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ELLA (MANUAL) 53 Exercise: Dream Try to record the dream that you are able to remember best. Exercise: Imagining Imagining is a special way of thinking. Can you say what the differences are between…? 1. Imagining and dreaming 2. Imagining and wishing 3. Imagining and remembering 4. Imagining and perceiving 5. Imagining and seeing Leading Idea 3: Thinking This episode opens with Ella dreaming. In the thinking process, many mental activities are involved, like wondering, remembering, pretending, assuming, supposing, generalizing, ab- stracting, imagining, considering, classifying, reasoning, judging and reflecting. The process of thinking is very complex. As every person is unique, every person thinks differently. Discuss with you students their thinking processes and encourage them to identify their specific and individual thoughts. Discussion Plan: Thinking and thoughts 1. Do you ever think about your own thinking? 2. Can you stop thinking whenever you want to? 3. When do you think? 4. What is the difference between thinking and having thoughts? 5. How do you think? 6. Where do our thoughts come from? 7. When you think, do you put your thoughts into words? 8. Can you always think about anything you want? 9. Can you stop thinking? 10. Do you prefer imagining or remembering? Leading Idea 4: Supposing Ella supposes that her mother does not want her to speak about the people living in the house on the other side of the street. She also supposes that her mother does not like them. When we make a supposition we might imagine something to be a fact, even though we might not be sure if it is a fact, like Ella does. When we make a supposition we might also think something that is conceivable might actually happen. For example, if you see two people, you might suppose that they are/will become a couple. If we think about the diversity of language, an assimilationist´s perspective might, for example, suppose that the languages of immigration are a handicap, because they regard diversity as potentially harmful to learning (because they interfere with the use of