Topic: Let's play THIS game! Which of these questions makes you most uncomfortable?? Read 6764 times

toddsqui · « **on:** August 12, 2015, 01:23:23 pm »

I can just imagine what all of the Waygookian-monsters on this message board are gonna say when they see a PPT like this.

Well, I got news for you monsters: you wanna piece of this? Come get you some! I'm right here! Come on!

This PPT was inspired by the book Personalizing Language Learning and is totally legit (that's right monsters).

Procedure: Show students an example of a Comfortable/Uncomfortable question and then have them work in groups to decide which of the questions from a list would make them feel the most uncomfortable if asked by the teacher. Students then talk about it. The last activity, students decide which of the questions would make them feel uncomfortable if they were asked the questions by another student (not the teacher). Discuss this as well.

I will try to present this PPT next semester and provide feedback.

Hope this helps somebody out there in the universe.

Cheers!

-T

nonplayablecharacter · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2015, 11:47:56 am »

Might make an interesting discussion for my weekly teacher's class. Thanks!

toddsqui · « **Reply #2 on:** August 13, 2015, 12:43:57 pm »

Awesome, glad you like it.

:)

-T

stemarty · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2015, 09:40:00 am »

Teachers yes. Students...... I'm not sure T.

I like the idea because it gets the kids thinking outside the box and with a strong English co-teacher, this can potentially be a valuable lesson.
However not everyone has that strong willed teacher who can lead the class with this activity. I'd be very careful which classes you do with this. High school maybe,; after school advanced kids possibly....
but I definitely couldn't do this with my mixed level boys at my middle school with my young sweet co teacher.

I won't say it's bad, but just be careful who you do it with. You know your students better than us, but I'd try it on adults before you whip it on kids!
At least discuss it with your co teacher before attempting!

toddsqui · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2015, 10:43:03 am »

Thanks for the considered and reasonable feedback, Stemarty.

Yes, this PPT is not for middle schoolers. It's for adults and advanced high school students. Sorry if I didn't make this clear. I only teach one middle school class and the rest are all high school and adults.

In subsequent posts, I'll make sure to clarify my target market as I imagine it will save people some clicking time.

Appreciate the feedback.

toddsqui · « **Reply #5 on:** August 17, 2015, 10:18:30 am »

Some feedback based on my experience so far:

The boys in my high school didn't seem to think the question "What do you think of your country's leader?" was all that controversial. They blithely told me what they thought of the president, without any inhibition, although they qualified this lack of inhibition with "I would never actually say this in front of her."

Aside from this little noteworthy event, we didn't even get to the slide on "Financial information," before we had a rather long conversation about what was culturally significant. The boys just riffed off the slides and confided in me about their personal experiences with other teachers. So I guess this PPT seemed to lend itself naturally to organic conversation about things that interested the students. Therefore, I consider this PPT successful... so far.

More updates to follow.

Rafiqua · « **Reply #6 on:** August 17, 2015, 11:08:05 am »

I think this lesson would work well with my H.S. boys, although I may omit the drug questions.

toddsqui · « **Reply #7 on:** August 17, 2015, 11:47:13 am »

One of my Korean colleagues suggested that I add questions about sexual orientation. lol.

-T

sonofthedude777 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 17, 2015, 03:11:17 pm »

Great idea man and I admire your agressive anti-trolling rhetoric. I just wonder why you used discomfort as opposed to uncomfortable. Thanks, I'll use this.

toddsqui · « **Reply #9 on:** August 17, 2015, 03:23:45 pm »

My anti-trolling rhetoric. lol! I love that.

I think in retrospect I was trying to capture the visceral feeling that one gets when one is asked a question that seems too personal. I feel like discomfort captures that better than uncomfortable.

You can easily change this in the PPT though. I pride myself on making my PPTs as malleable as possible.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

-T

sonofthedude777 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 18, 2015, 11:13:00 am »

Yeah, I see what your saying. That makes sense. Discomfort does seem to have a harsher context. I just prefer uncomfortable because it is easier to remember I think and I know they already know that word.

toddsqui · « **Reply #11 on:** August 18, 2015, 11:19:03 am »

Valid. To each her/his own.

-T

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