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?

Father's Day

As all of you know, tomorrow we're celebrating Father's Day.

I'd like you to watch the following video and enumerate the steps to make a Father's Day Memory Album.

If it's too difficult for you to understand it just by listening, you can also read it by clicking on the green arrow on the right.

No excuses then . . . Start working. Who knows, you might also make an album for your father, too!

Deadline: Wednesday 23rd

How To Make a Father's Day Memory Album on Howcast

All Fools Day

Here is some interesting information about All Fools Day, or April Fools Day in Britain.

Listen to the spokesman and share your answers in the comments section:

1. What's this day for?
2. How long has this day been celebrated?
3. When did one of the most famous tricks take place?
4. Where was it published?

Say if these statementes are true or false:

1. Panorama included a report about the problems facing spaghetti farmers in Switzerland.
2. Many people apparently accepted the documentary at face value.
3. The Panorama report was a spoof.
4. Since then, newspapers haven't published spoof stories again.

Vocabulary:

Here are some of the words expressed int the presentation:
mischief, at face value, urn

• Do we have a similar celebration? If so, when is it?
• Do you take part in it?
• What anecdotes can you share with us?