Exercise 3. Deliver a 2-3 minute speech on one of the aphorisms

Exercise 2. Develop one of the suggested plots into a 2-3 minute story.

1) I was trying to be in time on a railway station.

2) We tried to put up a fire in the forest.

3) My friend decided to descend with a parachute.

4) A dangerous trip.

5) I witnessed a crime.

6) A saw a UFO.

7) I took part in competitions.

8) One day I was passing my math’s exam.

9) We went to a football match.

10) I came to the dance club with my friends.

11) We were in a Chinese food restaurant.

12) I saw a beautiful dress (suit) in the shop.

13) I received a letter from stranger asking for help.

14) I was choosing a present for my friend.

15) I was at the concert of a famous rock group.

16) I was riding a bicycle.

17) I found a little kitten in the street.

18) I found a wallet in the street.

19) I forgot the keys at work.

20) My friend was allergic to my cat at a birthday party.

Bear in mind: You should either endorse or contradict the idea of the aphorism during your performance. The aphorism is to be voiced at least two times and must be instantiated.

1) Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

2) Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson

3) Beat your own and others will fear you.
Unknown

4) Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Doug Horton

5) By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler

6) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

7) Everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Mark Twain

9) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones

10) He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
Dr. Squid

11) A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert

12) A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Edmond Jules Goncourt

13) Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire

14) Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Unknown

15) Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
Pablo Picasso

16) A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
Henry Louis Mencken

17) A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

18) All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron

19) Don't do whatever you like - like whatever you do.
Unknown

20) In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

21) It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda

22) It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

23) The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

24) Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
Unknown

25) Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

26) Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Unknown

27) Death is the final wake-up call.
Doug Horton

28) As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
Socrates

29) Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Unknown

30) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde

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