The first thing to mention should be:
What is deductive reasoning?
It begins with a known fact and creates a specific conclusion from that generalization. The basic idea is that if something is true of a class of things in general, this truth applies to all members of that class. Let’s see an easy example:
All men are mortal.
Aristotle is a man.
Therefore, Aristotle is mortal.
IF-THEN STATEMENT
One of the deductive techniques is the one mentioned above. It’s got a simple construction:
If p then q
where p is condition/hypothesis and q is conclusion
We can for example say that:
there’s no force of gravity;
the social, economic and political relations have changed radically (e.g. children decide about adults’ matters or politicians know exactly the consequences of all of their decisions, buying and selling clothes is illegal);
the men can get pregnant.
TASK 1: Let's ignore the physics and imagine that, one day, the planet's gravity turned off, and suddenly there was no force of gravity on planet Earth. Take a piece of paper and think for a while. /brainstorm/work in groups/
- 7 minutes
examples:
Everything not stuck in place would suddenly start floating.
But it's not just furniture and the like that would start to float. Two of the more important things held on the ground by gravity are the atmosphere and the water in the oceans, lakes and rivers.
The air would immediately leap into space.
Any living thing would die immediately and anything liquid would boil away into space.
TASK 2: Writing scenarios. It’s practically one of the variants of IF-THEN exercise. This time we’ll focus at writing alternative endings. Let’s think: What if the glass slipper didn’t fit Cinderlla’s foot? Let’s divide into groups. Your task will be writing the rest of the story.
- 10 minutes
The next task will be connected with metaphorising.
TASK 3: Life is riding a tiger, because…
Your task is to fill in the sentence in as many ways as you can.
- 5 minutes