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· English Club Topic Direct and Indirect Communication 1. Do you feel that you are a direct communicator or an indirect communicator? Give an example. 2. Who do you feel you can communicate directly with and who do you feel you should communicate indirectly with? 3. In the following situations, is direct communication or indirecommunication more effective? Why? a) Asking a favor b) Breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend c) Telling your teacher you didn’t do your homework d) Firing an employee 4. Have you ever had a bad experience in which someone said something to you too directly? 5. If someone is communicating with you indirectly and you don’t understand the message they are trying to tell you, how do you deal with the situation? 9.15.09 English Club Topic: Friendship1) Come up with a definition for what friendship means in China.2) What are 3 qualities you want in a good friend? What are 3 qualities you don’t want in a friend? Why?3) How and where do people in China make their closest friendships?4) If you move to a new place, what is a good way to make new friends?5) What advice would you give a foreigner about how to develop good friendships with Chinese people?6) If there is a foreign volunteer in your group, ask him/her what advice he/she has about being friends with westerners. .22.09 English Club Topic：Work1) What is your ideal job? (Including: How many hours per week? What kind of benefits? Located in which city?)2) What does it mean to be successful in your work？3) What kinds of situations would cause you to change jobs? 4) How can you maintain good relationships with your co-workers? What qualities do you want in a co-worker?5) If you have a problem with your boss, how can you resolve it? Should you talk to him directly about your problem?6) If a person has a good job opportunity in a city far away from his/her spouse and child, do you think he or she should take the job?.29.09 English Club Topic: Education1. Tell your group about your most enjoyable learning experience of the past. What made it good?2. Describe what qualities you think the ideal teacher must have. What are some qualities you don’t want in a teacher?3. In Chinese society, do teachers have a high status or a low status? Do you think being a teacher is a good job? Why or why not?4. Is it the teacher/school’s theparents’responsibility to teach a child good morals and behavior?5. In your opinion, do men or women make bteacher删除10.06.08 English Club Topic: Holidays1. What is your favorite Chinese holiday? Which Western holiday most interests you?2. Do you think holidays are very significant? What meanings are expressed by such holidays as National Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, Spring Festival and Thanksgiving?3. What is the history of your favorite Chinese holiday? (For example, what’s the history of Dragon Boat Festival?)4. What did you think of the National Day celebration?5. Describe your ideal holiday.
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· 11.03.09 English Club Topic: Cities1. Describe your hometown, and tell your group 3 things you like about your hometown and three things you don’t like about it.2. If you were the mayor of your hometown, what problems would you try to fix? How would you go about fixing those problems? What things would you not want to change?3. How do you feel about Changsha? What challenges do you think Changsha will face in the next 2 years? 10 years? 4. In your mind, what city is the ideal city? Is there a place where you’d like to live for the rest of your life? 11.10.09 English Club Topic: Happiness1. Define happiness. Is it a feeling, a state of being, a decision? Is happiness something that comes and goes with changing circumstances or something you can always have? 2. What things in life and the world make you happy? Why do those things make you happy? What things take away your happiness? 3. Complete the sentence: “I would be completely happy if…”4. Are you the kind of person who actively tries to achieve or obtain the things you think will make you happy or are you more the kind of person who tries to accept your situation as it is and learn to be happy in it? Do you think it’s better to be resigned to your fate or try to change it?11.24.09 English Club Topic: Thanksgiving1. What five things are you most grateful for in your life? Are they tangible things or intangible?2. What person in your life do you feel the most grateful to? Why?3. If someone helps you in a big way, how do you express your gratitude? Do you use words, gifts, treat them to dinner, etc.? 4. If you do something good for someone but they don’t express thankfulness, how do you feel? Should you do something in that situation? Is it right to expect people to be grateful?
