Методический кабинет учителей иностранного языка

 

Quotes as the oral speech stimulation

Imagine that you and your partner are authorizes by one of the leading foreign TV channels (BBC or CNN) to choose a topic for social advertising to broadcast it all over the world. The purpose of this ad is to try to make the world better. As you look through the list of offered quotes of famous people, each of you should choose only one statement that could be transformed into a slogan for the ad. Then you have to discuss your choice with your partner, explaining the reason for the choice you’ve made. Your task is to try to come to an agreement in the process of discussion as you can present only one statement because the time span is limited on TV. Choose the most important and the most useful quote for your advertising slogan, give your reasons. You have 3-5 minutes for the discussion.

The list of quotes

1. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

2. We invent what we love, and what we fear.

3. You can cage the singer but not the song.

4. Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

5. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

6. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four fingers are pointed at himself.

7. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

8. It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

9. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

10. The wise learn many things from their enemies.

11. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

12. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

13.  Hatred – the anger of the weak. Hate and mistrust are the children id blindness.

14.  There is no mistake as great as that of being always right.

15. A healthy man is a successful man.

16.The physician can bury his mistakes but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

17.A lie travels round the world while the truth is putting her boots on.

18.Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.

19. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

20. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

21.A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

The Projects created by the pupils of 10a

 

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