So You Want to Be Cool

Are you worried about your looks?

Are you nervous because you have to speak in front of the class?

Are you sad because someone said something bad about you?

Are you unhappy because you don't have many friends?

Teenage Express magazine offers some ideas on how to be cool.<br>

•  Think of your good qualities. List them. You're going to find that you have a lot of them!
• Take care of your appearance and your clothes. Keep your hair clean and well groomed. Your Clothes don't have to be expensive. They just have too look nice. Sometime a classic look is better than the latest extreme style.
• Compliment people and smile a lot. Meet new people and be friendly to them. Don't be shy. If you want to meet someone, go ahead and introduce yourself.
• Ignore what people say about you. They are probably jealous.
• Be yourself all times, because trying to be someone else is not good. Being cool doesn't mean being someone you are not.
• Being cool does not mean being silly or stupid. So study hard and be smart. Learn useful information about a lot of topics. Your friends are going to respect and admire you for that.

• Be proud of your qualities and who you are. Remember, being cool is mostly a matter of attitude.

After Reading

Answer yes or no. Being cool means:

1. .             not worrying about what others thing of you.
2.               wearing designer clothes.
3.               being friendly and sociable.
4.               not saying what you think.
5.              following what cool people do and maybe changing your ways.

Discussion 

Which of the above things did you do in the past to be cool? What happened?

Get from Mega Goal student book 2 

Anthropology

The walking marriage

1.   Anthropology describe the walking marriage as a custom unique to the Mosuo. This small ethnic population resides in China on the border of the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, adjacent to Tibet. Here, male and female romantic partners do not make legal vows of matrimony or even live together in the same residence. Instead, upon being invited by a woman, a man will walk to his partner's home after dark and return to his own family early the next day, hence the name walking marriage. These union, whether short or long-term, are based upon mutual love and affection with no string attached. There is no sharing of finances or even of child rearing responsibilities. Which rest solely in the hands of the woman's family.
2.  The Mosuo culture is a matrilineal society, so called because the children take their mother's surname and lineage is traced through female side of the family. Children are also raided exclusively by the woman's extended family-grandparents, parents, uncles, and aunts-who all generally live in the same household. Accordingly, the child has the appropriate male influence, with the male members of the woman's family acting as paternal substitutes. A child's father may, however, elect to participate in the parenting of his biological child. If so, he is awarded special status within his partner's family. Nevertheless, his permanent residence remains with his maternal relatives, where he must fulfill the parental responsibilities associated with his sister's, aunt's, or mother's children.
3.  While this form of marriage may see somewhat odd, it offers numerous advantages. First, there are no loveless marriage, and there is no staying together for the sake of the children. Second, there is no divorce and no division of property upon divorce. Furthermore, there are no child custody issues, since it is understood that all children are to be raised by the mother's family. Third, there is no preference for a child of a specific gender, because both males and females are equally capable of caring for aging family members. Finally, in the case of a parent dying prematurely, there are carious alternative role models who can assume the required parental duties. For these reasons, the walking marriage has proved to be an exceptionally stable system-one which is still practiced by the Mosuo of picturesque Lugu Lake, high in the Himalayas.

  continue later.....                                                                     This text was get from Tofl exam's book. 

Cocktail Party Introduction Game

Walk around the room, and introduce yourself to different classmates. Use the following conversation format:

Student 1: Hi, My name is                                     and I'm from                                                             .

Student 2: Nice to meet you. My name is                                                    and I'm from                                                                                . So, what is the personal characteristic that best describes you?

Student 1: ( Answers the question .) How about you? What personal characteristic describes you best?

Student 2: ( Answers the question. )