Love
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
- How important is love? Are there different types of love? Can you name some of them?
- Do you think it is possible to love everyone?
- How do people fall in love? How and why do people fall out of love?
- Is there a thin line between love and hate?
- Do you love yourself? Should you do so?
- What is the difference between love and being in love?
- Is it more important to love or be loved?
- Has love changed over the past 10,000 years?
- Has love ever changed the course of history?
Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEA8agfQMwQ
"Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus." Françoise Sagan
- How important is money? What would life be like without money?
- Does having a lot of money make someone more attractive?
- How would the world be different if all the money was shared out equally among all people?
- How old were you when you earned your first salary? What did you spend it on?
- How long would it take you to spend 1 million dollars?
- Some people say that money makes the world go round. Do you agree?
- What are some of the things money can't buy?
- Some people say that the best things in life are free. Do you agree?
Curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0NguMGIbE&t=19s
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity." Eleanor Roosevelt
- How important is curiosity in a child/a student/an adult? Is curiosity important for mankind in general?
- Can curiosity lead to inventions?
- There is a saying "Curiosity killed the cat." What does it mean?
- Have you ever done anything out of mere curiosity?
- Is curiosity a skill?
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If you were a bird, where would you fly?
- If you could create a new national holiday, what would it be?
- If you wrote a book, what would the title be?
- What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
- What do you think is the driving force in your life?
- If you could know the absolute and total truth to one question, what question would you ask?
Art
- How great is your interest in art? What kind of art do you like - paintings, sculpture, ceramics, etc.?
- Does art change the way you think or feel?
- Do you think anyone can be an artist or do you need a special talent?
- Do you think all children should study art at school?
- Do you think today's artists are as good as those from hundreds of years ago?
- Why do people become professional artists?
- If you could buy a great work of art, what would it be? (style, title, artist's name...)
- How would the world be different without artists?
- Do you think some paintings changed the world?
Literature
- What kind of literature do you read?
- Who is your favourite character from literature?
- Did you enjoy studying literature at school?
- Do you think today's literature is up to the same standard of the literature from a hundred years ago?
- Have you read any books by the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Would you like to study English literature?
- Do you think that it is more valuable to read a book than to watch television?
- Do you think some books changed the world?
Sport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuaSvB2__rM
- Why do so many people like sport? Why are some people not interested in sport?
- Richard M. Nixon said: "I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports." Do you agree?
- George Orwell said: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." Do you agree?
- Do you think sport has the power to change the world?
- Have you ever heard of Didier Drogba? What is he famous for?
Let's debate!
- "It's love that makes the world go round." W.S. Gilbert
- "Passion is what makes the world go round. Passion is what drives us to be better than we are. Passion is what makes our emotions - whether love or hate or laughter - ignite and blaze into life." Lisa Mangum, After Hello
- "Money makes the world go round; however, happiness greases the axle. Without this lubricant, life will seize." Paul Van Der Merwe
- "Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- "Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast." Compton Mackenzie
- "Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too." Jim Benton
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- http://iteslj.org/questions/