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Importance or relevance of ideas
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Importance or relevance of ideas
The teacher explains the situation: “ The Earth is gloomed. All life is going to perish in two days due to radiation. A spaceship from another solar system lands offer to rescue twelve people, who could start a new world on an empty planet very much like the Earth. Imagine you are the selection committee and you have to decide who may be rescued. Think of a list of criteria which you would use in your decision.”
Each group discusses the problem and tries to work out a list.
Each group presents its lists of criteria to the class. The lists are discussed.
Variations:
The task can be made more specific, e.g. “Find ten criteria. You can award up to 100 points if a candidate gets full marks on all counts, e.g. appearance-5; intelligence-30; fertility-15; physical fitness-20; etc.
Remarks:
Although the basic problem is a rather depressing one, it helps
students clarify their own values as regards judging others.
The class is divided into groups of equal size. Each group receives one topic in the opinion poll. Each group member prepares an interview sheet with 2 or 3 questions to ask about his / her topic. He / she should fill in his / her own answers first. Example: “ What do you usually have for breakfast?”
The original group reassemble to organize their data. This may involve quite a lot of discussion where tables or diagrams have to be drawn.
Each group presents their results either in the form of a short talk or by putting up lists, tables, etc. on the wall, so that everyone can have a look.
When everybody in the class has heard what the findings were, questions like “Was there any result that surprised you?”, “What is the most important result?”, “How can we act on these results?” can be asked.
The groups are rearranged so that each member of the new group has to get the answers to his / her questions from all the other members of the group. This means that in order to fill in his / her interview sheet each person has to talk to everybody else in the group.
Question / Statement: You have just taken off from Heathrow airport, when the Captain welcomes you on board. The Captain is a woman.
STEP 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
The teacher gives the explanations to the students: “ One way to minimize stress in our life is to make small, but definite changes in our behavior or lifestyle. Below are a variety of different problems whose solutions are related to self-improvement. What advice would you give these people? ( pair-work / group-work )
PROBLEM 1: Judy is a single mother with two kids. She has one full-time and one part-time job to be able to support her kids. Her jobs are very demanding and she is always tired. She feels guilty that she doesn’t have more time for her kids.
PROBLEM 3: Ruth has a very close friend who recently died of AIDS. She is filled with grief and is finding it difficult to carry on with her life.
PROBLEM 4: Steve has a problem with obesity. He is 50 pounds overweight. He has tried a number of diets and nothing has worked.
PROBLEM 5: Carol and Richard are having marital problems. They have been married for 9 years and recently have not been getting along at all. They have a two-year-old daughter. They are thinking about a legal separation.
Students can solve different problems in the following areas:
Reading books talking to a friend travel astrology meditation
Support group hospitalization drugs exercise shopping
Rehabilitation psychotherapy money religion work change
Each student receives his strip of paper. It should be left entirely to the students how they organize the collection of information. The teacher’s sole function is to remind students to use English.
Miss Dudd owns a dog.
Miss Evans is married.
The woman at № 12 has two pets; a tortoise and a rabbit.
The dog owner drinks beer.
The pet at № 14 is a dog.
Mr Abraham lives at № 20
Mr Abraham is a widower; his neighbor is divorced.
The married woman reads thriller.
The woman who likes coffee does not own a pet.
№ 18 is the only house without a pet.
The bachelor likes historical novels.
There are five pets in Baker Street; a cat, a dog, a canary, a rabbit and a tortoise.
Mr Abraham cannot read, he watches TV.
The widower and the spinster like beer.
The whisky drinker owns a canary.
The married woman drinks wine.
Mr Charles lives between Miss Dudd and Mrs Birt.
The dog owner and the cat owner do not live next door to each other.
The dog owner living next door to the bachelor is keen on love stories.
The teacher announces which answers are correct.
Variations: Instead of grouping the students at the beginning, this can be done by the students themselves, when each of them has received a handout.
Solution:
Friendly Biscuits Inc.
Board of directors: Ron Preedy, Brenda Pilot, David Parsons
Personal assistants: Mary Hill, Angela Woodhouse, Philippa Gordon.
Secretaries: Carole Ward, John Martin, Jean Carter
Typists: Sheila Rogers, Christina Stead, Roger Haldane.
4 men / 8 women
There are three directors, a personal B assistant, secretary and typist for each director.
All in all there are four men and eight women.
The personal assistants are Mary Hill, Angela Woodhouse and Philippa Gordon.
Only one of the typists and one of the C secretaries is a man.
The male secretary works for Angela Woodhouse, who is assistant to Brenda Pilot.
Sheila Rogers is not Philippa Gordon’s typist.
Christina Stead is the only typist working for a D male secretary.
Director David Parsons is quite content both with Roger Haldane as typist and Jean Carter as secretary.
Carole Ward would rather work for Angela Woodhouse. Her typist Sheila Rogers can not understand that.
I suppose it is difficult to tell a man who obviously loves you that all you want from him is what you can grab. You are not a fool and you know that sooner or later you are going to hurt him badly. Be straightforward with him now. Think of him for once rather than of yourself and what you might be missing out on if he never saw you again.
I recently broke up with a man I loved and he married another girl. I have been going out with someone else since. He’s 29 and I’m 26. Now he has asked me to marry him and I suppose I would be mad to refuse. But I don’t love him, though I’m fond of him. I live in a small village so I’m unlikely to get another chance. I don’t want to be left on the shelf. My mother says love grows if you marry someone who is good to you. Do you think she is right? (Miss P.J.Suffolk)
I think she is right but I wouldn’t take any bets on it. And I certainly wouldn’t bet on the success of a marriage that’s based on the fear of never getting another chance. Imagine hoe you’d feel if the position was reversed – and he was willing to wed you as a last resort. Wouldn’t you resent it? Maybe you think he’ll never realize the reason you accepted him, but he’s bound to get the message, for no one can keep up a pretence of love for long. You’d be far better off unwed than married to a man who might bore you or irritate you or even repel you Passionate love can overcome the minor irritations and even the major ones. Where there’s no love, there really isn’t much hope either. Why don’t you show a little enterprise and get out of your village? There’s a big world waiting outside.
Dear Hesitating, You don’t sound as if you have enough nerve to approach a puff of thistledown and that’s what must be in your brain-box if you’re content to carry on this way. I suggest you peer in the mirror, open your mouth and look closely at the little pink object behind your lips. It’s called your tongue. Until you start using it you’ll never get a girlfriend.
Holiday romance This year I went with my parents to Majorca for a holiday. I was very fed up at the time and I met and fell in love with a waiter from another hotel. It’s really love and it’s changed my whole life. The trouble is that now I’m back home just writing to Pete isn’t enough. I want to go back to him, but I can’t on my own as I’m 16, and on my dad’s passport. Please don’t think it’s infatuation ’cos it’s not. Pete feels the same. We’re both Catholic. Mary (Liverpool)
Dear Mary, If you really love Pete, it won’t matter if you have to wait a while before you are able to go back to him. I suggest you discuss the whole matter with your parents and then perhaps you could arrange with Pete that he comes over and visits you and your family this summer so that you can really get to know each other again.
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