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6.1 BACK TO BACK - FACE TO FACEAge : 7-18 yearsNumber of players : 15-35Time: 10 minMaterial: noneGOAL OF THE GAMEEXPLANATIONArrange the participants in couples and back to back. Each participant from the A line starts to tell his partner from the Bline a tale or something interesting about himself. Give them one minute to talk and after they will exchange and the otherone will talk. Remind the players to stay in couple avoiding to turn back.Afterwards ask: how do you feel when you are about to talk? What makes the sharing and listening hard? Keeping thesame partners, they’ll set face to face. The partner A will tell the same tale from before. This will do so that the B partnerlooks at the A partner but behaves as if he wasnt’ about to listen. One minute later ask them to exchange role.Then ask:how did you feel while speaking? How did you realize your partner wasn’t listening? Keep the same partners facing eachother. The A partner will tell the same tale from before. This will do so that the B partner keeps looking at the A partner andshows, without speaking, through actions, face expressions and signals, that he’s paying attention and understands whathe’s going to tell him. One minute later, ask them to exchange role. Ask: how did you feel while speaking? How did yourealize your partner was listening ?This exercise, in the three following phases, remarks the importanceof communication, both verbal and non-verbal.53