Discussion Activities: The Buzz Group
One way of encouraging short sharp bursts of discussion is through the use of “buzz groups”.This is where students are put into loose groups of three or four ( the number is unimportant) and asked to think of topic.Frequently the teacher may ask them to think of ‘as many…..as possible’.Examples might be:the students are going to read a text about addiction.First the teacher puts them into groups for a two-minute session.They should think of as many forms of addiction as they can.The class pools the information.Perhaps the students are doing some work about seaside holidays (in elementary group this might be for tense practice,e.g. ‘What is Joe doing?’ ‘He is swimming’,etc.).They could be put into buzz groups to think of many seaside activities as possible.Buzz groups can form the prelude to a larger discussion.
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