Topics for an oral exam: EDUCATION

TOPIC: EDUCATION

1. How important do you think education is?

2. Do you think you had a good education?

3. What would the world be like if everyone had access to good education?

4. Does your government really care about education?

5. In which country do you think you can receive the best education? Why?

6. Is the level of education in your country good?

7. What do you think about single-sex education?

8. What would you do to improve the educational system in your country?

9. When does education begin?

10. Would you like to work in education?

11. Is education only an academic issue?

12. What kind of qualifications do you think a government's education minister needs?

13. Is your educational system different from your parents'?

14. What students need to be more efficient?

15. What are the pros and cons of studying in public schools?

Topics for an oral exam: TRAVELLING

TOPIC: TRAVELLING

1. Do you like travelling?

2. What is "travel" for you?

3. What different kinds of travelling are there?

4. What's the best place you've ever been to?

5. What's the best kind of travelling for you?

6. Would you like to go travelling for a few years non-stop?

7. What are the good and bad things of travelling?

8. Where do you want to travel before you die?

9. What are the pros and cons of travelling in first class and backpacking?
10. Where did you spend your last vacation?
11. What are the benefits of travelling alone?
12. What is the longest journey you have ever made?
13. Would you like to travel to the moon?
14. What would make you wiser - Travel around the world for 10 years or reading 10.000 books?
15. What are the things you always take with you to a trip?

Topics for an oral exam: CINEMA

TOPIC: CINEMA

1. What do you think of when you hear the word "film"?

2. Would you like to work in the film industry?

3. Which film would you like to live in?

4. What's the best film you've ever seen? Why?

5. Do you prefer watching movies at the cinema or on TV?

6. Who is the biggest movie hero ever?

7. Which country makes the best films?

8. Who are your favourite film star? Why?

9. Are movies good for us?

10. Do you think films make people more violent?

11. What film genre do you like the most?

12. What things make a film great?

13. If you could make a movie, what would it be about?

14. Do you prefer to watch a good film, documentary or match?

15. Who do you prefer to watch films? Why?

16. What people do during films that really annoys you?

17. Which is more important, acting or special effects?

18. Do you cry during movies?

19. Is it usual in your country to go to the cinema?

20. What is the worst film you've ever seen? Why?

Topics for an oral exam: ILLNESSES

TOPIC: ILLNESSES

1. What is the best thing to do to stay healthy?

2. What do you think the worst disease to have would be?

3. Do you consider yourself a healthy person? Why or why not?

4. How often do you exercise?

5. What is your diet like? Do you eat mostly fruits and vegetables?

6. What do you think about the health care system in your country? How could it be improved?

7. People are living longer thanks to medicine. How long would you like to live? How about forever?

8. Are there any diseases like smallpox that you think humans could totally get rid off if we tried?

9. Where do you think the future of medicine will be? Genetics? Cybernetics? Chemistry?

10. What is your opinion about pharmaceutical industry?

11. Would you like to get your genome sequenced?

12. If you could find out that you were at risk to get a certain disease, would you want to know?

13. How would you help african people?

14. Would you like to be a doctor?

15. Have you ever had to be operated on?

Topics for an oral exam: PEOPLE

TOPIC: PEOPLE

1. What is the first thing you notice about a person?

2. What do the clothes someone wears say about a person?

3. Is there a part of your appearance that you are very proud of?

4. What is the most interesting haircut you have seen?

5. Have you ever gone through the entire day without noticing something was wrong with your appearance?

6. What kind of things do you do to improve/maintain your appearance?

7. Are there any fashion tends in the past you followed but think are silly looking now?

8. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

9. Have you ever been intimidated by someone's appearance?

10. Do people in your country talk a lot about other people's appearance?

11. Is it rude to tell a person that they need to improve their appearance?

12. What is the most attractive quality in a person?

13. Do you think physique ir more important than personality?

14. What is your best quality?

15. In your opinion, what physical and personal qualities make a person attractive?

Topics for an oral exam: HOLIDAYS

TOPIC: HOLIDAYS

1. What is your favourite holiday? Has it changed since you were a kid?

2. On what holiday do people in your country eat a lot of food?

3. Do you give presents on any holidays?

4. What foreign holidays do you know about?

5. What is the strangest holiday or festival you have heard of?

6. Do you think that all countries have similar holidays?

7. Talk about your best memory from a holiday.

8. What would be your dreamy holidays?

9. Are there any holidays that you really don't like?

10. Do you think your country should have more or less holidays? Why?

11. Does your country have parades during holidays? Have you ever been to a parade?

12. What is the most important holiday?

13. Do you prefer going on holidays alone or with your family?

14. What is the best way for you to go on holidays?

15. What kind of living space do you prefer on holidays?

Topics for an oral exam: WEATHER

TOPIC: WEATHER

1. How many types of natural disaster can you name? Which one is the worst for you?

2. What natural disasters are common in your country?

3. Have you ever been through a natural disaster? Tell us about your experience.

4. What is the best/worst natural disaster film you have seen?

5. Think of 3 natural disasters. What can you do to stay safe during and after those natural disasters?

6. Do you know the difference between a hurricane, a typhoon and a cyclone?

7. Which country has the most natural disasters?

8. Would you ever volunteer to help after a natural disaster hit? If yes, what would you like to volunteer to do? If not, why not?

9. How can technology lessen the damage caused by natural disasters?

10. Can natural disasters be a good thing?

11. What do you think about people who follow tornadoes around to get data, video and photos?

12. Can you think of any country that doesn't have natural disasters?

13. Do you like cold or do you prefer hot climates?

14. Is your city a place where rains a lot?. Have you ever experienced a flood?

15. What is your opinion about global warming? How can we avoid it?

Topics for an oral exam: CRIME

TOPIC: CRIME

1. What do you think the most common crime in your country is?

2. Should police in your country be stricter or less strict?

3. Is your country a safe country?

4. Have you ever seen a crime?

5. Do you think criminals can change?

6. Is shoplifting common in your country?

7. What kind of people shoplift and what kinds of things do they steal?

8. Does your country have a big organized crime group like "the mafia"?

9. Have you ever met someone from "a mafia"?

10. What is the best way for police to keep neighbourhoods safe?

11. Can you tell if a kid will grow up to be a criminal?

12. Do you think your country has a good penal system? Why or why not?
13. How would you change it for better?
14. Is justice in your country egalitarian?
15. You heard about the case of a man who defended his daughter from a rapist. The rapist has died. What is your opinion about the case? What would you do as an inspector?

Topics for an oral exam: FASHION

TOPIC: FASHION

1. Would you like to be a fashion model? What are their lives like?

2. Could you date someone if they had a terrible sense of fashion?

3. Which country or city is the most fashionable in the world?

4. Is fashion important or not? Why or why not?

5. Do you prefer functional or fashionable clothing?

6. What do you think of the fashion industry?

7. How does fashion affect people's lives?

8. What is some of the silliest fashions you have seen?

9. What is your favourite fashion period?

10. Do you think fashion changed as quickly in the past as today? 

11. If you were a fashion designer, what kind of clothes would you design?

12. Do you think is important to follow the new trend?

13. Why people look for being so trendy? Is fashion important in social life?

14. What does "fashion" means to you?

15. Talking about models. Does the fashion industry impose an exagerate body model or is it a question of society?

Topics for an oral exam: MUSIC & BOOKS

TOPIC: MUSIC & BOOKS

1. Who are your favourite bands or artist?

2. Do you read many books?

3. How often do you listen to music/ read books?

4. Do you usually buy albums online or CD's from the store?

5. Did your parents read to you when you were a child?

6. Have you ever illegally downloaded music/books? Do you think it is OK or not to download?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of books VS films?

8. What kind of music do you listen when you want to dance?

9. What was the last book you read about?

10. What kind of music do you listen when you are sad?

11. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction books?

12. Do you think music is getting better or worse? Why?

13. If you could only read one more book for your entire life, what would it be?

14. How do you feel about your country's traditional music?

15. Who is an author that you like? Why do you like their books?

16. Should people try to modernize traditional music? Why? How?

17. What are some examples of traditional literature in your country? Did you have to read it at school?

18. What are your favourite type of music? What is your favourite literary genre?

19. What is your opinion about the e-book? Do you prefer paper or new technologies in reading?

20. Should young people read more? Is it disco and literature on fight?