The Spirit of Royal London
Activities:
WE ACHIEVE
LEARNING
NEW SKILLS
Learning a new skill gives individuals a sense of
achievement, demonstrating the importance of
personal development to the larger group.
To be completed in groups of:
Individual activity
Time required:
Approx. 30 minutes (depending on which activity you choose)
Method:
We have provided the following exercises that attendees could be
asked to do to learn a new skill. Feel free to create your own or
perhaps teach your group one of your skills!
Examples include:
Origami:
Teach people to create an origami pelican/boat.
Materials required:
You can find a link to an online tutorial to make an origami
pelican here and boat here
Plain coloured A4 paper
Become a poet:
Learn how to write a limerick about ‘achievement’. All the limericks are then
collated into a book which can be distributed around the Royal London offices.
Materials required:
Pads of paper
Pens
Beginners’ guide to writing a limerick (see the following pages for
supporting materials)
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Activities:
WE ACHIEVE
LEARNING NEW SKILLS
Learn a new language:
Teach attendees the word ‘achieve’ in six different languages and then
encourage them to discuss the exercise with their colleagues the next day to see
how many words they can remember.
Materials required:
The word ‘achieve’ translated into six languages; print one copy
per attendee (see the following pages for supporting materials)
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Supporting material
HOW TO WRITE
A LIMERICK
To help you get started writing limericks, here’s some helpful information.
A limerick is a funny little poem containing five lines. It has a very distinctive rhythm and
rhyme pattern.
Rhyme pattern:
The last words of the first, second, and fifth lines all rhyme with each other. We’ll call those
rhyming words ‘A’; however, the words could be ‘Peru’, ‘shoe’, and ‘true’, as illustrated in the
poem below. And the last words of the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. We’ll call
those rhyming words ‘B’; however, the words could be ‘night’ and ‘fright’, as in the example.
Here is a very famous limerick. Notice both the rhyme and rhythm patterns:
There was an old man from Peru, (A)
who dreamed he was eating his shoe. (A)
He awoke in the night (B)
with a terrible fright, (B)
and found out that it was quite true. (A)
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LEARN A
NEW LANGUAGE
We have provided you with six translations of the word ‘achieve’ below. If
you have an alternative language(s) that you would prefer to feature in this
activity, then please feel free to use it.
Spanish:Lograr (pronounced la-gra)
Dutch: Bereiken (pronounced ba-ry-ra-ga)
French: Atteindre (pronounced at-taan-dre)
Portuguese: Alcançar (pronounced al-can-sa)
Italian:Raggiungere (pronounced ra-chune-sheray)
Swedish:Uppnå (pronounced up-noahh)