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Practice 5



              WHAT IF…?


              Activity 1 Warm-up stage
              • There are many ways to guess
               how past events occurred.
          rack 33  The one we include here is
               working with logic riddles (also

           T   called lateral thinking puzzles).
               However, this is not the only
               strategy available, remember
               that as long as your students
               achieve the expected learning
               outcomes, any route you
               choose is OK. Another possible
               strategy is to think about
               historical events and some
               counter-factual possibilities.
               For example: What if Hernan
               Cortez had not conquered
               Mexico? What if dinosaurs had
               not become extinct? These
               factually inaccurate propositions
               obviously rely on suppositions
               and are alternative scenarios
               that promote  creative thinking.

              • Lateral thinking puzzles
               are based on inventive and
               innovative approaches to
               problems that at first seem really
               hard. A lateral thinking problem
               would be, for example: How many households in Mexico City have a piano? Instead of wildly guessing,
               one could make the problem less daunting by asking more specific questions: How much does a piano
               cost on average? How many people might have inherited a piano? How many piano retailers are there in
               Mexico City? How many pianos do they sell each year? This is the strategy we will show your students. Not
               only will they learn English, they will learn to generate creative solutions to problems.
              • The CD icon will appear throughout the practice to indicate the activity the track is linked to. However,
               remember the way we order activities is a suggestion and you may change the order to suit the purposes
               you established with your students.

                   Translate icon / Additional definitions:
              -  riddle (n.): acertijo (adivinanza)
              -  dig (v.): excavar (remover la tierra)












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