Interviewing the Murder Mystery Class

Thank you Year 10 Murder Mystery Class!

On the 14th of March, the Year Ten EAL students joined the Year Ten Murder Mystery class. The intention was for the EAL class to use their English in an authentic activity and for both classes to get to know each other and their culture. The EAL class had some earlier prepared questions to ask the local students.

The day started off as a normal class but the EAL students were looking forward to meeting the local MGC girls. Shortly after the teacher came, we went to the murder mystery classroom and waited for a small amount of time outside their classroom. It felt strange some of us didn’t really want to do it, and we heard someone say,  ‘this is just a waste of time’. Shortly after, the doors opened and we slowly entered the room and stood in front of the class.  Everybody appeared to be just starin; it felt really hard at first going into a room with bunch of new people; it felt like we were little fish stuck in the middle of the ocean!

Firstly, we split up and we randomly paired up with the other students. After sitting down and greeting the students, we started asking our questions. Soon after the ice had been broken and the atmosphere in the room became comfortable. The noise became louder; we could hear and see everybody laughing and smiling and just having a good time.

Most students finished early and used their spare time to exchange numbers and social media, we figured out that we have more in common than we thought and that no matter which country and religion we all came from we all shared a lot of similarities.

Unfortunately, the bell rang and we had to say our goodbyes. Once  back in our class everybody started sharing their experiences with each other and everyone was very pleased with the result of their interview .

All and all we would say that it was a great experience for the international and local students;  our EAL class all want to say thank you to the Murder Mystery class for being so open and telling us something about your life and your thoughts.

Thank you,

Rose Roofchae & Yalin Buse

On behalf of the EAL students