Additional questions to the course:
- What is most important for you in learning a language (list the points in the order of importance)?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of English (Esperanto) as a world language?
- What's the difference between the theatre and TV both in production and viewing? What kind of leisure do yon prefer and why?
- Which generation knows best: younger or the older one?
- Do you want to live to be a hundred? Give arguments or counter-arguments, please.
- What profession would you choose if ... Profession you like most and qualities needed by the people in this profession.
- What kind of prejudices do you have (in your country)? Do you think there's any truth in them?
- What superstitions are there in your country? Do you have any?
- What is your attitude to fears and phobias? What are they born out of?
- What is your attitude to traveller's tales? Do you take them seriously?
- What do you like and dislike about travelling a) by air, b) by land, c) by water?
- Prevention is better than cure. Give as many reasons as you can.
- What are the hazards of modern life?
- What a miserable lot dieters are! Give your arguments and co-unter-arguments.
- What is your attitude to money? Is it worth saving and working for? What is your (family) budget?
- How to preserve the animal world? What are your solutions of the problem?
- What are contemporary environmental problems? What are the ways of overcoming them?
- What is your favourite sort of art or music? How did you first become interested in it? If you find a lot of money to spend on this interest, how would you spend the money?
- Why do we prefer brains to brawn?
- Is it possible to combine a happy family life with a successful career (for men and women)?
- The advantages and disadvantages of large (small) family size.
- Men and women should share equal responsibilities for bringing up children.
- The role of new technologies in everyday life. New appliances - to every house.
- What scientific discoveries can we expect in the 3-rd millennium? Which of them make people either happy or unhappy?
- Compare the state (government) systems of Great Britain and the USA.
- Compare British, American and Belarussian people. What common features do you find in them?