Life Skills Education Toolkit

LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION TOOLKIT FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN INDIA• 17

ACTIVITY FOUR

Best Response Game

Group Check in

1. Tell the group that we will be practicing some of the skills we have learned about not having sex
   when we do not want to. Discuss how young people get pressured into having sex. Tell them
   that the life skills we have learned will help us get out of these situations.


2. Ask for a few volunteers to serve as judges. Divide the rest of the group into two groups. Ask the
   groups to imagine a name for themselves. Make a scorecard, and write the team names on
   a chart.


3. Discuss how peer pressure is one of the most difficult problems for young people (refer to the
   module on relationships.) Discuss how it is very difficult to say no when there is pressure
   between partners.


4. Tell the group that you have a few pressure lines that can be used by a boy or girl to force the
   other person to have sex. The rules of the game are:
   
   
   • A pressure line will be read;
   
   
   • The groups have one minute to discuss (or two minutes if the group is small) to come up
     with the best answer to refuse physical relations;
   
   
   • Remind the group that a time limit is being given because we have to come up with quick
     answers in some of these situations in real life;
   
   
   • They must discuss in the group and ask a spokesperson to speak out or write the answer;
   
   
   • When the time is up, the chits will be collected or the lines will be spoken. Both teams
     speak their lines;
   
   
   • The judges have one minute to choose the winner. The winning team gets 2 points; the
     other team gets 0;
   
   
   • Complete as many pressure lines as you want; and
   
   
   • Add up the scores and select the winner. Give the winner a round of applause or some
     such appreciation.
   
   
   
   


5. Some pressure lines (these can be adapted or different ones used):
   
   
   1. I know you want to—you are just afraid.
   
   
   2. Do you not trust me? Do you think I have AIDS?
   
   
   3. If you do not have physical relations/intercourse with me, I will not see you;
   
   
   4. But I love you! Do you not love me?
   
   
   5. Nothing will happen. You will not get pregnant;
   
   
   6. But we are going to get married anyway. Why not only once before marriage?