1. WHAT IS REAL?
1. What does the word ‘real’ in each of these phrases
mean? Is it the same sense of real?
 Get a real job.
 Give me the real answers.
 The story was real.
 That was really cool.
 Tha t is a real chair.
 The number seven is real.
 He is a real person.
 This is a real tan.
 That is a real Monet painting.
 That was an unreal test.
 Get real!
2.
Think about the items listed below. After you have considered each
carefully organise them into a table under the following headings;
As you organise these into the columns write down what you are
thinking below the columns.
Real Not real Might be real
Chair a lump of rock bodies the earth air wind gravity
A hallucination dreams movies your reflection in a mirror
The contents of a box that you have seen but can’t see at the moment
Fairies Santa Claus values and morals your imagination
your ideas
Thoughts evil friendship love goodness the number seven
Human nature the average family dragons personality time
The sun rising in the morning marriage words
The meaning of words electrons the colour red a feeling of pain
Toy car plastic flower magic Homer Simpson Tweety

2. The past the future
3.. When you have completed this could you organise these items in
another way? Could you group them into different groups because
some of these items are similar?
Eg. A chair and a lump of rock could be organised into the same
group because they both can be perceived. What are the criteria you
will use to organise the different groups?
4. Draw a picture of REAL. This is not a picture of something ‘real’, but
a picture or diagram that explains what ‘real’ means or what ‘reality’ is.
You must come up with something for yourselves. The artistic quality of
the picture is irrelevant, it is just a different way to think about reality.
When this Is completed, you will explain this to class.