2. Вопросы для самоконтроля

2.1. Appearance and character

1. Do you have a family?

2. How big is your family?

3. Would you like to have a bigger family? Why?

4. Do you have any uncles / aunts / cousins / nieces / nephews?

5. Describe a member of your family. Say a few words about his / her appearance and character.

6. Who do you take after?

7. What features of a person’s appearance do you find attractive? Why?

8. The company of what people do you prefer? Why?

9. What kind of people do you not like to deal with? Why?

10. Describe your friend. How long have you known each other? When and where did you meet?

11. Do you have much in common with your friend?

12. Do you think an attractive appearance helps in life? Give reasons.

13. In what way do you think your character has changed over the last two years since you became a student?

14. What features are important for your future job?

15. Comment on the proverb ‘Appearances are deceptive’.

2.2. Occupation

1. What do your parents do?

2. What is your future job?

3. Was it easy for you to choose the job? Who helped you?

4. Do you know much about your future job? Where do you learn about it from?

5. Where would you like to work?

6. What is the best thing about your job?

7. What is the worst?

8. Can you name three professions that get the highest salaries and three professions that get the lowest salaries in our country? Do you think it is fair?

9. At what age do people normally retire in our country? Do you think it’s early, late or about right?

10. What do you need to do to find a good job?

11. Is good education the most important thing? Do you think you get a good education in our university?

12. What information should a good CV contain?

13. What is more important for you in the job: money or moral satisfaction?

14. What features are important for your future job?

15. For what reasons can people be sacked from the company?

2.3. Accommodation

1. Do you live in a house or a flat? Where is it? What conveniences does it have?

2. Do you have your own room?

3. Describe it.

4. Does it belong to your family or do you rent it?

5. What do you like and what do you not like about the place where you live?

6. What would you like to change or improve?

7. What does ‘home’ mean to you?

8. What or who in your opinion makes home cosy?

2.4. City. Town. Countryside

1. Do you live in a village or a city? Where is it?

2. How would your describe it: modern or ancient, tourist or industrial, capital or provincial?

3. What do you know about the history of your native city / village?

4. What is it famous for?

5. What places would you advise a stranger to visit in your city?

6. What is your favourite place in it? Why?

7. Would you like to stay in your city / village all your life? Give reasons.

8. What do you like and what do you not like about your city?

9. What would you like to change or improve?

10. What are the main problems of your city?

11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city?

12. Have you ever been to a small village? What were your impressions?

13. What is the typical attitude of Russian people to the countryside? What about the British?

14. Do you agree that people living in the country are friendlier? Give reasons.

15. How can you characterize the ecological situation in most big cities of the world?

2.5. Meals. Eating out

1. How many meals a day do you usually have?

2. When and where do you have meals?

3. What do you usually have for breakfast?

4. What are the usual British meals?

5. Do you often eat out? When did you last go to a restaurant or a café? What did you order?

6. On what occasions do people usually go to the restaurant?

7. Do you agree that people abroad eat out more often than people of your country? If yes, why?

8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating out?

9. What do you think about the food you eat? Is it healthy? Is it enough? What do you think is not enough?

10. What is your favourite dish? Can you cook it? Describe the procedure of cooking the dish?

11. Do you think that men are better cooks than women? Give reasons.

12. What advice do doctors usually give people about their diet?

13. What does a healthy way of life involve?

14. Have you or some of the people you know ever been on a diet? What for?

15. What table manners do you find acceptable, completely unacceptable, rude?