PWSZ GNIEZNO

SPEAKING EXAM 2009

GENERAL ENGLISH

1. +Discuss the role of television in the contemporary world. Do you think that the Internet will entirely replace TV in the future?

2. +Crime is a growing problem in many countries. What are the most common kinds of crime? Discuss the main causes and suggest what could be done to reduce high crime rate.

3. +What personal qualities make a good boss, colleague and employee?

4. +Many people are fascinated with the idea of working abroad. What problems will they probably have to face?

5. +Why do people practise sports? What kinds of sport are most popular? Would you make any sport illegal?

6. What is the role of the press in the contemporary world?

7. +Do men and women have equal rights in Poland and in other countries? Do they have the same job opportunities? Discuss.

8. +What are the main problems facing big cities?

9. +What is the greatest achievement of the 20^th century?

10. +Is it possible to find a friend, a partner or fall in love via the Internet? Discuss.

11. +What does healthy lifestyle mean to you?

12. Good-looking people are said to be more successful. Is physical appearance important in life? What do people do to look better?

13. +What are national stereotypes? What do we think about foreigners and what do foreigners think about Poles? Discuss.

14. +How should we get ready for a job interview? What must we remember to do and not to do during one?

15. +What do you think about university life? What changes in the curriculum would you introduce if you had power to do so? Would you fight cheating?

General english

1.Discuss the role of television in the contemporary world. Do you think that the Internet will entirely replace TV in the future?

In my opinion role of television is smaller than role of Internet. In TV we can watch and hear only this what operator choose. In internet everyone of us can read, watch, listen that what he want to. In the future, I think TV will stop exist, because power of the Internet will bigger then today. Difference price between TV and Internet also will decide about people choice. Today many people are talking about free Internet for everyone. If that idea will impossible for us, everyone will have Internet in home. Personally I see my TV only if I want to watch some film with my family. If I want to know what happened In the world I am going to my computer and watching websites with that information.

2. Crime is a growing problem in many countries. What are the most common kinds of crime? Discuss the main causes and suggest what could be done to reduce high crime rate.

The number of most common kinds of crime like, burglary, mugging, auto theft, robbery, purse snatching, rape, etc. is growing at an alarming rate.

One of the main causes of crime is peer influence. A person's peer group strongly influences a decision to commit crime. Next causes that I would like to present are drugs and alcohol. The increased availability of free information on the Internet also makes it easy to commit certain kinds of crime. Web sites provide instructions on how to make bombs and buy poisons; all this information is easily available from the comfort of a person's home. Other factors—biological, psychological, or social—will also come into play.

I have an idea how to reduce a high crime rate. Working together, we can get the criminals off our block and out of our area.

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4. Many people are fascinated with the idea of working abroad. What problems will they probably have to face?

I understand people who are fascinating this idea. Firstly they can't ahead a lot of money in our country in that short time. For people without education have chance to ahead some money in short time. But I don't stand by this idea. We need this people I our country. Most of they don't want to work in Poland because they can ahead more in abroad. Our government should do something with that or will loose all of our specialist at building for example. Only way to fight with this problem is build more places where people can ahead money.

5.Why do people practise sports? What kinds of sport are most popular? Would you make any sport illegal?

Popular sports are different in all countries. Every country have “national sport”. For example in Brazil national country sport is … Football. Sport is the best option on outdorr activity. People in each age can make a lot of sport disciplines. People knows that sport is healthy and decided about health in the future of this people. Physical education is needed in schools because teenagers spend too much time watching TV, play computer games etc. Some peoples make a extreme sports to feel adrenaline and freedom. All kind of sports can be dangerous when you don't have experience. In my opinion all kind of sport should be legal, because all discipline of sports was create by people to people.

6. Contemporary word

In 21^st century where every one have access to information on the internet. News paper will go on the second plan. In my opinion people don't have buy newspapers, because they can read fresh news on the popular portals. Nowadays we can see, that most popular newspapers have electronic version on the web. People who have access to the internet prefer electronic version of favorite newspaper.

7.Do men and women have equal rights in Poland and in other countries? Do they have the same job opportunities? Discuss.

From many years, women have been fighting for equal rights for them. When they achieved, what they wanted, everything had to change. They realize that women are aggrieved for a number of reasons. For example, they don't get good jobs becouse a lot of people think that they are weaker than men. Moreover, women earn little money to compared to men. As well as this, mainly men are choosed to govern the country. It's not fair. Personally, I think that a lot of women can feel aggrieved. In Poland and in other countries full equal fights doesn't exist. We can see it only on paper.

8.What are the main problems facing big cities?

Noisy is the most important problem in big cities. In the middle of city

you can get and do everythink you want beacuase there is everythink.

So many people decide to get by a car so near how they can to place where

they want be. Not one person think like that, so many cars in small streets make

often traffic jams. Many people like walking, but some of them when they finish

somethink what they eat before, just push throw the air papier, and didn't think about it.

It makes streets not so clean like they were before.

We know than these problem are make by people, so

i think we must decide where we want live ?

If you have a pet just clean after walk what he do under himself it makes life so

peacfull and friendly. Try ... don't be affraid of Tomorrow ;)

9.What is the greatest achievement of the 20^th century?

In my opinion, the best achievement of the 20^th century is the Internet. People use it everyday at school, at work. For example, when they want to find some necessary information about something or if they are interested in the news. You can find there everything, some people think that also a friend. You have a chance to talk to somebody there. It can be a person from all over the world. Moreover, the Internet is really useful in the everyday life. You can stay at home but do the shopping. A lot of people pay the bills using the Internet. As well as this, you can send the message to another person, but you don't have to go to the post office.

10.Internet

In my opinion it's possible to find a love via internet, but it can be dangerous. I think that lot of people looking love via internet want be anonymous and never tell everything about self. Most people whose search date and in future maybe love via internet are very shy and secretive. They can't meet people in traditional method. Also searching a love via internet we can't never know how this person is really likes. Someone persons can be true, but someone persons can imagine or create some perfect personality to be better or more attractive. I think that some date portals are very good, but we must remember, that sometimes reality is quite different.

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Healthy lifestyle is above all care on your health. For me health care is sport activity, good diet, spending time on the fresh air. Training once a week is to enough to feel better. Regular eating is a too very important thing to feel better. To be and to feel healthy we must avoid the stress, because stressful situations are very Bad for the organism. Also healthy life style is not only, sport and diet, but spending our time In Good terms. Working on the calm terms is very important too.

12. Good-looking people are said to be more successful. Is physical appearance important in life? What do people do to look better?

In my opinion it's not very important in our life's. More important for me are good health and family. But some group of people need good physical appearance in they daily life. Situations where are they push trough to good looking. For example people of business need suit all the time. Sometimes in our life's we have situations like exams, weddings etc. where we should looking good too. Personally I think that we don't have to buy new expensive suit to get, for example new job because in this situations we must offer our knowledge. Our boos will pay for work not for appearance. So in my finally opinion we shouldn't spend money for a lot of new clothes to feel good in our life. If people want to looking good the last most famous in our country is solarium. More exclusive is spa, where we can renew our body. Of curse we can go to hair shop to get new good looking haircut.

13.What are national stereotypes? What do we think about foreigners and what do foreigners think about Poles? Discuss.

National stereotypes exist a long time and in all of them we can find a peace of true. For example everyone know about stereotype about our neighbors Russians like drink a lot of specific kind of water, Germans like beer and in French are the best lovers. That stereotypes was creating for long time and I think that time of exist are saying some true. I don't know opinion of foreigners about our country because I never told with someone from abroad about this and I can only guess that we have same opinion like Russians and also we are a thefts. Argument for this last may be the German Media Mark advertisement where creator showed us like a thefts. I think that stereotypes sometimes are not good. For example in the USA everyone who believe in Allah are potential terrorist with bomb. Second example, everyone think that Jews see business everywhere and they are misers. So I don't promote stereotypes.

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Before the interwiew we must learn as much as we can about the company, salary and benefits. It will be good if you will know about friends, neighbors and relatives who work for the company. If we whant do good impression we must learn everything that we can about the job and how your previous experience and training qualify you for the job.

Before the interview certainly we must write some application like our background and experience list, resume or summary of work experience. Also we can include 
any work-related or community service awards that you have received. As well we should have some documents like social security card, driver's license, union cards and in case of man documents with military records. And the last we must remember about dress appropriate for the interview.

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What I am thinking about university life in Poland. It is a realy hard theme because it is different when we talk about humanistic trend and polytechnic trend. I don't have experience with first then I try concentrate at second kind of university trend. In my opinion, Polish University have high standard of education. But several subjects that we have in our university is unnecessary because some of it are out of date and it need updating. First change what I whant do if I can do this. Is implementation some range of subject for semester and student can choose which of this subject he want have. Would I whant fight with cheating. I am thinking that fight with this is pointless. People will do this kind of fraud because cheating goes with the grain.

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