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Interesting People: Deduction and Speculation Posted on September 29, 2015

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Image Credit: www.visualnews.com Follow me on twitter @RobbioDobbio This is a lesson plan for intermediate and up based around pictures of interesting people and language of speculation and

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speculate pictures interesting people Warmer – Who’s that guy? Write the following expressions on the board: He might/may/could be… (possible) There’s a chance that he’s… (possible) He can’t be… (impossible)

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Search … There’s no way he’s… (impossible) He must be… (almost certain) I’m pretty sure he’s… (quite certain) Then show them the picture of the guy at

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the top of the post. Students come up with 5 deductions/speculations based on the picture. Tell them they can speculate about his age, nationality, job, personality

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The show them the pictures from the

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Then show them the following list: A lawyer A police officer A serial-killer

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A professional sports-person Tell student that they must decide which person has which job. The secret is:

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There’s no correct answer! But don’t tell

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reveal that there’s no correct answer!

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Great idea! I love how pictures make students use target

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