Think back to your school days & agree on five things you didn’t like about your English lessons at high school.
- Too much focused on writing.
- No games, speaking was very unnatural and under pressure.
- Grammar was the most important
- No projects, we never watched films or performed role-plays.
- Lack of real situations. Communication was very forced.
How can we improve that?
- Same focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
- More games, to encourage students to talk in a real an motivated situation
- Same importance to form than content.
- Projects focus on problem solving, real life... E.g.: analysis of films, role-plays, videoclips...
- To create real communication in the classroom, by means of realia and involving students in real situations.
LATERAL THINKING
Lateral thinking means resolving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediatelly obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
EXAMPLE
1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?
By means of this puzzle, students start to think different possibilities, but they do not have any rules to follow. They just have to find the best solution.
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