Personal Values & Ideals

Thursday 15^th January, 2015

Hi everybody! Nice to see you back! 

Holidays are over and we have a whole new term ahead of us…so, let’s get started!

In our last class we revised what we had read and said on  the topic of personal values and ideals.

Yes! Family is the most important thing in your lives! It is number one on your lists. Family is number one on your list because they love you, they support you and you can always count on them (ask them for help). Sometimes your parents tell you off (reprimand somebody for doing something wrong or naughty or misbehaving) and in those cases, family gets to the bottom of the list!

You also agreed on placing ‘politics’ at the bottom of the list because –as you very sensibly stated (said with very good sense) – you’re teenagers and now it’s not the time of worrying about politics and politicians! You’ll have time when you grow up (when you become adults)!

Then, we read some emails and match them with the values.

How do the writers say that they act so as to show that they live according to their values?

VALUES	ACTIONS
Compassion for people in need. (beggars, homeless people)	Giving money, although she understands that that isn’t the solution.
Environmental principles.	Using public transport, separating rubbish for recycling, refusing to buy products with too much packaging.
Ethical consumption.	Not going to fast food restaurants because it’s unhealthy; Buying fair trade products (products sold at their price that they really deserve).
Ethical work.	Refusing to work for unethical companies; i.e.weapon(arms)  industry companies.
Bringing up children morally.	Teaching them to respect other human beings as well as the environment.

 

After that, we listened to two conversations.

In the first one, the boy was interested in support of human rights. The girl is persuading him to join a protest group. She suggested him ‘Amnesty International’.

In the second one, the man is discouraging the woman from taking a job with a company that makes weapons because it’s unethical.

Remember:

Persuade to. She wanted to drop her studies but her parents persuade her to go on to university.

Discourage from. He was discouraged from studying engineering because he wasn’t good at science.

That was all! Don’t forget to do homework. Page 56. Linking words & phrases.

GAME 1 (5 points to everybody for debating in class about ‘values’)

Player 1	5
Player 2	7
Player 3	---
Player 4	10
Player 5	7
Player 6	6
Player 7	6

Enjoy your weekend!

See you on Thursday!