The following activity basically takes an old idea and exploits it from a different angle.

Level: Intermediate to advanced
Age: Adult

Activity A

I split up the students into pairs and got them talking about millionaires or being millionaires.

Activity B

I then got them to offer comments on the main title above, and here is what I got: (Do not show these to your pupils until they have made an effort)

• Avoiding friction with partner
• Leaving work
• Having too much free time
• Becoming arrogant
• Losing old friends
• Worrying more about what to do with the new-found wealth
• Being unaccustomed to luxuries
• Making foolish investments
• Being taken in by financial advisers
• Handling media interest
• Going to too many parties
• Having nothing to fight for
• Becoming more attractive to the opposite sex

Activity C

The idea now, apart from debating any interesting comments ensuing from above, is to look for more new angles on old topics.

Some suggestions:

• Positive aspects of a rainy day.
• Negative aspects of a night out on the town.
• Positive aspects of school.
• Negative aspects of being a vegetarian.
• Positive aspects of watching TV.
• Negative aspects of doing sport.
• Positive aspects of being poor.
• Positive aspects of being in jail. (!)
• Negative aspects of being very beautiful.
• Etc.

Very often, what starts out as a brainstorming exercise can turn into a full-blown conversation.

Source: http://iteslj.org

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