Speaking prompt cards
Unit 1
What effect does growing older have on relationships?
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What kind of relationships do you think last the longest? Why?
Do you think that the skill of making relationships should be taught at school?
How important do you think it is to like the people you work with?
Unit 2
What do you think is the best way to prepare children for life?
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Do you agree that schooldays are wasted on the young?
What do you regret about your own schooldays?
What skill would you most like to learn in the future? Why?
Unit 3
How important do you think film will be as the entertainment of the future?
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What kind of films do you like to see and what do you dislike?
How influential do you think films are on young people's behaviour?
Do you think that films should be censored more? Why/Why not?
Unit 4
What do you think makes some types of advertising potentially dangerous?
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How much are you influenced by advertising?
Do you think that society has become too materialistic?
Why do you think that shopping has become a leisure activity?
Unit 5
Is crime a bigger social problem now than it was in the past?
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Do you agree with some people who say that the police should never carry guns?
How do you feel about the way crimes are reported in the media nowadays?
What effect do you think the Internet could have on crime?
Unit 6
How do you imagine life in cities in the future?
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Some people feel that modern buildings are ugly. What do you think?
Which city would you most like to visit? Why?
How far do you agree that there are more disadvantages than advantages in living in a city?
Unit 7
What responsibilities do you think individuals have towards the environment?
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What is being done in your area to improve or protect the environment?
How would you like to see people made more aware of environmental problems?
What do you think is the biggest environmental problem in your area?
Unit 8
How important is it for young people to have good role models?
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Who do you think is a good role model for young people in your country? Why?
What would you most like to be admired for?
How much is success due to individual effort and how much to luck?
Unit 9
Do you think that having a good imagination is important in life?
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Do you think that people can learn to be creative? How?
Do you think that technology limits imagination?
Some people say that reading fiction is a waste of time? How far do you agree?
Unit 10
What kind of work do you think should be rewarded most highly?
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How far do you agree that job satisfaction is more important than financial reward?
Do you think the age of retirement should be changed? Why/Why not?
How far do you agree that computer skills are essential for every worker in today's world?
Unit 11
What aspects of technological development do you find most exciting?
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What aspect of technological development do you find most worrying?
What aspects of life do you think have been made easier by the development of technology?
If you could have invented one thing, what would it be? Why?
Unit 12
What do you think people gain from foreign travel?
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What dangers do you see in foreign travel?
How important do you think it is that there should be a common world language?
Which country would you most like to visit and why?
Unit 13
How do you think success should be measured?
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How would you most like to be successful? Why?
Do you think that there is too much emphasis on formal qualifications nowadays?
What kind of people are usually successful in life?
Unit 14
Why do think books continue to be popular in this technological age?
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Do you think that people should be encouraged to read more books? Why?
What is the best book you have ever read?
Do you think that writers should be well-paid? Why/Why not?