Development of thinking skills and creativity 11

domingo 9 de junio de 2010
Development of thinking skills and creativity
To develop skills to generate new ways of thinking and to go beyond conventional thought processes
ACTIVITIES

TASK 1. Establish the difFerent personality characteristics:http://www.personalitypage.com/info.html
2.- According to what you have read evaluate what are the carrers adequate for your personality.
http://www.personalitypage.com/careers.html

3.- Write down an essay of 100 words establishing your life project for the next 10 years.

Write down an essay of 100 words where you:
a) Define 1. proactive will and its characteristicas , 2. effectiveness and major traits and 3.- emotional intelligence and its four branches
http://www.palconsulting.net

www.businessweek.com/managing/content

emotionalintelligence
b) Establish the way in which this three traits can help you build your character and help you in your personal growth. Write a 100 word essay.

NEEDS AND PROJECTION OF A LEADER IN THE XXI CENTURY

NEEDS AND PROJECTION OF A LEADER IN THE XXI CENTURY
TASK 1. Define leadership in the XXI century.

defineleadership

conversationleadership



TASK 2. Read the following task and establish why the 21st Century business leaders need to become critical thinkers. (4 aspects)

critical thinking

TASK 3. Establish why Obama is consider the first XXI Century Leader
21centuryleader


TASK 4. Explain why should you discover your athentic leadership (5 ideas)
authenticleadership

LEADERS FROM XX CENTURY

TASK 1. Make a presentation (10 minutes long) of the following companies, estabishing: a) What does the company do? b) What leader (s) made these companies succeed? c) What are the most important leadership traits in this comapines?You can use the following linkT
TASK 2. Taking into account point 1 and 1 explain in 50 words how will can you apply self leadership to build your character and achieve personal
leadershiptraits
a) PEPSICO: Ruggero
b) Mary Kay Cosmetics: Ale Fragoso
c) American Express Company: Dalila
d) Walt Disney: Paulethe)
e) Visa: Annief)
f) Marriott International: Cristina
g)Yahoo: Brandoh)
h)Electronic Arts: Monsei)
i)Starbuck Corporation: Fernanda

Reading

La Lecture Woman Reading,
Pablo Picasso

Read blogs and pay attention to the comments made by readers. You can get better feel for how English-speakers talk to one another.

TASK: You will have to answer the following survey about a literature research in order to evaluate your reading habits, likes and dislikes.

surveymonkey(this is literature research)








Homework:

Post your comments on the blog:

1. Compare your results with the "READING RESEARCH"
   
2. What do you need to improve your reading?
   
3. What reading strategies can you propose to your students?
   

Podcasts and videos

Listen to podcasts and watch online videos.
Hearing how words are used by regular people can help you use them yourself.
http://www.vaughanradio.com/
http://www.bbcworldservice.com/

Dictionaries

The use of dictionaries will alow to look up the meanings of English words quickly and easily. Looking for the pronunciation feature, will alow to hear how the word is pronounced, so you will be able to use the word you look up when writing.

www.polseguera.org/castellano.php



Reading websites that report the news can also offer a lot of new vocabulary words.

When you come across a word you don´t know, look it up in the online dictionary or by typing "define" and then the new word.

. The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk

. The New York Times
www.nytimes.com

. The Washington post
www.washingtonpost.com

create a comics

create a comics http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

links de embajada

El link es www.usembassy.gov