READING: PROBLEMS WITH YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?

READING: PROBLEMS WITH YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?

Work in pairs. What characterizes your partner as a person?

smart - obedient - stubborn - considerate - lazy - generous - polite - disrespectful - understanding - rude - humorous - hard-working

Take turns and in three minutes tell each other what you have come up with.

• What made you characterize your partner this way?

In no more than a minute tell the rest of the class why you agree or disagree with your partner's opinion about you.

The following words appear in the text. Guess the meaning of the words in the activity that follows.

https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/53921873

In one minute skim the text.

What is the main idea of the text?

Comprehension Questions

• There are two kinds of relationships we might form with other people. What are they?

• As adults, on what two criteria do we base these types of relationships?

• According to the text, are our beliefs of ourselves and others stable or not?

• Can you list the criteria upon which we base our beliefs about who we are?

Comprehension Questions

• What about our co-workers, bosses, fellow-students and relatives? Is our opinion about them real?

• How is our relationship to others transformed if our beliefs of who they are are not fixed?

• The text gives a specific example of how we see others in a different light. Can you locate and share it with the class?

• What is the advantage of abandoning patterned ways of acting?

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ACTIVITY 3

What is the most important factor that might influence us to see someone in a different light?

Write a short paragraph (no more than 70 words) to give your opinion support by one reason and one specific example. You have ten minutes to complete the task.