Which Level Are You At? Rattana the Mediator
One story · four scenes · 24 gaps · vocabulary in context, from a quarrel over land to a symposium on peacebuilding
How it works. Read the story from the beginning. At each numbered gap, choose the word or phrase that fits the meaning of the story, not just the sentence. The scenes become harder as the story goes on. Answer every gap you can, then press See My Level.
อ่านเรื่องตั้งแต่ต้นจนจบ เลือกคำที่เข้ากับ ความหมายของเรื่อง ไม่ใช่แค่ประโยคเดียว ฉากหลัง ๆ จะยากขึ้นตามลำดับ ทำให้ครบแล้วกด See My Level เพื่อดูระดับและคำอธิบายทุกข้อ
Scene 1 · A Quarrel in the Village
Level band 1 · Beginning–Low Intermediate (A1–A2)Two families in a village in Kalasin are very . They both say that the same piece of belongs to them. Now the children of the two families cannot together anymore.
The village head asks Rattana, a respected teacher, to . Rattana listens to both families. Then she asks them to sit at the same and drink tea.
Scene 2 · The Old Map
Level band 2 · Intermediate (B1)At first, the two families refused to to each other. Each side the other of stealing. Rattana asked them to describe what had happened interrupting each other. Slowly, they began to understand each other’s .
Then an old woman brought out a map that where the boundary had been fifty years earlier. In the end, both families to share the land and build a fence together.
Scene 3 · A Training Handout for New Mediators
Level band 3 · High Intermediate (B2)Five Principles of Community Mediation
First, a mediator must remain ; she must never take sides. Second, people in conflict often confuse their with their real interests. A position is what people say they want; an interest is the deeper behind it.
Third, active listening helps to tension and build trust. Fourth, agreements last longer when the outcome is acceptable. Finally, a mediator should never a solution; the parties must reach it themselves.
Scene 4 · A Symposium on Peacebuilding
Level band 4 · Advanced (C1)Years later, Rattana was invited to speak at a national symposium on peacebuilding.
“Most conflicts in our villages are not about land alone; they are in long histories of unequal power. Courts can settle a dispute, but they rarely relationships. Mediation, by contrast, seeks rather than victory.
This requires patience, humility and a willingness to uncomfortable truths. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the of our capacity to resolve it without violence. Every village that learns to settle its disputes peacefully makes violence a little less for the next generation.”
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