Meetings 4: Brainstorming and evaluating

Since its development in the 1950s, brainstorming has become one of the most common techniques used in meetings to generate ideas. However, despite its clear benefits, the technique has its faults and many improvements have been suggested and analysed. This lesson aims to provide practice of brainstorming at the same time as exploring possible improvements. The second half of the lesson focuses on the necessary follow-up to brainstorming: evaluating ideas. This means the lesson covers two of the key language functions of meetings: making suggestions and agreeing/disagreeing.

Topic: Brainstorming and evaluating at meetings

Level: Intermediate (B2) and above

Aims:

To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of brainstorming as a technique for generating ideas.
To teach some useful phrases for making suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing.
To provide practice and feedback of the situations of brainstorming and evaluating ideas.

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By Jeremy Day

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