Purpose: to offer students a chance to stimulate their imagination and describe |
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| their thoughts on abstract concepts or emotions by using, for example, | |
| the S+V+C sentence pattern | |
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Procedures: |
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| 1. First, the instructor asks the students to appeal their FIVE senses to describe/ express different emotions or abstract concepts. Senior high school teachers may like to use some passages written by Helen Keller if their students have read her essays. Three short passages from The World of Impression by H. Keller are listed below for reference: | |
| "Ideas make the world we live in, but impressions furnish ideas." | |
| "The coolness of a water-lily rounding into broom is different again from the coolness of the rain that soaks into the heart of growing things and gives them life and body." | |
| "What does the straight line mean to you? I think you will ask. It means several things. It symbolizes duty. It seems to have the quality of inexorableness the duty has...."¡@ | |
| 2. Second, the instructor divides the students into several groups and then helps them to review the sentence pattern of S+V+C.¡@ | |
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3.Third, the instructor asks the students to close their eyes to imagine.¡@ |
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| 4.Fourth, the instructor demands each group to decide their subject word, and at least one possible sentence. The students can either pick up one word from the teacher's "word bank" or have their own choice to practice the sentence pattern of S+V+C.¡@ | |
| 5.Finally, the instructor invites each group to present their work.¡@ | |
Word Bank:
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Amazement |
Enviness |
Happiness | Peace |
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Boredom |
Fear |
Jealousy | Selfishness |
| Despair | Friendship | Labor | Shock |
| Dilemma | Generosity | Loneliness | Surprise |
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Disappointment |
Greed |
Love | Sympathy |
| Disgrace |
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Old Age | Worry |
