This document provides a teacher's guide for a lesson on making better decisions. It includes discussion prompts and activities about eliminating small decisions, fueling the brain, and getting advice from others. The lesson materials guide students through watching a video, answering short questions, discussing true/false statements, defining phrases, and doing a role play activity about decision making.
This document provides a teacher's guide for a lesson on making better decisions. It includes discussion prompts and activities about eliminating small decisions, fueling the brain, and getting advice from others. The lesson materials guide students through watching a video, answering short questions, discussing true/false statements, defining phrases, and doing a role play activity about decision making.
This document provides a teacher's guide for a lesson on making better decisions. It includes discussion prompts and activities about eliminating small decisions, fueling the brain, and getting advice from others. The lesson materials guide students through watching a video, answering short questions, discussing true/false statements, defining phrases, and doing a role play activity about decision making.
This document provides a teacher's guide for a lesson on making better decisions. It includes discussion prompts and activities about eliminating small decisions, fueling the brain, and getting advice from others. The lesson materials guide students through watching a video, answering short questions, discussing true/false statements, defining phrases, and doing a role play activity about decision making.
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How To Make Better Decisions | 3 Quick Tips (B2)
Preview Part 1. - Part 4. Discussion activities about decisions and decision-making. Answers will vary. For Parts 2 - 4, you can have students refer back to these after watching the video to check their answers and how similar they were.
Viewing Activity Preview Discussion. Your brain’s bandwidth refers to the energy your brain has or its capacity. It refers to the limited capacity of your brain’s attention and cognitive resources (the amount of mental effort and focus you can use on different tasks or processes) Part 1. Tips from the video: Tip 1: Free up your brain’s bandwidth by eliminating small decisions Tip 2: Give it the fuel it needs Tip 3: Get honest advice from a friend. Part 2. Short Answers. (1) When he was in office, Barack Obama removed one decision from his daily life — what to wear. It was always a grey or blue suit and a white shirt because he knew the science behind decision-making. The reason this is discussed in the video is to make the point that that by eliminating the small decisions from your life, you save bandwidth for the really important ones. (2) If you’re very hungry neurotransmitters can’t be produced which results in communication between the brain’s 86 billion neurons breaking down. (3) Food can affect your ability to make decisions. Research shows that drinking plenty of water and having a slow-release carbohydrate breakfast like porridge will help you think clearly. Omega-3 is also a brilliant brain food. You can find it in oily fish and pumpkin and sunflower seeds. (4) Daniel Kahneman found that in big decisions we’re generally more afraid of loss than we are motivated by gain. According to his research, this means we often pick the safest option rather than the one that will have the most positive impact on our lives. Part 3. True / False / Not given. (1) True (2) False (3) Not given
Viewing Follow-Up Part 1. Students read the quotes from the video and then match the words / phrases in bold with their definitions. (1) drop some truth bombs (4) weighed down (2) objective (5) roughed up (3) vigilant Part 2. Discussion about the agree/disagree statements. Answers will vary. Part 3. Definitions of the phrases in the quote from the man calling his friend. Teacher’s answers: tricky situation: complicated situation with several factor to consider I’m torn: I’m undecided or it’s very hard for me to decide / I don’t know how to decide take (taking) a toll on: have a negative impact on My gut tells me: My instincts tell me gain clarity: to become clear or feel sure/certain about something TEACHER’S GUIDE Fluentize, LLC. Copyright 2022. For use only with license. How To Make Better Decisions | 3 Quick Tips (B2)
Decision-making Advice Allow students to choose whether they want to do option 1 (just the discussion), option 2 (the role play), or both. If they choose the role play, and the lesson is one-to-one, take/assign the roles and conduct the activities with the students.
Quiz & Review
Part 1. Questions. Refer to Viewing Activity. Part 2. Vocabulary context usage. (1) drop / roughed (2) vigilant (3) get (4) weighed Part 3. Phrases from Viewing Follow-Up. a tricky situation: complicated situation with several factors to consider My gut tells me... : My instincts tell me to take a toll on: have a negative impact on to be/feel torn: to be undecided or have a hard to decide Lesson reflection. Answers will vary.
