Осы сабақ білім алушылардың

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  Thinking, Decision-Making, Problem-Solving
  
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  Working with Others
  
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  Managing Information
  

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  Odd One Out is a useful activity which can be incorporated at any point of a topic – as a springboard for initial exploration of the topic or as a tool to consolidate knowledge. It obliges pupils to think about the characteristics of words, sentences, ideas, places, people or things – depending on the learning area in question. They are encouraged to explore for themselves the similarities and differences between these things, to foster an understanding of any other relationships between them and to categorise accordingly.
  

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   Pupils cluster in pairs or groups.
   

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   Pupils are given a set of key words/ideas/places/things or people, depending on the learning area and topic. These may come, for example, in the form of a list or grid on an Overhead Projector or hand-out.
   

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   Pupils must find the odd one out on each grid or list. Often there may be no right or wrong answers and any word might be the odd one out. Pupils must, therefore, give a justified and valid response as to why they chose a particular word and the nature of the relationship between the other words on the list.
   

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  bed, oven, fridge, TV, wardrobe, curtains, garage, chair, bath, bedside table. - Garage might be the odd one out because it is the only room;
  

- Curtains might be an odd one out because all the rest either have a floor or

This activity can encourage discussion in the target language.

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   As an extension activity, pupils could suggest another related word to add to those which are not odd ones out. Alternatively, pupils could think of their own odd one out list or grid.
   

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   A debrief afterwards might concentrate on how pupils made the connections between the words, the processes involved and whether the group work has helped
   

pupils to see different connections which they otherwise might not have considered.