Thursday, October 25, 2012

Discussion Questions about Ideas

Ideas


What are they? Notions, Opinions, Thoughts, Opinions, Views.

Examples of ideas: You should treat others as you treat yourself. Let's go shopping. I think I will buy a car. I think he is a bad man. If I put a piece of paper under the cup, I won't dirty the table.

What is a good idea you have had? What was the best idea you ever had?

Where do you get ideas?

What kind of ideas do you need now?

What kind of ideas do most people want?

Do you ever have bad ideas? What was the worst idea you have ever had?

What is the craziest idea you have had? What ideas did you have in your youth?

What is an idea you disagree with?

Do the people in power have good ideas?

Have you walked into someone's house and gotten an idea for your house?

Does walking into stores give you ideas?

Tell me an idea that you got from a teacher or friend or parent.

Do you like to debate ideas?

What is an idea you have now?

What is an idea you got today? Recently?

What are some of the greatest ideas of history? What are some of the worst?

What do you call people who have good ideas?

What are some jobs where people have to have ideas?

Do students learn to have their own ideas when they go to school?

Who had the greatest idea in history? What was the idea?

Whose ideas were most influential?

Whose ideas have influenced you the most in life?

How do ideas come to you? Do you make them! Does a special power give them to you?

Does an idea suddenly come to you? Do you stop what you are doing and write it down?


Exercise: Have students finish this sentence as quickly as they can:

I have an idea, let's _____________________!

I think it would be a good idea if _______________________!


Expressions and idioms using the word "idea:"


Bright Idea!

Rough idea.

flirt with the idea

put ideas into someone's head

the very idea!

What's the big idea?

I haven't the faintest idea!

Not a good idea!


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