Joculeț de comunicare în limba Engleză

Welcome, welcome! Adicătelea, bun venit! Cum de-ai aterizat pe păginuța mea? Ești printre puținii, ceea ce nu poate însemna decât că ești foarte, foarte special 😀

Stai, te rog, nu pleca. Am un cadou pentru tine. De fapt, nu tocmai…

Uite, nu vreau să te amăgesc. O să-ți spun despre ce este vorba.

Îți place limba Engleză? Poate da, poate nu… Dar fie că-ți place sau nu, cu toții ar cam trebui să o știm întrucât limba engleză a devenit (de ceva vreme) o limbă de circulație la nivel global. Și dacă punem la socoteală și filmele science-fiction făcute de Americani, atunci limba engleză este o limbă vorbită chiar și de către extra-tereștrii! Ei bine, atunci, ce te faci dacă dai nas-în-nas cu un alien și te întreabă (în limba engleză, evident) unde este toaleta, iar tu (fiindcă nu știi limba engleză), îi indici o casă-de-pariuri sau Palatul Parlamentului..? Crede-mă, o să iasă foarte, foarte urât. Orice fărâmă de diplomație ar fi spulberată, alienii și-ar consemna că umanii sunt niște ființe țăcănite, și cine-știe unde Doamne iartă-mă s-ar mai ajunge.

Așa că ai face bine să știi limba engleză!

Dar eu vorbesc..?! Eu… recunosc. Nu mai știu să leg două vorbulițe.

Am descoperit limba engleză în primii ani de școală primară. Abia învățasem să citesc în limba română, când am descoperit o carte veche ce aparținuse unchiului meu: Alice’s adventures in Wonderland de Lewis Carroll. Eram atât de fascinată de acea carte și-mi doream atât de mult să aflu ce scrie în ea, încât o buchiseam în fiecare zi, ajutându-mă de dicționarul explicativ din dreapta fiecărei pagini. Mai târziu, când am învățat cum se pronunță cuvintele în limba engleză, am început să învăț singură poezioarele din carte. Dar îmi amintesc și-acum ce amuzați eram noi copiii, în clasa a doua, când ne-au adus primele manuale de limba engleză: citeam cuvintele precum se scriau și ni se păreau extrem de caraghioase.

La vârsta aceea, limba engleză însemna pentru mine Alice, și o îndrăgeam. Era singura materie la care eram bună, fiindcă în rest eram (rață pe) varză.

(Rață pe) varză am rămas în cam toți anii de școală, însă… la vreo 2-3 ani de la terminarea Facultății am descoperit că îmi pierdusem capacitatea de a lega două fraze în limba engleză. Citeam în continuare în limba engleză, însă fiindcă nu mai vorbisem de mult în această limbă, îmi pierdusem abilitatea de a purta o conversație. Nu mai eram nici măcar rață pe varză. Rața probabil fugise după iepurele Alisei. Așa că acum eram doar varză.

Am observat apoi că aceeași problemă o întâmpina și sora mea. Înțelegea fără probleme ce i se spunea (ori ce citea), însă în momentul în care era nevoită să vorbească în cadrul ședințelor de serviciu, cuvintele se legau foarte greu.

Așa că am pus la cale un mic joculeț, care să ne ajute să exersăm comunicarea în limba engleză chiar și atunci când nu avem cu cine exersa.

În primul rând, ajută foarte mult să citim cu voce tare din cărțile în engleză. Și dacă nu știți cum se pronunță un anumit cuvânt, vă poate ajuta un sofware text-to-speech (exista variante gratuite online).

Și-acum, joculețul. Este unul foarte simplu, pe care îl poate crea oricine, dacă credeți că vă poate fi de folos. Practic… sunt câteva liste de întrebări, tăiate în fâșiuțe, rulate și băgate într-o cutiuță.

Am pus în cutiuța mea o mulțime! De la întrebări de auto-cunoaștere până la întrebări-capcană specifice limbii engleze, întrebări care au fost puse la interviuri de angajare, întrebări cu ”iz filosofic” sau amuzante. Cel puțin o treime sunt inventate de mine.

Am selectat întrebări cu care mi-ar plăcea să port o conversație, de exemplu… când aștept la coadă la supermarket să întreb pe doamna casieră: ”Ce credeți că ar face oamenii dacă ar descoperi viață pe alte planete?”.

Glumesc, desigur, însă… există astfel de subiecte care se dau ca probă orală la examen. Prin astfel de exerciții ne exersăm capacitatea de a gândi practic într-o limbă diferită de cea natală, și nu este întotdeauna un lucru simplu (însă nicidecum imposibil!). Deseori gândim mai repede decât putem organiza în propria minte construcțiile specifice limbii respective, iar acest decalaj se observă în bâlbe și exprimări defectuoase. De cele mai multe ori gramatica este pierdută pe drum. Sau, dacă stăm să ne gândim prea mult la folosirea gramaticii corecte, atunci s-ar putea să venim cu un răspuns abia a doua zi după ce-am fost întrebați. Așa că, nu-i bai, prioritizați ce-i important, măcar la început până ce lucrurile încep să meargă mai ușor. Dar aveți grijă să nu vă obișnuiți cu construcții (lexicale sau gramaticale) greșite!

Joculețul poate fi făcut în orice altă limbă doriți să exersați. E fun. Puteți juca cu altcineva, e o ocazie drăguță de a vă cunoaște (și) mai bine.

1. What is your favorite movie?
2. Name a book that you read in school that positively shaped
   you
3. What food do you crave most often?
4. What is your least favorite food?
5. What is your favorite drink?
6. What is your favorite dessert?
7. What’s the hardest part about being a man/woman?
8. If you could master one instrument, what would it be?
9. If you had a tattoo, what & where would it be?
10. What’s your favorite country to visit?
11. What country do you wish to visit?
12. What is your favorite color?
13. What is your least favorite color?
14. If you had one superpower, what would it be?
15. What’s the weirdest word in the English language?
16. What is your favorite flower?
17. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
18. What is your most favorite thing about yourself?
19. Who do you miss most?
20. What is your favorite smell?
21. A sport you wish you could play?
22. Three people alive or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
23. What book have you read again and again?
24. What would be the title of your autobiography?
25. What’s your favorite sound? What’s the most annoying noise?
26. Who is your girl crush?
27. What’s your favorite time of day?
28. What is one thing no one knows about you?
29. What are three things you can’t live without?
30. What’s your biggest fear in life?
31. What’s your secret talent?
32. What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve done in your life?
33. How would you define yourself in three words?
34. What’s inspiring you in life right now?
35. Best piece of advice you’ve received?
36. Best advice you’d give your teenage self?
37. A book that everyone should read?
38. What would you like to be remembered for?
39. What do you love most about your body?
40. If your life were a song, what would the title be?
41. What’s your spirit animal?
42. You are stuck on an island, you can pick one food to eat forever without getting tired of it, what would you eat?
43. A skill you’re working on mastering?
44. Best compliment you’ve ever received?
45. If you made a documentary, what would it be about?
46. Song you can listen to on repeat?
47. If you could switch lives with someone for a day who would it be?
48. What is the best activity when home on a rainy day?
49. What’s your favorite movie of all time?
50. Is there a desert you don’t like?
51. What’s your favorite superhero?
52. One thing you can’t live without?
53. What’s one cause that’s dear to your heart?
54. What’s your favorite thing to wear?
55. What is something you always travel with?
56. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
57. What is the first thing you notice about people?
58. What’s your favorite fruit?
59. What do you consider the best invention so far?
60. What is one thing you still have from your childhood?
61. What is something you can’t do?
62. What is one habit you wish you could break?
63. What makes you laugh no matter what?
64. What always cheers you up when you think about it?
65. What does creativity mean to you?
66. What are your favorite lyrics of all time?
67. What is something you’ve always wanted to try but you’ve been too scared to do?
68. Best advice for your 19 year old self?
69. If you could raid one woman’s closet who would it be?
70. What did you want to do with your life at age 10?
71. If you could start your career all over again, what job would you like to have?
72. What is an important life lesson for someone to learn?
73. What is one goal you are determined to achieve in your lifetime?
74. Would you ever live anywhere besides where you’re living right now?
75. What is something you’re tired of?
76. If you could change one thing in history, what would it be?
77. What is society’s greatest sin?
78. If you could have any question answered to, what would the question be?
79. If you could change 3 things in this world, what would they be?
80. If you could play a character in a movie, what it would be?
81. What makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it?
82. Do you think that aliens exist?
83. What are your most important rules when going on a date?
84. What’s something people don’t worry about but really should?
85. What goal do you think humanity is not focused enough on achieving?
86. What was your most recent lie?
87. What’s something that everyone, absolutely everyone, in the entire world can agree on?
88. If magic was real, what spell would you try to learn first?
89. What languages do you wish you could speak?
90. How do you make yourself sleep when you can’t seem to get to sleep?
91. What about the opposite sex confuses you the most?
92. What habit do you have now that you wish you started much earlier?
93. Who do you feel like you know even though you’ve never met them?
94. What’s the worst thing you’ve eaten out of politeness?
95. What’s the most historic thing that has happened in your lifetime?
96. What scientific discovery would change the course of humanity overnight if it was discovered?
97. If you had to disappear and start a whole new life, what would you want your new life to look like?
98. What do you think could be done to improve the media?
99. What’s the most embarrassing story from your childhood?
100. What’s something that everyone knows is true, but we don’t like to admit it?
101. If you could talk to animals and they would understand you, but you couldn’t understand them, what would you do with that power?
102. What sport could you play the longest in a televised game, without anyone discovering you aren’t a professional athlete?
103. What fictional characters have you had a crush on over the years?
104. If you lived in a virtual reality world of your own creation, what would it look like?
105. What two things are terrible when separate but great when you put them together?
106. What’s legal now, but probably won’t be in 25 years?
107. What’s something that people think makes them look cool, but actually has the opposite effect?
108. What topic could you spend hours talking about?
109. What do a lot of people hope will happen but is just not going to happen?
110. What’s the most physically painful thing you’ve ever experienced?
111. What are some of the most common misconceptions?
112. What job doesn’t exist now but will exist in the future?
113. What were you completely certain of until you found out you were wrong?
114. What do you do to make the world a better place?
115. What’s the best and worst thing about the country you are from?
116. What values are most important to you?
117. What memory of yours feels real but is most likely false?
118. What’s the most amazing place in nature you’ve been?
119. Has anything happened to you for which you had no explanation?
120. If you had a time-machine, what timeline would you chose to visit?
121. If you could change one thing in your past (sth related to your own decisions), what would it be?
122. What saying best represents your way of thinking/living?
123. What makes humans superior?
     How does anyone measure the superiority of a living being /species?
124. In your view, what is the purpose of life?
125. What was your favorite subject in school?
126. If you had to change your name, what would your new name be, and why would you choose that name?
127. What’s a holiday that doesn’t exist but you’d like to create?
128. If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, what would it be?
129. What’s the closest thing to real magic?
130. Could you name 3 fantasies of your childhood?
131. If you were given a one-minute ad slot during the Super Bowl that you couldn’t sell, what would you fill it with? Would you aim to change the world? Annoy a lot of people? Inspire them? Or just use it as a platform to further your own diabolical plans?
132. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday?
133. How would you describe the color yellow to somebody who is blind? How about the other colors?
134. A penguin walks through that door right now wearing a sombrero. What does he say and why is he here?
135. You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have?
136. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
137. There was an airplane crash, and every single person on board suffered injuries, but yet two people escaped without a scratch. How is this possible?
138. What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?
139. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
140. What has a head and a tail but no body?
141. What goes up and never comes down?
142. “simili-simili-bumbambec-hupcinec-pupcinec-momsa-cuec”. Do you know whose line is this?
143. I am five letter word that is under you.
     If you remove my 1st letter, then i am over you.
     If you remove my 1st and 2nd letters than i am all around you.
     Who am i ?
144. If you only had 24 hours to live, how would you spend your day?
145. What do you value more: cognitive intelligence (IQ) or emotional intelligence (EQ)? And which has more value to you: creativity or knowledge?
146. What’s your thought on the Fibonacci sequence? How about the Riemann hypothesis? How would you best describe Mathematics?
147. Can you imagine a world/universe that has total different physical laws than the one we already know?
148. What do you think humans would do if they discovered life on another planet?
149. How would this world change if no one would be able to lie?
150. What is “impossible” to you?
151. Can you imagine 6 impossible things before breakfast? 🙂
152. Do you have any recurring dream?
153. What’s the weirdest dream you ever dreamt at night?
154. What is in your opinion, the best book to movie adaptation?
155. Who would you partner with in a competition like “the Amazing Race”?
156. “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway; because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.”
     What movie does this line belong to?
157. How do you imagine the world 200 years from now? Can you imagine 3 future inventions of the world?

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