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Quiz: Breaking the ice
1. You decide to attend an international conference. You have never attended such an
event before. What is your main reason for attending?
Choose one option.
a. I’m going to attend lots of presentations so I can keep up-to-date
with developments in my industry.
b. I’m hoping to meet lots of interesting people –maybe some of
them will be useful for my future career.
c. I have a target of twenty people that I want to meet, so I can persuade them to buy our
products.
2. On the first evening, you attend a ‘welcome party’. You arrive in a large hall filled
with about 500 people. They all seem to be talking to each other in groups. There’s
nobody that you recognise.What do you do?
a. Go up to one of the groups, introduce yourself and ask if you can
join them.
b. Go up to one of the groups and listen to the conversation. Maybe
you can join in later.
c. Find where the food is being served and try to start a conversation with someone in the
queue.
d. Walk around the hall, pretending to be looking for someone. Avoid
eye contact with other people.
e. Turn around and go home.
3. At the conference party, which of these problems would be worse for
you?
a. No-one wants to talk to you.
b. A really boring person wants to talk to you … and you can’t escape from him/her.
4. Where is the best place to stand if you want people to talk to you?
a. In the middle of the hall.
b. By the wall.
c. Outside.
d. By the buffet / bar.
5. Which topics of conversation could you use to break the ice with someone?
a. How much you hate parties like this.
b. The conference.
c. Your work.
d. Sport.
e. The weather.
f. Politics.
g. How bad the food is.
h. Where you’re from.
READING
1)
Read the texts and find which questions of the quiz are discussed in them.
2)
Go through the quiz again and discuss which part of the text mentioned and what it
said about them.
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