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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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