A. Elementary School Impromptu Event Prompts

/ Elem G - Round 1 - 11:15 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Scale

    Whale

    Tissue

  2. Speaker 2


    Park

    Table

    Noise

  3. Speaker 3


    Newspaper

    Brain

    Fan

  4. Speaker 4


    Ostrich

    Pancake

    Chair

  5. Speaker 5


    Ring

    Dress

    Crib

  6. Speaker 6


    Dolphin

    Voice

    Gauva

  7. Speaker 7


    Finger

    Skirt

    Dresser

/ Elem G - Round 2 - 1:15 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Disappointment

    Intelligence

    Lie

  2. Speaker 2


    impression

    Deceit

    Strength

  3. Speaker 3


    humor

    Perseverance

    Crime

  4. Speaker 4


    Unemployment

    loyalty

    Disturbance

  5. Speaker 5


    artistry

    Apprehension

    opportunism

  6. Speaker 6


    sympathy

    Amazement

    Warmth

  7. Speaker 7


    Maturity

    Solitude

    stupidity

/Elim G - Round 3 - 2:15

  1. Speaker 1


    Don’t kill the goose that lays golden eggs.

    Don’t empty the water jar until the rain falls.

    In hardship, we see true friendship. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    If you play with fire, you’ll get burned.

    I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. --Chinese Proverb

    Tenacity and adversity are old foes. --Chinese Proverb

  3. Speaker 3


    The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

    Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow a second time. --Chinese Proverb

    Never test the depth of the water with both feet

  4. Speaker 4


    The longest way around is the shortest way home.

    Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. --Chinese Proverb

    If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

  5. Speaker 5


    Lend your money and lose your friend.

    Money doesn’t grow on trees --na

    All monkeys cannot hang from the same branch. --African Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    Every family has its problems. --Chinese Proverb

    A wise person will always find a way. --African Proverb

    A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea. --Kenyan proverb

  7. Speaker 7


    Fortune favors the bold

    A friend in need is a friend indeed

    Every step makes a footprint. --Chinese Proverb

Elem G Finals - 4:15 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork. --Sharon Gannon

    Learning never exhausts the mind. --Leonardo da Vinci

    "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” --— Ray Bradbury

  2. Speaker 2


    Applause waits on success. --Benjamin Franklin

    It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something. --Billy Graham

    Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. --Warren Buffett

  3. Speaker 3


    There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. --Aeschylus

    Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. --Will Smith

    Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. --Benjamin Franklin

  4. Speaker 4


    Attitudes reflect leadership, captain --Remember the Titans

    America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. --Harry S Truman

    “In every thing one must consider the end.” --— Jean De La Fontaine

  5. Speaker 5


    You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. --Yogi Berra

    Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world. --Aung San Suu Kyi

    Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one --Pocahontas

  6. Speaker 6


    No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. --Abraham Lincoln

    No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. --Andrew Carnegie

    This is the perfect time to panic! --Toy Story

  7. Speaker 7


    I am not a prize to be won --Aladdin

    I don’t think there’s any perfect way to protest. --Megan Rapinoe

    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. --John F. Kennedy