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Complete 4. Speaking.

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Vocabulary

Complete 4. Speaking.

Topic 1. Can you describe your town or city?

Use: Present Simple and Present Continuous + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. What do you like about the area you live?

2. What things in your town or city do you not like?

3. How is the area changing?

4. What do you think visitors to your town or region should see? Why?

Topic 2. The word hobby has become very popular and clear to everybody. Nobody seems to be without a hobby nowadays. Do you have a hobby?

Use: Present Simple and Future Simple + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. What hobbies do you have?

2. What new activity would you like to try?

3. Which hobbies do you think are the most difficult?

4. Can you think of any hobbies, which are popular with children and adults?

Topic 3. What can you tell about your childhood?

Use: Past simple and Past Continuous + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. Do you come from a small family or a large family?

2. As a child, who did you spend more time with: your family or your friends? Why?

3. When you were a child, how did you spend your weekends?

4. What did you enjoy most about school?

5. When you were at school, who did you think was your best teacher? Why?

Topic 4. What types of transport do you use regularly? Why?

Use: different adjectives and adverbs (fast/faster/the fastest, cheap, enjoyable, loudly…) + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. Which for of transport do you think is the most comfortable?

2. What is the most readily available form of public transportation where you live?

3. How important do you think it is to use public transportation?

4. Do you think that governments should encourage public transportation more?

Topic 5. How have inventions changed people’s lives? What do you think?

Use: Present Perfect + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. What are the best and the most useful inventions of the humankind in the 20th and 21st centuries?

2. What famous inventors do you know?

3. What do you think is the worst/best invention of the humankind?

4. What is the use of space exploration?

Topic 6. Which are your favorite animals? Why?

Use: Countable and uncountable nouns + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. Would you ever consider getting a pet?

2. What can people learn from animals?

3. Have you ever been to the zoo? What animals did you see there?

4. What animals do you think are the most dangerous?

Topic 7. Do you worry about the environment?

Use: If-clauses + vocabulary

Use the following prompts:

1. What are the biggest problems facing our environment?

2. What would you do to save our environment?

3. What do you think of environmental groups like Greenpeace?

Topic 8. What images spring to mind when you hear the word “science”?

Use: reported speech and expressions in my opinion, to my mind, in fact…

Use the following prompts:

1. How important is science?

2. What has science done for humankind?

3. What famous scientist do you know?