Tematické okruhy na ústnu časť MS – anglický jazyk B2

  1. FAMILY
  • Talk about yourself and your childhood
  • Relationships in your family
  • Advantages and disadvantages of having siblings
  • Functions of a family
  • Non-functional families
  • Generation gap
  • Current situation of young families

 

  1. CULTURE AND  ART
  • The role of art in society
  • Performing and decorative art
  • Cultural possibilities in villages and cities
  • Musical genres
  • Your preference for films
  • Your attitude to galleries and museums – rules
  • Cultural life in your town
  • Your attitude to classical music – some composers
  • Some cultural events you have been to

 

  1. SPORTS AND  GAMES
  • Your attitude to sports
  • Your favourite sport – details
  • Importance of doing sport regurarly
  • Popular sports in the UK, the USA and Slovakia
  • World-known tournaments and championships
  • Olympic Games
  • Advantages and disadvantages of doing sport professionally
  • Vandalism of sports fans

 

  1. HOUSING AND  HOME
  • The place where you live
  • House of your dreams
  • Types of houses
  • Advantages and disadvantages of living in towns and in the countryside
  • Domestic chores in your family

 

  1. SHOPPING AND  SERVICES
  • Your attitude to shopping
  • Ways of shopping and paying – pros and cons
  • All types of shops
  • Services in your town
  • Advertisements on TV, magazines, the Internet… – tricks they use
  • Slovak market and export and import of products in Slovakia

 

  1. HEALTH CARE
  • Healthy lifestyle
  • Effect of stress on health
  • At the doctors
  • The most common diseases and their symptoms
  • The development of medical science in history
  • Your lifestyle

 

  1. TRAVELLING
  • Reasons for travelling
  • Planning a holiday
  • At the airport – travelling by air – pros and cons
  • Means of transport – advantages and disadvantages of travelling by them
  • Future of travelling
  • Your preference for holidays
  • Your travel experience

 

  1. EDUCATION
  • The school system in Slovakia
  • Subjects at your school
  • The importance of learning foreign languages
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Some changes about our school
  • School rules
  • Reasons for playing truant
  • The status and authority of teachers nowadays

 

  1. JOBS AND  PROFFESIONS
  • Definition of employment
  • Economically active and inactive population
  • Skills for physical and intellectual work
  • Reasons for unemployment
  • What will you consider while choosing a job
  • Your summer job experience
  1. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
  • Formal and informal relationships
  • Recipe for a good long-lasting marriage
  • Describe a true friendship
  • People with social problems – disabled, addicted, homeless
  • How to get on with other people – what is important in relationships

 

  1. MAN AND  NATURE
  • Climate in our country- seasons in Slovakia
  • Weather changes
  • Ecological issues
  • What can we do to save our planet
  • How to behave in forests
  • People and animals

 

  1. SCIENCE AND  TECHNOLOGY
  • Definition of science and technology
  • Important inventions
  • Technological progress
  • Information and communication technology
  • The Internet
  • Facebook
  • Misuse of inventions
  • The future of science and technology

 

  1. MAN AND  SOCIETY
  • Etiquette and ethics
  • Rules of modern etiquette
  • Ettiquette in conversations
  • Table etiquette
  • Loss of manners – reasons
  • Moral values in today´s society
  • Ill-mannered behaviour of children – reasons
  • Government care of its citizens- young families, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, senior citizens
  • Addictions
  • Minorities in our country

 

  1. COMMUNICATION AND  ITS  FORMS
  • Communication and communications skills
  • Written and oral forms of communication
  • Non-verbal communication
  • Direct and indirect ways of communication
  • Modern ways of communication – social networks
  • Formal and informal communication
  • Reasons and importance to learn foreign languages

 

  1. YOUNG PEOPLE  AND  THEIR  WORLD
  • Definition of puberty – changes
  • Social problems of young people
  • Legal rights of young people
  • Generation gap
  • Relationships of young people
  • Free time of young people
  • Opportunities for young people at present

 

  1. MASS MEDIA
  • Definition and types of mass media
  • Roles of mass media
  • Radio stations
  • TV channels
  • The quality of newspapers and magazines
  • The Internet
  • Negative impact of massmedia on people
  • Your preference

 

  1. FOOD
  • Slovak eating habbits
  • Slovak traditonal meal – how to prepare it
  • The impact of food on your health
  • Your eating habbits
  • Your opinion on junk food
  • Slimming diets
  • World´s cuisines popular in Slovakia

 

  1. HOBBIES, LEISURE AND  LIFESTYLE
  • Reasons for doing hobbies
  • Common ways of spending free time – different kinds of free time activities
  • Hobbies of teenagers, children and adults
  • Connection of lifestyle with our hobbies
  • Lifestyle of Slovak, British or American people
  • Your free time activities

 

  1. MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
  • Holidays in Slovakia
  • Slovak Christmas and Easter
  • The Slovaks as a nation
  • Minorities in Slovakia
  • Features of multicultural society
  • Reasons for leaving homeland – brain drain
  • Pros and cons of membership in EU – give some facts about EU
  • Melting pot and assimilation to multiculturalism
  • Xenophobia, anti-semitism and racism
  • Your opinion on immigrants coming to EU

 

  1. FASHION
  • What fashion reflects
  • Clothes made by a tailor and bought in a shop
  • Top designer´s clothes
  • Clothing and weather
  • Special occasions
  • Care of our clothes

 

  1. IDOLS, CELEBRITIES AND  FAMOUS  PERSONALITIES
  • Who is idol for you
  • Influence of role models on young people
  • Qualities you value or hate on people
  • Literary heroes
  • Negative impact of violent heroes

 

  1. READING BOOKS
  • Literary genres – types and your preference
  • Definition of fiction and non-fiction literature
  • Name some english authors of children´s literature
  • Efficiency of libraries
  • Reading crisis among the young
  • Your opinion on compulsory reading
  • Choose one book of an English or American writer – give some details

 

 

  1. SLOVAKIA – MY HOMELAND
  • Slovakia – location, national symbols, geographical facts
  • Crucial historic events
  • Places and towns – we are proud of
  • UNESCO places
  • Slovak traditions and habbits
  • Slovaks as a nation
  • Slovak personalities

 

  1. THE UNITED  KINGDOM
  • Great Britain and the United Kingdom
  • Give some facts about these countries, some crucial historical events
  • Capital cities – monuments, interesting places
  • Well-known british personalities
  • Public holidays in GB
  • Your attitude to GB

 

  1. THE UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA
  • Give some facts
  • Some crucial historical events
  • Important American cities
  • Places and attractions for tourists
  • World-known American personalities
  • American holidays – their traditions
  • American way of life – your opinion

 

  1. TOWNS AND  PLACES
  • The place where you live
  • Pros and cons of living in your town
  • Cultural and educational opportunities in your town
  • What would you change about your town
  • Interesting places, monuments, events in your town
  • Famous personalities