Developing creative thinking skills in english language teaching

Marisa Constantinides, Teacher Educator - Director of CELT Athens Teacher Development Centre

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 fact fact fact fact fact fact fact fact Correct Answer

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Answer 2 Answer 3 Answer 4 Answer 1 Answer 5 Answer 6 Answer 6 Answer 7 Stimulus

Only one correct answer possible Uniquely determined by language material Based on processing of facts @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 fact fact fact fact fact fact fact fact Correct Answer

Not totally determined by language provided Multiple answers possible Variety of correct answers possible @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Answer 2 Answer 3 Answer 4 Answer 1 Answer 5 Answer 6 Answer 6 Answer 7 Stimulus

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Answer 2 Answer 3 Answer 4 Answer 1 Answer 5 Answer 6 Answer 6 Answer 7 Stimulus fact fact fact fact fact fact fact fact Correct Answer

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Elements of creative behaviour Relationship to Language Production Fluency Ability to produce large numbers of ideas Easy & ready flow of talk; production of sustained talk Flexibility Ability to produce diverse ideas (not the same kind) Ability to follow & respond to changes in conversation; Elaboration Ability to add on to and embellish an already existing idea Ability to avoid simplistic responses; ability to improve set phrases and embellish them; useful for writing Originality Ability to produce uncommon, 'clever' ideas Ability to produce novel utterances; avoidance of clichés

What’s on the other half of the picture? Describe it to a friend who must draw it @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

What’s on the other half of the picture? @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

Improvise a conversation with all three people What are they saying? What are they thinking? @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

Write a strange/crazy caption @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Here is what Spike Milligan wrote in his book Transport of Delight

List as many words as you can connected to Rain Space travel @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

e.g. a. Keep asking questions b. Keep making statements or c. Avoid asking questions @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

e.g. In a group, discuss the winning film at the Oscars but adopt a different role each, e.g. a policeman, a doctor, a priest, a famous film director, another contestant who lost, a film critic, etc. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

Take opposing sides to a problem, e.g. for & against eating ice creams Hold an argument contradicting each other for as long as you possibly can. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Brainstorm as many unsual uses of this object with your team You win if you have more than the other team but the uses must be unusual!

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 How I met the Queen! The joke which made the queen laugh A day in the life of (one of the ladies) Advice I was given before I met the Queen

a. Expansion activities e.g. a. Ask as many questions as you can about this headline @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 TV REPORTER SPEAKS ABOUT SPEECH PROBLEM AT GRAMMYS Watch the related video by following this link http://news.yahoo.com/video/entertainment-15749636/24240543 Write a short report after watching the news programme

a. Expansion activities e.g. a. Ask as many questions as you can about this picture @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Then read the article on the next page and check for answers

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 You win a point if the text does NOT answer the question – you lose a point if it DOES 

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Hold a conversation with a partner – each one of you has one of these two preoccupations – try to draw the conversation to yours without interrupting in a rude way.

You were seen chewing the chewing the corner of a carpet in a furniture shop You were seen gluing apples to a tree outside your house at midnight You were seen sticking knives and forks into your front lawn @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Choose a predicament for each member of the opposing team Challenge them with it Best explanation wins!

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 My email [email_address] My Twitter ID http://twitter.com/Marisa_C My Centre www.celt.edu.gr My Blogs http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/ http://celtathens.wordpress.com/ http://celt-athens-tefl-courses.blogspot.com

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