November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013, American comedian, actor, author and artist.
In this slightly surrealistic training video from the 60s, Jonathan Winters demonstrates the 5 resistances in sales to the industrial buyer: ignorance, indifference, inertia, fear (or: indecision), procrastination
He also stars in this sales training video for Mobil Golden Circle – 1966
A sketch by comedian Chris Rock. By the way, it still gets me every time that a man whose mother is white and whose father is black is considered black. How racist is that?
This brilliant sketch by the late Ronnie Barker is an eye-opener – or an ear-opener! – to how we preempt meaning when we listen. I found it on Abiloon’s lovely blog – full transcript there.
I would use this video to raise student awareness for the way we anticipate what the speaker will say next.
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Hat tip to Nik Peachey. A nice little video to introduce reluctant learners to the usefulness of pronunciation practice, isn’t it? I’d ask students to rank the speakers according to whom they’d have most trouble communicating with.
A: Lindsay! Great job in the sales meeting! – Hey, do you have a pad I can borrow?
B: Sure! Here you go!
A: No, you know, the ‘other’ kind of pad.
B: I can’t believe you still use maxipads.
A: I know, I just… I have a narrow cervix, so it’s painful for me to use tampons…
B: No [...]
“Hey, listen, Cathy, why don’t we go up to my place tonight? You know, I’m a marvellous cook.”
“Really? What’s your specialty?”
“______________.”
PS: How embarassing: The name is Dick, not Dean. Thanks, Meg, for setting me straight!
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