Personality transplant

Listen to the article and decide if these statements are true or false

a.	Doctors have found a way to transplant people’s personalities.	T / F
b.	A professor said people wouldn’t mind receiving the heart of a killer.	T / F
c.	People who receive new organs say they share the donor’s memories.	T / F
d.	Most donor patients believe they have some of the donor’s personality.	T / F
e.	The professor said very few people are superstitious about transplants.	T / F
f.	The professor said the most logical people are the most superstitious.	T / F
g.	A British teenager received a new heart even though she didn’t want it.	T / F
h.	Scientists have evidence that personality accompanies donated organs.	T / F

• Would you be willing to donate your organs after you die?
• Do you carry an organ donor card?
• Do you think parts of a donor’s personality is transplanted along with the organ?
• Would you accept a killer’s heart if you needed a heart transplant?
• What do you think of giving someone a transplant against their will?
• Would you like a personality transplant?

Let's talk

• What do you think of when you see these images?
• How would you like to live in such a house?
• Have you ever seen a bat? How would you react if you saw one?
• What's your opinion about ghosts? Do they exist. . .?
• What about witches?

Facebook

Do you feel like having some fun? Being so, watch the following video, but first answer these questions.

1. Do you have an account in Facebook?

If you do have one:

1. How often do you log in?
2. Do you need to visit it everyday?
   
3. How addictive do you think it is?
4. What kind of information do you publish?

If you don't:

1. Is there a particular reason why you haven't opened one?

For everybody:

1. How dangerous do you think it is?
2. Why do people like uploading personal photos and information to these kind of sites?

What's this ironic song trying to tell us?

NOW, WATCH IT:



If you feel like singing along, here's the lyrics:

I wouldn’t call myself a social butterfly
and there’s not much that separates me from the other guy
but when I login I begin to live

There’s an online world where I am king
of a little website dedicated to me
with pictures of me and a list of my friends
and an unofficial record of the groups that I’m in.

Before the internet friendship was so tough
you actually had to be in peoples presence and stuff
who would’ve thought that with a point and a click
I could know that Hope Floats is your favorite flick (harry connick jr. ?)

Facebook (Facebook)
I’m Hooked on Facebook
I used to meet girls hanging out at the mall, now I just wait for them to write on my wall.
(its more than a want, its more than a need; I’d schrivel up and die without my minifeed)
Take a look. (You’re Hooked) on facebook.

oh Link's status changed. it says hes playing the recorder....

how do you know this person?
did you hook up with this person?
do you need to request confirmation?
or did you just think they looked cute..from their picture on facebook?

if the internet crashed all across the land
or my facebook account was deleted by the man
I’d carry around a picture of my face
and a summary of me typed out on a page

Phobias

• Do you suffer from phobias?
  
• If so, what's your biggest one?
• If you don't, have you ever met a person who had a phobia?
  

Listen to these people:

• make a list of their phobias
• comment about it
  

Song: Let me fall

Watch this video and listen to this wonderful song.

Once you've watched the video, do the following activities:

• First, try to fill in the blanks of the lyrics; print it and sing along.
• Second, answer the questions below.

Let me fall

Let me ___________ , Let me _________
There's a ___________ when fear
And ___________ must collide

Someone I am Is waiting for ___________
The one I want
The one I will become
Will ___________ me

So let me fall
If I must fall I won't heed your ___________
I won't ___________ them

Let me fall If I fall
Though the phoenix may
Or may not ___________ I will ___________ so freely
Holding on to no one
You can hold me only
If you too will ___________
Away from all these
Useless fears and chains

Someone I am
Is waiting for my ___________
The one I want
The one I will become
Will ___________ me

So let me fall
If I must fall
I won't heed your ___________
I won't ___________

Let me fall If I fall
There's no reason
To miss this one ___________
This perfect moment
Just let me fall

• What does this song and performance mean to you?
• What can you associate its message with?
• Who's speaking?
• Who is the message for?

Here is some information about the singer: Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981) is a Grammy-nominated American singer/songwriter known for his baritone voice. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue musical theatre in the future.
Interesting, isn't it?

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