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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to your next adventure in mastering English! Over the next three days, you will immerse yourself in a variety of engaging activities designed to boost your speaking fluency. You’ll tackle real-life problem-solving tasks, finish stories, participate in role-plays, and even step into the shoes of judges and juries to make crucial decisions. This dynamic approach will not only improve your language skills but also sharpen your critical thinking and decision-making abilities. Let’s dive in and get started!
Problem-Solving and Story Finishing
Key Concepts:
- Problem-Solving: Identifying solutions to complex issues using critical thinking.
- Story Finishing: Using creativity and language skills to complete a given story.
Real-World Examples:
- Problem-Solving: Deciding how to manage a project deadline when team members are unavailable.
- Story Finishing: Continuing a narrative where a character faces a moral dilemma.
- Problem-Solving: Figuring out how to resolve a conflict between friends.
- Story Finishing: Concluding a tale of a lost traveler finding their way home.
- Problem-Solving: Creating a plan to promote a new product with a limited budget.
Lesson Objectives
- Enhance your speaking fluency through diverse, interactive tasks.
- Develop problem-solving skills in English.
- Practice storytelling by creatively finishing stories.
- Engage in role-playing scenarios to simulate real-life situations.
- Act as judges or juries to evaluate situations and make decisions.
activities
The Great Debate (20 minutes)
Objective: Practice problem-solving by debating solutions to common issues.
Instructions:
- Pair Work: Pair up with a classmate and choose a problem to solve (e.g., “How to reduce plastic waste at school”).
- Debate: Each pair presents their solutions, and the class votes on the most feasible idea.
Finish the Story (30 minutes)
Objective: Enhance storytelling skills by finishing a provided story.
Instructions:
- Story Prompt: Receive a story that ends abruptly.
- Individual Work: Write an ending for the story, then share it with the class.
