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Attaining Targeted Impressions
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Attaining Targeted Impressions
This worksheet gets students to think about how their words and their actions give others impressions of them, and tasks them with choosing what to say and how to act in order to attain targeted impressions.
Attaining Targeted Impressions
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Welcome to my Attaining Targeted Impressions worksheet. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. The next activity, Attaining Targeted Impressions works on modifying what we say and what we do to give the impression, achieve the impression that we want to give. And this just gives lots of opportunities for situations that students can then fill-in and talk about what was the impression they wanted to give and how could they attain that impression, either from what they do or what they say. Thanks for viewing my description of my Attaining Targeted Impressions worksheet. If you like what you've seen here please click and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!
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Attaining Targeted Impressions
This activity helps students consider how they want to be perceived by certain people in certain contexts, as well as how their actions and words can reinforce or contradict their desired image.
In order for students to begin modifying what they say and the actions they take in order to obtain a targeted impression, they must first understand the connection between actions, appearances, words, and impressions. Students fill in four different social situations, and must consider the context and communicative partner for each in order to decide on a targeted impression desired. They then are tasked with thinking about what they can say and do to attain that impression for each of the scenarios.
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