Compare and contrast these

pictures. In your description,

answer the following questions:

 What services can you recognize?

 What is the purpose of each of
them?
 Which service do you use in your
everyday life?
 Which of them do you think is the
most important? Why?
 What essential services can you
name?
 Do you think the number of services
has increased lately? Why/Why not?
 Which sectors of the service industry
are the most popular?
 Is it worth paying fortunes for
services? Why?
 What would our life be like without
services?
 Can you name some services that
have become extinct? What was the
reason for it?

Word Bank

 essential services: public services,

health service, supply of gas/water/
electricity, disposal of waste/
sewage
 other types of services: emergency
(ambulance, fire fighters, police),
information and communication,
government, advertising, public
transport, delivery, travel, tourism,
financial, insurance, real estate,
catering, commerce, entertainment,
cultural, educational, personal care,
repair
 increase/decrease in demand for a
service, satisfy customers’/
producers’ needs, meet new
challenges, provide the public with
sg, help/stimulate economic/
industrial development/ innovations,
create new jobs/work places, train
highly-skilled work force, make your
life easier/more comfortable, give
help to sy, make a profit

Services