Title: Role Play: TV interview with America's first First Gentleman
Course: US Election 2012 - Leuphana Copy > Section: The Candidates

Imagine Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were to support their wives' candidacies for president of the U.S.: What would their role as potential First Gentlemen of the United States be? Organize a role-play in the classroom and act it out.

Here's how you can do it: Imagine both husbands being interviewed by TV journalists during their wives' election campaigns.

- Form groups of at least four students and assign a role to each member − applicants playing Barack, applicants playing Mitt, interviewers for Barack, interviewers for Mitt.
- In your groups, brainstorm arguments or questions that you want to use in the interview. Use the ideas from the forum Job vacancy for the First Lady!
- Act out the Interview for at least five minutes. You could decide to interview both wives at the same time with a group of interviewers, or to do it one on one.
- How about taking some pictures or a video and uploading it onto the platform? You may use your smartphones.
- These pictures might serve as a quick inspiration:

Barack Obama as America's first First Gentleman?

Mitt Romney as America's first First Gentleman?