Month: October 2019

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What is your biggest fear for yourself?
(2) What is your biggest fear for the world?
(3) Why do we feel fear?
(4) How often do you feel afraid?
(5) Why do people have different fears?
(6) How do you react to fear?
(7) How would you help someone to get over their fear?
(8) Have you ever panicked with fear?
(9) What happens to you physically and emotionally when fear takes hold of you / overcomes you?
(10) How often do you jump or start when something frightens you?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Do you have any form of phobia or paranoia?
(2) What were you afraid of as a child?
(3) What things are people commonly afraid of and why?
(4) What facial expressions accompany fear?
(5) Do you like putting yourself in situations where you can feel fear?
(6) Are you ever afraid of other people?
(7) Do you think society lives in fear?
(8) “The fear of death is to be dreaded more than death itself.” What do you think about this quotation?
(9) What do you think having a fear of the 21st century would be like?
(10) If you ‘put the fear of God into someone,’ how do you think that person feels?

THE DISCUSSION ON ANGER
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘anger’?
(2) Are you an angry person?
(3) What are you like when you are angry?
(4) What’s the angriest you’ve ever been?
(5) When you get angry, do you stay angry for a long time?
(6) Do you like looking at other people getting angry?
(7) What colour is anger?
(8) What makes you angry about modern life?
(9) Someone once said: “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Do you agree?
(10) Someone once said: “Anger is one letter short of danger.” Do you agree?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Why do we have the emotion of anger?
(2) Is there anything positive about getting angry?
(3) Who is the angriest person you know?
(4) Should anger be a sin?
(5) Why do we get angriest with the ones we love?
(6) Who on Earth angers you most?
(7) What happens when you bottle up your anger?
(8) Is it easy for you to control and hide your anger?
(9) Elizabeth Kenny said: “He who angers you conquers you.” What do you think she means by this? Do you agree?
(10) A Chinese Proverb said: “Never write a letter while you are angry.” Do you think this is good advice? Have you regretted writing an angry letter?

Success and Failure
Success

Describe a successful person.

Is your idea of success the same as your parents’ idea of success?

Do you think people focus too much on appearing to be successful?

Why is money the most common way of judging success?

Can money buy happiness?

How much pressure do your parents put on you to be successful?

How much pressure will you put on your children to be successful?

Failure

Have there been any failures that made your life better?

Is there a right time to give up and stop trying? Or should you never give up?

Can you think of any famous people who failed spectacularly at something?

Talk about a time you failed at something you tried. Don’t talk about anything that will make you uncomfortable or embarrassed.

Can you think of any famous quotes or idioms about success or failure?