Questions for discussion:

1. There are different situations in our lives. Sometimes we have fun. Sometimes everything goes wrong. Which option is more often in your life? Why are you so cheerful? Why are your so serious?
2. What usually makes you laugh? What unusually makes you laugh, how was it last time?
3. Why another person does not take a thing at the same way? What does it depend on?
4. What funny situations have you been to during your whole life? Where were they (work, study, friend’s place/parties, in the street, other places)?

Questions for discussion:

4) Personal Principles
What principles do you follow in your life? Give us examples. Who or what circumstances made you believe in them? Are they really useful? Have you ever revised some of your basic principles? If yes, what were the causes and the effects of those? If not, what if… you did so.
Who are your role-models: parents, historical personalities, people in everyday life, artistic or invented heroes and heroines? How have you chosen them? In what periods of your lives? Have you wanted to change your heroes?

Questions for discussion:

1)Information
Do you have your own system of working with any kind of information? Have you ever thought how data ‘penetrates’ into your brain, stores, is recalled and get outside into external world? How can we improve all these processes?

2)Health
The say ‘Your health is the best wealth.’ Do you agree with this thesis?

Do you sleep enough or not? (Why not?) At the same hours? Do you get up with alarm-clock or without it? Why? How?

Questions for discussion:

1. Does the good system of education exist anywhere in the world or it is ostentatious thing (the thing just ‘for show’)? When was the education born? What do you think about improving of its from those times?
2. Has education really been helping the society to it’s development? Does it help more to society or a definite person of that society? Is there a difference of education in Russia and other countries?

Attention, please! That topic was initially published and discussed 09/25/2009 (1 year passed!!!)
‘OLD’ Questions:

1. Dmitrii Medvedev: Are you satisfied with his external and internal politics? What good points of character does he have to correspond to that position? What weaknesses does he have?

… - EXPERIENCES. THINKING. MODELLING.

YOUR QUESTIONS – NOT THE LEADER’S ONES! Try to be prepared for this topic…

What is your experience in ENGLISH? What are your thoughts about ENGLISH? What people have given you examples of efficient learning and speaking ENGLISH?

NOT only THE LEADER’S ANSWERS, BUT ones OF ALL OF OURS!!!

We are going to investigate all kinds of experiences to be successful in speaking real English!

Questions for discussion:

1. How often do you have not enough time? What spheres of your life are those situations in?
2. In what situations you have time to do a lot and in what situations your have very little time? Give us examples for both variants. What does it depends on?
3. What disturbs you to do things in their time? What helps you do things in their appropriate time?
4. What are reasons for origination ‘time pressure’ situations (psychological, social/personal, educational etc.)?

1. What kind of arts do you prefer? Why do you think they are necessary for people? Are they connected with things you’ve met in your childhood? Have you ever attended special schools of arts or some studios/workshops (at any age)?
2. What are preconditions of being genius in Arts? Is it heredity (things we get from parents) or variability (things we can develop)? What sort of ‘acts’ did your parents do to make you ‘the greatest person of all times and nations’ in any kind of Arts?

Topic 1 - Use Your Mind’s Eye!

1. Let’s check our memories with a list of simple English words.
2. How were we memorizing? (Feedback to 1).
3. What can we use to memorize better? (Discussion in the whole group).
4. 5 reliable principles of memorizing list of words (Mini-lecture, Role-Game).
5. Describing things: an image and an interpretation (Demonstrative exercise).
6. How can we describe different parts of speech (Brainstorming in micro-groups).