Boarding and Pastoral Care Department

生活与学生关爱部

On this breezy and drizzly Thursday night, the Y9 students at Lucton school headed to the same classroom as usual after their evening study session. They had the 8th class meeting since the beginning of this term. Much different from the previous class meeting, we warmly invited our psychology teacher, Mr Larry, to give us a lesson for all the students of Year 9.

Mr Larry started with a sense of humour: "Communication is like an intelligence war, and you have to understand the others' information and convey the information you need the others to know..."How is communication linked to intelligence?" The students were curious and began to whisper......Mr Larry let everyone listen continually. It turns out that communication consists of 7% intonation, 38% voice and 55% body language. In other words, body language and facial expressions account for 55% of communication between people. If we can read the body language correctly, we'll be able to understand exactly what the person is saying. Mr Larry shared his experience with the students:”I bought a chicken burger when I was in another country, and I used my body language to make the waiter understand that I wanted a chicken burger because I didn't know the language.” The story combined education with fun, which attracted the students to laugh together......

In addition, Mr Larry took students and online news as examples to help them understand a series of problems caused by miscommunication such as taking out part of words in the whole context, talking behind backs, errors in decoding, cultural background and so-called "secondary information", namely rumours, which can cause and deepen misunderstandings and contradictions in different degrees......

Finally, the students ended the class meeting with a game, and Mr Larry divided the students into two groups. The time was fleeting, but the Y9 students had a life lesson through this class meeting. They understood that a good interpersonal relationship starts with communication, and good communication can narrow the distance between us and enhance the relationship, while poor communication will cause a broken relationship. The relationship between people is like a flowing river, which regularly communicates and deals with contradictions. The less the barriers are, the faster the flow will be, and the longer relationship will last, and vice versa. 

We sincerely hope these Y9 students can practice the theoretical knowledge they have learned today in the future, practice them repeatedly and strive for true knowledge and harvest their own wonderful life!