Завдання для розвитку навичок усного мовлення при підготовці до олімпіади з англійської мови
Шершньова Л. К.
ЗАВДАННЯ ДЛЯ РОЗВИТКУ
НАВИЧОК УСНОГО МОВЛЕННЯ
ПРИ ПІДГОТОВЦІ ДО ОЛІМПІАДИ З АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ МОВИ
2021
Шершньова
Людмила
Кирилівна
Посада: вчитель англійської мови СЗШ №50
Категорія: вища, вчитель-методист
Педзвання: "Відмінник освіти України"
Педагогічний статус: 49 років
Освіта: вища, ДДУ, 1972р.
спеціальність за дипломом — "Англійська мова та література",
класифікація — філолог, учитель англійської мови та літератури.
м. Дніпро
Анотація
Добірка завдань для розвитку навичок усного мовлення складена за матеріалами олімпіад з англійської мови.
Завдання упорядковані за тематичним принципом. Завдання рекомендовані для роботи з учнями 8-9 класу.
Добірку можна використовувати при тематичному контролі навичок говоріння на підсумкових уроках та позакласній роботі при підготовці до олімпіади
CONTENTS
School and Learning......................................................................... 7
Mass Media....................................................................................... 12
Cinema and Theatre...................................................................... 14
Art and Music................................................................................... 16
My Future Profession. Jobs.......................................................... 18
Food. Shopping................................................................................ 20
Flat and Household........................................................................ 28
Books and Reading......................................................................... 30
Health and Body Care.................................................................... 34
Nature and Ecology........................................................................ 36
Pets and other Animals................................................................ 37
Ukraine. Kiev.................................................................................... 38
My Native City.................................................................................. 43
Great Britain. London.................................................................... 46
The USA. Washington.New York................................................ 47
Lifestyle and Character................................................................. 50
FAMILY
• Who is more responsible in your family: your mother or your father? Why?
• Pets are important members of the family. Do you agree? Why or why not?
• A classmate of yours is planning to invite her friends to her birthday party. Ask her how she is planning to arrange it so that nobody can be bored. Share your own experience.
• You are staying with an English family. Ask them about the family traditions and say whether you have the same in your family.
• Describe a great happy event in your life which you'll remember for a long time.
• Do you try to please your parents? What do you do to please them?
• Describe one of your family parties.
• You have invited guests for the birthday party. Your mother asks you to help her. Plan the day and define your duties.
Do you enjoy to have parties at home?
How will you lay the table?
What will you do to make the party enjoyable and relaxing?
Prepare a story about someone in your family who you are proud of.
Is this person your close relative.
What is the most special about him/her?
Who else in your family is proud of this person?
• Describe a day in your life when everything went wrong.
How did the day begin?
Did you try to take the events easy?
What was the most awful thing that day?
• Imagine that you are a proud grandfather and you want to tell your pensioner friend how perfect your grandchild is.
Tell all about your grandchild's studying and how smart he/she is.
Don't forget to talk about all of the talents your grandchild has.
Explain what profession your grandchild will probably have in the future and why.
• Say what you like doing and what you dislike doing and explain why.
SCHOOL AND LEARNING
• What are your favorite and worst subjects in school? Why?
• If you could, how would you change the school schedule?
What time and for how long would a school day be2?
When and for how long would you take vacations throughout the year?
• If you were the principal of your school, what would you like to change or improve?
• Is English an easy or difficult language to learn? Why is it important to krnow a foreign language?
• How come some people can speak English easily while others have some difficulty?
How do you study? Can you give some advice to help other students to learn better?
• Would you like to go to a regular school or have a private tutor?
• What are the best and worst things about your school?
• What is the most important subject you learn in school?
• What have you learned about in that subject?
Do you think your parents thought it was the most important subject? Why?
Do you think your children will think it is important? Why?
It's an English lesson. Your friend's answer is bad again.
Express your pity. Ask him why he studies in such way.
Tell him what he oughtto do to study well.
• Your teacher has given you amark that you feel is unfair.
Talk to him / herabout this.
• You are on a visitto a new modern school.
Express your opinion on this school.
Ask the headmaster about its work.
Compare it with the school you study at.
• You are at an interview. You want to get into very prestigious school.
Explain to the Dean of Admissions whyyou think you should be accepted.
• You are talking to the Minister of Education of Ukraine.
Tell him about the problems your school has and ask what is planned for its improvement.
• You are being interviewed by your local newspaper because you area representative of your town at the National English Olympiad.
Tell a little bit about yourself.
Explain how it is that you got yourselfto the Olympiad.
Tell the interviewer what you will do while visiting Kyiv that will make you hometown proud.
• It's the last day of your schooling year
Express your joy and ask your friend about his plans foor
Summer.
Suggest your way of spending holidays.
Is it really necessary to go to college? Why or why not? Will you and all your friends go?
• Would you rather go to a regular school or a private school that specializes in something you like, like art, music or computers?
• If you were a teacher what subject would you teach?
Would you be easy or strict?
Would you give much or little homework?
Would you be friendly or mean towards your students? Why?
• If you had the opportunity to study in America or Britain would you go?
What type of school would you like to study at and with
whom would you like to live with?
Other than studying what would you do there?
• It's Monday. The lesson has already begun and your friend is late for classes again.
Express your reprimand and ask him why he never comes in time.
Say how he ought to plan his daily program.
Say how you organize your working day to finish your school successfully.
You are talking to the Head of the Regional Administration, Tell him about the problems your school 'is facing and ask him if anything is being planned to improve the situation.
Think of your school studies.
Who or what is helping you to study most: teachers, parents,
friends, books, television?
Explain your choice. Talk about the role of each.
• School life is a big part of the lives of young people all around the world.At school people learn how to interact with other people and they learn most of the knowledge they will need to enter the real world.
What does school life mean to you?
What lessons in life have you learned at school?
What subject do you enjoy the most? Why? What role have teachers played in making you an adult?
• Some students are proud of their school and they really enjoy studying there, while others don't like their school and would preferto study someplace else.
What are the qualities of a good school in your opinion?
What must the teachers be like? The students?
What else influences students opinions of their school (discos,
school lunches, etc.)? Compare your school with other schools of your town.
• The interest in foreign languagesis increasing. Can you explain why?
• Your friend was absent on classes today.
Call him home and ask what's happened. Inquire abut about his health and ask if you can do somethine for him. Tell him about some school news.
Say what kind of knowledge is useful for you.
• Some famous people visited your country and came to your
school/college/lyceum.
Do you remember in detail how you organized the day?
Who was sent to meet them?
What did you show them at school?
What sort of entertainment did you have?
• You are taking a holiday tomorrow and won't be able to go to your English lesson. Explain your teacher why and tell him/her when you'll be back at school.
Do you usually attend all the English lessons? Is the holiday an important excuse to miss the English lesson? How will you know the home task?
• Imagine that it is seven o'clock in the evening. You have just arrived home after an interesting day. Try to mention everything.
How did you spend the morning? How did you spend the afternoon?
What happened then?
• Speak about the invention of the 20 th century which you
think has affected everyday life.
What would your life be like without this invention?
Will this invention be as useful in future as it is now?
MASS MEDIA
Explain how both the TV and the internet are both good and for young people.
• What do you think the most obvious advantages and disadvantages of the television are?
• If you had to live in a TV show, which one would it be and
why? What character would you be?
What is better about this TV world than where you live now? What would you miss from your non-TV life?
• Your friend is fond of watching TV. He/she spends all
his/her spare time in front of the screen. You're trying to persuade your friend that very often it is a waste of time.
• Imagine that you are a TV producer. Discuss the existing TV programs and suggest new ones.
• You are looking through a TV program with your friend. Ask him about his preferences in televiewing and express your opinion on it.
• What kind of useful information do you get from TV and radio programs?
What forms of communication are there in your life? Give
the examples.
Which of them is more/less preferable?
How many times a day are letters delivered? On what occasions do you get or send telegrams?
• You are the DJ in a pop radio show. You are going to Interview a famous singer about his/her life. Speak about
your preparations for the interview.
What is the most interesting about this person for you?
How long have you been collecting facts about this person?
What questions would you ask him/her?
CINEMA AND THEATRE
What kind of movies do you like to see: Action, Comedy Romantic? Why?
• You are talking to your English friend. Tell him/her about your favourite actor artist/rock-musician/poet/writer, etc.
• You are not a great cinema-goer but you enjoy seeing the films which are on in the city. Try to remember your last visit to the cinema.
What films do you prefer?
What film is on now at the cinema you like to visit? Who do you usually go to the pictures with?
• You've just seen a performance in your local theatre. Your
friend says he is dissatisfied with it.
Express your surprise and ask him what makes him think so. Say what you think of this play.
• What is your favourite movie? What is it that makes this
movie special?
Do you feel that it is a movie that is considered a"classic"?
What makes it so, or not so?
Do you think that movies should be purely for entertainment, or are they art forms?
• Ask a friend to go with you to the movies.
Are there differences in American, Russian, and Ukrainian movies? Explain.
• Do you belong to the cinema or theatre goers? Explain your answer.
• What performance you'd like to attend and why?
ART AND MUSIC
You are a famous artist. You have just completed your best painting.
What does your painting look like?
What does this painting convey to others? What does this painting tell others about you?
• It is Sunday. You're planning to go to an exhibition of
modern painting.
Ask your friend to keep you company. Suggest your way of spending the day together.
• Imagine you have a good ear for music. You participate in
your school's amateur concerts as a singer. Say what your feelings are before the concert.
• What place does music occupy in your life?
What is your favourite sort of music?
Have your musical tastes changed since you were younger?
• Many schools in countries across the world are removing music and art education from their educational programmes due to lack of money. Do you agree with this policy?
Do you believe arts are worth studying and necessary for a complete education?
What has art and music meant to your in you education? How can the arts help you in your life?
Are singers like Brittany Spears and Viagra serious musicians or do you think they just want to make money? Should you sing only to make money or because you truly love to sing?
What would you do if you could sing really well?
• Do you ever listen to classical music? Tell about some of your favorite composers and why you like their music.
• Do you only just listen to popular music or do you like a
particular kind of music?
Why do you like this type of music?
How is it different from pop music?
• You are talking to your English friend. Tell him about your favourite actor (artist, rock musician, group, etc.)
MY FUTURE PROFESSION. JOBS.
What job would be really terrible to have? Why do you think it is so bad?
• If you could have any talent that you don't already possess, what would it be? Why is this talent so important to you?
How would you use it?
Do you feel that it's more important to gain talents through a hard work or through natural ability?
• Describe your dream job. What would you do? Where would you work? Who would be your colleagues?
• Speak about the kind of work that makes you happy. What work can keep you busy and interested the longest and
why?
How did it happen that you began to like this work? How can this work improve your life and the lives of people around you?
• If you were to choose between family and career, what
would you choose?
What is your opinion of the situation in the world in this respect?
Give your reasons for and against choosing either of them. Isit possible to find a compromise? Why?
• What profession are you going to choose and why?
What profession do you think prestigious nowadays?
Do you prefer intellectual professions or not?
Say what you are going to do in the nearest future. Try to say something about your work and profession.
• You are going to have a part-time job in the summer.
Explain the reason for sucha decision.
What kind of a part-time job would you like to find?
Does the job need any special knowledge?
What are the working hours?
• Suppose, you have thought a lot about your future profession. What kind of job you think is easier, physical or mental?
• Think about your future. Imagine you and your classmates are thirty. What will you do?
FOOD. SHOPPING.
You've invited an American for dinner.
Ask your mother's advice as to what to cook,how to do the
shopping for this purpose.
Make up a menu and ask her to help you.
• You are going to visit your grandmother. She thinks children should have the good table manners. Try to remember what a child needn't do at table.
Who consulted you about good table manners?
What table manners do/don't you know?
What table manners are good/bad?
• Speak about your favourite food and the way you like it to
be cooked.
What is the recipe of your favourite dish?
Who cooks your favourite food?
Which food is more pleasant to cook or to eat?
• Some time ago your mother and you went to the dress shop to buy some new clothes for your birthday party. You quarrelled a little. Describe the shopping procedure.
What shops in your city sell fashionable clothes?
What personal articles did you want to buy?
What was the reason of a disagreement?
You are preparing for your birthday party. Make a menu
for this event.
Which kinds of dishes and drinks will you serve?
Which products should you buy to prepare the dishes? How long can it take you to cook the birthday dinner?
• Speak about food and meals in your life.
In what ways can food and meals be good?
Can food and meals be bad and why?
Who is to blame? What is the optimal role of food in your life?
HOLIDAYS
Which Ukrainian holiday is your favorite?
Why is it special for you and your family?
Which international holiday is your favourite? Is it observed differently in Ukraine compared with other countries?
Give some examples if you know.
• It's the 9-th of May. You've met a veteran of the Great
Patriotic War near the monument of Glory. Congratulate him on this great holiday and ask him to tell you about this holiday.
• Choose a favourite holiday.
Explain why you like this holiday so much. Tell a story from your life that illustrates what this holiday means to you.
Explain how your traditions are typical for your family or typically Ukrainian.
• Think of an article to a school wall-paper about the celebration of Constitution Day in Ukraine.
• What are some typical Ukrainian customs that no other countries have?
Is it important to remember these traditional customs? Why?
You've come to the USA during Christmas time. Ask your American friend how they celebrate this and other holidays in America.
Say whether you have the same holidays in your country .
• It is the 9th of May. You're taking a group of foreigners visiting vo school to the Monument of Glory. Congratulate the war veterans on this holiday and tell your guests about the significance of the holiday for our people.
• You've come to Great Britain before Christmas time. Ask your English friend how they celebrate this holiday in particular and tell him how it is marked in your country.
• There are many holidays in Ukraine. Tell us what holidays your family and you like to celebrate and how you celebrate them.
• There are many holidays in Ukraine. Which is your favourite and why?
Explain how you celebrate this holiday, including your family traditions.
How is your celebration different from the traditional way of celebrating it?
What is your favourite part of the holiday?
TRAVELLING
You are planning your summer vacation. You have saved some money and you and your friend want to travel abroad. Tell your friend where you would like to go and what you will do there.
Describe all of the details about hotels, food and transportation. Explain why you have chosen to go there. Remember you want your friend to agree.
• Say about your ways to spend the long, sunny days.
• It is the last day of your school year. Empress your joy and ask your friend about his plans for summer. Suggest your way of spending holiday.
• Tell how much free time you have. What do you like to do in your tree time?
• What topics do you like to converse with your friends?
• Describe how you have traveled by a fast train.
• What are the advantages of travelling by plane?
• You want to reach your destination as quickly as possible.
You are in a great hurry. The best way to travel is by plane.
Express your attitude to travelling by air.
Are you afraid of heights?
Is there a non-stop airplane service to your destination? How does the ground look like from the plane?
Imagine yourself at sea in a small boat alone. You are sailing round the world. Think how you can survive in the
extreme situation
Who/What has made you sail round the world?
Make a list of problems that have arisen.
What new things have you learnt to do yourself?
• What's good about hiking?
• Speak about your last journey by train to another city.
What time did the train leave your city?
Who did you share the compartment with? Did you feel at ease with your fellow-travelers?
• You are going on a trip to another nation.
What country would you travel to? Why? What gifts of Ukrainian folk-culture would you bring to your hosts?
How would you explain their significance to them?
• Your friend is going abroad. You tell him/her about difficulties he/she may face there.
• During a trip to the country the language of which you don't know you've lost your way. What would you do?
• You are thinking about going away on vacation. Ask a travel agent where he thinks you should go.
• You have just learned some hard-earned vacation time. You have saved enough money to take a one week vacation anywhere in the world you'd like to go. Where will you go?
Explain why this place is the best place in the world to visit.
What will you see while you are there?
Imagine you just got back from this vacation.
Tell one of your colleagues a funny story about something that happened while you were there.
• Your friend is very fond of hiking and invites you to join him.
Express your thanks but reject the invitation because you
prefer other ways of traveling.
Explain which of them you appreciate most and why.
• It's Sunday. You see your friend hurrying somewhere. Ask him about his plans for the day off and suggest your way of spending it.
• You are about to take part in a week-long survival course in
the mountains.
What three objects would you bring along with you? Why do you think that these objects are so important for survival?
What are you most scared about before leaving for this journey?
• Your brother/sister has just returned from a trip.
Ask him/her about it.
You are an astronaut reporting back to Earth from outer space.
Describe what you can see as you are floating through space.
• You find a magical mirror that can show you anything in
the world.
What do you want to see?
Why do you want to see it?
What will you do with this information?
• Describe a beautiful place.
FLAT AND HOUSEHOLD
• Where would you prefer to live: in an appartment building
(which floor), a single house or on a farm? Give your resons why.
• Describe your dream house and why you want to live there.
What does it look like?
Where is it lokated?
What amenities does it have?
• You have resently moved into a new flat.
Describe your housewarming party.
• Describe your appartment to a friend. What would you like to improve?
• If you had an opportunity to make your room/flat/house more comfortable or beautiful, what would you do about it?
• You are leaving home for university and your future roommate calls you.
Tell him/her about yourself. Try to come up with some rules for the hostel rooms/appartment while you are living with each other.
Explain the chores that you will do and what you would prefer not to do. Try to establish a schedule of housework.
• At the weekend you visit your Granny in order to help her. You did the jobs around the house that you really hated doing.
Tell us about your visit.
Write an article for your local magazine entitied: "City-
dwellers don't Know what They're Missing." Try to convince the reader of the joys of the countryside.
• A person's decision about where to live is very important. Some people want appartments, while others want private homes. Some people are more comfortable in a city while
others like village life
Where would your like to live in your future? Why?
What will your home look like?
What rooms will you need? Why?
How will your future job and plans for a family influence your choices?
• You are at home. There is a knock at the door. You don't
know who the visitor is.
Describe your first actions and what your first words are.
What may be the excuse not to open the door?
How do you greet your guests?
Do you offer your guests a cup of tea?
• You've moved into a new flat. Describe where you live, what new addres is and what your home is like now. In what part/destrict of the city/town do you live? What modern conveniences are there in your new flat? How have you furnished and decorated your new flat?
BOOKS AND READING
• Cive a short review of the book you've read and liked much. Be sure to mention the title of the book and why you liked it.
• Imagine you are interviewing one of your favourite English or American writers.
What would you like to ask him/her about? What interests you most in his/her literary work?
• If you were offered to write a book, paint picture or compose a song about life, what would it be and why?
What style would it be?
Who or what would you choose to describe?
What or who would be the object/the hero of your piece?
Would you show it to the others? What is your attitude to fame?
Give your reasons.
• Which kind of books do you like to read the most: True stories, Biographies, Detective, Horror, Mystery, Science
Fiction?
Tell why.
• What is your favourite fairytale/folktale or poem? Why? Can you relate to it? How?
• Do you have a favorite author? Who? Why is he /she so good?
Discuss your favourite author.
What books/articles/stories have you read by him/her that you like?
How do you think this author presents the human experience?
Compare this author to other authors, explaining why your author is stronger and is more popular.
• If you could have lunch with any person, alive or dead,
fictional or real, who would it be?
What questions would you ask this person?
What would you tell about yourself?
What would you suggest that you do after lunch?
• What book have you read most recently? Describe the plot of the book. Tell what you felt about the
book (was it good or bad?).
Compare the book to something else you have read.
• Suppose you are a book character.
Whom would you choose to be and why?
Would you change anything in the book you are from and why?
In what way would you differ from (or resemble) your real self?
Would it have a good or bad effect on your real life? And what specifically could be different?
• Your friend has presented you with a new book.
Express your joy and say what kind of books you like to read.
Ask your friend about his tastes in literature.
You are having a chat with your friend about the book you've recently read.
Ask him whether he has read it and where his tastes in book reading lie.
Express your opinion on the book and advise him to read it.
• Yesterday you read the article under the title "Without
Music Life is a Journey througha Desert".
You decided to write your thoughts about it to the school newspaper.
• You are talking to an American student who is on visit to your school.
Tell him about the most famous writers in the literature of
Ukraine.
Tell him also about the most popular writers in the country today.
Imagine you're recomending one of their books to a foreign person – what would you tell him about the book and its author.
• You are talking to your friend about the book you've recently read.
Ask him/her if he has read it and where his tastes in book reading lie.
Express your opinion of the book and advise him to read it.
• You are in the bookshop and you are discussing books on
sail with your friend.
Speak about your tastes in literature.
Aska Jury member about his/her tastes.
Explain how you select the book for reading.
• To write a report on History of Ukraine you needed a book wits some special information. It was available in the school library Remember how you subscribed to your school libraryу.
Where is the library located?
Who helped you to find the book?
What books can you take from the library?
HEALTH AND BODY CARE
• Why do people drink so much coca-cola and pepsi-cola?
Is it good or bad for your health?
What's your favorite drink? Why?
• Your attitude to your health.
Are you in perfect health? Why? What do you do to improve your health, and what can others do?
What can be done to prevent serious problems? How realistic is it?
• Your friend is absent in class today.
Phone him home and ask what's happened. Inquire about his health and ask if you can, do something for him.
Tell him about some school news.
• Two weeks ago your mother had a splitting headache and a terrible cough .You telephoned for your district doctor.
Try to remember the details of the doctor's visit.
What examination did the doctor make?
What did the doctor prescribe?
Did the doctor give your mother sick list?
You are walking up to your apartment and you see it is burning.You have enough time to run in and take only one thing (your family and pets have allready escaped).
What do you take?
Why do you choose this item?
What makes it so irreplaceable?
Think of one item you left behind and explain why.
Is your object of monetary or emotional value? Explain why this is important.
Bad habits are a part of almost everybody's life. We all do things that we shouldn't sometimes, but of course, some bad habits are worse than others.
What do you think are some of the worst bad habits?
Why do you think so?
What should we do to break our bad habits?
What might happen to people who keep their bad habits all their life?
NATURE AND ECOLOGY
• Describe what you and your friends can do to help improve the environment in Dniepropetrovsk.
• It is a fine morning with the sun shining brightly.
Say what you can do in such weather.
Compare two seasons.
• You are a member of organization «Defenders of Nature». You met English children-the members of «Woodcraft
Folk» organization.
Ask them what they do to protect Nature. Share your personal experience.
• What animals are facing extinction?
Why is it important to try and save animals from extinction? What else can humans do to preserve the world around them?
• Every pupil can do something to help nature.
Tell us what you can do? How do you treat the earth?
How do you help nature?
• If you had a chance to speak to the President of Ukraine, what problems would you discuss with him?
• Describe your favourite season and explain why you like it.
PETS AND OTHER ANIMALS
• You are the owner of a pet store, and you have been asked
to speak about the importance of having pets.
Explain how to choose the right pet for you.
What benefits do pets offer their owners? What responsibilities do owners have to their pets?
• Your neighbour has a very noisy dog. Complain to her/him about it.
• Should animals be set free or is it 0.K. to have pets and zoos?
Explain.
UKRAINE. KIEV
• You've met a person from Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada. Ask him about how they manage to keep up the Ukrainian
language and traditions there.
Compare them with those in Ukraine?
• You're on a visit to Great Britain.
The school you are visiting asks you to give them a talk on the history of your native country and the great people who made this history. Be ready to talk about it.
• While travelling in England one summer you meet some English students who are very interested in your country and its customs, traditions, national dishes and holidays.
Give these students a lesson in Ukraine.
What do you like most of all about your country?
Recommend that they come to visit your country? What should they see?
• Speak about life in your country in the past.
Where did people use to live?
How did they use to make a living?
What language did they speak?
• Y ou have been given the chance to speak to any person from history. You will be transported to that time for a day and will be able to learn as much as you want about this person's life and thoughts.
With whom will you choose to spend this day?
Why did you choose this person?
What will you speak about?
Will you uncover any mysteries?
If this person asks about the future what will you do? Why?
• Every country has its own famous people, things, traditions. places, events and habits.
What is best in your country?
• You are going to design a poster and write a report about your country.
Inform us what images you should include in your poster and why.
• You work in a travel bureau. Give a short prospect of information about your country.
• What can you do for the prosperity of your native country?
• What if you could be president of Ukraine for one day?
What would you do?
Who would you meet?
Where would you go?
What issue would you want to deal with?
• You have decided to go to Kyiv on a three-day excursion. You tell your friend what you are going to do and to see in the capital.
• Your American friend has come to visit you. Make an excursion about Kyiv for him.
• You have a pen-friend who has never been to Ukraine. Describe a typical year's weather in your country. Comment on some peculiarities.
• Explain what you think your country is most famous for.
• People say that Ukraine is a "rich" country in both
natural and human resources.
What does that mean?
• You decide to write a history book.
What time period do you decide to focus on?
What area of the world do you write about? Do you think history books are important for understanding today's world?
• If you had a Time Machine, what time would you travel
to and why?
What epoch would you like to see and why?
What would you do there?
What people would you like to meet?
What kinds of things would you see?
Would you prefer to travel on your own or to take someone with you?
• You are having your class in history in the Historical
Museum.
Ask the guide about major events in the history of
Ukraine.
Say which of them you will choose for your report on history.
Account for your choice.
• You are talking to an old Ukrainian. Ask him about the history of your native country and its great people who made this history.
Express your admiration and say what historical facts impressed you most.
• Imagine that you have just returned from Kiev.
Tell your friend about your impressions.
MY NATIVE CITY
• You are receiving guests from the USA. They are interested in the history of your city /town.
Give them a brief history of the place and choose three places most interesting from the historical point of view to show them.
• Your school is being visited by a group of American
students
Act as a quide for them. Take them around and show them your city/town.
• Pretend you are guide.
What interesting places of your town (village) will you showto your English guests?
• You are receiving guests from the USA who are interested
in vour town's history.
Tell them some facts about its past and present. Ask them about their home-town and its traditions.
• Tell when it's better to go for a walk and what places you choose for walking in your town.
• You want to go from one end of your city/town to the other. Unfortunately, there is no direct way to the place where
you want to go.
Explain how you usually travel.
What kinds oftransport do you have to take?
How many ways of getting about the town are there? Which kinds of transport do you prefer?
• It happened you were qetting home in the rush hour. Describe how horrible it was.
• Whenever you have time you like to wander round the
park. Remember your last visit to the park.
What facilities for relaxation are there in your city's park? How many parks are there in your city and which one do you like best?
Why are parks crowded on holidays?
• Your class went on an excursion to the country. Share your
experience how you made the trip.
Why didn't you prefer going to a suburban park? What food did you take with you to an excursion to the country?
What did you do when you stopped at some place during the excursion?
• Describe the nicest part of your city/town to someone who doesn't live here.
Compared to other parts of Ukraine is Dniepropetrovsk better, worse or about the same? Explain.
• Take the map of your native city (town, village). You are in the centre of it.
Explain how to get to the railway station which is supposedly within the walking distance from here. How long may it take you to get to the destination on foot? If you are in a hury, which kind oftransport would you prefer?
Why?
How do you usually get to the distant places?
• Imagine you've been elected the major of your city. Speak about your plans for the nearest future.
• Some people think it is better to live in the village than in a big city.
Do you agree? Why or why not?
• Imagine you are a guide.
Recommend tourists to visit Dniepropetrovsk.
Give your reasons.
GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON
• Your family has the opportunity to travel to a foreign country.
Your father wants to go to Canada but your mother prefers
Great Britain.
Which country would you prefer to visit?
Why would you choose this country?
How would you and your mother or father persuade your other parent of your choice?
• You have a chance to go to an American or English city. Tell us what city you want to go to and what you know about it.
• Your brother has got an invitation to visit his pen-friend in
London.
Ask him what he is planning to do there.
Advise him what you would see in London if you were in his shoes.
• Your friend is going to visit London, but he hasn't read a lot about this city.
Advise him what to see in London.
• Imagine that you are in the center of London. What can you see there.
THE USA. WASHINGTON. NEW YORK
• You have recently returned from New York as an exchange student. Tell your classmates what struck you most of all in the city (after the 11th of September 2001).
• Imagine that you are an American who came to Ukraine. Tell everithing you know about the country and ask questions.
• You are an exchange student in America and have just visited New York and Washington. Express your impression of the visit to your American teacher. Ask him about his own attitude to these cities.
SPORT
• Some people would say that winning is the most important
part of playing a sport. Do you agree? Why?
What are some other reasons why some people play sports? What do you think about the saying "Second place is the first loser"?
How important do you think sports are in developing a person's character?
• What is the difference between a sport and a hobby? Give some examples of each.
• How do people become professional athletes?
Do they work hard or are they just lucky?
If you could be a professional athlete which sport would it be in and why?
• Why is soccer considered to be a sport for boys? Do you think girls would like to play it if they could?
• Do you think exercise should be an important part of every
person's life?
Do you play any sports? Dance? Go jogging?
Do you like exercise?
Can you see any difference in the people around you who
exercise and those who do not?
What are the Benefits of regular exercise?
• Imagine yourself as a spectator at a sports event. Speak about the moments that excite you the most.
• Is it true that girls like playing boys' games but boys don't like playing girls' games?
Can you think of examples from your own experience, which prove or disprove this idea?
• You must go in for sports if you want to be strong. What sports are you fond of?
• What kind of sports do you go in for?
Do you take part in competitions?
What character must a realsportsman have?
• Compare two sports.
• As a member of a football team your brother has just come
back from England.
Ask him about sport in Britain, whether it differs from sport in Ukraine.Express your point of view.
• You are having a meeting with American sportsmen.
Ask them about the most popular kinds of sport in the USA. Say whether you play the same games in Ukraine.
• Your friend is beaming with joy, because his volleyball team won victory.
Congratulate him on this occasion and ask a few questions
about his sport activities.
Say what role sport plays in your life.
• You are interviewing a group of American sportsmen. What kind of questions would you ask them? Do you think you share with them the same tastes in sports? How different are they?
LIFESTYLE AND CHARACTER
• Imagine it is one hundred years ago and you are very rich.
What is your life like?
Where do you live?
What do you do?
• Describe the activities you are good or bad at.
• You are presented with the opportunity to correspond with
a "pen pal" froman English-speaking country.
With what kind of person would you most like to correspond
(age, job, etc.)?
What questions would you most like to ask this person? What would you want to tell your pen pal about yourself and your country?
• One day someone gives you the possibility to start your life over again. You will remember everything that you did the first time you lived your life.
Will you take this chance? Why?
Is there anything in your life that you would like to do
differently?
What and how?
What would you want to do again? Why?
• One day you are walking in the park and you meet yourself, only it is the future you. You are surprised, but then you are curious and you start to ask the future you some question.
What does the future you look like?
What question do you ask? What answers do you get? What advice does the future you give you?
• Friends often form a large part of our lives. If we didn't have friends life would be a lot more difficult. Thanks to them that we can share our feelings and ask advice with our problems.
What qualities do you think a good friend should have? What is the difference between a friend and a best friend?
How do your friends make your life better?
• Think of an emergency in your life and tell what happened.
How did you notice the emergency?
Was anybody in danger?
What were your first steps and actions to help?
• Imagine your wallet and ticket have just been stolen at the railway station. You are about to board the train, but now you have got nothing and are upset. Make a telephone call home.
Why did none of your parents come to see you off?
Where were you going to?
How much money was there in the wallet?
• Some parents think that even their young children should get regular pocket money. Explain why you (don't) agree with the point of view of such parents.
What do your parents think about this statement? What good and bad points does money have? Where do you get money if you need more than your pocket money?
There is an opinion that children should be free to choose their own friends. Try to remember how often you make friends.
How many friends can a person have?
Do you trust all your friends?
In which situation should the parents interfere with the relations of their child and his/her friends?
• You've been invited to your friend's birthday party. He/she will be 17.
Tell your mother about your friend's hobbies, likes and
dislikes, and ask for her advice as to a gift.
• You know that today is the last day in history.
How will you spend this day?
Who will you spend this day with?
If you could preserve one thing for future civilizations to discover and learn about your civilization, what would it be?
• Tell us what you think the world will be like 100 years from now.
• We all get presents sometimes.Most of the presents we get are wonderful, interesting and just what we wanted. But sometimes we get a present we just don't like. Tell about some presents that you received that you really didn't like.
What was it? Why didn't you like it? Who gave it to you?
When did you receive it? What did you do with the present?
Did you ever tell the person who gave it to you?
When you are choosing presents for others, what do you think about?
What kind of car would you like to own someday and why? Describe it.
• You need to find a way of earning money so that you can afford a holiday next summer. What will you do?
• Speak about you and time.
What are the best ways of spending time, and why?
What are bad ways of spending time? Give your reasons.
In what way do you plan your time?
Are you reasonable in this respect? Why?
• Say what you like doing and what you dislike doing and explain why.
• Describe the activities you are good or bad at.
• What is the most enjoyable thing to do alone?
Why is this activity so enjoyable for you?
How often do you spend time by yourself?
Do you feel it is important to have this time alone? Have you ever been afraid to spend time by yourself?
• Describe a happy day you will never forget.
One English proverb says, "The best things in life are free." How do you understand this proverb? Give some example of when it is true.
In which cases do you think this proverb might not be true?
Why?
Do you agree with the proverb? Why? What is your favorite proverb?
• Describe a pleasant day (evening) you spent together with your friend.
When was it and where?
Was it pleasant for everybody?
In what way (how) can you have a pleasant time?
• Speak about a thing which is difficult for you to do.
Why is it difficult?
Do you think it will be easier in future?
Do you need an advisor for this activity?
• You met a person whom you hadn't seen for a very long
time. Describe your meeting.
Was it a pleasant meeting for you?
What new information about the person's life have you got? Were you struck by any news told by the person?
• You want to make an appointment with your friend. Unfortunately, you don't have a telephone at home and you've lost his/her telephone number.Try to solve this problem as quickly as possible.
In what case do you ring up Enquiries?
How do you remember the telephone numbers? What appointment with your friend did you make?
• Describe modern fashions. What is fashionable for men ana
women?
What length of hair for men/women is fashionable?
What is in common for men and women this season? What colours for clothes are preferable?
• Theft is a very common crime in the world. People steal for many different reasons, and there are many different punishments for stealing around the world. Why do you think people steal?Are there times when stealing is OK.
How should thieves be punished? Does it matter, why they stole?
How can theft be reduced? Have you ever had anything stolen?
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