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Decision Hand Making Make Side Coin Trouble People

Id ESLPod_0523_CN
Episode Id ESLPod 523
Episode Title Having Trouble Making a Decision
Title Having Trouble Making a Decision
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When making a decision is difficult, some people like to "leave it to chance" (not actually make a decision, but just see what happens). You can do this by "flipping a coin," throwing a "coin" (a metal piece of money) into the air and catching it in your "palm" (the inside, flat part of one's hand). While it is in the air, you can "call" (say aloud) "heads" (the side of the coin with a person's head) or "tails" (the other side of the coin). For example, you might say, "Heads, I go to the conference. Tails, I go to the beach." Then, if the coin lands with its head facing up, you have to go to the conference. If the coin lands with the other side facing up, you can go to the beach.

Sometimes people need to make a decision together, but can't agree. If you want Chinese food, but your friend wants Italian food, you might play "rock, paper, scissors." You each make a "fist" (a closed hand, with your fingers folded into your palm) with your right hand and hit it against your left hand "in unison" (at the same time) three times while saying, "one, two, three." But the third time, you change the position of your hand. If you leave it as a fist, it is a rock. If you hit your hand flat against your other hand, it is paper. If you keep your hand in a fist, but point out your index finger and middle finger, it is scissors. You determine who has won by knowing that rock "crushes" (destroys with weight of) scissors, paper "wraps around" (surrounds on all sides) a rock, and scissors cut paper. If you choose paper and your friend chooses scissors, you'll have to eat Italian because he won.

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