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Conversation Questions on Tears

1)

What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘tears’?

2)

Are tears different for men and women?

3)

What are the functions of tears?

4)

Have you ever burst into tears in public?

5)

When do tears well up in your eyes?

6)

Have you ever had tears of laughter and tears of joy?

7)

What childhood activities always ended in tears?

8)

When was the last time you bit your lip and fought back the tears?

9)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery said: "It is such a secret place, the land of tears." Do you agree?

10)

Someone once said: "Tears are words the heart can't express." Do you agree?

1)

When was the last time you cried?

2)

Do you like children’s tears?

3)

Are there different kinds of tears?

4)

Have you ever run out of tears?

5)

Can you easily hold back your tears?

6)

What images, situations or people can always reduce you to tears?

7)

Have you ever been bored to tears? Is this the beginning of being bored silly, then bored senseless, then being bored to death?

8)

Has a book or movie ever moved you to tears?

9)

Someone once said: "A woman wears her tears like jewelry." What does this mean? Do you agree with?

10)

Someone once said: "Our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again." Do you agree?