Discussion
Plan for picnic
Plan for picnic
Situation:
Your class teacher has sponsored
$2000 (for the whole class) for your class
picnic.
Now, your class teacher has asked your
group to suggest how to spend the
money.
You may want to talk about:
1.
2.
3.
4.
the place you would like to go
activity you do
food (BBQ/ lunchboxes, etc)
anything else you think is
important
Starting the discussion
To begin with, you can say:
1. Let’s start.
2. Okay, let’s begin our discussion.
Then, you may say:
1. Today our group needs to
discuss…
2. We need to discuss…
Making suggestions
If you want to make a suggestion,
you may use the following phrases:
• I think that…
• I believe that…
• I suggest that…
• Let’s…
• Perhaps we should…
• Shall we…?
• Why don’t we…
Agreeing
To agree with someone’s
suggestion,
you may say:
• I agree with you.
• I like your idea.
• I support your suggestion.
• That’s a good point.
• That’s true.
Disagreeing
To disagree with someone’s suggestion,
you may say:
1. I’m not sure.
2. I don’t think so.
3. I don’t think that’s a good idea
because…
4. I’m afraid that’s not a good idea
because…
5. I’m sorry, I disagree.
6. I’m not sure about that because…
Give an alternative after disagreeing
1. I think it’s better if …
because…
2. I think it’s more …
Developing ideas
What can you do to
develop each other’s
view?
1.By adding details
2.By giving examples
3.By providing
explanation (reasons)
Summing up at the end of a subtopic
1.OK, so we agree that …
2.To sum up, so far we have
decided…
Summing up at the end of the
discussion
1. OK, so to conclude,
we agree that…
2. So, to finally sum up,
we have decided to
…
Press Conferences
If you make three new product
announcements a day, you won’t
remember them next week.
Neither will your customers.
Infinite Possibilities
I can accept finite
disappointment, but I
won’t lose infinite hope.
Speed of Light
Einstein said that nothing was faster
than the speed of light, but he’s wrong.
My imagination is much faster than the
speed of light. For example, I just
imagined traveling to Pluto and back. If
I took a space ship that could travel at
the speed of light, that would take
centuries.
Speed of Light
Also, if Energy equals mass
times the Speed of Light Squared,
this says that the speed of light can
be squared. That’s faster than the
speed of light, and I just imagined
that, too!
Speed of Light
What light? I’m
still looking for
the tunnel!!
Speed of Light
There’s nothing
like experience to
upset a theory.
New Ideas
Our ideas are like
children – no matter how
much you admire
somebody else’s, you
still love your own the
best.
New Ideas
An optimist takes the cold
water thrown on new ideas,
heats it with enthusiasm and
uses the steam to push them
ahead.
Truth
The truth does not
depend on a
consensus of opinion.
Generation Gap
As we grow older, our
children will eventually
end up on the same side
of the generation gap.
Gen Gap
You’ve reached middle age
when all you exercise is
caution. And you choose your
cereal for the fiber instead of
the toy.
Maturity
Maturity begins when you’re
content to feel right about
something without feeling
the need to prove someone
else wrong.
Maturity
Age is a high price to
pay for maturity.
Maturity
Wrinkles should show
where smiles have
been.
Ships
Noah didn’t wait for his ship to
come in. . . . He built it!
ships
A ship in the harbor is safe, but
that’s not what ships are for.
ships
All the water in the world could not
sink a ship unless it got inside. In
the same way, all the evil in the
world could never sink your soul
unless you let it in.
Job well Done
The reward for a job
well done is the
opportunity to do
more work.
Being different
Being different isn’t
the same as making
a difference.
Frustration
Frustration is trying to find your
glasses without your glasses.
Frustration
It’s frustrating when you know all
the answers, but nobody asks
you the questions.
Diet
You are what you eat: what’s on
the table eventually ends up on
the chair.
Diet
How can a one-pound box of
chocolate make me gain five
pounds?
Diet
Eat dessert first, because life is
uncertain!
Diet
Life can be a constant battle between
carrots and chocolate, or you can
figure out how you can live with
the two in harmony.
Diet
My fortune cookie mentioned a
great diet. It read “eat all you
can, but only use one
chopstick.”
Karma
The rain falls on the just and the
unjust. But mostly on the just,
because the unjust have stolen
their umbrellas.
Karma
You feel right when you do right.
Karma
The next time someone says,
“Life is hard,” ask them,
“Compared to what?”
Mind Games
My mind not only wanders,
sometimes it leaves me
completely.
Saving and Retirement
A penny saved is not
nearly enough.
Retirement
According to the latest figures, if
you retired today, you could live
very comfortably until 3 p.m.
tomorrow.
Time Management
There will be no crises next week.
My schedule is full.
Troubles
Troubles come to pass, but the do
not come to stay.
Troubles
Live through the tough times: the
only way to the other side is
through it.
Worries
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of
sorrow; it empties today of
strength.
Memory
I have a photographic memory.
Unfortunately, it only offers sameday service.
Memory
People do not remember days.
They remember moments.
Memory
I have a photogenic memory:
I only remember pretty things.
Memory
It’s hard to be nostalgic when I can’t
remember anything!
Possibilities
Nothing is impossible to the people
who don’t have to do it
themselves.
Yesterday
I love you more than yesterday.
Yesterday, you got on my nerves.
Questions and Answers
You may not know all the answers,
but you probably won’t be asked
all the questions.
Mourning
I’ll laugh again, but I will not forget
why I cried.
World Peace
It doesn’t take monumental acts to
make the world a better place. It
can be as easy as letting someone
ahead of you in the lunch line.
Rock Bottom
Even though I’m taking it
“one day at a time”…
it’s about 24 more hours than
I can take right now.
Rock Bottom
When the going gets tough. . .
Get tougher!
Rock Bottom
The end is not near.
Learn to cope.
Rock Bottom
When things are bad, I can take
comfort in the thought that they
can always get worse. And when
things get worse, I find hope in the
idea that things are so bad they
have to get better.
Co-Dependency
Better to better yourself than
someone else.
Co-Dependency
I’m better than I was, but not quite
so good as I was before I got
worse.
Frowning
I hate to see you frown. So wear a
bag on your head until you cheer
up.
Patience
The patient conceal their
impatience.
Thankfulness
Something to be thankful for is that
you’re here to be thankful.
Destiny
Choice, not chance, determines
destiny.
Destiny
Don’t worry about the world ending
today. It’s already tomorrow in
China.
Risk
Progress involves risk. You can’t
steal second with your foot on
first.
Risk
Life isn’t about having good cards.
It’s playing a poor hand well.
Grace
It’s hard to get down off
your high horse gracefully.
GRACE
Amusing Grace! How sweet the
sound of laughter!
GRACE
Tact is not only saying the right
thing at the right time, but also to
leave unsaid the wrong thing a
tempting moment.
Complaining
It’s not the mountain that wears me
out – it’s the grain of sand in my
shoe.
Complaining
It’s not the load that brings me
down, it’s the way I carry it.
Shouting
Shouting and screaming to get
people to perform is like using the
horn to steer your car.
thinking
Many people get through thinking
before they get through thinking
things through.
Self-Deprecation
Only some people learn by other
people’s mistakes. The rest of us
actually have to be the other
people.
Self Depreciation
I’m at this awkward age where I’m
too old to say something cute and
too young to say something
sensible.
How to be Happy
Three essentials for
happiness:
1. Something to do,
2. Someone to love,
3. Something to hope for.
Advice
If it’s free; it’s advice.
If you pay for it, it’s consulting.
If you can use either one, it’s a
miracle!
Humble
Humility is like underwear –
essential, but indecent if it shows.
Humility
I have a friend who tells me that
he’s a humble man. I told him that
the nature of humility dictates that
can’t say that and have it be true!
Seasonal - December
Presence, not presents, make for a
happy workplace.
Christmas
When you stop believing in
Santa, you get underwear for
Christmas.
December
Remember, the holiday gifts of
today are on Ebay tomorrow.
December
We’re going to celebrate a traditional
American holiday – the tree comes
from Canada, the ornaments from
Taiwan, the lights from China, the
food from Italy and the idea from
Israel and Bethlehem.
Seasonal - January
If in the last year you haven’t
discarded a major opinion or
acquired a new one, check your
pulse. You may be dead.
Seasonal - February
Love sees through a telescope, not a
microscope.
February
The force of love, like the force
of gravity, is hard to see but
easy to feel.
February
All that is worth cherishing in the
world begins in the heart, not in
the head.
What Dead People Say
The greatest danger for most of us
is not that our aim is too high and we miss
it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
E-Commerce
eCommerce is not about technology!
It is about relationships,
partnerships, and
communications, made possible
by technology.
E-Commerce
I guess people thought the phone
and the fax machine were all
about technology when they were
introduced into businesses, too.
What Dead People Say
There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One
can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much
practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
your age, I always did it for half an hour
a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as
many as six impossible things before
breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll