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Topic 187 - Messy or Organized? 5 April 2024
1. Do you see yourself as an organized person or a messy person? Put yourself on a scale of 1 (messy) to 5 (more organized)
2. If you travel, you might notice that some countries seem more organized (in certain ways) than other countries. Think of some examples.
3. Some people have a very organized public appearance, but are messy in private. Can you recall some people like this?
4. "Messy" is sometimes used to describe emotional life also. For example, a movie star or politician might be respectably married, but have secret girlfriends etc. Think of some examples.
5. Authority figures like parents or teachers or leaders might tell people to act in one way but these same leaders might not act like that themselves. The sarcastic idiom is "Do as I say, not as I do". This is called hypocrisy. e.g A parent might tell a child "clean up your room!", though the parent herself is very messy. Describe some hypocrisy which you know about.
6. Give an argument a) IN FAVOUR of being messy. Give an argument b) AGAINST being messy.
7. Give an argument a) IN FAVOUR of being organized. Give an argument b) AGAINST being organized.
8. How is "smart casual" dressing different from messy/sloppy dressing? Does being formally dressed guarantee that a person is organized, or not? How do you tell?
9. Every culture has rules for eating (often called table manners). For example, in most Western cultures is considered very rude and messy to chew food with your mouth open, but in much of Asia this is normal. A Westerner going to, say, China, also probably does things which the locals think are 'messy' (examples?). We have an idiom, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". What kind of advice on etiquette did you receive before going to foreign countries?
10. If we look back , say 200 years, life for most people was much, much less organized. That didn't matter much. Now we are all parts of a huge machine called an economy. The machine will fail if we don't go to work or school at the right time, and do certain things in a certain order. That is called our job. What is an argument for the old, simple village life? What is an argument for the new, complicated modern life?
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