MOBILITY 2. Aspects of Teaching English. Brighton, the UK. Laura Borràs. Day 5

Critical Thinking

Martyn Ford opens the session presenting the hoax of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus to prove how people are ready to believe anything .

We then move on to question how we process information, observe how bias is expressed in different texts and explore the roles of trust and authority

Thinking Skills:

Creavity/imagination

• Problem solving

• Decision making

• Self knowledge

• Critical thinking

• Accessing/Analysing

Elements of criticalthinking:

1. Observation

2. Facts

3. Inferences

4. Assumption

5.Opionions

6.Arguments

7.Critical Analysis

Games in the classroom

A very practical session devoted to explore how different skills can be improved through games such as: vocabulary race, vocabulary dictation, the hot seat, the grid game, before and after, gapfill football, Hangman, Pelmanism, Swimming dictation, and many more ...

At the end of the day, the teachers in the Language, Methodology and Culture group choose us to be their audience for a readers' theatre activity