Compelling Conversations 1

... • iCOMPELLING CONVERSATIONSQuestions and Quotations on Timeless TopicsAN ENGAGING ESL TEXTBOOK FOR ADVANCED STUDENTSWritten, Compiled, and Edited byEric H. Roth and Toni Aberson Compelling Conversations: Questions ... reserved.ISBN: 1- 419 6-5828-XLibrary of Congress Reg. # TX 6-377-924To order additional copies, please contact us.BookSurge, LLCPublished in Charleston, SC USA www.booksurg...

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... conversations! Eric H. Roth eric@compellingconversations.com ContentsSECTION 1 YOUR LIFE1. Getting Started ................................................. 12 . Going Beyond Hello ......................................... ... .......................................... 10 9SECTION 4 CIVIC LIFE35. Practicing Job Interviews ........................... 11 436. Work Relationships .............

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... Thoreau (18 17 18 62), American philosopher10. “There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that’s all.” —Rebecca West (18 92 19 83), English writer 11. ... to himself.” —Erich Fromm (19 00 19 80), psychologist10. “There is only one beautiful child in the world, and each mother has that one.” —Latin American proverb 11. “Life shrinks or expands...

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... angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln (18 09 18 65), 16 th U.S. President3. “We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” —Henry Ward Beecher (18 13 18 87), clergyman/abolitionist ... the world.” —Virginia Satir (19 16 19 88), family therapist 5. “Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”—Laurence J. Peter (19 19 19 90) educator and auth...

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... Ball (19 11 19 84), American TV star and actress 10 . “People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” —Ann Landers (19 18–2002), American advice columnist 11 . ... What dishes do you cook?“Gluttony is not a secret vice.” Orson Welles (19 15 19 85), great director/actor 14 • www.compellingconversations.comvocAbulAryPlease circle the words that you know...

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... time.” —Mark Twain (18 35 19 10), American humorist 11 . “Habit will reconcile us to everything but change.” —Charles Caleb Colton (17 80 18 32), English writer and collector 12 . “Any man who reads ... you modern ?10 . If pessimistic is 1 and optimistic is 10 , what would your number be on the scale? Why did you decide on that number? 11 . On a scale of 1- 10, how assertive are you?...

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... Santayana (18 63 19 52), American philosopher 12 . “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” —Mark Twain (18 35 19 10), ... Old Farmer’s Almanac 10 . “You can’t ignore the importance of a good digestion. The joy of life...depends on a sound stomach.” —Joseph Conrad (18 57 19 24), English author 11 . “There is...

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... (17 66 18 17), French writer 6. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” —Mark Twain (18 35 19 10), ... Elliot (18 19 18 90), English novelist 10 . “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the ght–it’s the size of the ght in the dog.” —Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower (18 90 19 69), 34th...

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