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think big speak better no prep activities for primary Learners so today we are going to learn how to engage young minds with speaking activities that not only boost language skills but also encourage deep thinking Okay so do you know this man I guess most of you know who he is right yes okay so what I want you to tell me what I want you to write in the chat box is to is this question an answer to this question what do you think this talk has to do with him with Mr Bean could you please write your

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ideas and I will start reading the the chat box he doesn't speak yes he's funny good no idea okay uh physical representation of emotion and thought wow kids are not interested with our questions is like a kid flexibility okay amazing great answers misunderstanding okay good now I will give you my personal opinion about him I chose Mr beIN as an ally for this presentation because he usually finds Creative Solutions to problems he's very funny and he can see beyond the obious and that is what deep thinking is and

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what we want to nurture in our Learners we want students who can think outside the box so he's going to stay with us the whole presentation if you don't mind now this is our agenda for today first of all we're going to define deep thinking then we are going to see deep thinking in action with activities that we can do in our classrooms and finally we are going to wrap things up with our star Mr Bean now my goals for today is to prove that kids can think big because when we can tap into their Natural Curiosity and

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creativity kids can tackle very complex tasks and then combine meaningful language use with smart thinking activities okay so another question for you what does deep thinking mean to you could you please write your ideas in the chat box okay analyze thinking outside the box going beyond the words pay attention finding Solutions finding Solutions creativity analyzing good wow imagine creative thinking amazing amazing okay so deep thinking is the active mental process of questioning analyzing and

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evaluating information it isn't about passively soaking up content memorizing long list of words or grammar rules it is much more than that when kids engage in deep thinking they are not just learning they are becoming critical thinkers and that is what we want in the age of artificial intelligence we need students who can think outside the box who can analyze who can evaluate who can have opinions yes well formed opinions okay and today we are here just to learn how to teach them how to do that okay how to think

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critically so deep thinking aligns with Bloom's taxonomy you know Bloom's taxonomy this framework developed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom and I like to think of it as if it were an iceberg on top of the of the iceberg on the surface of the iceberg we have these thinking skills remember understand apply these are surface level thinking or low order thinking skills while below the surface of the iceburg we have deep thinking or high order thinking skills our goals as Educators is to guide our students to navigate from

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surface level thinking to deeper more transformative learning experiences okay today just because of a question of time uh we are going to focus on these thinking levels but let's briefly revise together the first three remember understand and apply here we go now this is the question that I want you to answer and the question is which thinking skill does each box corresponds to I want you to give me the number I will read the box and you give me the number let me see if I can see the chat now here we go okay so be

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patient okay the first box says wait a second here we so the first box says this involves grasing the meaning of the information interpreting it or explaining it in your own words which number is it it's number two okay good two this is using knowledge or concepts in new situations or solving problems by applying what you've learned that is three great now examples of speaking activities flashcards songs and chants trailing games tpr what is that that is I cannot see you say number three drilling this

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is remember okay remember this is the ability to recall or recognize information that is number one good examples of speaking activities short monologues presentations role play play describing pictures what is that number three great examples of speaking activities comprehension questions true or false statements relling yes this is understand very very good excellent job wonderful okay so now let's move to analyze okay now we are diving deep below the surface of the iceberg this is where deep thinking

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truly begins okay and what is analyze analyze is the cognitive level at which students use the information they have learned to make associations discernments or comparisons it's breaking down things and trying to find links between those things okay connections so what kind of activities can we do in our classrooms with our Learners to help them develop an analytical skills and myups are cre for that my maps are visual diagrams that help students organize and connect ideas related to a topic so if our students

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have to give a short presentation or a talk or after reading a text you want them to retell the text why not asking them to create a mup this tool this visual tool will uh reduce the cognitive load and allow them to deliver their message more confidently and more effectively yeah now use more mind maps in the classroom and a close relative of the Mind map is the then diagram you know V diagrams are visual tools that help student stents to see differences and similarities among things and they are very useful when we

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are teaching comparatives yeah we can ask our students to draw Vin diagrams to compare animals things whatever now in the clip I will show you you will see my own students comparing to holidays they like okay here we go can you say it again say it again hello is more no more SC yes Christmas good what else Christmas is more hallowe Halloween say it again hallow and Christmas is more interesting [Music] okay so other ideas other ideas for our students to compare they can compare cats and dogs mammels of fish unicorns

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or dragons if you want to get your students more creative my routine versus my friends routine culture X versus culture y last year my 9-year-old students had two cultural exchanges with students from India and students from Israel and after a couple of exchanges we created a very big Ben diagram comparing our cultures and it was amazing to see all the things that they have learned um and uh apart from seeing our differences we could also see that our cor we were all the same sharing the same needs yeah so it was a a super

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enriching experience uh if you can do International projects with your learners I highly recommend doing that because it's amazing okay so let's see more activities another one is fing five finger retail so after you students read read a story yes after reading a story what you can ask your learners is to retell the story using their fingers yeah super simple this story is taken from learning LS but it you might be having another Co book it's okay it's the same so the ADL the five finger

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retail is the first finger you have to your students have to say who is involved in the story finger number two number two where did the story take place finger number three what happened first finger number four what happened next and finally how did the story end yeah okay now more activities this one is text to self text to self helps students draw connections between what they hear what they read what they listen to their own lives yes is to make the content much more personal let's see two examples from

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learning lens yeah uh in the first example student have to watch a video in which uh they have to answer this question which club do you think Rory chooses and they have to tick the correct one then they have to fill in the blanks and finally they have to connect what they have watched by answering these questions why are these activities good for you what healthy activities do you like okay the same might happen with the reading students read a text then they answer some comprehension questions and finally they have to

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connect that text to their own lives when they make it more personal then the content becomes much more memorable okay now let's move to evaluate yes evaluate is to synthesize various sources of information to make a well rounded argument to make it simpler is to look at different angles of a thing and then draw conclusions yes as simple as that now let's have a look at some activities one activity that is very funny for for you for our Learners is ranking challenges in ranking challenges

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you give your students three four items no more than that and what they have to do is to put them in a high key yes and explain why of course explain why um don't give them more than four items because then it will become more difficult for them to to then explain their reasons but three four will be okay and then give them stem sentences to help them structure their talk yes when they are very young they don't have enough resources to express themselves in English so we have to scaffold

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learning somehow okay another one this one is Al out with a Twist in this activity you give your students you first you divide your students in groups of four or five and you give each student a picture or word okay and in the groups they cannot show their picture they cannot show their word they have to describe what they have and listen to each other then they have to decide who is the person that has the picture that does not belong to the group so with this activity they will be practicing speaking skills and at the

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same time using their thinking skills okay another one reviews reviews reviews okay reviews also have Learners uh strengthen their evalu evaluative skills yeah evaluation they can exercise uh this type of thinking skill okay so let's see uh here the main goal yes of the lesson is that the students can talk about a film that uh they have recently seen and then recommend it okay so let's see how the book scaff FS learning first of all students watch a video yes of a girl giving a film review then they listen for specific

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information related to actors costumes plot visual effect script and ending yes these are the elements that they have to evaluate then students watch again and identify useful phrases used by the speaker these are the famous 10 sentences that we have to provide our Learners if uh we want them to help them speak yes particularly when they are very young and finally students use the sentence starters to give a talk about a movie that they want to recommend yeah okay so great now what else can our

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students review or evaluate they can review video games or gadgets what else I want to know your uh ideas I want to learn about them could you please write in the chat box what else our students can review or recomment video games anime wow food web pages films movies yeah places to visit a toy artificial intelligence very interesting films Hobbies okay fantastic okay lots of ideas lots of ideas thank you thank you so much now we reach the final [Music] stage that is create yes this level focuses on developing skills like coming

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up with new ideas and solving problems in complex ways this is a time where we'll pull together all the skills that our students have learned so far to produce something new to create something new whether it's a fresh idea solution to a problem okay and projects are perfect for that yeah to develop creativity now in learning lands students have a project every three units that's amazing and another thing that I I love about the book is that it gives students team roles roles roles are great to ensure organization in the

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group to make sure that everyone participates and to ensure accountability right now every project every project should have a challenge or driving question yeah and the challenge here is your head teacher has given you the opportunity to choose a new course that pupils can do after school find out about the different courses and choose your favorite give a presentation to campaign for your favorite or make a campaign video to show to your class okay so students first of all have to explore different courses then add a new

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idea then there will be questions yes to guide them to create to design their course they will add visuals for their presentations and finally they will showcase and talk about their call something which is very important when we are working with projects is to make sure that the audience should be authentic yes as authentic as possible it could be parents it could be students from other courses or it could be the world depending on the kind of project you are doing with your learners now last but not least it's

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very important to incorporate more open-ended questions to spark creativity yes and develop deep thinking in our students I'm going to give you some examples of questions or open-ended questions yes that invite students to be more creative and expand on their ideas why like why do you think the character made a choice how how can you connect this to your own life what if what if questions are great what if plants could talk what do you think what do you think is the main message of the story in what ways in what ways does

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this event impact the characters now as I told you as I promised Mr Bean was going to be with us the whole presentation and he has an exit ticket for you and this is the question you have to answer while watching the video what kind of thinking skills does Mr beinging used to get out of the parking lot yes write your ideas in the chat box I will read it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] what [Music] [Music] [Music] he did it okay okay yes I was reading your

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responses very good excellent now these are my references in case you wanted to know this book uh teaching Young Learners to think is amazing uh learning L use Bloom's taxonomy in the classroom those are my references and this is my Instagram account in case you have questions you want to chat with me