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| Whom Do You Invite to Dinner? / Кого вы пригласите? |
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You are having the most remarkable dinner party in history! By suspending time, you are able to invite 12 people who are living, or who are dead, to your party. But that is the problem: Which 12 people will you choose?
Consider
1. It is unnecessary that the guests be "important"; you can choose someone who is interesting for other reasons.
2. Perhaps you might want to establish a theme for the evening; one group of guests might like to have fun; another group might like to discuss interesting philosophical questions. Remember that exactly which guests you choose to invite may depend upon the theme. For example, you would not want to invite people who might hate each other to an evening of "fun and relaxation."
3. Choose at least two people who are not on the list.
4. Here is a list of possible guests:
Giacomo Casanova, John Lennon, Madonna, Lady Murasaki, Napoleon, Socrates, Moses, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Pele, Golda Meir, Vladimir Lenin, Albert Einstein, Mao Tse-tung, Marco Polo, Mohammed, Maradona, Karl Marx, Stevie Wonder, William Shakespeare, Gandhi, Jesus, Adolf Hitler, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Ludwig van Beethoven, Confucius, Michelangelo, Johann Sebastian Bach, Marquis de Sade, Sylvester Stallone, Moammar Gaddafi, Aristotle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lady Diana, Adam, Anwar Sadat, Martina Navratilova, Eve, Buddha, Yassir Arafat, Fidel Castro, Walt Disney, Alexander the Great, Khomeini, Madame Curie, Julio Iglesias
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1. Women are generally thought to be better conversationalists than men. Why might this be so?
2. Do you prefer people who talk a lot or people who rarely speak?
3. In your country, what do people enjoy talking about? When and where do such conversations take place?
4. Do you agree that "Conversation is the spice of life"? What does this mean?
5. Imagine that you invited two famous people to your home for dinner last night. Write a two-page dialogue revealing the conversation that took place.
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