Copyright: Roger Sutcliffe | p4c.com Logic Works Common uses: promising, predicting, and planning (Explanation A) ‘If … then …’ thinking as a structure for thinking ‘If P, then Q’ Introducing

Copyright: Roger Sutcliffe | p4c.com Logic Works In pairs, decide which of the following uses is a promise, which is a prediction and which is a plan. (Explanation A) ‘If … then …’ thinking A. ‘If they’re going to give free drinks, (then) more people are going to visit their shop.’ B. ‘If he wins this race, (then) I’ll eat my hat.’ C. ‘If you can keep the door open, (then) I’ll be able to get away.’

Copyright: Roger Sutcliffe | p4c.com Logic Works (Explanation A) ‘If … then …’ thinking Then as a whole group discuss the similarities and differences between predictions, promises and plans.

Copyright: Roger Sutcliffe | p4c.com Logic Works (Exercise A) More ‘If … then…’ thinking In pairs and/or groups 1. Invent and write down a prediction of your own in the form ‘If …, then...’ 2. Invent and write down a promise in the form ‘If …, then …’ 3. Invent and write down a simple plan, in the form ‘If …, then …’

Copyright: Roger Sutcliffe | p4c.com Logic Works (Exercise A) More ‘If … then…’ thinking Also in pairs and/or groups 4. Then try to come up with 3 other examples of ‘If … then...’ thinking. That is, examples that are not predictions, nor promises, nor plans. (If you finish before others, then wait patiently until everyone is ready to share.)

Copyright: Roger Sutcliffe | p4c.com Logic Works (Exercise A) More ‘If … then…’ thinking 5. As a whole group, share the examples and see if any of them can be grouped and named in the same sort of way as predictions, promises or plans.