Chindogu (a useless invention)

Speaking exercise
Describe a Chindogu!


First year students vmbo-t / havo
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Speaking exercise
Describe a Chindogu!


First year students vmbo-t / havo

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Here is a photo of Chindogu.

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What is Chindogu?

A Chindogu is the Japanese word for ideas that first look like the perfect solution to a problem. 

However, the user of the inventions soon discovers that their use poses more problems than it actually solves.

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What is an invention?

Slide 4 - Mind map

Make a list of the best 5 inventions.
Explain why they are the best and what has changed since the invention?

Slide 5 - Open question

An invention is the act of bringing ideas and objects together in a new way to create something that did not exist before. 

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In this exercise we need the following:

Internet, to look for pictures of Chindogu
App Kidsdoodle, you can draw in the app. 

First I will explain 3 Chindogu inventions and you draw them on your app. 

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Download the following app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doodlejoy.studio.kidsdoojoy

You can start drawing right away!
I will give an example first and then you can try 2 times to draw a picture of the Chindogu.

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I will describe the Chindogu and you will draw it in the app KidsDoodle. Like this picture. These ladies shoes have umbrellas, so my feet do not get wet.

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Here is the drawing of the Chindogu, I made it in  the app Kids Doodle. 
Now I will describe a Chindogu and you try to draw it!

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This machine looks like a big coffee mug and you can use it to make butter into spaghetti. By turning the bottom like a pepper mill. Describe in your own words how you can use this invention? 

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This helmet has 4 lights on it, so you can see in the dark and others can see you very well. Would you use this invention and when would you use it?

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Now you, draw your own Chindogu or look for pictures on the internet. 

-Work in pairs and describe your Chindogu to your classmate and how the invention is used. 

-The other listens and tries to draw the invention. 


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Made by Harriët van Meijel
HAN Nijmegen 2022

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