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You may need to limit the scope ('This is between pages 30 and
50', 'This is somewhere in chapter 5'). Give a little time after you
have seen that the quickest student has found it in order to give the
others a chance - then ask for the answer. Repeat three or four
times.

Variation 1: Don't ask for immediate answers, but get students to
write down the page numbers each time - then check results after
several 'turns'.

Variation 2: If you do the same thing with a novel, play or short
story that the class has been reading, this exercise can also give
useful review of the content or plot; whereabouts in the text would
they look for the quote, and why?

Variation 3: As an easier variation, using a shorter text (a page or
less), ask for the line in which the quoted words appear.

Seeing pictures in your mind

Listening.

Procedure: Ask the students to close their eyes and to sit in as
relaxed a way as possible. Say that you are going to describe a
picture for them to see in their minds. Describe the picture, slowly,
for example:
There are broad fields and in the distance there is a low hill.
There are trees on the hill. Above is a great sky filled with
clouds. Have a look at the picture for a few moments.
Ask the students to open their eyes and to describe their landscape
to their neighbour. Almost certainly they will discover that each
saw the landscape differently. Prompt discussion by asking
questions, for example:
What could you see in the fields? Was it grass? Was it corn?
Were there any animals? How did you feel about the picture?

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