Flaw

Lead-in

  • If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be? Why?
  • Would you rather have a great personality or be really good looking?
  • Do you have a different personality in different situations? Give an example.
  • What are some things that make you angry?
  • How are males and females personalities different?
  • How do you think a person can change their personality?
  • How do you deal with an arrogant person?

Presentation 1

Pre

  • What are some bad habits you have? What about your best friend?

Top Down

  • What are the bad habits mentioned in the video? Watch it and find out.
  • Correcting everyone
  • Saying “literally” all the time
  • Not showing respect
  • Singing what is doing
  • Making everyone feel rejected
  • Chewing loudly
  • Talking in a high pitched voice
  • Being rude
  • Don’t paying attention to other people
  • Using lame catchphrases all the time
  • Correcting everyone
  • Saying “literally” all the time
  • Not showing respect
  • Singing what is doing
  • Making everyone feel rejected
  • Chewing loudly
  • Talking in a high pitched voice
  • Being rude
  • Don’t paying attention to other people
  • Using lame catchphrases all the time

Bottom Up

  • True or False
  1. Ted corrects people all the time.
  2. Marshall sings while eating.
  3. One of them talks while chewing.
  4. One of Marshall’s song is his password.
  5. In the end, they forget about their bad habits.
  1. Ted corrects people all the time. True
  2. Marshall sings while eating. False
  3. One of them talks while chewing. False
  4. One of Marshall’s song is his password. True
  5. In the end, they forget about their bad habits. True

Post

  • Which of the bad habits mentioned in the video do you consider to be the worst one? Why?

Presentation 2

Pre

  • What do you think is the worst feeling that anyone could possibly feel?

Top Down

  • What does it mean to be cynical? Watch the video and choose the best option.
  • Showing or arising from an excessive concern with oneself and a lack of concern for others.
  • If you are cynical about something, you do not believe that it can be successful or that the people involved are honest.
  • Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
  • Not having or showing concern or respect for the rights and feelings of other people.
  • Feeling or characterized by sadness or dejection.
  • Having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly.
  • Showing or arising from an excessive concern with oneself and a lack of concern for others.
  • If you are cynical about something, you do not believe that it can be successful or that the people involved are honest.
  • Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
  • Not having or showing concern or respect for the rights and feelings of other people.
  • Feeling or characterized by sadness or dejection.
  • Having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly.

Bottom Up

  • Fill in the gaps as you watch the video again.
  1. It sounds pretty ____ not to have too many ____
  2. It’s hopeless to try to ____ cynicism.
  3. Cynics may look like people trying very hard to see the facts as they are, but in ____ they are trying even harder to insulate ____ against pain.
  4. The cynic is never ____ and completely cynical.
  5. In ____: a mode of ____, learned under conditions of duress.
  1. It sounds pretty tough not to have too many hopes
  2. It’s hopeless to try to disprove cynicism.
  3. Cynics may look like people trying very hard to see the facts as they are, but in truth they are trying even harder to insulate themselves against pain.
  4. The cynic is never truly and completely cynical.
  5. In essence: a mode of coping, learned under conditions of duress.

Post

  • What do you think about the video? What do you agree about and what you don’t?
  • In what situations do you consider yourself to be cynical?
  • How do you cope with cynical people?