- a world leader
- a boxer
- a dentist
- a clown
- a writer
- an English teacher
- a sports star
- a singer
2.2 NAMES DISCUSSION: Here are some questions you can try asking yourself before you come to our discussion on Wednesday:
a) What did you think when you read the headline?
b) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘name’?
c) What do you think of your name?
d) If you changed your name, what would you change it to?
e) Do you know anyone with a strange name?
f) What names do you really dislike (and why)?
g) What do you think of the names on the list in the article?
h) Why do you think parents give children these bizarre names?
i) What problems do you think people have in life with a bizarre name?
j) Why did your parents choose the name they gave you?
k) What would you name your son or daughter?
l) What do you think of double-barreled names?
m) Would you name your child after your favourite movie / sports / pop star?
n) Do you fit the personality associated with your name?
o) What’s the coolest name in the world?
p) Which countries have the best sounding names?
q) What’s unusual about the married couple at the end of the article?
PREPARING A DISCUSSION IS FUNDAMENTAL:
THIS MUST BE DONE IN TWO DIRECTIONS:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SECONDLY, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE THE TOPIC BY LOOKING UP INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
THIS WAY YOU WILL FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT.
FINAL TASK:
HERE IS ONE FINAL TASK THAT YOU MAY DO IN ORDER TO COVER THE FOUR SKILLS YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON WHEN LEARNING A LANGUAGE: LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING AND WRITING.
- 'You don´t like or dislike the name, you like or dislike the person behind the name.' Express your opinion.
Names maybe are important but not decisive. Of course, if you have a funny name you probably have got much chance to suffer from your friend’s jokes but at the end your personality is more important. If you can withstand your unhappy name, it will become in your brand.
ReplyDeleteNames are usually subjected to fashion, so, names before were well appreciated nowadays are considered as bizarre. Family are other important influence in names and many times parents want to keep theirs giving them to their sons through generations.
Sometimes, we dislike a name just because the person who has it cannot be stood by you which proves people are stronger than names.
Despite my opinion I would not have liked at all to have been named Eustaquio, Segismundo or something like this.