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Today we're learning about how to make a good first impression. Step one: definitely do not slap someones hand away and try to start a tickle fight instead when you first meet them. They might not even be ticklish. How embarrassing would that be?
Transcript
- 00:05
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:13
You've probably heard the expression, “put your best foot forward" before.
- 00:17
And no, that doesn't mean judging both of your feet in some sort of weird, Miss America [Two feet wearing different shoes]
- 00:20
foot pageant…
- 00:21
Though the right does look lovely in evening wear.
Full Transcript
- 00:24
It means that it's important that we present ourselves well in life and to try and always
- 00:28
make a good first impression.
- 00:30
After all, first impressions?
- 00:31
They're pretty important. [Coop pointing at the blackboard]
- 00:33
Think of it this way – if you walked into a restaurant and immediately saw a big, fat
- 00:37
rat running through it, you'd probably be pretty grossed out, and that would be your [Rat runs across the floor]
- 00:41
first impression of that place.
- 00:43
So even if everything else about the restaurant after that was amazing, you would still find [Woman wiping her mouth after the meal]
- 00:48
it hard to forget that rat you saw.
- 00:50
Unless it happened to be that awesome little rat chef from Ratatouille, in his adorable
- 00:53
lil' chef's hat!
- 00:55
Anyway…first impressions also impact people all the time. [Cute rat chef]
- 00:58
If you walk into a job interview with messy hair, wrinkled clothes and muddy shoes, well,
- 01:02
the person interviewing isn't going to think that you're taking this all that seriously. [Interviewer looks unimpressed]
- 01:06
…unless you're interviewing for a job shoveling mud.
- 01:09
But you probably wouldn't want that job anyway.
- 01:11
It's a much better idea to walk in looking clean and pristine. [Guy wearing a smart suit]
- 01:15
Yes, even if you're still hoping for that mud-shoveling job.
- 01:18
But you aren't just judged for your appearance – you're judged on your writing, too.
- 01:22
And so, just like it's important to make a good first impression in person, you want
- 01:26
your writing to make a good first impression, too.
- 01:28
Because the things you write are sort of like an extension of you. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:31
But instead of tidy hair, it's tidy spelling and grammar.
- 01:34
And instead of wrinkle-free clothing, it's a wrinkle-free report that hasn't been stuffed
- 01:38
into the bottom of your backpack.
- 01:40
And instead of squeaky-clean shoes, maybe you put that nice report of yours into a nice-looking
- 01:43
protected folder.
- 01:45
So next time you write something, be sure to make your report the best it can be, so [Guy typing up his report on the computer]
- 01:48
it'll nail that first impression.
- 01:51
And while you're at it, maybe think about cleaning those shoes of yours.
- 01:53
It's not officially part of your grade…but it never hurts to NOT muck up the teacher's floor. [Guy leaves footprints all over the floor]
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