Choices

Lead-in

  • Choose the best option and explain why:
    • Live in your home country or live abroad?
    • Be poor and happy or rich and unhappy?
    • Have ten kids or no kids?
    • Eat only salty food or only sweets?
    • Study every day for 10h or never study again?

Presentation 1

Pre

  • Who or what influences you and your decisions? Why?

Top Down

  • According to the video, how do people make decisions when they’re on their own? Watch the video and find out.
  • They never let anything interfere in their actions.
  • Deep down, they always act based on emotions.
  • They weigh their options and make rational decisions.
  • Nothing has been said about it.
  • They never let anything interfere in their actions.
  • Deep down, they always act based on emotions.
  • They weigh their options and make rational decisions.
  • Nothing has been said about it.

Bottom Up

  • True or False

Example: The video talks about influences. > True

  1. Jonah Berger is a Stanford PhD. 
  2. A experiment was set up in which people were asked which lines were different.
  3. Scientists say that this external influence is easily resistible.
  4. Cockroaches ran faster when being watched.
  5. This susceptibility to external influences isn’t good, it is bad.
  1. Jonah Berger is a Stanford PhD. True
  2. A experiment was set up in which people were asked which lines were different. False
  3. Scientists say that this external influence is easily resistible. False
  4. Cockroaches always run faster when being watched. False
  5. This susceptibility to external influences isn’t good, it is bad. False

Post

  • How do you relate to the results of the experiments shown in the video?
  • What do you think happens the most: You influence people around you or get influenced? Why?

Choice related expressions

Presentation 2

Pre

  • What do you do when you have to make a choice but are in two minds? Give an example.

Top Down

  • What examples of choices are mentioned in the video? Watch it and find out.
  • Who should I play with at breaktime?
  • What should I have for lunch?
  • What book should I read at bedtime?
  • What should I study first?
  • Should I color the monster purple or red?
  • What would you do if you lost a game?
  • Who should I play with at breaktime?
  • What should I have for lunch?
  • What book should I read at bedtime?
  • What should I study first?
  • Should I color the monster purple or red?
  • What would you do if you lost a game?

Bottom Up

  • Fill in the gaps as you watch the video again.

Example: How you make smart ____. > How you make smart choices.

  1. Every day you make lots of ____.
  2. We just ____ the thing that feels right and do it.
  3. It can feel quite ____ losing.
  4. If something ____ and it makes the frustrated ____ feelings inside start to ____ up like you’re going to say something or shout or do something that probably won’t be very nice, think red light.
  5. The green light ____ on so you can then make the choice that will make you and those around you feel better ____ than worse.
  1. Every day you make lots of choices.
  2. We just choose the thing that feels right and do it.
  3. It can feel quite tough losing.
  4. If something happens and it makes the frustrated annoyed feelings inside start to bubble up like you’re going to say something or shout or do something that probably won’t be very nice, think red light.
  5. The green light pops on so you can then make the choice that will make you and those around you feel better rather than worse.

Post

  • How do you think this video would be helpful for kids?
  • Are you better at decision-making now than you were five years ago? Why?