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XXV TEA CONFERENCE
“
25 Years of Brewing Ideas
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24
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- 26
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January, 2008.Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife,Canary Islands, Spain.
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Diane Boggsdabfsr@ya.com
Getting warmed up!
 To get us into a creative mood, let’s consider the following entities.Which would you prefer to be? The sun? The moon? A comet? A blackhole? Consider the four words in each category and decide which one is“you”. Explain “why” to your partner
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.1.sunmooncometblack hole2.lakeriveroceanwaterfall3.glassbowlboxcup4.footpathcycle lanegoat trackmotorway
Getting started. Words: what are they for?
By way of introduction, let’s have a look at a poem by the English poetlaureate, Philip Larkin. It’s called, “Days”. Curiously, the poet refers todays as though they were places.
DAYS
What are they for?Days are where we live.They come, they wake us upTime and time over.They are to be happy in:Where can we live but days?Ah, solving that question
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Taken from Ur, P and Andrew Wright. 2005.
Five-Minute Activities 
. Cambridge, UK: CUP.2
 
Brings the priest and the doctorIn their long coatsRunning over the fields.
Philip Larkin.
In our classes, we can use the structure of Larkin’s poem to introduceother topics and to write our own poems. We can choose from thetopics listed below, or any other topic that interests us:
What is / are . . . . . . . for?
children women study work sleep poetry love war menquestions flies spiders flowers sunshine food water
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At this moment, however, we’re going to think about WORDS.
Activity One.
With our partners, think for a few minutes and gather our ideas inrelation to the topic, WORDS.
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See Littlejohn, A. 1994.
Writing 4
. Cambridge, UK: CUP.
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What arewordsto tell lies
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