Expert Conversation: History and Culture

WARM UP

Let’s read the dialogue. I will be Sam and you will be Alice. After reading it once, we’ll switch roles.

READ

Have you heard of the band ‘Logos’?
I have. The band that incorporates history into their songs! I love them.

I read in a magazine that they’re releasing a song about Japanese history, particularly, the warring states era. How cool is that?
Really? How I wish they were already a band when I was in high school. It would‘ve been easier to study history.

True that. My friend Ron, a history teacher, plays their songs occasionally during his lectures. He says his students love them.
That sounds cool. I hope they make a song about the fall of the Romanovs.

CONVERSATION

Let’s talk. Please answer my questions. You may ask me questions, too.

ANSWER

1. What do you think are man’s greatest achievements and worst failures?
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2. What are the most important events in your country’s history?
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3. Some people say that history repeats itself. Do you agree or disagree?
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4. What historical event would you like to turn into a movie? Do you think it’s important for the movie to be historically accurate?
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5. If you have the power to turn back time, what part of history would you like to change? Why?
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6. Which aspect your culture are you most proud of?
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7. Is there anything about your culture that you would like to change? Why?
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8. What is considered rude in your culture?
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9. What culture besides your own do you admire and why?
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10. Which aspects of your culture were highly influence by foreign ones?
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