Speaking: Inventions

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• debbyq | Wed, 17 Oct 2012 8:41 am

  This lesson is fantastic, thank you so much. I did it with a one-on-one student and we filled about 75 minutes, and I also did it with a class, and it raised much debate! It filled about 90mins. I also added a few more images that I found online, and some discussion questions.
  
  Thanks for uploading it, much appreciated.
  Debby

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• Christopher Hillier | Wed, 8 Aug 2012 4:14 pm

  I did this lesson yesterday with a group of teenagers and it lasted about an hour and twenty minutes. But that was with the extension activity - which I think is integral.
  I asked my class to brainstorm some inventions of their own then choose the best one and do a presentation pitching that invention to the class. They had to come up with a name, a slogan then draw it on the white board and explain the basic idea. I made the rest of the class rate each one of the inventions out of 5 in 4 different categories: "Is it unique? Is it convenient? Is it innovative? Is it creative?"
  I think this is a great lesson, my students found the inventions in the plan really funny and they were very enthused to make their own.

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• nickneachtain | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:04 pm

  How could you stretch this lesson to 90min!?
  ..More like 25, if that.

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