SPEAKING

a) WARM UP (1 min. general questions: Hello! How are you? My name is

Whats your name? Where do you come from? Where do you live? Whats
your job?); candidate shouldnt open up, short answers!
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW (3 min. - two sets of three questions)
c) LONG TURN (3 min. monologue, topic oriented)
d) DISCUSSION (five to six min. directed towards new topic questions)
e) LEVEL 3 cards/expressing opinion
f) WIND DOWN (up to one min. Thank you.)
I a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. Whats your favourite sport?
2. What do you like doing while on holiday?
3. What type of music do you like?
1. Can you describe your home town?
2. Tell us something about your family
3. Where should a tourist in your country go?

c) LONG TURN
Look at the list below and chose the two media types that you think are most
powerful. Justify.
Broadcast media (TV, radio)
Print media (daily newspapers and tabloids)
Online news and entertainment portals
Social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.

d) DISCUSSION
1. What country could you permanently live in? Why?
2. Have you ever bought anything on the Internet? If yes/no/ why?
3. Can we predict the future of computers? What is your vision?

II a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. What makes a good friend?
2. How has the way people spend their free time shanged over the past
100 years?
3. What is the impact of the Internet on our daily lives?
1. Whats your favourite food?
2. Can you tell us something about your neighbours?
3. What are you going to do next weekend?

c) LONG TURN
Read about the problems that world sports organizations are facing nowadays.
Choose the two of them which you find most serious. Justify your choice.
Hooligans and racism.
Betting companies
Promotion of profit making leagues (NBA, Premier League, Bundesliga... )
Use of illegal substances

d) DISCUSSION:
1. What is your idea of demanding job?
2. When would you use snail mail instead of e-mail?
3. What is your idea of a good friend?

III a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. Describe the town or city you live in.
2. Do you have any special hobbies or interests?
3. What is your favourite season and why?
1. How often and where do you usually go shopping?
2. How often do you watch TV? What do you usually watch?
3. Is there any food you really dislike? Why?
c) LONG TURN
Choose the two options which you consider most important for saving our
environment. Justify.
Introducing more recycling bins and fines for throwing litter
Organizing volunteering actions for gathering litter.
Broadcasting more information about the dangers of pollution and climate
change.
Changing the existing laws.
Changing our shopping habits (banning plastic bags, bottles, etc.)

DISCUSSION:
1. In what jobs is it important that people remain calm and do not get angry?
2. What is your personal feeling about apologizing/saying sorry?
3. Can you think of any jobs that are traditionally done by women/men? Could they
be done as well by the other sex?

IV a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED ITERVIEW
1. How long have you been learning English and what is easy/difficult for
you?
2. Tell us about your typical day.
3. What was the last thing you bought for yourself? Where did you buy it?

1. Do you think movie stars should be paid millions of dollars? Compare

them to sports stars.
2. Are there certain things journalists should not report on? Why?
3. How much do you socialize with people from work? What do you usually
do?

c) LONG TURN
Look at the list of most commonly learned world languages and choose two which
you consider people need most nowadays. Justify your choice.

English

Chinese

Spanish

Russian

French

Arabic

DISCUSSION:
1. Do you think that nowadays crimes are on the increase? Do you take any
steps in order not to become a victim yourself?
2. What is your hobby? Can people turn their hobby into their
profession/career?
3. Will the gap between the poorest and the richest groups of people widen
or became smaller?

V a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. What new technology you could not live without?

2. How much do you read? What is your favourite book, magazine, daily
paper? Why?
3. What do you like least/most about credit cards?

1. What is travel for you?

2. Do you prefer city or country life? Why?
3. What do you usually use a computer for?
c) LONG TURN
Look at the five healthy lifestyle tips given below. Choose the two of them that you
find most important for your health. Justify your choice.

Know the source of your stress

Drink more water

Get enough sleep

Exercise

Practice healthy diet

DISCUSSION:
1. In what ways are peoples lifestyles less healthy than 100 years ago?
2. What makes a successful relationship between teachers and students?

3. If someone gave you 100.000 dollars what would you do with the money?

VI a) WARM-UP

b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. What do you like doing in your free time?
2. Tell us about your daily routine at work.

3. Whats your favourite room in the house/flat? Why?

1. Which country (other than your own) would you like to live in? Why?
2. When was the last time you helped someone else with the problem?
What was the problem?
3. Are you a price conscious shopper? What is your opinion of discount
stores?
c) LONG TURN
Look at the list below. Choose the two pieces of technology that you think people
find most useful.

Digital camera

Computer

Smartphone

Tablet

DISCUSSION:
1, How has the way people spend their free time changed?
2. What is your ideal job? Why?
3. Are there inventions that made peoples lives more difficult?

VII a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. What characteristics should a good friend have?
2. Can you explain how to burn a CD/send an e-mail?
3. Is it important for you to own designer clothes? Why/why not?

1. People say that it is very important for you to know your neighbor. Do
you agree? Why yes/no?

2. What is the best place (city, town, resort) you have ever been to?
Describe it.
3. Who is your favourite actor/actress? Why
c) LONG TURN
Look at the list of city life advantages and choose the two of them which you
find most important.

Employment possibilities

Medical care

Attractions and Entertainment

Education

DISCUSSION:
1. What foods do you think are most romantic?
2. Would you like to learn any other foreign language (besides English)? Which one?
Why?

3. What do you think are reasonable penalties for people who commit
environmental crimes?

VIII a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. When you buy something do you read the label? Why yes/no?
2. Whats your favourite drink? Where do you usually have it?
3. Tell us about your weekends.

1. Are your family members also your friends? Tell us about one person.
2. Describe a well-known building in your hometown.
3. When was the last time you went to the movies? Do you think that people
used to go to the movies more frequently in the past? Why?

c) LONG TURN
There are some negative effects of consumerism. Which of the listed below do you
find most dangerous?

Creating waste

Using natural resources

Becoming greedy and selfish

Loss of traditional values

DISCUSSION:
1. Do you think it is possible to prevent violence in nowadays societies? Yesno/why?
2. What is the most difficult language to learn (for you)? Why is that so?
3. How has your idea of adventure changed with age?

IX a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. Which food is popular in your country? Can you give us a recipe for
some popular dish?
2. What is your favourite sport? Why?
3. What makes people stop being friends?

1. Which type of public transport do you use most? Why?

2. If you could choose a seaside resort, where would you go? Why?
3. Do you watch reality shows? Why do you think they are so popular
nowadays?

c) LONG TURN
Look at the list of types of holidays. Choose two of them that you find most
attractive. Justify your choice.

All inclusive

Half-board

Full-board

Self-catering

DISCUSSION:
1. Is it important for you to own designer clothes? Yes-no/why?
2. In your opinion, which jobs are most prestigious? Why?
3. How will television change in 20 years?

X a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. Would you like to be self-employed? Yes/no Why?
2. Do you like watching extreme sports? Yes/no Why?
3. Do you care where the food you eat comes from? Yes/no Why?

1. In your opinion, what is a healthy lifestyle?

2. Do you think it is o.k. to tell little white lies? Tell us why if yes/no.
3. Do you enjoy shopping in thrift stores? Yes/no why?

LONG TURN
X Read the list of jobs given below. Choose the two jobs that you find most suitable
for women.

Pharmacist

Fitness instructor

Bar tender

Kindergarten teacher

Officer

DISCUSSION:
1. Do you think that professional sport is too commercial nowadays? Yesno/why?
2. What is your opinion of discount stores?
3. If someone asked you to be a journalist, what would you write about?

XI a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. Why do you think people speak so much about stress nowadays? How
can we deal with stress? What do you do to fight stress?

2. Why are people so interested in private lives of celebrities? What do

you think of paparazzi?
3. How often do you go to parties? Have you ever hosted a party? What
was it like?

1. What was the last thing you bought for someone else? When did you
buy it? Why did you buy it?
2. What was the last improvement you made to your house or apartment?
Tell us about it.
3. Tell us about your first paid job. When was it? What did you do?

c) LONG TURN
Look at the list of personality traits. Choose the two of them that you find most
needed in the army (officers, NCOs, civil servants).

Integrity

Self-confidence

Ambition

Initiative

Adaptability

Self-discipline

DISCUSSION:
1. If your great-great grandparents were still alive, what questions would
you like to ask them?
2. What help should governments give to people looking for employment?
3. Do you support the idea that education should be lifelong?

XII a) WARM-UP
b) STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
1. Imagine that you could use only one of the following: a computer, a
telephone, or a car. Which would you use and why?
2. What is your favourite adventure story, movie or a book? Tell us about it.
3. What kind of clothes do you like best? Why?

1. Do you have an e-mail account? What do you use it for? How often do
you check it?
2. Why do you want to improve your English (work, travel, pleasure)?
3. How has technology affected the way we fight wars? Does it make the
war more or less human?

c) LONG TURN

DISCUSSION:
1. Why do people sometimes wear their wealth?
2. In your opinion, what are the two commonest reasons people decide to
get married?
3. Do you think a persons car says something about him/her? If you were
very rich, what would be your car make? Why?

10.
Telecommuting refers to workers doing their jobs from home. It actually
is growing in many countries. How do you think society will be affected by
the growth of telecommuting?

11.
Research shows that global warming is caused by human activity. What
are the possible effects of climate change and what can governments and
individuals do to reduce this?

12.
Space exploration requires vast sums of money. Is the amount of
money spent on space research justifiable? Could the money be better
spent?
13.
As people live longer and longer, the idea of cloning human beings in
order to provide
spare parts is becoming a reality. What do you think of this procedure?
Have you any
reservations?

14.
Stem cells were one of the biggest controversies in the early 2000.
Where are they now?
Do you think that stem cell research is important?
15. More and more qualified people are moving from poor to rich
countries to fill
vacancies in specialist areas like engineering, computing and
medicine. Some
people believe that by encouraging the movement rich countries are
stealing
from poor countries. Others feel that this is only part of natural
movement of
workers around the world. What do you think?

THE END

THOUGHTS

1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not

an act but a habit. (Aristotle)

2. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking

new lands but seeing with new eyes.
( Marcel Proust)

3.The person who reads too much and uses his brain too
little will fall into lazy habit of thinking. (Albert Einstein)

4. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack

the time to make it shorter.
(Blaise Pascal)

5. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the

answer but wish we didnt.
(Erica Jong)

6. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win,
you are still a rat. (Lilly Tomlin)

7. Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over
if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

8. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare)

9. Success is going from failure to failure without losing

enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)

10. You cannot acquire experience by making

experiments. You cannot create experience. You must
undergo it. (Albert Camus)

11. In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters

of principle, stand like a rock.
(Thomas Jefferson)

12. To choose time is to save time. (Francis Bacon)

13. Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of

misfortune, or temporary defeat. (Napoleon Hill)