A. Elementary School Impromptu Event Prompts
/ Elem G - Round 1 - 11:15 a.m.
Speaker 1
Scale
Whale
Tissue
Speaker 2
Park
Table
Noise
Speaker 3
Newspaper
Brain
Fan
Speaker 4
Ostrich
Pancake
Chair
Speaker 5
Ring
Dress
Crib
Speaker 6
Dolphin
Voice
Gauva
Speaker 7
Finger
Skirt
Dresser
/ Elem G - Round 2 - 1:15 p.m.
Speaker 1
Disappointment
Intelligence
Lie
Speaker 2
impression
Deceit
Strength
Speaker 3
humor
Perseverance
Crime
Speaker 4
Unemployment
loyalty
Disturbance
Speaker 5
artistry
Apprehension
opportunism
Speaker 6
sympathy
Amazement
Warmth
Speaker 7
Maturity
Solitude
stupidity
/Elim G - Round 3 - 2:15
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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