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Lesson 1: Likable You

Psychological Corollary

A person will be liked for many different reasons.

Lesson Objective

Students will be able to distinguish between behaviors that lead to social success and behaviors that lead to social failure. For example, offering help to others will lead to success, while insulting others will lead to social failure.

Social Behaviors

This lesson shows students that successful people:

  • introduce themselves 
  • compliment others
  • are polite
  • empathize with others
  • Behave in a socially appropriate manner 
  • want others to like them
  • are attentive are friendly

Social Vocabulary

  • dislike
  • idiot
  • situation
  • co-worker

Other Vocabulary

  • ugliest
  • pregnant

Suggested Lesson Plans

Introduction

  • List the following on the board:
    • Helpful Harriet
    • Messy Mary Rude Richard
    • Cheerful Charlie
    • Lively Lucille
    • Negative Nancy
  • Give pairs of students situations to roleplay from the list below; have one of the students in the pair select a character from the list above. As students roleplay their situations, have the class guess which character the student chose.
    • Eating lunch in the cafeteria
    • Discussing which movie to see this weekend
    • Buying tickets for the football game
    • Introducing a friend to your cousin on the street
    • Introduce vocabulary.

Group Use of Student Workbook

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Note to Teachers: The following section provides questions you may use if your class is using the workbook as a group, reading it orally and discussing points as it is read. If your students read silently and complete the workbook independently, the questions that follow should be addressed in class after students finish reading the lesson.

  • Have students complete the workbook lesson as follows:
  • Read the vignette.
  • Decide if the person's behavior would make others like or dislike him or her. Circle the correct response.
  • If the response is DISLIKE, have students give a more likable response or action.
  • If the response is LIKE, ask students why the action or response would make others like you.

Follow - Up

Ask students to brainstorm reasons why people may be social failures. For each reason, students identify, ask how a person could change to become a social success.

Behavior Development Activity

To encourage students to introduce themselves and be polite:

  • Have students each introduce themselves to one other person in the class and tell one interesting thing about themselves.
  • Have students roleplay telephone conversations. Ask pairs of students to roleplay phone conversations in which they:
    • Give information to police or firefighters in an emergency.
    • Ask for information from a movie theater.
    • Discuss weekend plans with a friend.
    • Ask for information about a job advertised in the newspaper.
    • Ask about an apartment advertised in the newspaper.
    • Ask a store manager about a product sold in the store.
    • Call their employers to explain that they are sick today.
    • Call the bus station, train station, or airport to get travel information.

(Students might be given the opportunity to leave a message on a voicemail, which might be a recorder device in the classroom. Students can then listen to and evaluate each other's messages.)

  • Have student observers provide feedback to role-playing students regarding
  • their phone manners,
  • their tone of voice,
  • the volume of their voice, and
  • the clarity with which they explained their reasons for calling.

Review

  • Ask students to describe and model good phone manners (e.g., identify themselves, speak clearly and slowly, have a confident tone.
  • Ask students to list appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in short selections similar to those in the student workbook.

Homework (Optional)

Have students make one phone call to get information and report data back to the class.