Eighteen containers in assorted shapes and sizes on display in the corner of the room. Fourteen EFL teachers organized in small groups according to their L1: English, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, French. Aim: categorise the objects; discussion in the group should be held in your L1 Purpose: to show that the same objects will fall into different categories depending on the language you use to categorise them. For example, the English-speaking group divided the objects which you can see in the picture into 8 categories: bottle (4), container (5), tube (2), can (2), jar (1), case (1), jug (1), case (1), canister (1). A British English speaker further divided cans into a can (soft drink) and a tin (of tuna). Hebrew speakers came up with 7 categories, with the can/tin of tuna ending up in the same category as “English” containers (including tupperware) while Russian speakers grouped the notorious can/tin together with the jar under the same title “banka”. Idea: not mine. It was inspired by a s