Marisa Constantinides

Dip.RSA, M.A. App Ling

Teacher Educator & Director
CELT Athens
Teacher Development Centre
@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr – IATEFL Harrogate 2010
Original images replaced with own from Second Life
Activities may include

• What’s on the other half of the picture?

• Improvise conversations amongst people in pics
• Write speech bubbles & thought bubbles
• Write a crazy caption (original idea in blog post here)
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 Elements of Relationship to
creative behaviour Language Production
Fluency Ability to produce large Easy & ready flow of talk;
numbers of ideas production of sustained talk

Flexibility Ability to produce Ability to follow changes in

diverse ideas (not the the direction of the talk and
same kind) respond to them; ability to
initiate such changes

Elaboration Ability to add on to and Ability to avoid simplistic

embellish an already responses; ability to improve
existing idea set phrases and embellish
them; useful for writing

Originality Ability to produce Ability to produce novel

uncommon, 'clever' utterances; avoidance of
ideas clichés
Activity explained in handout
 You were seen chewing the chewing
the corner of a carpet in a furniture
shop
 You were seen gluing apples to a tree

outside your house at midnight

 You were seen sticking knives and

forks into your front lawn

Activity explained in handout
Drilling roleplays

Activity explained in handout

Related blog post:

The Art of Being Creative 

http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2010/04/13/the-art-
of-being-creative/

This post may be of interest to teacher educators but the activities

and ideas were also used in my talk at Harrogate with a language
learning focus.
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