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1. Unfinished sentences
Aims:
·      Skills – speaking, reading comprehension
·      Language – expressing emotions and thought, agreeing and disagreeing      (a great number of structures)
·      Others – getting to know one self and others better
Level                    Intermediate
Organization      pairs (two teams of equal size arrange in the ‘onion’ formation)
Preparation          A handout for each student
Time                   10-20 minutes

Procedure The class is divided into two equal sizes. The chairs are arranged in two circles, one inside the other, facing each other. Each student receives a handout and sits on a chair. There are always two students facing each other. They each continue the first of the unfinished sentences on the handout and talk about their sentences. The students in the outer circle then all move one chair to the left and do the second sentence with a new partner. They continue moving on after each sentence until all the sentences have been discussed.


2.Brainstorming
Aims
·      Skills-Speaking, writing
·      Language-conditional, making suggestions
·      Other-imagination, practice of important thinking skills
Level                   Intermediate
Organization      Group of four to seven students
Preparation        None
Time                   5-15 minutes

Procedure

Step 1: The class is divided into groups. Each group receives the same task. Possible tasks are:
  1.  How many possible uses can you find for a paper clip?
  2. You may have to make an important phone call but have no change. How many ways can you find of getting the money for the call?
  3.  How many ways off opening bottle without corkscrew?
  4. How many ways can you find of having a cheap holiday?

The groups work on the task for a few minutes, collecting as many ideas as possible without commenting on them or evaluating them. All the ideas are written down by the group secretary.
Step 2: Each group reads out their list of ideas. The ideas are written on the board.
Step 3: The groups choose five ideas from the complete list (either the most original or the most practical ones) and rank them.

Variation
1.     After step one the groups exchange their list of ideas. Each group ranks the ideas on its new list according to a common criterion, e.g. practicability, cost simplicity, danger, etc.
2.     Each Group choses an idea and discussed it according to the procedure.

Remarks

Brainstorming increases mental flexibility and encourages original thinking. It is useful strategy for great number of teaching situations.


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