- •Let’s talk about family.
- •Let’s talk about your family. What is family for you?
- •Are there any things that you do with your parents together?
- •What will you ask your British friend about his family?
- •What can you advise people who want to have a close and happy family?
- •Nowadays an average family has one child. From your point of view, how many children should there be in a family?
- •Let’s talk about family traditions.
- •Let’s talk about family traditions. Why is it important to have family traditions?
- •Are you on good terms with your parents and grandparents?
- •What will you ask a British teenager about his relatives?
- •What can you advise people who want to have a good relationship with their parents and grandparents?
- •They say that parents and children have difficulties understanding each other because of the generation gap. What do you think about this problem?
- •Let’s talk about friendship and relationship with friends.
- •Let’s talk about friendship. What role do friends play in your life?
- •Do you agree that Belarusian secondary school provides a person with good knowledge? Why (not)?
- •Ask me whether I liked school when I was a pupil.
- •What can you advise a student who is not very good at languages to do to achieve better results?
- •Today some young people think that having a good education is not very important. Do you agree with them?
- •Let’s talk about studying at school.
- •Let’s talk about studying at school. What can you tell me about the place where you study?
- •Do you agree that our school gives a person a good start in life? Why (not)?
- •Ask me what kind of pupil I was when I was at school?
- •You are talking with a British student. What would you advise him to do to prepare for an exam well?
- •Today some young people want to study abroad because they believe that the level of education is higher there. Would you do the same?
- •7. School Traditions.
- •Let’s talk about school traditions. What traditions does your school have?
- •Does your school differ from any other school you know?
- •3. Ask your British friend about his school traditions.
- •4. Which school club would you advise your classmate to join?
- •5. Do you think it is easy to organize a good school party? What problems can you face?
- •Let’s talk about choosing a career.
- •Let’s talk about choosing a career. What would you like to become?
- •Does a person need to possess special qualities to become a good specialist in this or that particular field? Why?
- •What questions will you ask your future employer about your future job?
- •Give me some advice on what I need to think about when choosing a job.
- •Some people think that it is necessary to have a good command of a foreign language to get a good job. Do you agree with this?
- •Let’s talk about life in the city and life in the country.
- •Let’s talk about life in the city and life in the country. Describe your place.
- •Do you find your city/town/village a comfortable place for living?
- •What questions will you ask a person who decided to move to the country?
- •Your friend doesn’t know what to choose: to live in a city or in the country. Give him some advice.
- •They say that living in the country is better than living in a city. What do you think about this?
- •Let’s talk about different types of houses.
- •Let’s talk about different types of houses. Tell me about the house/flat you live in.
- •Do you know any recipes of our national dishes?
- •What questions will you ask a friend about his favourite dish?
- •Which national dishes can you recommend a tourist to taste in Belarus?
- •Let’s talk about the national cuisine of an English-speaking country.
- •Let’s talk about British national cuisine. What can you tell me about eating habits in Britain?
- •Do you know any traditional British dishes ?
- •What questions can you ask a British friend about their national cuisine?
- •Your British friend can’t stop eating fast food. Try to persuade him that is unhealthy.
- •Does British cuisine differ from Belarusian cuisine?
- •Let’s talk about shopping.
- •Let’s talk about shopping. Who does the shopping in your family?
- •Do you like shopping? Why (not)?
- •What questions will you ask your friend who has bought an expensive telephone?
- •What can you advise a person who wants to buy many things (clothes, foodstuffs, etc.) but has little time?
- •5.Parents usually give pocket money to their children. How do you usually spend your pocket money?
- •Let’s talk about leisure time.
- •Let’s talk about leisure time. What do you do in your free time?
- •Let’s talk about customs and traditions of Belarus.
- •Let’s talk about customs and traditions of Belarus. What can you tell me about your favourite holiday in Belarus?
- •Are you proud of our national holidays and traditions?
- •Do you find some British holidays and celebrations special? Why (not)?
- •What questions can you ask a British teenager about his birthday celebration?
- •What British festivals would you advise your friend to visit?
- •Nowadays more and more people are getting interested in customs and traditions of different countries. What do you think about it?
- •Let’s talk about modern means of communication.
- •Let’s talk about modern means of communication. What are they?
- •Is there any means of communication you can’t live without? Why (not)?
- •Let’s talk about sport.
- •Let’s talk about sport. What is your favourite kind of sport?
- •What do you do to keep fit?
- •What questions will you ask a professional sportsman?
- •Are there any sports clubs at the lyceum? Which of them will you advise your friend to join?
- •Some pupils try to skip pe lessons thinking they are of less importance than other school subjects. What do you think about it?
- •Let’s talk about fashion.
- •Let’s talk about fashion. What clothes do you prefer to wear in different situations?
- •Do you prefer fashionable clothes to comfortable ones? Why (not)?
- •What questions would you ask a fashion designer?
- •What can you advise a person who wants to change something about his/her style but doesn’t know how to do it?
- •5.A famous person once said: “Fashions come and go, style is forever.” What do you think about it?
- •Let’s talk about travelling and tourism.
- •1.Let’s talk about travelling. What role does it play in your life? (Do you like travelling? Why?)
- •2. How do you like to travel? (What means of travel do you prefer and why?)
- •3. What questions will you ask a tour guide on a tour to London?
- •4.You’ve visited some foreign countries. Which of them did you like most and would recommend your friend to visit?
- •5. Today people are tired of exotic countries and prefer to spend holidays in the countryside in Belarus. What can attract people to it?
- •Let’s talk about environment.
- •Let’s talk about environment. People say that our planet is in danger. Do you share this opinion?
- •What do you think people should do to protect the environment?
- •Are you weather dependent?
- •What questions will you ask your British friend about the weather in his country?
- •Your friend wants to know what climate change is caused by. Can you explain it to him?
- •They say there’s no bad weather, there are bad clothes. What do you think about it?
- •Let’s talk about Belarus.
- •Let’s talk about Belarus. What can you tell me about our Motherland?
- •Do you know any symbols of our country?
- •What questions about Belarus do you expect to hear from a British teenager?
- •What Belarusian sights would you advise a foreigner to visit?
- •Let’s talk about Great Britain.
- •Let’s talk about Great Britain. What do you know about this country?
- •What part of Great Britain would you like to visit? Why?
- •3)_What would you like to ask a British teenager about Britain?
- •4) Give me a piece of advice on what sights to see in London.
- •5)They say it’s important for a person to speak English nowadays because it is popular all over the world. What is your opinion?
Examination Topics and Questions. (+Topics)
Let’s talk about family.
Let’s talk about your family. What is family for you?
No doubt for all of us our family is the most precious thing on earth. We all need love, understanding and support and we are sure to find them in our families. I’d like to tell you a few words about our family.
Our family is not very large. There are 4 of us: father, mother, my sister and I. (3 of us: father, mother and I).
My mother is on the right (wrong) side of 40 (под/за 40), but she looks much younger. She has short dark hair and hazel eyes. (She has fair wavy hair and blue eyes). She works as a nurse in a hospital (a teacher at a secondary school, an engineer at a plant, a book-keeper in a bank, a dressmaker). She is always as busy as a bee because she runs the house and has a lot of work to do at our summer cottage. We all try to help her as much as we can.
My father is a little bit older than my mother. He is in his early (mid-, late) 40-ies, but he doesn’t look his age either. They say that a woman is as old as she looks and a man is as old as he feels and my father looks and feels strong and fit. He is very keen on sport (fishing) and he spends a lot of time on his hobby (especially on jogging (volleyball).) He is really an excellent father, very involved and protective towards us and we love him dearly. My father is a worker at a plant (a teacher at a technical school, a doctor, an engineer, a business-man). He often comes tired from work but he always finds time for us.
My sister is 2 years my senior. She studies at University. She is going to be a teacher/an engineer/an economist/a lawyer. (She works as a shop-assistant at a bookshop).
My sister is 4 years my junior. She is the baby of the family. She is a little bit naughty sometimes, but we all adore her and forgive her everything.
Are there any things that you do with your parents together?
It is not very easy to spend free time with my parents. You see, everyone in our family has a hobby of their own. And our favourite pastimes differ greatly. For example, mother is a home sort. She likes watching TV and knitting. Father is always ready to go fishing, snow or rain. My favourite recreation (развлечение) is listening to music (playing computer games), but unfortunately I’m too pressed for time now and I can’t indulge in my hobby. But there are certainly things we do together. When we have holidays, we do everything together, and my ideas and suggestions are taken into account too. We sometimes go on outings together and we have a very enjoyable time there. Besides when I have a bit of spare time we do household chores together. All this makes our family more united.
What will you ask your British friend about his family?
What can you advise people who want to have a close and happy family?
I think that the best advice will be: do things together and spend as much time as possible together. When children and parents do many things together, when the children’s ideas and suggestions are taken into consideration and when the parents are involved and protective towards their children, we see happy and united families.