1. Kay Stepkin, US banker, once said: “Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.” Agree or disagree with the statement, provide the necessary arguments to prove your point of view.
2. Some people say that good professional skills and qualifications are still the key success factors in finding a good job. Others argue that your social networks are more important than professional training. Which side do you take? What will you rely first and foremost while looking for a job?
3. Are there purely male and female occupations? Which are the stereotypes spread in our society? Are they justified? Support your pinion with the arguments.
4. In our country many people think that teaching as a career isn’t suitable for men. Agree or disagree with this opinion, support your point of view with the appropriate arguments.
5. Your friend has recently received a job placement offer from the local office of the “Work and Travel” programme. The offer includes the choice of a child minder / housekeeper /waiter positions in Florida. Your friend is hesitating whether to take it up. Give to your friend a piece of advice concerning the job pointing out the advantages and possible threats of working abroad.
6. Helping youngsters to choose a career is an essential part of teacher’s job. As a teacher speak to the pupils of the 10th form about dangerous professions, choose one to describe in detail and explain why people would take up the risks.
7. A terrified boy walks into the headmaster’s office and receives six strokes of the cane as a punishment for talking in class. Ten years later the same boy, a young man now, walks into the courtroom and receives 15-year prison sentence as a punishment for a vicious assault. Have you ever wondered how different your life might have been if you’d gone to a different school? Have your teachers helped you to catalyse your thirst for knowledge, creativity and will power?
8. In today’s world sophisticated computers pilot aircrafts, control the operation of electric power plants; perform microsurgery operations on human eye. Do you think they will be able to substitute a teacher in a classroom one day?
9. Can you imagine your alumnae meeting in 10 years time? Recollect the best/worst lecture or tutorial you had in the university, mention its merits and drawbacks in detail.
10. You are very dissatisfied with the medical service you have experienced during your last visit to your local hospital. Talk to a journalist of the local radio station describing the ordeal and complaining about the bad service.
11. You are the member of the students’ board. Prepare a small speech for the students’ meeting about the harmful effect of stress on human health and give recommendations on how to reduce vulnerability to stress and overcome seasonal depression.
12. You’ve been taking a strong medicine to treat one of your health problems which had a number of side effects on you body. Talk to your doctor, complain and describe the problems in detail.
13. As a school teacher of the 10th form, give your pupils a speech concerning the harm of smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs.
14. As a school teacher of the 10th form, give your pupils a speech concerning the threats of HIV and give recommendations as to how to avoid being infected.
15. You are a high-school teacher. You are planning a hiking week-end with your 10th form pupils. Talk to them about the accidents which are likely to happen in the woods or mountains. Remind them as how to give the first aid in case of drowning or bites by poisonous insects and reptiles. Tell what they must have in their medical cabinet.
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