Conversation Question: Silly Questions

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A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.

1. What is your favorite way to eat a cockroach?

2. Who fell out of the apple tree?

3. Why did the ghost cry on Halloween Day?

4. Do you enjoy swimming when it is snowing?

5. Why don't you want Christmas presents this year?

6. How did you escape from the alien space ship?

7. How did you feel after watching television for 24 hours?

8. Would you ever wear your mother's dress to your all boys high school?

9. What is a typical day in the life of your dictionary (pet frog, walking shoes, classroom)?

10. Did your parents ever have children?

11. Would you rather kiss a crocodile or a bear?

12. What is on your mouse pad?

13. If you were a color, what would you be? Why?

15 worst celebrities plastic surgery

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15: Tara Reid

Surgery botched: Boob Job and Stomach Lipo

Photographic Evidence:

14: Gary Busey

Surgery botched: Veneers

Photographic Evidence:

13: Lil KimS

urgery botched: Boobs, face work, skin lightened

Photographic Evidence:

before:

After:

12: Janet Jackson

Surgery botched: Breast Implants

Photographic Evidence:

11: Jessica Simpson

Surgery botched: LipsPhotographic Evidence:

saying “I had that Restylane stuff … It looked fake to me. I didn’t like that. But… it went away in, like, four months. My lips are back to what they were. Thank God!”

10: Kenny Rogers

Surgery botched: Facelift

Photographic Evidence:

Rogers is someone else who’s not thrilled about his surgery, telling People:

Last year I had so many lines coming in at the side of my eyes up here. So I went in and got my eyes done, and I’m not happy about it. (The surgeon) is going to go in and fix that for me. They’re too tight around the eyelids for me. It drives me crazy.

9: Tori Spelling

Surgery botched: Breast Implants

Photographic Evidence:

8: Hilary Duff

Surgery botched: Veneers

Photographic Evidence:

7: Victoria Beckham

Surgery botched: Breast Implants

Photographic Evidence:

6: Donatella Versace

Surgery botched: Lips, facelift

Photographic Evidence:

5: Vivica Fox

Surgery botched: Breast Implants

Photographic Evidence:

4: Melanie Griffith

Surgery botched: Face lift and god only knows what else

Photographic Evidence:

This definitely deserves a before shot, just in case you are forgetting how normal Melanie Griffith used to be:

3: Pete Burns

Surgery botched: Lips

Photographic Evidence:

2: Jocelyn Wildenstein

Surgery botched: Everything she has attempted has apparently turned out terribly

Photographic Evidence:


Before:

After:

This woman has spent $4 million on plastic surgery.



1: Michael JacksonSurgery botched: Skin lightening, nose jobs, face lifts, etc. etc. etc.Photographic Evidence:

Conversation Question part 1

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A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.

Note: You can follow up most of these questions with a why or why not or with the question "In what situation(s) would you consider doing so?"

1. Would you ever adopt a child?

2. Would you ever give your child up for adoption?

3. Would you ever cheat on your husband/wife?

4. Would you ever consider being a criminal?

5. Would you ever consider being a farmer?

6. Would you ever consider getting plastic surgery?

7. Would you ever consider going bungee jumping? Would you ever consider going skydiving?

8. Would you ever defy your boss if he/she asked you to do something you didn't agree with?

9. Would you ever donate a kidney or another vital organ?

10. Would you ever donate blood?

11. Would you ever drive a car if you had forgotten your license at home?

12. Would you ever drive at night with only one headlight?

13. Would you ever drive your car with a flat tire?

14. Would you ever eat rat meat?

15. Would you ever eat rice with sugar?

16. Would you ever feed the animals at the zoo?

17. Would you ever get hair implants?

18. Would you ever give money to a charity?

19. Would you ever give money to a panhandler? (a beggar)

20. Would you ever go skinny dipping? (swim naked)

21. Would you ever lie to your children?
... to your husband/wife?
... your boyfriend/girlfriend?

22. Would you ever lie to help a friend?

23. Would you ever marry someone your parents didn't approve of?

24. Would you ever paint your living room black?

25. Would you ever pick up a hitchhiker?

26. Would you ever slap someone for something they said?

27. Would you ever smoke in a no smoking area?

28. Would you ever spank your child?

29. Would you ever steal from your family or friends?

30. Would you ever "take a bullet" for someone else?

31. Would you ever walk downtown without any shoes on your feet?

32. Would you ever walk home alone at night?
... in this country?
... in your own country?

33. Would you eat a live cricket for $500? If not, how much would it take?

34. Would you ever consider killing yourself?

35. Would you ever eat human flesh?

36. Would you ever resort to cannibalism if it were the only option left to stay alive?

37. Would you divorce your husband/wife if your favorite celebrity wanted to marry you?

38. Would you name your children after favorite characters in movies or books? Would you do so if the names were strange, as in science fiction movies or books?

39. Would you ever pull over and help someone on the side of the road?

40. Do you think this could be dangerous to do?

41. Would you ever say yes to someone even if you meant no?

42. Would you ever donate an organ in order to save other person's life?

43. Would you ever consider plastic surgery if a friend suggested it to you?

44. Would you ever consider writing your own book?

45. Would you ever try staying in the jungle for a month?

46. Would you ever consider surrogacy?

47. Would you ever consider being a surrogate mother yourself?

48. Would you ever consider egg or sperm donation?

49. Would you ever pretend to be someone (like a policeman, or a teacher, or a survey taker) just to get something that you wanted?

France is open for Business with Foreign Investors

November 2007

Today, attracting international investors is a top priority for the French government, with foreign direct investment
(FDI) targeted to boost growth and generate jobs. France already offers many attractive benefits, and President
Sarkozy is making the business environment more friendly than ever with new economic reforms. These changes
give France a stronger competitive edge, and are driving closer ties with its principal global investors.

Foreign investment is welcomed freely in France.

Intterrnattiional investors who do business in France benefit from the same advantages as French or European companies, including tax credits and R&D funding.
France openly welcomes foreign investment, with only one exception to this general rule: the French government oversees the authorization of investments linked to 11 sensitive sectors (including 4 defense related and 7 public order and safety activities) defined in the decree of December 2005, which is a clarification of a previous regulation. No refusals have been recorded related to this decree. France’s regulations follow the same type of rules in other OECD countries. In the US, investments that might have national security implications are known to
be carefully scrutinized, and foreign companies looking to acquire an American business must get authorization from the Committee on Foreign Investments. The UK, too, has rules that allow intervention in investment activities deemed to be in conflict with public interest.

International investment is an important growth factor for the French economy.

The French economy is driven by FDI.

France currently ranks 3rd in the world behind the US and the UK, with FDI inflow of $81 billion1. America is the leading foreign investor in France, supporting 550,000 French jobs. Almost $1 billion worth of commercial transactions occur between the US and France every business day.

Foreign investment generates close tto 2 million jobs in France.

Almost 20,000 international investors from all over the world are helping the French economy boom, supplying double the amount of jobs compared to 10 years ago. Some 40,000 new jobs were created in 2006 (+33% over 2005) as a result of foreign projects in France, marking the highest level ever reported by the Invest in France Agency.

Foreign companies are key research partners in France’’s inovative clusters.

Innovative research initiatives being driven in France’s 71 officially labeled clusters are open to foreign companies, who are free to take part in projects that are already underway or initiate new projects. Funding benefits that are available to French or European companies are also available to foreign companies.

French companies are becoming more and more global.

Major foreign acquisitions of French firms are on the rrise.

In 2006, there were 460 deals involving mergers and acquisitions of French companies by foreign firms, totaling over $54 billion2, compared with $45 billion in 2005. Notable deals include:
· Mittal (India) bought the French-Luxembourg steel group Arcelor.
· Retail group AS Watson (Hong Kong) bought the French perfume and cosmetics company Marionnaud.
· Transport and infrastructure firm Abertis (Spain) bought the French highway network Sanef.
1 Source: World Investment Report 2007, UNCTAD
2 Source: Thomson Financial

FRANCE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS WITH FOREIGN INVESTORS
· Fast Retailing (Japan) bought the French clothing brands Princess Tam Tam and Comptoir des Cotonniers.
· Print company Paragon (UK) acquired Lithotech France, making it the largest print provider in France.

International investment funds are buying companies in France.

International investment funds are putting money into France, including:
· Wealth management giant Merrill Lynch (US) bought the French electrical supplies distributor Rexel (ex-PPR).
· Real-estate investment group Starwood Capital (US) purchased the French hotel and luxury retail company Societe du Louvre.
· Private equity firm 3i (UK) bought the French transport operator Keolis.
· Private equity firm BC Partners (UK) bought the French frozen food retailer Picard Surgeles.
The Frrench sttock exchange iis morre iintterrnattiionall tthan any Eurropean marrkett..
Nearly 47% of the capital on the CAC 40, the benchmark index for the French stock exchange, is owned by foreign investors. In April 2007, Euronext (which includes the Paris bourse) joined forces with NYSE to give birth to the world’s largest and most liquid stock-market platform, with average daily trading value totaling some $120 billion and capitalization of listed companies totaling $28,500 billion.

France is a top world business destination of choice.

International companies recognize France as a frriendly business partner.

Paris ranks 2nd after Tokyo among the world’s leading cities for the location of Global 500 company headquarters 3.

Thousands of talented international professionals are working in France.

France is a key country of choice among highly skilled professionals. The French government promotes a new selective immigration process that opens doors to over 300,000 jobs for foreigners in France in a variety of dynamic sectors. Research presents other opportunities, and France greeted 20,000 scientists from around the world in 2006. New regulations are being launched to make it easier than ever for foreign talent to work in France.

To find out more about France’s welcoming business environment for foreign investment,
please visit www.investinfrance.org.
3 Source: Fortune magazine, Global 500 List (2007)

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