Heuristic Methods and Creative Writing

Hi there,

This week I am going to complete some tasks which help me to create a neat speech. 

Warm ups 

"One letter" excercise

I need to think about a letter and name as many objects as possible that start with this letter.

V - vegetable, veteran, velvet, vanilla, vitamin, vaccine, vampire, villa, violin, volcano. 

"Random words" excercise

I need to go to the website https://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php, generate 5 random words, pick a few random words and try to and tie them together in the most imaginative way possible.

Here is these words: hell, blonde, long, memory, pregnant.

Today I had a dream that I had gone to hell. But instead of the devil there was a woman with long blonde hair. She stole my memory and compelled me that I am pregnant.

Creative writing prompts

1. What if...

I need to imagine a problematic situation and think of possible (or impossible) solutions. 

What if there were no desks in the classrooms, but only beanbags? 

- Children would use laptops instead of notebooks.

- The atmospehere in classrooms would be more friendly. 

- Children would wear pyjamas.

- Classrooms would look modern and fasionable. 

- Pupils would not pay proper attention to studies. 

- Pupils would be more enthusiastic. 

- Teachers would use more active excercises in class.

2. Six Thinking Hats

I need to formulate ideas for my speech, create a topic sentence and challenge my brain to think in six different directions.

Speech: "How many foreign languages should be taught to students in schools?"

Topic sentence: Students should be taught one foreign language in schools. 

White thinking hat (it covers facts, figures, information needs, gaps): It is easier to concentrate on studying only one foreign language and learn it properly and get a high score.

Red thinkinh hat (it covers intuition, feelings, emotions): When you know one foreign language well, you get inspired to learn other languages for pleasure. 

Black thinking hat (the hat of judgement and logic): Teaching students more than only one language will help them to become more diverse, to improve their memory. 

Yellow thinking hat (optimism): Learning only one foreing language student will know it better rather then learning two or more in an instant. 

Green thinking hat (creativity, alternatives, proposals, provocations, changes): You would crack a jokes which would be understood by native speakers.

Blue thinking hat (overview, analysis): Proper knowledge of one foreign language is much better than superficial knowledge of several languages.