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D.3. Gripes Auction
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Resource Type: Game in: English
Age 10 - 18
Group Size 10 - 58
Estimated Time: 45 minutes
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D.3. Gripes Auction
Cards or pieces of paper should be prepared in advance with each gripe (listed below) written as a separate card.
Pencils and paper should be distributed to all the participants.
All the gripes are read out first, so that participants can decide on what to bid.
The leader then holds a series of these cards, each featuring a different gripe, and begins putting them up for auction, in a light-hearted manner.
Each person has 100 points to spend. A sheet of paper should be reserved to note "buyers" and the "sale price" for each gripe, so that no-one spends more points than he or she has. Buyers, of course, receive the gripe cards they have purchased.
When the auction is over, those who hold cards explain why their particular gripe is important and how it affects their lives.
List of Gripes
Banks | Little Children | Gossip | Greasy Food |
Heat | Baby-sitting | Dogs | Broken telephones |
Dirty Toilets | Smokers | Pocket money | Vandalism |
People who yell | Newspapers | Sports | Drama lesson |
Burglars | Parents | Cats | School dances |
Israeli men | School | Homework | Dentists |
Crowds | Brothers | Books | Violence |
People who push ahead in line | Sisters | Teachers | Television |
Falafel | Youth club | Grandparents | Policemen |
Doing Laundry | Holidays | Pollution | Fashions |
Shopping | Doctors | Inefficiency |
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Variation:
Brainstorm the group's own list of gripes and work with that, instead of the above. No personality types from the group, please…