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[Blingcosa]

Callan (English Method) questions are usually pretty stupid, but I'm bored and thought you might have fun answering these. (Yes, I'm bored)

1. Which place in the world do you think is most like heaven and which place is most like hell?
2. What do you think is the most interesting job and why?
3. Who is the strangest person you know?
4. Where did you go for your holidays last year?
5. Who do you think was the greatest man who ever lived?
6. What ought one to do if one wanted to earn a lot of money?
7. Which subject interests you the most?
8. What do people do in the evenings besides watching television?
9. Tell me a historical fact
10. Give me a sentence with the word 'even' in it

[Phil_K]

1. Which place in the world do you think is most like heaven and which place is most like hell?

Paris & Mexico City respectively

2. What do you think is the most interesting job and why?

Entrepreneur. Not working for someone else's benefit.

3. Who is the strangest person you know?

Me

4. Where did you go for your holidays last year?

England & France

5. Who do you think was the greatest man who ever lived?

Me

6. What ought one to do if one wanted to earn a lot of money?

Work smart, not hard. And learn good English; it's "What ought one do..."

7. Which subject interests you the most?

Travel

8. What do people do in the evenings besides watching television?

I don't know, but they should educate themselves

9. Tell me a historical fact

10% of all the people that have ever lived are still living now

10. Give me a sentence with the word 'even' in it

Pierre Even (born 1946) is a Luxembourgian composer

[johnslat]

Dear Phil_K,

"6. What ought one to do if one wanted to earn a lot of money?

Work smart, not hard. And learn good English; it's "What ought one do..."

I agree - proper grammar is important:

"In practice, most speakers tend to prefer should for negatives and questions because the ought to and oughtn't ... to forms can sound rather clumsy and awkward.

Ought you to be doing that?
They oughtn't to (ought not to) do that.
Oughtn't we to leave now?"

http://www.waylink-english.co.uk/?page=31320


Regards,
John

[Blingcosa]

[Phil_K]

[jpvanderwerf2001]

Bored too.

1. Which place in the world do you think is most like heaven and which place is most like hell?
Heaven = Anyplace that I don't have to work
Hell = Any Russian administration office
2. What do you think is the most interesting job and why?
Sports Illustration swimsuit issue photographer.
3. Who is the strangest person you know?
That one guy down the hall who collects bent bottle caps.
4. Where did you go for your holidays last year?
US of A (MN and Seattle)
5. Who do you think was the greatest man who ever lived?
Carrot Top
6. What ought one to do if one wanted to earn a lot of money?
"Ought one to do..." sounds very wrong. To answer the question: Play a sport really, really well.
7. Which subject interests you the most?
Geography. Should've been a geography teacher, in retrospect. English comes a close second, though.
8. What do people do in the evenings besides watching television?
This is a bit of a broad question, no?
9. Tell me a historical fact
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Voltaire said that. Fact.
10. Give me a sentence with the word 'even' in it
Two is an 'even' number.

[Sashadroogie]

The Callan method. Good for training learners to watch the grass grow...