Advanced Salon Preparation Sheet
Advanced Salon List:
1. Prentation Skills.
2. Putting a Good Spin on It.
3. What’s your Viewpoint?
4. How to build an Argument Pyramid.
5. The Words of the Famous.
6. Working Backwards.
7. Travel Planning.
8. A Mad Discussion.
9. Change the Topic
10. At the Movies
11. The Outdoor Life.
12. Ranking and Stating Values.
13. Trying to be Polite.
14. Perplexing Problems.
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15. All in the Family
16. Money
17. Trouble-shooter.
18. The Wall
19. Dead Letter Office
20. The Dictionary Game.
21. Interrupting, Commenting and Resuming
22. When There’s Not Enough.
23. Aims in Life.
24. Prenting Your Country.
25. The Interview Panel.
六年级必读课外书26. Zen and the Art of Paper Folding.
27. A Question of Morals.
28. Food and Drink Fit for a King.
结婚祝贺词
29. Smalltalk and Party Chat.
30. Feeble Excus.
31. Anger is Heat
32. Promoting Tourism.
33. Phrasal Verbs.
34. Pop Quiz. You’d better be quick!
35. Let’s Go: China
36. Law and Order
Salon 1
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Summary: This lesson is designed to introduce the student to the art of public oration. Although an art which even most native speakers will never master, the lesson examines techniques, skills and hands on practice to improve the students’ abilities at persuasive speech.
Review the vocabulary:
orator,
Have you ever given a prentation? Was it good?
Brainstorm some techniques to ensure that a prentation you will give will be a success.
Are you good with body language when you speak?
If you won an award for your work or your studies and had to give a speech, who would you thank and why?
Who is the greatest orator you have ever heard?
Salon 2
Review the vocabulary (the are words and euphemisms):
accident, crisis, disaster incident
addict; addiction substance abur; substance abu, chemical dependency
adulterous extramarital
arrest (v) apprehend
beggar panhandler, homeless person
bombing air support
break-in curity breach
brothel massage parlor
cheap frugal, thrifty, economical
coffin casket
complaint form respon form
confinement detention
criminal (adj.) illegal
事假请假条怎么写criminal (young) juvenile delinquent
脸上为什么长斑crippled disabled, physically challenged
custodian building maintenance staff
dead departed, decead, late, lost, gone, pasd
death insurance life insurance
death penalty capital punishment
death demi, end, destination, better world, afterlife
deaths body count
die pass away, pass on, expire, go to heaven
drug addict substance abur
drugs illegal substances
drunk (adj.) intoxicated, inebriated, tipsy
exploit (land) develop
fail fizzle out, fall short, go out of business
fal (adj.) prosthesis
fal teeth dentures
fat overweight, chubby, portly, stout, plump
fire (v) lay off, relea, downsize, let go, streamline, rightsize
garbage collector sanitation person
garbage dump landfill
genocide ethnic cleansing
hyperactive Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
illegal worker undocumented worker
imprisoned incarcerated
informer confidential source
jail cure facility
Think about the following:
The above are words and common euphemisms ud. Can you think of some more? Make a list of 15 more words and their euphemisms. Bring the to the Salon class for discussion.
Salon 3
Review the vocabulary
Optimistic, pessimistic, positive / negative attitude, depresd, enthusiastic, ambivalent, s
思维碰撞
ingle minded, easily led, decisive, unsure, hesitant, reluctant, convinced, doubtful, middle of the road,
Think about the following:
Does experience change attitudes or vice versa?
Do people with different attitudes experience things differently?
平凡的梦想If you want to change the way you feel about something, is this possible or are our feelings uncontrollable?
Which things change our attitudes most in our lives?
Salon 4
Review vocabulary for polite interruptions and changing the direction of a conversation.
Find out about the following:
The Pyramids
Pyramid lling.
Salon 5
Review the vocabulary:
Philosophical, life guiding, whimsical, accomplished, solitude, ingenuity,
Think about the following and try to put the meaning into your own words:
The world belongs to optimists, pessimists are only spectators.
Nothing can be accomplished without solitude. [Picasso]
I don’t want to be a pasnger in my own life.
Even though the sparrow is small, it has all the vital parts. [Chine, Traditional]
An imaginary life is a necessity [John Ruskin]
He who gives quickly gives twice [Augustus Caesar]
There’s truth in wine. [Roman, Traditional]
Opportunities are usually disguid as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Kill a chicken to scare the monkey. [Chine, Traditional]
Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work. [Aristotle]
