1.
TASK 2
Talk about
- types of jobs (physical work and mental work), motivation
- enrolment form, application form, curriculum vitae, interview
- regular day work and free time
TASK 3 - Role play
Someone is coming to stay in your country for six months. What advice can you give?
Include advice about money, documents, clothes, health, accommodation and food.
2.
TASK 2
Talk about:
- what do you do to protect your body, what diseases do you remember having
- have you ever had to stay in a hospital?
- healthy lifestyle, (physical and mental hygiene) and healthy diet
TASK 3 - Role play
You share your bedroom with your sibling who is very untidy. What would you do to make him not to leave his/ her stuff around a lot, tidy up his/ her books, not chat with his/ her friends for hours and share the household at home?
3.
TASK 2
Describe your best holiday you have ever been on. Speak about:
- preparation for the accommodation, kind of transportation, destinations, reasons and functions of travelling
- means of transport (advantages and disadvantages of travelling by car, boat, train and plane)
TASK 3 - Role play
It is Friday evening. You have decided to phone your friend for a chat. Ask and answer questions about what you have been doing this week
4.TASK 2Talk about
- your family members (their age, education, job, hobbies, appearance)
- your family relationships (between siblings, parents and children, grandparents, housework, weekdays and family celebrations)
- the average Slovak family, how the household chores are divided up,
TASK 3 - Role playYou have just seen an advertisement in the local newspaper. You need a car and the Beetle is your favourite one. But you need to negotiate since you can't afford to pay that much. Make a phone call to the owner and make an appointment with the owner. You use all types of arguments and stories to persuade the owner of the car to sell it to you, logically as cheap as possible.
5.TASK 2Talk about:
- what cultural facilities you have got in the place where you live / museums, galleries , theatres, cinemas and concert halls /
- your favourite performer, movie star, famous personalities
- a visit of the cinema or theatre performance, sorts of films you enjoy watching
TASK 3- Role playMake conversation with your partner. Decide where you want to go. Find out about times and then buy a ticket.
6.TASK 2Talk about
- kinds of sports(collective, individual, summer and winter sports), the most popular sport in our country
- sport, you are fond of, you are good at
- what the advantages and disadvantages of regular exercises and being a professional sportsman are.
TASK 3 - Role playYou are a customer in a clothes shop. Buy different clothes and you would like to pay with a credit card.
7.TASK 2Give your opinion on:
- shops, hypermarkets, markets, your most surprising, terrible, fun shopping experience
- services (post office, bank)
- where do you go shopping and why
- how often do you go shopping and who with
TASK 3 - Role playPhone the reception from your room and make these requests.
- You would like an extra pillow
- You would like a wake- up at 7.00 tomorrow morning
8.TASK 2 Speak about
- my home, describe the place, compare housing in Britain and in our country
- compare living in the town and in the village
- ideal housing (your vision), pros and cons of staying in a house or in a flat
TASK 3 - Role playMake conversation for this situation. Your best friend is having a birthday party next week. You do not know what to give your friend as a present.
9.TASK 2Speak about:
- a good relationship between classmates at school, parents, among neighbours, teachers and students, parents and their children
- how relations change as people get older, how they are different from, between boys, girls at different ages, a true friendship and love
- social problems (relations of society and individual to handicapped people, homeless)
TASK 3 - Role playWhile on holiday abroad, you have had your passport and money stolen. What should you do?
10.TASK 2Speak about:
- benefits and dangers of watching television, your favourite TV programmes
- favourite kind of mass media
- the Internet and its impact on everyday life
TASK 3 - Role play
Your friend never gets exercise, because he is very busy working or studying. He always feels tired and has no energy. Give your friend an advice how he can get fit.
11.
TASK 2Speak about:
- the life before and now (technology and the living standard, appliances)
- the most important things, remarkable inventions in science and technology
- science and technology and their contribution (electro technique, informatics),
TASK 3 - Role playYou bought an item from a shop and when you got home it did not work properly. Describe what happened when you went to the shop and asked for a refund.
12.TASK 2Give your opinion:
- rules of politeness which you have been taught in your family, morality (behavior of the young and the elderly, ethic education in a family and at school)
- what manners you appreciate most in your family
- conventions / hairstyle, clothes in business /, breaking of rules (misunderstanding, morality and law)
TASK 3 - Role play You have to put some money into an automatic cold drinks machine. But no cold drink has come out of the machine. The machine is in a small shop. What would you do to cope with the situation?
13.TASK 2Speak about:
- school system / types of schools, exams, organization of a school year, classification, holidays/
- your school / timetable, subjects and break, the number of students, what after school activities, life of the student/
- the type of secondary school you attend, the reasons you have chosen this course of study
TASK 3 - Role playIt is your birthday next week. Your parents ask you what you want as a birthday present. You really long for a mobile phone, but your parents are against. Try to persuade them using reasonable arguments.
14.TASK 2
Speak about:
- types of sports (individual, collective, summer, winter, professional, recreational)
- Olympic games, competitions, significant sport movements
- negative effects in sport (doping, money, fame)
TASK 3 Tell us about your daily routine and find out about the daily routine of your examiner.
15.TASK 2Speak about:
- environment (pollution: air, water, land), natural disasters, nature around us, fauna and flora
- environmental organizations
- how an individual can help to protect the environment
TASK 3 - Role playYour class is planning a five- day trip to London. Go to the travel agency, talk to the travel agent and find out the following information: transport, accommodation, and food, insurance.
16. TASK 2Give a short talk about
- your leisure activities and free- time activities of your family
- active and passive ways of spending free time
- variations according to seasons
TASK 3 - Role playYou are being invited to take part in a talk show by a private broadcasting company in England. One of the guests is your idol, a person you have admired since you were a child. Ask and answer questions about what you would like to know about him/her.
17.TASK 2 - give some details about your role model
- tell us about the most interesting person you have ever met, qualities you appreciate in your friends
- name virtues you can be admired for and vices you would like to get rid of
TASK 3 - Role playYou are a tourist guide. Show a group of visitors from abroad round Bratislava. Tell them about its geographical location, climate, population, history, main industry. Stop at the most impressive sights of the city. Talk about the most famous people who have lived and work here.
18.
TASK 2Give your opinion on reading books:
- reading, choice, genres
- give some details about the book you have read
- tell us what you know about the writer whose book you have read
TASK 3 - Role playYou are invited to your best friend's wedding party. You know that "clothes make a man". You would like to look casually. You are in a boutique looking for a suit or a dress as well as shoes for a mentioned occasion. Ask a shop assistant for them.
19.TASK 2- think about Slovak society and name the nationalities living there
- give the pros of a multinational education
- explain the advantage of being bilingual and the advantages of spending a year in an English - speaking country
TASK 3 - Role playYou are spending your holiday abroad and you have just met a very interesting person you would like to be your friend. Tell him/ her about your leisure time activities, why you consider them to be the most useful, what objects you have collected, what sort of social games and team sports you like to play, what your main hobby is, what books you like reading, what hero from a book you have admired and wanted to imitate.
20.TASK 2Give a short talk about the Slovak kitchen
- main meals a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner
- meals on special occasion such as Christmas and Easter
- name your favourite food and describe the recipe
TASK 3 - Role playYou are at the disco. Try to persuade your friend not to take drugs as a part of a night's entertainment.
21.TASK 2Talk about:
- the main celebrations and the national holidays in your country
- the main celebrations and the national holidays in Great Britain and the U.S.A
- try to compare them
TASK 3 - Role playThe headmaster is disappointed because your behavior at school. Give your opinion whether rules are important in a functional society. Apologize before him/ her and promise to follow rules at school and not break them any more
22.TASK 1What can you see in the picture? Describe them.
What do you think of drug and alcohol problems in society?
Do you find it possible they cause an increasing number of crimes?
TASK 2Talk about
- different forms of communication and make list of them
- what are their advantages and disadvantages
- what do you know about animal communication and give examples
TASK 3 - Role playYou are involved to a quiz show performed on TV. Your task is to find out the profession of a person taking part in the show, too, asking questions.
23.TASK 2Talk about
- the place of young in a modern society, give the key characteristics
- some advantages and disadvantages of being young
- young people and their study or work
TASK 3 - Role playYou have a penfriend from abroad .You would like to give him some details what your hobbies are, how you spend your free time, what your lifestyle is like and about your daily routine.
24.TASK 2- name places in Slovakia as well as in any foreign countries you have been to
- compare life in the city to the life in the countryside
- tell visitors from abroad about the most impressive sights, places, spas, caves and towns in Slovakia which are worth to visit, give some details about a castle you would recommend to see as well as a legend about it
TASK 3 - Role playLast winter you went skiing. You met there a girl/ boy of the same age you were that time from London. S /He left his/her address and phone number. This summer you are flying to London to an international school of English. You would like to come and see him. Ring him/ her up and ask him to meet you.
25.TASK 2- name some people who you think are good role models for today's youth
- give some examples of real and literary heroes
- say about a person you admire
TASK 3 - Role playA friend from abroad is coming to see you at the weekend. You wanted to take him to the theatre, but you did not get tickets. Ring him up to inform him about it. Because you know he is interested in fauna and nature, offer him visiting the zoo. Tell him about the animal species he could see there.
26.TASK 2- name any of the English speaking countries you would like to visit
- explain the reasons which lead you to this choice
- give some information about its geography, climate, history, sights, monuments, nature beauties and culture
TASK 3 - Role playJust as you are leaving your school a foreigner, who is staying in Slovakia, is asking you to give him directions because he lost his way visiting Bratislava. He wanted to meet his friends from abroad at the Main Bus Station.
27.TASK 2- name some authors from English speaking countries whose works you have learnt about
- give some information about a writer from any country whose language you are learning
- say who your favourite writer is
TASK 3 - Role playYou have met a boy / girl you like. You would like to know more about him/ her. Talk about his/ her role-models and ideals, future career and hobbies
28.TASK 2- name different items of man and woman ´s clothes
- compare ways of clothing in hot and cold places in the world as well as how it depends on the weather
- say what your style of clothing is
TASK 3 - Role playIt is your teacher's birthday. Try to congratulate in English.
29.TASK 2- name the most famous mountains, rivers, towns and other interesting places in Slovakia which are worth to visit
- describe a place in Slovakia you would recommend you friend from abroad to visit
- choose one famous personality from Slovak history and describe him/ her
TASK 3 - Role playYou have been invited to your best friend's wedding party. You would like to look smart, so you decided to buy new clothes and shoes. You have just entered a shop and you are going to ask a shop assistant for advice.
30.TASK 2- name the most famous mountains, rivers, towns and other interesting places in Great Britain and the USA
- name the capitals and other cities of all the English speaking countries you have been taught
- give some details on an English speaking country you would like to visit in the future
TASK 3 - Role playYou have made a reservation in a restaurant in Bratislava for your guest from abroad. You are going to order meals for them. Ask waiter for menu and wine list, recommend your friends what a meal is worth to taste, after the dinner call the waiter to pay for it.
