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Adapted from N. Lockett, AEA 7, Ed Services, 97-98
- Organise your group of learners into pairs.
- Present the learners with an issue to discuss
(for example, a piece of information, a statement, or a question). The
issue could be the same for the whole group, or each pair could
be given a different issue.
- Ask all the learners to think about the issue
(think) and write down their ideas and opinions (ink).
- Then, in their pairs, the learners must discuss
what they wrote with their partners. Each learner must say what he or she
wrote, and listen to the partner. They
can talk about each others ideas
(pair & share).
- After sharing their ideas, the learners should
go back to what they wrote originally, and, if they want to, they
should change it in order to improve it.
Finally, ask the learners to reflect on questions
like the following:
- Did you find that discussing the issue helped
you to understand it better?
- Did you learn anything new about the issue
through your discussion of it?
- After the discussion, did you change what
you wrote at first, or leave it the same?
- If you changed it, in what ways did you change
it?
- Did you find that just talking to yourself
about your own ideas and opinions made a difference to your thinking?
- Did you find that listening to your partners
ideas and opinions made a difference to your thinking?
- Did you find that the discussion (both talking
and listening, and sharing ideas) made a different to your thinking?
- If you did not change what you first wrote,
was this because your partner agreed with you, or was it because
you did not agree with your partner?
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