Beyond The Course BookA workshop led by David Evans

Blue Sky Thinking

Serendipity

Searching for one thing and finding something completely different

Horace Walpole 1717-1797

Serendipity

• Penicillin & Alexander Fleming

• Newton & the apple

• Velcro & George de Mestral

• Christopher Columbus & America

The shoulders of giants

“If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

- Sir Isaac Newton

The Nest

The Nest

• Add• Subtract• Substitute• Re-arrange

Creative Combinations

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

Pablo Picasso

Manet - Picasso

What do they do in other classes that we don’t do in English

lessons?

• Experiments

• Go outside

• Projects

• Paint and draw

• Sing and play instruments

• Wear different clothes

Using your sub-conscious

• Preparation

• Incubation

Oleg and Alexei were born on the same day of the same year to the same mother and the same father, but they aren’t twins.

How is this possible?

Oleg and Alexei were born on the same day of the same year to the same mother and the same father, but they aren’t twins.

How is this possible?

They’re triplets.

Make one word by re-arranging these letters: n-e-w-d-o-o-r.

Make one word by re-arranging these letters: n-e-w-d-o-o-r

One word

Using your sub-conscious

• Preparation

• Incubation

• Intimation

• Illumination

• Verification

The Art of Thought, Graham Wallas, 1926

Five Kinds of Creativity

Blue Sky Thinking

Serendipity

The Nest

Creative Combinations

Using The Sub-conscious

Pop Music In The Classroom

Umbrella - Rihanna

1. Is it about fashion?2. Is it about love and

friendship?3. Is it about the weather?

Umbrella - Rihanna

1. What will she do when the sun shines?

2. How long will she be a friend?

3. What’s the weather like now?

Umbrella Because when the sun shines, we'll shine togetherTold you I'll be here foreverSaid I'll always be your friendTook an oath, I'm gonna stick it out to the endNow that it's raining more than everKnow that we'll still have each otherYou can stand under my umbrella

Thrift Shop – Macklemore & Lewis

1. Is he rich or is he poor?

2. What’s he wearing?

3. Does he like the way he looks?

4. And what is a thrift shop?

Thrift Shop

1. Is he rich or is he poor?

2. What’s he wearing?3. Does he like the way

he looks?4. And what is a thrift

shop?

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got twenty dollars in my pocket

I - I - I'm hunting, looking for a come-up

This is awesome

I wear your granddad's clothes

I look incredible

I'm in this big coat

From that thrift shop down the road

Two Song Jumble

1. Jumble the lines from the choruses of two famous songs. 2. Tell the class the name of one of the songs and get them to identify the lines and put them in the correct order. 3. Play the song so that they can check if they are right. 4. Ask them to identify the other jumbled song and put the lines into the correct order. Then, play them that song so they can check.

Two Phone Songs

Two Phone Songs

Hey I just met you

And this is crazy

But here’s my number

So call me maybe?

- Carla Rae Jepsen

Two Phone Songs

Hey I just met you

And this is crazy

But here’s my number

So call me maybe?

- Carla Rae Jepsen

I'm at a payphone trying to call homeAll of my change I spent on youWhere have the times gone baby it's all wrongWhere are the plans we made for two?- Maroon 5

Pictures For WordsWrite out a few lines from a famous song, but replace a number of key words with pictures. Ask the class to write down the missing words, then listen to the song to check.

don’t fail me nowTake me to the finishAll my it breaks every step that I takeBut I’m hoping at the gates

They’ll tell me that you’re Walking through the streets

Is it by X or design?

I feel so 1 on a Friday nightCan you make it feel like If I tell you you’re mineIt’s like I told you,

Feet don’t fail me nowTake me to the finish lineAll my heart it breaks every step that I takeBut I’m hoping at the gatesThey’ll tell me that you’re mineWalking through the city streetsIs it by mistake or design?I feel so alone on a Friday nightCan you make it feel like homeIf I tell you you’re mineIt’s like I told you, honey

Born To Die – Lana Del Rey

Song Bingo

The Princess of China - Coldplay

• King• Queen• Prince• Princess• Mother• Father

• Palace• Castle• Diamond • Star• Crown• Ring

The Princess of China - ColdplayI could've been a princess, you'd be a king

Could've had a castle and worn a ring

But no, you let me go 

And stole my star

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

You stole my star

La, la la la la laaaaaa

Songlines1. Play a song to the class. As they listen, students should draw whatever comes into their heads. 2. Each student swaps drawings with a partner. The partner has to describe the drawing and relate it to the song.

Don’t just teach… scamper

• Substitute• Change the context• Adapt• Magnify• Personalise• Eliminate• Rearrange

Rearrange

• To make a better fit with your teaching objectives

• To change the pace• To keep yourself fresh• To keep the class on its

toes

Using the course book creatively

Personalise

• Reaction• Opinion• What would you do?• Your past / present /

future

Adapt

• Alter the intro• Add different activity types

(eg group - pair)• Make links to other units• Link to homework or

projects

Eliminate

Because of…• Limited time• Limited curriculumBut remember the

importance of…• Recycling• New perspectives on

familiar ideas

Substitute

• When you know something else will work better

• When you know something else will be more appropriate

• But check to make sure you’re not sacrificing something important

Magnify

• Focus on what’s important for your class

• Simplify and exaggerate

Change the…

• What is it similar to? • What does it remind you of? (Use your

experience, as well as books, movies and lines from songs)

• What would this be like if it happened here?

Don’t just teach… scamper

• Substitute• Change the context• Adapt• Magnify• Personalise• Eliminate• Rearrange

Now, move one line so that this false arithmetic statement becomes true.

III = III + III

III = III = III

Now, move one line so that this false arithmetic statement becomes true.

III = III + III

Move one line so that this false arithmetic statement becomes true.

IV + III + III

Move one line so that this false arithmetic statement becomes true.

IV = III + III

VI = III = III