Living with a stranger

Living with a stranger

• Who do you share your room with?

• Is it better to live in, or live out?– List pros and cons

• Is it better to share your room, or have a private room– List pros and cons

• Who decides which students share a room?

Read, then Question 2.

• After that, explain– Tolerate– Art of compromise– Upstate New York– I kept my stereo up– To test her– It took her until

dinnertime to finally turn it off

– Near year’s end

• Looking back• They must have …

picked the opposite• While• A compulsive studier• Party into the early

hours• Fight it out• (3. Tell mini-stories)

Who is Suzie Orr?

• In the article, she asks a question– “Do you put…?)

• Ask and answer that question.

• Form 1

• Form 2

• Make a list of questions for Suzie– She can use the questions when deciding

who to put together

Resources

• Accommodation at Leeds University

Idiosyncrasies

• 6. Rank the idiosyncrasies: most/least annoying

• What other idiosyncrasies annoy you?

• What are your own idiosyncrasies?

• Roommate from hell

I can’t stand it any longer!

• Turn that racket down! I hate that rap music.• Can’t you say something positive for once?• Stop being so vain!• You never really listen to a word I say!• Has it ever occurred to you that you might be

wrong?• Must you leave your clothes lying around

everywhere?