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Product reviews for The Little Book of Thunks®
Alan Watkins-Groves, teacher, The City of Lincoln Community College, Lincoln
The Times Education Supplement 2007
The Times Education Supplement 2007
Debate, thought and laughter
My favourite has to be The Little Book of Thunks by Ian Gilbert. It has generated so much debate, thought and laughter in class that it has repaid its cost over and again.
I have used the questions straight from the book and then had the pupils take the subject wherever they wanted. I thought I would die when Year 8 was discussing “Are you man-made or natural?” and seeing them desperately trying not to say the word “sex”.
The decision hinged in the end on whether the question referred to the constituents or the process. The answer to both was “Yes”.
One question; two answers; 20 minutes and 30 brains working.
My favourite has to be The Little Book of Thunks by Ian Gilbert. It has generated so much debate, thought and laughter in class that it has repaid its cost over and again.
I have used the questions straight from the book and then had the pupils take the subject wherever they wanted. I thought I would die when Year 8 was discussing “Are you man-made or natural?” and seeing them desperately trying not to say the word “sex”.
The decision hinged in the end on whether the question referred to the constituents or the process. The answer to both was “Yes”.
One question; two answers; 20 minutes and 30 brains working.
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