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      Meetings 4: Brainstorming and evaluating
      Submitted by Sally Trowbridge on 13 May, 2012 - 12:33

      Since its development in the 1950s, brainstorming has become one of the most common techniques used in meetings to generate ideas. However, despite its clear benefits, the technique has its faults and many improvements have been suggested and analysed. This lesson aims to provide practice of brainstorming at the same time as exploring possible improvements. The second half of the lesson focuses on the necessary follow-up to brainstorming: evaluating ideas. This means the lesson covers two of the key language functions of meetings: making suggestions and agreeing/disagreeing.

      Topic: Brainstorming and evaluating at meetings
       
      Level: Intermediate (B2) and above
       
      Aims:

      • To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of brainstorming as a technique for generating ideas.
      • To teach some useful phrases for making suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing.
      • To provide practice and feedback of the situations of brainstorming and evaluating ideas.


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      By Jeremy Day

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      TRLake's picture
      TRLake
      Lesson Plan
      Submitted on 28 August, 2012 - 11:48

      There appears to be a minor problem with the lesson plan.

      Point 5: Useful phrases for evaluating ideas - the graph of suggested answers is basically blank. Without anything, at least on the axes, it is a bit difficult to use...

      Otherwise useful.

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      Sally Trowbridge
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      Lesson plan
      Submitted on 7 September, 2012 - 09:25

      Thanks for spotting the missing text! We'll fix this as soon as possible.
      Sally

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      Sally Trowbridge
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      Lesson plan
      Submitted on 12 September, 2012 - 10:38

      Hi
      The graph on Meetings 4: Brainstorming and evaluating should be ok now!
      Sally

       

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      TRLake
      Thanks Sally. Wonderful.
      Submitted on 15 October, 2012 - 10:40

      Thanks Sally. Wonderful.