Oral Work

1.Group Discussion

1) How do you understand Verne's statement "What one man can imagine, another man can do" ?

2) Give a brief account of what our life would be like in the 22nd century.

3) Give your comment on H. G. Wells’ statement: "For Man there can be no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest of this little planet, its winds and ways and all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time--still he will be but beginning... "

2. Debating

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

●To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. --- Albert Einstein

●Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. --- Albert Einstein

●Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. ---Oscar Wilde

●The view that life is getting worse is fuelled by concern about contemporary social problems: criminality, drug use, labor dispute, ethnic trouble, rising divorce rate and political terrorism, etc.

●The man who has no imagination has no wings. ---Muhammad Ali

●It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ---Henry David Thoreau

●You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus. ---Mark Twain

●Imagination rules the world. ---Napoleon Bonaparte

●Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. ---Jules Verne

●We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. --- J. K. Rowling