Speaking topics
Intrduction-speak about yourself
Why do you want to come to this school?
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House, home, town/village
Where do you live? (house or flat?)
What is your home like? (number of rooms, your favourite room, why you like it,
what is in it, furniture etc.)
Do you like living there? Why?
Do you get on well with your neighbours?
What is your dream home like?
Talk about the village/town you live in (entertainment places, people, etc)
What is good about living in a village? What is bad about it?
Family
Describe your family (big/small, who you live with, if you have siblings, how often
you meet, what occasions you celebrate).
Who are you similar to? Who do you get on the best with?
What is a typical family like nowadays? (number of children, generations living
together, how the tasks are shared around the house, roles of mother/father)
Jobs/carreer
What would you like to do int he future? Do you have ideas? What are some
popular jobs today? Wold you like to work in a foreign country? Why? Where?
Free time
Do you have enough free time? What do you enjoy doing? (sport, TV, creative
activities, reading, learning) What do people of your age enjoy? What would you
like to try?
Can you think of any bad hobbies?
Health, fitness, sport
Do you do any sport? What? How often? Why do you like it? What would you like
to try? What are some fashionable sports nowadays (e.g. skiing, aerobics, etc.)
Is it important to do sport? Why?
Have you tried extreme sports? What? What would you like to take part in?
Why do people do extreme sports?
How do you keep healthy?(diet, exercise, vitamins, healthy habits) What are
some unhealthy habits?
What are some frequent illnesses? e.g. flu, cold, stomachache, allergy) What are
the symptoms?
Food
What kinds of food do you like/ hate? Are you allergic to anything?
What do you eat in a typical day?
Do you have a healthy diet? What would you like to change?
Can you cook? What? Who does the cooking in your family?
What is the most disgusting food you have tried?
Do you like eating in restaurants? What is your favourite one?
Weather
What is your favourite season? Why? What is the weather like in the seasons?
What can you do in the different season? Do you look after nature and the
environment? What do you do at home/at school?
School
What is your school like (lessons, teachers, after-school activities, classmates)?
What is your favourite subject
Do you want to go to university/college? What would you like to study? What do
you know about schools in Britain?
Shopping
Do you like shopping? Where do you usually go when you want to buy
food/clothes/presents, etc? Why?
Do you like shopping centres? Why/why not? What servicces can you use there?
Have you ever tried shopping on the internet? What did you buy?
Holidays
What kind of holidays do you like? (seaside, in cities, adventure holiday)
Where did you last go on holiday?(where did you go, where did yo stay, what was
the weather like, what did you do/see)
What is your dream holiday?
Travelling/transport
How can we get around? How can we travel to far away places?
What is the best way in a town/to go on holiday?
Entertainment
What do you do for entertainment? Do you enjoy watching TV? Why/why not?
What kind of channels/programmes do you like/hate?
Do you like reading? What kind of books do you like? Do you have a favourite
writer?
Do you often go to the cinema? Why/why not?
Do you like the theatre?
Do you use the internet for entertainment? What can you do?
Communication
How can we communicate nowadays?
How do you keep in touch with your friends?
Is computer an important part of your life? How? Does it have any dangers?
Is art a form of communication? Is it important for you? What fields of art do
you like? Is graffiti art?
Fashion
What kind of clothes do you like wearing (sporty, casual, elegant, formal, trendy,
unusual)?
What can we express with our clothes?
Why is fashion fo important for teenagers?
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Describing a picture:
Background/places/weather
What are the people doing? What do they look like?
What do you thing about the picture/people?
Any guesses you have
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Situations:
Shopping
At the doctor’s
Arranging to meet
Giving directions
Restaurant
Look at the pictures and write 10-15 sentences about what you would say about
them. The topic is free time.
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