- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Definition of science and technology
- Important inventions
- Technological progress
- Information and communication technology
- The Internet
- Misuse of inventions
- The future of science and technology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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