WELCOME TO A NEW EDITION OF OUR ENGLISH COURSE!
We are coming back in style talking about celebrities, success and fame!
In a world where big names are constantly on the spot, let´s discuss what these three concepts mean:
CAN YOU GIVE A DEFINITION FOR THESE WORDS?
CELEBRITIES
SUCCESS
FAME
CONVERSATION QUESTIONS:
Choose those questions that appeal to you most and discuss them with your partner:
- Have you ever seen a celebrity in person? What did you do?
- Who are the celebrities in the news at the moment?
- What does it take to be a celebrity?
- How many celebrity couples can you name?
- Which celebrity would you like to meet? What would you do if you could spend a day with this person?
- Do you think famous people have the right to have a private life?
- Do you think it's moral to sell your private life to the media?
- Do you approve of people who become famous as a consequence of appearing again and again in the media and not because of having an artistic career?
- What are the pros and cons of being a celebrity?
- What do you think of fans and fan-clubs ?
- Did you have any heroes when you were a teenager?
- Why do you think adolescents need to have heroes?
- Do you think being a celebrity automatically means the person is intelligent?
- Which celebrity do you most admire and why ?
- Would you like to be famous ? Why or why not ?
- Do you think there is a relationship between beauty and celebrity ?
- Are famous people happy?
- Should celebrities be role models?
- Do you think that some celebrities earn much more money than they deserve taking into consideration what they produce?
HOT SEAT CELEBRITY TIME!!
CAN YOU GUESS WHO I AM ?
- In teams write a list of 5 famous people.
- Members in your team take turns to describe one of the famous people in your list and the next team tries to guess who is it.
- Use structures:
He/She is a/an .....actor/politician......
He/She is British/Italian/Spanish.....
He/She is famous for........
Big publications like Time or The Economist make annual lists of the most influential people.
Please debate:
Do publications in Spain list influential people?
Do you believe there is an difference between power and influence?
Do celebs have a right to a private life?
Watch this great three- minute TED- Talk about success:
8 SECRETS OF SUCCESS by Richard St. John
