Vocabulary :

• Optimism (answers.com)

• Pessimism (answers.com)

Analysis :

• Is the glass half empty or half full ? (answers.com)

• Optimism (Wikipedia)

• Optimist (websters-dictionary-online.net)
  "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

• Pessimism (Wikipedia)

• Pessimist (websters-dictionary-online.net)

• Pessimism and Negativity (coping.org) :
  - How does pessimism and negativity affect my behavior?
  - How do I feel when I am pessimistic or negative?
  - What are the effects of my pessimism and negativity?
  - What irrational thinking leads me to be pessimistic or negative?
  - What causes my pessimism and negativity?
  - What can I do to overcome my pessimism and negativity?
  - Steps to overcoming pessimism and negativity
  
  

Quotations :

• Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.

• Winston Churchill (simpleslide.com) : - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  

• "The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole." (queendom.com)

• Pessimism Quotes (annabelle.net)
  ex : "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist." * Mark Twain
  
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• QUIZ: Pessimist, Optimist or Realist? (about.com)
  What is your personality? Which one are you?

Activities TO PRINT :

• Optimist  Pessimist Quiz (eslwonderland.com)

Cartoons :

I thought... (Cartoon Stock)	Optimist or pessimist ? (audreychan.net)	Someone will come (pool.cream.org)
	Pessimism (aaaha.com)

Songs :

• "Hey You" by Madonna - with a VIDEO
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  (Niveau 4ème/3ème)

  

• Optimist Or Pessimist by Nevermore :
  "chaos, the rule of the game
  spinning as optimist fades
  confusion becomed law
  eclipsing hope, the pessimist said"

• Mr. Pessimist by Tears For Fears
  
  

Cinema :

• Never let me go