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Looking for activies similar to the Last Ten People on Earth

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kcanuck:
I've been searching lateral thinking stuff and getting lots of the two minute mystery type things and logic puzzles which are good.  But I'd really like to do more of the ones like Last Ten People on Earth and Desert Island, since the students seem to enjoy them.  Does anyone have any good links to more of these?  xie xie ni

gonzo:
You might like to base activities around  "If The World Were a Village" websites, a few of which are:
http://www.familycare.org/news/if_the_world.htm
http://www.acblack.com/globalvillage/
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/1000-village.html
to give some Global Education, which Chinese children desperately lack, then base your ten [or however many] "survivors" on the representations found within The Village.This would require them to question some long-held beliefs about who/what is important!

babala:
I had a great one before. It was fairly advanced though. Nothing you do with young ones but with uni age or older it would work. It was called "Who gets the heart?". You get a list of patients all waiting for a heart transplant. The students imagine they are ones who decide. I don't have it anymore but if you are interested, I could look for it.

Another one I do is to put the students in groups of ten or so. Assign each student a job. I use mother, soldier, businessman, lawyer, cook, teacher, farmer, beggar, nurse and singer. I tell them they are in a boat which is slowly sinking. They have to throw 2 people overboard to survive. Each person must make their plea why they should be kept on the boat and then everyone votes. I always enjoy that one.

They have a lesson plan on www.bogglesworld.com It's in the section, ESL for adults. It's called the Great Dinner Party. Students are given a list full of names of famous people and they have to decide who they would invite and what food they would serve.

kcanuck:
Babala;

Thanks for the input; I have done the dinner party with a few of my classes.  I like the sinking boat one and the heart transplant definitely sounds interesting.   agagagagag

cheekygal:
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