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30 REfLECTIvE COsMOPOLITANIsM 1. You giggle about a girl, while she is standing very close to you. 2. Your teacher helps you with an exercise. 3. A girl promises that her friend will dance with your lonesome brother. 4. A boy takes a picture of you and posts it on the internet. 5. A person writes to you and lies about her age - he is fifty and tells you he is six- teen. 6. You accept an invitation of a student, but you do not like him so you are not going there. 7. A woman is told not to sit down until the men sit. 8. You join a new class and the teacher calls you by another name. 9. Someone takes away your books without asking. Leading Ideas 3: Rules There are many different kinds of rules. Rules can be guidelines that suggest how to do things. Rules can be regulations, for example they help to regulate the traffic. We have language rules: rules for grammar and spelling to help understand each other. When we play a game we follow rules. If we want we can formulate our own rules just for ourselves to regulate our day or to make life easier. There are behavioral rules that differ from family to family, from community to community, from culture to culture. Do we need rules at all? What would happen if there were no rules? You can also find resources on the concept “rules” in the manual to Ella, episode 2, lead- ing idea 2. Discussion Plan: Rules 1. What are rules? 2. Can you formulate some rules that affect you? 3. Why do we have rules? 4. Are there some rules we have to obey during the day? 5. What kind of rules do you know? 6. Why do we sometimes set up rules? 7. Can you imagine rules that do not make any sense? 8. Are there some rules that are important? 9. Could we live without rules? 10. Who makes rules? Leading Idea 4: Friendship In the manual to Ella, in Episode one and seven, you can find discussion plans and ex- ercises on the concept of friendship. You can also use these materials for your students to discuss and think together what friendship implies. Still there are many open questions to this special kind of relationship: Is it sufficient for two people to be friends to like each other? Can friendship be a one-way matter or has it to be a two-way matter? If people care about each other does that make them friends? There are different conceptions of friendship and the meaning of friendship might be different to all of us – but friends are important. We all might have some different no-