Τρίτη 17 Ιουνίου 2025

How strong are you?

 Which picture represents you best?


Are there any surprises in tyour VIA questionnaire?
Which strengths are you happy with?
Which would you like to develop and who is a person at the workplace you admire for them?



Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. What is the main purpose of the video?
A. To argue that personal change is impossible
B. To explain the science behind developing character strengths
C. To promote specific religious virtues

2. According to the video, character strengths are:
A. Fixed traits we inherit and can’t change
B. Psychological ingredients for virtues and goodness
C. Solely academic skills

3. How many VIA character strengths are presented?
A. 12
B. 24
C. 50

4. What distinguishes "signature strengths" from "phasic strengths"?
A. Signature strengths are innate; phasic are learned at school
B. Signature strengths are natural, phasic appear situationally
C. There is no distinction made in the video



5. Which premise supports the idea that character can develop over time?
A. Neural networks can grow with use and effort
B. All strengths are genetically determined
C. Once established, strengths never change


6. The driving message behind focusing on strengths, not weaknesses, is that:
A. Deficits define our capacity for good
B. Strengths help people flourish across life situations
C. Weaknesses are more important than strengths


7. What is a real-world implication of the video’s message?
A. We should focus exclusively on fixing faults
B. We can teach others to recognize and use their strengths
C. There's no practical application beyond theory.



LYRICS


Τρίτη 10 Ιουνίου 2025

Divergent thinking - Part 2

 Discuss with a partner

What do you do when you want to focus on smth?
How do you tune out noise when you want to concentrate?
What is somnething you find annoying?
What are some of your special or unusaul talents? Explain them to your partner.

Watch the discovery of the Microwave oven.


What do you think serendipity has to do with Percy Spencer and the microwave oven?
Do you think inventors like him think differently than other people?
Read the article to find out more

Look at the graphic and discuss with a partner
1. What happens as we get older?
2. What might be the consequences of this change, especially for the invention and discovery?
3. Do you think there is a way to increase the percentage of adults who are capable of divergent thinking?

Τρίτη 3 Ιουνίου 2025

Divergent thinking

 How do you think  the title relates to the photo (look at the capion)?

What are some things that people discover? 
How do they make this kind of discoveries?

A tourist looking out of one of the famous Gaudi Buildings in Barcelona, Spain
What do you know about the invention of the objects that you use on a daily basis?
What skills /qualities do you think an inventor and this artist have in common?

Sculpture made entirely of paper clips (Pierro d' Angelo)
Discover vocabulary