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neil
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ranking activities

Post by neil » Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:43 am

When students have ranked things in order of importance or preference or whatever (eg the most important things in life are 1:health 2:money: 3:relationships 4:career...) what speaking activities can the students then do with such lists?

Sally Olsen
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Post by Sally Olsen » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:51 pm

They could get in groups and explain why they made their choices. You could have them line up according to their first choice and then have a debate between one end of the line and the other. Hard to imagine why this is relevant to them though and that could be a good discussion - why someone would chose this as a topic and why they would use such a measure to decide which was more important. I would be stubborn and put 1 beside all if I was in that class. Perhaps if they think of a good reason for one to be dominant over the others you could find a different way to assess than ranking.

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