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island, or are going to spend an evening with someone famous.
The students ask you questions about the interesting fact you have
mentioned. The answers often generate further questions, and an
interesting semi-serious interview develops.

Variation 2: The person to be interviewed (you or a volunteer
student) tells the class he or she is a well-known personality, but
does not tell them who. They ask questions in order to find out the
person's identity. Once they have discovered it, the interview
continues as described above.

Invention technique: modifying

Discussion; conditionals.

Procedure: Tell the class that you have learned a technique for
helping them to be inventive and to think of new ideas. Say that
you will demonstrate one of these techniques. Write words for two
objects on the board, for example:

Ask the class to help you to list the characteristics of one of the
objects. For example:

Now ask the class to suggest any advantages in designing the
second object like the first one, for example, designing a book like
a ball:
- it would bounce and would not be damaged if it were dropped
- if the book were boring you could bounce it and play a
game with it
- if it were a forbidden book people wouldn't know because
they would think it was a ball

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