Personal+introduction

**Guiding Questions and Tasks**

 * What general conversation topics can you see on the page? Select from the following: youth and old age, job interview, male and female roles.
 * Do you identify with any of the pictures?


 * Choose one picture to describe. Follow the development: **general** (for ex., //This picture shows a job interview scene.->//**specific** (__factual information__, such as age, gender, appearance, activities etc and __inferences__, i.e. what you can guess from the way the visual information is presented, for example //The young woman at the left is shaking hands with the interviewer. She has just entered the interview room or maybe just finished the interview.// )-> **general** (for example, //I think having a positive attitude during an interview is important because...)// or **personalised/ general** (for example, //I have never participated in a job interview but I think it needs a lot of prior preparation in order to be successful//.**)**
 * Choose two pictures to compare and contrast. You may want to refer to kinds of situations in your own life the pictures remind you of, describe your relationship with people more aged than you (family, friends etc) starting from the pictures, etc.


 * [[image:http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/portrait.jpg width="300" height="223" link="http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/3332"]][[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_63mueftmr-E/SxFsey0toyI/AAAAAAAAAMY/jcCGsVsAc1E/s1600/justin.jpg width="350" height="227" link="http://dailymusicreviews.blogspot.com/2009/11/random_28.html"]] || **In order to talk about yourself you may also choose from the following questions:**
 * What do you like very much?
 * What do you hate or dislike?
 * Have you developed a very special skill?
 * What is your lifestyle?
 * What is your hobby or interest in your spare time?
 * What is a very familiar topic you like to talk about, to do or to discuss? ||
 * [[image:http://image.wistatutor.com/content/feed/tvcs/career-woman-on-interview.jpg width="545" height="285" caption="Job Interview"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**
 * [[image:http://image.wistatutor.com/content/feed/tvcs/career-woman-on-interview.jpg width="545" height="285" caption="Job Interview"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**
 * [[image:http://image.wistatutor.com/content/feed/tvcs/career-woman-on-interview.jpg width="545" height="285" caption="Job Interview"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**

[|Job Interview Questions] ||
 * [[image:http://cubeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/exposure-exhibition-photographs-tierney-gearon1.jpg width="554" height="366" link="http://cubeme.com/blog/2009/01/19/exposure-exhibition-photographs-by-tierney-gearon/"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**
 * [[image:http://cubeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/exposure-exhibition-photographs-tierney-gearon1.jpg width="554" height="366" link="http://cubeme.com/blog/2009/01/19/exposure-exhibition-photographs-by-tierney-gearon/"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**

How do you feel about your parents growing older? What is your ideal old age to live to? Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain) ||
 * [[image:http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7704/165n.jpg width="320" height="487" link="http://www.downarchive.com/ebooks/219544-youth-prolonged-old-age-postponed.html"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**
 * [[image:http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7704/165n.jpg width="320" height="487" link="http://www.downarchive.com/ebooks/219544-youth-prolonged-old-age-postponed.html"]] || **Possible discussion/speaking topics**

1. What exactly is human aging? Can it be slowed down? 2. Are there many things that the old can teach the young or are they hopelessly out of touch by the time they reach a certain age?
 * What things were you taught by your older family members?
 * How have they been useful to you in your life? ||