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Whom do you invite to dinner party?

You are having the most remarkable dinner party in history! By suspending time (making the past and present the same time) you are able to invite 10 people who are living, or who are dead, to your party. Which 10 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.

  1. Here is a list of possible quests:

Giacomo Casanova

John Lennon

Madonna

Lady Murasaki

Napoleon

Socrates

Moses

Cleopatra

Julius Caesar

Pélé

Golda Meir

Nicolai 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

Decide and write:

Model: Dinner guest 1____________________________________

Reason invited:__________________________________________

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Dinner guest 2:__________________________________________

Reason invited:__________________________________________

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Dinner guest 3:__________________________________________

Reason invited:__________________________________________

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Dinner guest 4:__________________________________________

Reason invited:__________________________________________

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Dinner guest 5:__________________________________________

Reason invited___________________________________________

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Dinner guest 6:__________________________________________

Reason invited__________________________________________

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Dinner guest 7:__________________________________________

Reason invited___________________________________________

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Dinner guest 8:__________________________________________

Reason invited___________________________________________

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Dinner guest 9:__________________________________________

Reason invited___________________________________________

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Dinner guest 10:_________________________________________

Reason invited___________________________________________

Discuss

Verbally compare your decisions with those classmates in your discussion group.

Explain and defend your opinions. Listen carefully to your classmate’s opinions, but do not be afraid to disagree with those opinions. Try to reach a group consensus on the best solution to the problem. One person in the group should write down the group’s decision.

Extend

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? Explain.

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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