Welcome to "Conversation 101", the jumping-off point for Beyond Curricula! This was DEFINITELY the most difficult page to assemble. What we've tried to build here is a one-page study (combined with Kenny G's "Auld Lang Syne: The Millenium Mix") that would increase your conversant knowledge and whet your appetite to continue. If, however, this is as far as you get, you should find yourself well on the way to building better conversation skills.
Before you work through this page, please read this (click here) and watch our Kenny G music video (or it can be watched in a larger size on our Home page). After you've watched the video, click here to read its lyrics (or read them from the Home page). Then you'll be ready to come back to this page and start your study.
Here's a website that you might find helpful and interesting. Not essential for Conversation 101, but they offer a fresh approach to the study of history. www.pophistorydig.com
Essential Phrases & Quotes
Somewhere over the rainbow. Follow the yellow brick road. There's no place like home. We're not in Kansas anymore. Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my! The Wizard of Oz
I shall return. General Douglas MacArthur
With malice towards none, with charity for all. Abraham Lincoln
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare
I'm not a crook. Richard Nixon
United we stand, divided we fall. Patrick Henry
All for one, and one for all. The Three Musketeers
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's no business like show business. Irving Berlin
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. JFK
Ask not what your country can do fo you. Ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
I have a dream . . . Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read my lips! George Bush
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
