Health Education to Prevent HIV/AIDS & STIs - Department of ...

Department of Education TVET Division
HIV/AIDS & STI Teacher Guide
Role play 2
Your are in a classroom one evening with another class mate studying. After finishing
the homework they sit close to you. You feel uncomfortable. They seem to want to
kiss you. Negotiate with your friend.
Role play 3
You want to start a relationship with someone you are attracted to. They are keen to
be serious straight away and start to kiss you and touch you. You are not comfortable
– you want to know them better. Negotiate with them.
Role play 4
A friend gets drunk and breaks your CD player in the dorm. They apologise the next
day but you want them to compensate you for it. Negotiate this.
Role play 5
Your older family member wants you to meet them in town. They are the opposite
sex and this is a strange request. However they have helped with school fees.
Negotiate a meeting which will be safe for you.
Role play 6
Your friend keeps offering you marijuana to smoke. You don’t want to smoke.
Negotiate how to refuse.
Explain that negotiation:
• Is bargaining to reach an agreement;
• Is a dynamic process;
• Involves discussion and communication.
In negotiating a situation, identify:
• What is it you want; and
• What your bottom line is
Know that:
• Only behaviours can be negotiated, not a difference in values.
Ask students to read the steps to delivering an assertive message in the Resource
Book for next lesson.
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