1 minute to remember.
This is a short (10 minutes or less) fluency activity.
Students take a minute to remember something good that has happened in the past week.
Then, in small groups, they spend one minute each talking about it.
Partners ask questions (which helps the speaker re-experience the positive emotion and helps the questioner practice an important discourse strategy.
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Language Focus: Past tense, narrative, asking follow-up questions (discourse strategy)
Positive Psychology Focus: Remembering good things, Savoring
Teacher’s note: Of course you can give longer times if you want, but this is designed as a short activity (less than 10 minutes total) that can be done regularly. It reminds people to “mentally recycle” positive emotions. When they do that, they experience the emotion again.
You maybe want to display an “online stopwatch” so speakers know how much time they have left.
Thanks to It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders on npr.org for inspiring this idea. They end each podcast with listeners talking about good things from their own lives.
Students take a minute to remember something good that has happened in the past week.
Then, in small groups, they spend one minute each talking about it.
Partners ask questions (which helps the speaker re-experience the positive emotion and helps the questioner practice an important discourse strategy.
Click HERE to download.
Language Focus: Past tense, narrative, asking follow-up questions (discourse strategy)
Positive Psychology Focus: Remembering good things, Savoring
Teacher’s note: Of course you can give longer times if you want, but this is designed as a short activity (less than 10 minutes total) that can be done regularly. It reminds people to “mentally recycle” positive emotions. When they do that, they experience the emotion again.
You maybe want to display an “online stopwatch” so speakers know how much time they have left.
Thanks to It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders on npr.org for inspiring this idea. They end each podcast with listeners talking about good things from their own lives.
