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Topics for exam
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Talk about your first day as a student of Kiev-Mohyla academy.
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Compare your personal diet with a healthy one. Are they very different?
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What are the pros and cons of staying in a hotel and at a camp site?
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Describe the personality of your role-model (a person you want to be like).
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What, in your opinion, is the safest kind of transport and what way of travelling is the fastest?
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What is your understanding of the saying “One man’s meat is another man’s poison”? Do you think it refers only to food preferences?
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Describe the personalities of an ideal friend (both a girl and a boy).
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Compare Ukrainian cuisine with cuisine of a different country or region
(for example Mediterranean or Asian cuisine).
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Describe the symptoms of a person who has a flu and a person who has food poisoning. What treatments are usually recommended in these cases?
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Describe the appearance of a person you find very attractive.
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Which factors do you consider when you buy a new piece of clothing? Where do you usually shop for clothes?
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Compare pros and cons of state and private hospitals in Ukraine.
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Talk about a day in your life when you felt really happy.
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Describe the outfits (casual, formal, smart) which you wear to different occasions.
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Think about a positive and a negative character either from a movie or from real life. Compare their personalities (you don’t have to name them).
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What traits of character (both good and bad) do you normally associate with typical representatives of the following professions: a politician; a teacher; a nurse; a top executive of a multinational company?
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Compare the advantages and disadvantages of eating out in a restaurant and having a picnic.
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Describe in detail the accommodation you have at the moment.
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I what way is a person’s character, mood, social status reflected in his or her clothes?
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What are the characteristic features of Ukrainian cuisine? Give a recipe of a traditional Ukrainian dish.
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Describe the appearance of a pop-star or of another well-known person.
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Which outside factors and circumstances can influence your mood? In what way?
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What attitudes towards health in different societies do you know?
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Compare the pros and cons of fast food. Can it be part of a healthy diet?
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What is the interrelation between people’s appearance and personality? Give examples.
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Compare holistic and western approaches to treating diseases. Which do you prefer? Why?
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The factors you consider when buying and renting accommodation.
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Talk about the warmest memory of your childhood.
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Compare advantages and disadvantages of urban and rural lifestyles.
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If you happen to make a world round trip what will your itinerary be like?
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What are your family values?
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What is the connection between bad habits and health? Give examples.
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Compare different types of accommodation.
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What is your attitude towards adoption and surrogate parenting?
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Talk about the effects which bad habits can have on a person’s life.
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What types of accommodation seem the most attractive and the least convenient to you and why?
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Compare a church wedding ceremony and a registry office wedding ceremony.
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What do you think the saying “You are what you wear” means?
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What are the most common problems around the house and the ways to deal with them?
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Compare and contrast male and female roles in a society.
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Describe the features of your own personality which you like and the ones you’d rather get rid of.
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Provide your menu of a balanced meal and a reasonable diet for a day.
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Tell about your family celebrations.
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Some people say that the best cooks in the world are men. Do you agree?
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Describe your ideal home.
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What do you think is your parent’s role in shaping up your personality? Will you raise your children in the same way your parents brought you up?
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Attractive and restraining factors for you when deciding what to buy?
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Describe the location, layout, interior decoration of your current accommodation.
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What is you idea of a healthy life style?
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Compare advantages and disadvantages of living in a flat and a private house.
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Give a detailed recipe of a dish you like and know how to cook.
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Why is it important for a child to have both parents? Compare the roles which a father and a mother play in raising a child.
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Describe the personality of your best friend.
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Tell us about an enjoyable (or a disastrous) visit to a restaurant or a café.
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What is a “generation gap”? Have you had a personal experience of this phenomenon?
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Tell us about first-aid measures you would take to help a victim in emergency situations such as drowning, fainting, and heart attack, skin burns etc.
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Describe the interior, atmosphere and cuisine of your favourite restaurant or café.
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What is an arranged marriage and your attitude to it?
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Give a detailed account of a day when you were ill.
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Describe the park you enjoy walking in?
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What causes a fresher’s neurosis?
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Tell us about the most memorable travel you have ever had.
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Describe the place you like to go shopping for food.