B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 / Pattern F Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Shorts
    Clock
    Sari

  2. Speaker 2


    Sandwich
    Museum
    Watermelon

  3. Speaker 3


    Mall
    Architect
    Desk

  4. Speaker 4


    Smile
    Garlic
    Goat

  5. Speaker 5


    Violin
    Composer
    Microscope

  6. Speaker 6


    Plane
    Kangaroo
    Temple

  7. Speaker 7


    Finger
    Nurse
    Chest

Round 2 / Pattern F Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Union
    Peculiarity
    Uncertainty

  2. Speaker 2


    Strength
    idiosyncrasy
    Thrill

  3. Speaker 3


    jealousy
    Pleasure
    Comfort

  4. Speaker 4


    Awe
    calmness
    Trend

  5. Speaker 5


    Inflation
    Relief
    Infancy

  6. Speaker 6


    Surprise
    Hope
    helplessness

  7. Speaker 7


    Anxiety
    Communication
    Luck

Round 3 / Pattern G Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Good swimmers are often drowned.
    If you play with fire, you’ll get burned.
    Silence is half consent.

  2. Speaker 2


    Wind isn't always favorable; soldiers aren't always victorious. --Chinese Proverb
    Laughter is the best medicine
    Slow and steady wins the race.

  3. Speaker 3


    Do everything at the right time, and one day will seem like three. --Chinese Proverb
    He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth. --Chinese Proverb
    He who runs after good fortune runs away from peace. --African proverb

  4. Speaker 4


    Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
    Better late than never.
    Failure is the mother of success. --Chinese Proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
    The squeaky wheel gets the grease
    If you snooze, you lose.

  6. Speaker 6


    It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing. --Chinese Proverb
    Don’t throw the baby with the bathwater.
    Doctors make the worst patients.

  7. Speaker 7


    If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? --African Proverb
    A little impatience will spoil great plans. --Chinese Proverb
    A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. --Irish proverb

Finals

  1. Speaker 1


    The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. --Aristotle
    “It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.” --— Frank Zappa
    What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. --Andy Warhol

  2. Speaker 2


    “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” --— Napoléon Bonapart
    Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
    “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” --— William J. H. Boetcker

  3. Speaker 3


    He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. --Benjamin Franklin
    Keep your face always toward the sunshine --and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
    Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. --Arthur Conan Doyle

  4. Speaker 4


    Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.
    You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
    Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. --Dennis Covington

  5. Speaker 5


    Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this. --Celine Dion
    "And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.” --— William J.H. Boetcker
    Friendship is essentially a partnership. --Aristotle

  6. Speaker 6


    “Exhausting someone in argument isn’t the same as convincing them.” --— Tim Kreider
    Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
    It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

  7. Speaker 7


    "Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” --— Peter Bilak
    Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. --Ann Landers
    Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. --Jack Welch