# Original learner texts · two invented public invitations and two literary scenes

**Every place, person, event, number and organisation below is invented for learning.** These are short teaching texts, not authentic community evidence, and are not the complete play/prose, five-poem selection or multimodal work required in the school's Units 1–2 text selection. The teacher should pair this practice with the school's approved complete texts. Nothing here speaks for all teenagers, community repairers, radio makers or people with disabilities.

## Text E · Borrow Bench public web notice

*Maker: imaginary Borrow Bench organising group. Intended readers: people considering an imaginary Saturday repair table.*

> **Everyone can fix something.** Bring a small item, or bring a question. Our Saturday Borrow Bench has twelve sign-up slots, two shared tables and volunteer helpers. You can also help write labels or photograph an object with its owner's agreement. We will start by asking what the object is and what its owner hopes for. We cannot promise a repair. This notice does not say how slots are allocated, whether tools or materials are supplied, what items helpers will accept, or what access arrangements are available. No electrical work is offered in this invented scenario.

## Text F · The small blue tin

*Maker: SubjectNest author; a fictional first-person scene spoken by Leena to an imagined reader. It is fiction, not an interview or diary by a real participant.*

> Leena put the small blue tin on the table between herself and the empty chair. Inside were three screws, a button and the brass wheel from a toy she had not managed to mend. The notice had promised that everyone could fix something. She had carried the tin all the way here as if that promise had a handle.
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> A volunteer pulled out the chair and asked, “Do you want to show me what happened?”
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> “I am not sure it is a fixable thing,” Leena said.
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> “We can look first.” The volunteer slid a blank label across the table. Leena wrote *wheel loose* and, below it, *ask before changing anything*. The tin had not become a working toy. It had become a question she could put into words. She left the chair for someone else and kept the label.

## Text G · Borrow Bench organising note

*Maker: imaginary organising group writing to its own volunteers; not a real policy or technical safety instruction.*

> Please do not report a repaired item unless its owner has checked it. The twelve sign-up slots tell us how many conversations we planned, not how many items will be repaired. Offer people a way to describe the item without displaying it publicly. Ask before making an image. If a visitor prefers to write a question rather than join a table, give them that route. The notice's phrase “everyone can fix something” was meant as an invitation; it may also imply a promised outcome that this plan cannot establish. We should revise it.

## Text H · Studio One public call

*Maker: imaginary Studio One youth radio team for possible contributors to a fictional audio segment.*

> **Your town has a voice. Add yours.** We are inviting pitches for an eight-part audio series about ordinary objects with stories attached. Send a short idea by Friday; a written outline, spoken pitch or transcript is welcome. We expect to offer eight production slots, but a pitch does not guarantee one. We have not yet published selection criteria, recording times or whether contributions will be edited with the maker's approval. We will ask permission before using anyone's recorded voice or image. No real station or publishing arrangement is involved.

## Text I · Before the red light

*Maker: SubjectNest author; a fictional two-person dramatic fragment, not a transcript of real young people.*

> [A desk lamp stands in for the studio's red recording light. Kai holds a pencil case. Jules holds the invitation.]
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> **Jules:** They want objects with stories. The pencil case could be your whole first minute.
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> **Kai:** The zip is broken. That is the whole story.
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> **Jules:** You have carried it for four years.
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> **Kai:** That is a fact about the case. It is not permission to turn me into “the kid who kept everything.”
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> [Jules folds the invitation so its headline is hidden.]
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> **Jules:** Then you choose what stays in the script.
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> **Kai:** First I want to know who hears it before it goes out.

## Text J · two versions of a Studio One caption

*Both captions are invented drafts for a hypothetical public webpage. There is no actual photograph or recording.*

> **Draft 1:** “Young people finally speak for the town. Every pitch becomes an episode.”
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> **Draft 2:** “Studio One invites short pitches about objects. Eight production slots are planned; contributors will discuss the script and permissions before publication.”

**Reading handle:** For any text record `maker / intended audience / one exact choice / plausible reader effect / a limit`. A quotation is evidence of wording, not proof of how every real reader would react. When interpreting Text F or I, distinguish an inference about an invented character from a fact about a real population.

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