Activity 3.2.1 Team Spirit Advertisements

Purpose

To promote teamwork

Materials

Magazines (with a lot of advertisements)

Time

30 mins

Method

1. Participants should form groups of three.
2. Ask each group to choose one magazine. All members in the group must agree on the magazine they will use.
3. Next, all members of the group must choose one picture from an advertisement. It is important to stress that they are not choosing an ad, but only the picture.
4. As a group, they must all be in agreement on the one picture they have chosen.
5. Once the picture has been chosen, participants can give words that describe the picture.
6. Participants must now agree on the one word that they feel best describes the picture.
7. Participants can now read the ad or story that their picture is related to. Does the ad have a common thread for the group? For example, when a group chooses an ad for asthma inhalers and all members of the group suffer from asthma, that is a common thread.
8. After all groups have completed their task, ask for one member from each group to talk about their chosen picture and the word they all agreed on. Was there a common thread for each person in the group?
9. Ask participants about the level of difficulty when choosing as a group. Did it take a long time to decide on a picture? Was there one person who acted as a mediator?
10. Ask participants for some employment situations that would require agreement on something visual, for example, when working as a window dresser, store manager, or architect.