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use the peanut butter and jelly sandwich exercise.

ask them as a group to give instructions one by one for building a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. you perform each instruction precisely as given.

them: "put peanut butter on the bread" you: put the jar of peanut butter onto the loaf of bread. ask for the next instruction.

they'll get it pretty fast.



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