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CHRIsTIAN (MANUAL) 123 a local meaning or with a word with a global meaning. Both may be used in some cases, but the meaning of the sentence will change completely. What is interesting is establishing the possible meanings of global and local and comparing them as we do the exercise: 1. I am going to do some home improvements, and the builder has carried out an approximate estimation of costs. 2. We must find a total solution to this crisis. 3. I always support the home team so I feel more comfortable with the crowd. 4. Politicians should consider the particular needs of specific communities. 5. I like the food from my homeland because it reminds me of my family. 6. If we want to take everyone into consideration, we must find a comprehensive answer. 7. We must have a complete perspective of the problem in order to solve it. 8. When we think about how we should behave, we must bear in mind our own resources. 9. The total sum of revenue depends on the income of each establishment. 10. We have to think generally and act specifically. 11. The answer to our problems depends on a comprehensive approach. Exercise: Zooming in and zooming out (global-local) In this exercise, we can work with different materials. We recommend working with a story, but working with pictures could be just as effective. Each participant writes the beginning of a story on a blank sheet of paper (this could just be a sentence). They then pass the piece of paper to the person sitting on their left. This person reads the beginning of the story, folds the paper so he cannot see the text, and continues the story by writing another sentence. They then pass it on to the person on their left who only reads the previous sentence and adds another one, etc. We should end up with an accordion-shaped piece of paper. This process can be repeated five or six times depending on how long we want to spend on the activity. At the end of the exercise, each participant reads his story and reflects on the following two questions: 1) Would the story have been similar if we had been allowed to read two sen- tences instead of just one? 2) Would the story have been different if we had been allowed to read all the previous sentences? We could end this session with a presentation of pictures to summarize the idea of zoom, and the connections between different realities. First we see a cell, then a blood sample with the cell being highlighted, a part of the body, a body somewhere, a place in the city, the city within the country, the coun- try in the continent, the continent on the planet, the planet in the solar system, the solar system in the galaxy, the galaxy in the universe. We can also do it the other way around, going from large to small. The presentation is especially effective if it uses the school as the place, and the teacher or a familiar person. With each pic- ture, we ask: “What is this?”, “Is it related to the previous picture?”, “Is everything connected?”