The first time I expounded the topic (as a spin off intro to a Business lesson on Corporate Social Responsibility), I thought I would start from the elephant and the donkey. If anything, should the topic raise zero interest, this would qualify as an impromptu refurbishing of animal vocabulary.
Instead, as you can see, we went quite further, getting stranded somewhere between Reaganomics and Jimmy Carter.
In another lesson the same topic came up, but this time I started from an attempt to portrait the candidates, asking the students to identify them as I drew them. Trump's hair did it, if I remember correctly.
* The vocabulary you see around the characters below is the result of a few minutes of collective eliciting and sharing of ideas, and does not constitute representation of the teacher's political mind.
Afterwards almost everything was deleted, leaving only the two characters who at this point became just another husband and wife in a dreary living room. This allowed me to move on to another subject, "language to describe pictures", not after having elicited more vocabulary to describe the quality and color of such marriage, once established as a starting point that, not unlike a political candidate, the wife here appears to be "evasive" and "diplomatic".
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