What You Can Do To Encourage Oral [Or Written!] Tradition With Your Friends And Family (adapted from a handout from a presentation by classmates in Anthropological Linguistics, 29 March, 1994.) Describe your first experience living away from home. Describe something that happened to you while you were riding a bicycle. Tell about a famous person you have met. Recall a time when you got into trouble. Describe an incident at a movie theatre. What is one kind of art that particularly intrigues you, and why does it? Tell about something you did that was out of character. Describe how you and/or your family have been affected by war. Tell about an incident that had something to do with water. Describe something that your parents did or do for fun. Describe a fad from the decade you were born. Tell about a time when someone held your hand. Tell about an incident when you couldn’t stop laughing. What is an experience you consider close to a miracle? Describe your first boyfriend or girlfriend. Tell about a move you made from one place to another. Describe living on or visiting a farm or ranch. If you had a huge amount of money to give away, to whom would you give it? Why?