In this C2 level lesson plan, students, through reading, discussion and practice exercises, develop advanced vocabulary and strategies for navigating situations that require balancing instinct with analysis.
Warm-up
Students analyze two scenarios and discuss how they demonstrate the balance between rational thinking and trusting your instincts.
Video
Students watch an informative video titled “Why You Shouldn’t Second Guess Your Decisions.” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.
Exercises
Language skills are reinforced through various activities. Students analyze expressions and explain their underlying meanings. In the second exercise, they use given phrases to rewrite the sentences. Lastly, they find the phrases in a given text that correspond to provided definitions.
Reading
Students read a text about the risks of overreliance on data and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.
Discussion
Students explore different techniques for building trust in their intuition.
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Thank you so much for this class. I learned the following dictum: Trust what you knew then and NOT what you feel now! Fact!!
I agree: it's true :)