EDUCATION (unit 2 )
-Education is learning what you didn’t
even know you didn’t know
-Education is what survives when what
has been learnt is forgotten
-School plays a far more important role
than family in shaping one’s personality
-More and more parents around the world
prefer to have their children educated at
home rather than at school
-Experience is the best teacher
-With the emergence of the technological
age it has become increasingly difficult to
be a knowledgeable person : there is too
much information to know something
about everything
-Pleasures and obstacles in learning a
foreign language
-Too often we give children answers to
remember rather than problems to solve
-Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of a fire
-You can lead a horse to water but you
can’t make it drink
ADVERTISING (unit 4)
-Advertising promotes excessive
consumerism
ENVIRONMENT ( unit 7 )
-Protecting the environment is the most
important problem facing the world today
-Cars are the greatest danger to human
life today
-The world is heading for self destruction
-Tourism may have positive effects
RULES, LAWS ( unit 5 )
RELATIONSHIPS ( unit 1 )
-Families who discuss their problems are
happy families
-Marriage is outdated in the 21st century
-The young will always admire and
contest the old
-Trying to do the best for their children,
parents often turn them into selfish
creatures, poorly equipped for a life on
their own
-Familiarity breeds contempt
-Advantages and disadvantages of having
children
-We should help the elderly
-Good fences make good neighbours
-Absence makes the heart grow fonder
CINEMA, TV, ART, MASS MEDIA
( unit 3 )
-Reality shows should be banned
-Art is much less important than life; but
what a poor life without it !
-Mass-media and their effect on moral
standards
-Television is making literature
increasingly irrelevant in the modern
world
-The public has the right to know about
the private lives of public figures
FUTURE
-Life will be better in the future
-By promoting tradition we prevent
progress
-The development of technology and
mass media has given young people today
a far greater awareness than their parents
-Genetic science has gone too far
-Human cloning is good for all of us
-Travelling in time – advantages and
disadvantages of a time machine
SUCCESS, JOBS
-Good fences make good neighbours -It is possible to fail in many ways but
-Prevention is better than cure you can only succeed in one way
-There are laws that people should never -Work is more fun than fun
break -What would you find rewarding in a job?
-What laws would you adopt if you were -A part time job is the best option for
a politician ? someone who is a working parent
-Think of an experience that made you
feel guilty
-Liberty means responsibility
-Greater freedom does not necessarily
lead to greater happiness
-Censorship is a reality in most countries
-People resent having their liberty
restricted
-Democracy is a world which grumbles
meaninglessly in empty bellies
-There can be no freedom without
discipline
SPORTS
-Playing a game is fun only if you win