1.8. Present the result of your work in 1.7. For the whole group and discuss.

☼1.9. Make a list of your priorities and ambitions in university studies.

☼  Don’t forget to finish Task 1.4. thinking of its maximum extension.

 Forming skills of thinking analytically (skills of recognizing and applying different “colors” in thinking)

☼ 2.1.Read about Edward Bono and his book “6 thinking hats” in Appendix 1.  2.2. Split in 3 groups. Choose two of six texts on different types of thinking which Eduard de Bono presented metaphorically with the help of 6 color hats (white, red, black, yellow, green and blue). Fill in Table 3.2. by choosing key words to each text. Organize your key words in 3 groups underlined in the column “Key words” (or 2 groups as in some of the texts one group is missing).

Table 3.2

Text No	Hat color	Key words
		Focus on: … Special speech behavior: … Special communicative situation: …

 Key words are words that name or develop key themes of the text (when there are several themes, key words should be grouped). Key words are used to indicate the main ideas (issues, points, theses) of the author’s message. Key words help to compose the annotation or resume of the text.

‘Focus on’ words – words denoting objects of the author’s attention and give an answer to the question ‘what?’. ‘Speech behavior’ words are connected with subjects (people), they give an answer to the question ‘how?’? that is how people are to act in a particular hat (also what they are to be? ).

‘Communicative situation’ words – words answering the question where? (where in what situation this or that focus, this or that behavior is acceptable).

Text 1. White Hat Thinking

• Imagine a computer that gives the facts and figures for which it is asked. The computer is neutral and objective. It does not offer interpretations or opinions. When wearing the white thinking hat, the thinker should imitate the computer.

• The person requesting the information should use focusing questions in order to obtain information or to fill in information gaps.

• In practice there is a two-tier system of information. The first tier contains checked and proven facts - first-class facts. The second tier contains facts that are believed to be true but have not yet been fully checked second-class facts.

• There is a spectrum of likelihood ranging from ‘always true’ to ‘never true’. In between there are usable levels such as ‘by and large’, ‘sometimes’, and ‘occasionally’. Information of this sort can be put out under the white hat, provided the appropriate ‘frame’ is used to indicate the likelihood.

• White hat thinking is a discipline and a direction. The thinker strives to be more neutral and more objective in the presentation of information. You can be asked to put on the white thinking hat or you can ask someone to put it on. You can also choose to put it on or to take it off.

• The white (absence of color) indicates neutrality.