about. There is one extra point.

Bullying based on the parent's job. .

Bullying based on excess weight. .

Bullying based on personal dislike. .

Bullying based on the family's financial situation. .

Teacher-heated bullying. .

Bullying based on racial differences. .

Bullying based on a person's hobbies. .

Script

Speaker 1

Unfortunately, I bullied a lot of people. But most of all I remember the girl from my last school. We were 11–12 years old. She was from a poor family, strange. Few people talked to her. She kept her personal diary in an ordinary school notebook. I knew about it. Once, during a break between lessons, when she was away, I took her notebook and began to read it aloud to everyone around. Of course, everyone laughed. Everyone found it terribly funny.

Speaker 2

We had a small class—only 14 people, and 10 of them were girls. All were nice, smart, very playful. Almost all of them studied well. And the boys were, as it seemed to us, stupid. This was the reason for the constant jokes. We used to joke that we were smarter than boys.

There was no targeted bullying, that is such that someone was hounded. But now I understand that we treated them incorrectly.

But the main thing is that our Russian teacher did not like them, and when she called out one of them, there was a sweet feeling that now the person would be given a thorough rating, and it would be funny. She always treated us more condescendingly.

Speaker 3

I remember that a new girl came to the kindergarten in our group. I didn't like her just because she was ugly and smelled unpleasant for me. I was the leader among the girls and turned them against that girl. Then suddenly at school in the fifth grade, we were together with her. In some moments she was unpleasant to me, but we communicated. I feel sorry for that child now; I remember very vividly how girls were sitting in a circle, rallying against her, and she was a meter away from us with tears in her eyes. One of the classmates said: "You don't like her because she is ugly." This somehow caught my eye and even surprised me—I did not understand before that I, in fact, had no other complaints. And I didn't say anything more about her.

Speaker 4

We lived in poverty. Naturally, fashionable clothes were out of the question. I wore older brother's things, which were three sizes larger than me; the clothes were hanging onto me. In the difficult 90s, my mother was left without work and got a job in our school as a cleaner. I was on my knees, begging her to leave, to quit. But what would we live on then? Of course, my classmates found out that my mom was a cleaner. I was hounded all six months before the summer holidays. They teased, and the most vile ones littered the class on purpose; they threw candy wrappers, spilled juice on the floor in order to go to fetch the cleaner.

Speaker 5

I was very fat. In the eighth grade, I weighed 80 kilograms. I had serious health problems. Mum constantly took me to hospitals, they examined me, gave injections, I drank pills… I remember I came to school after the summer holidays. And one boy looked at me and said: "You are as fat as a cow!"

So they abused me. I steadfastly withstood it, and at home I cried into my pillow every day. When I got my certificate, I left for another city, entered the institute. I took up my health closely, and by the end of the first course I had lost 25 kilograms!

19 years have passed since that time. And when I meet former classmates, they compliment me. And they themselves are fat, flabby, unpleasant. Yes, I'm pleased. Let them know that everything in this life comes back like a boomerang!

Speaker 6

I was humiliated, despised, insulted and bullied because I was fond of fairy tales and I liked fairies. Because of this, many not only pestered me but directly terrorised me: waited wherever possible, called me "girl", "fairy". Also, in my class I had high rates in grades and assimilation of certain material. And even because of this, I have been a victim of bullying. It was hard, and every day I came with a stone face, but going into the bathroom or any other place where you could make noise, I started crying in a real ocean of tears because to some extent, my parents condemned me too. But they condemned me only because of their love for fairy tales and fairies.