【正文】 f restaurants are near your home? Q What do you think of fast food restaurants? Q How good is the service in restaurant where you live? Q Do you prefer restaurant food or “home cooking”? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 33 Scientific Development Tell me about an important scientific development. You should say: what the development is and who developed it what the original idea behind the development was how it has developed in recent years and explain how it might influence society in the future. Q What kind of person do you think makes a good scientist? Q Do you think that modern scientific inventions have really improved our lives? Q Do we really need people like historians, philosophers and sociologists in the modern scientific world? Q What new scientific developments do you expect to see in the next ten or twenty years? Q Medical science is consistently helping people to live longer. Do you think that is a good morning? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 34 Short Course Tell me about a short course you have taken or would like to take. You should say: what the course is about where you did it / could do it what the exact content of the course was I will be and say how it has benefited or will benefit you. Q What do you study? Q Tell me something (more) about the school/ university on attend. Q Tell me something (more) about your teachers / professors. Q What courses do you study? Q How improve your courses/ school? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 35 Something Dangerous Tell me about something you think is dangerous You should say: what it is and why you think it is dangerous whether other people also think it is dangerous whether this dangerous thing has any good points and say if you think you are good at handling dangerous situations and things. Q Is crime a problem in your city? Q Which kind of crime do you think is the biggest problem in your country? Q How you ever witnessed a crime? Q What do you do to protect yourself and your home from thieves? Q Do you often read newspaper articles about crime? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 36 Something You Own Tell me about something you own which is useful or important to you. You should say: what the thing is and how you got it why it is useful or important to you if it is also important or useful to others and say how your life would be harder without this thing. Q Do most people in your country(region)have telephones? Q How often do you use telephone? Q Are mobile phones mon in your country(region)? Q For what reasons do people use mobile phones? Q Are there places/ situations where mobile phones shouldn’t be used? Q What features can be found on mobile phones? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 37 Sport Tell me about a sport that you either watch or play. You should say: what the sport is and why you like it if it is popular with other people in your family /city/country where and when you play or watch it and say how you feel when you play or watch this sport. Q What kinds of sports are popular in your country now, but were not popular 20 years ago? Q Do you think that young people spend too much time studying, watching TV, and playing on puters rather than getting exercise and playing sports? Q How can playing sports help us in other aspects of our lives? Q Which sports do you think will bee more (less) popular in the future? Q If you could be really good at sport, which sport would you choose? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 38 The Role Money Tell me about the role money plays in your life. You should say: how important money is in your life what you spend money on and how much you save/invest if you spend money in the same ways as most other people and say whether you consider money to be the most important thing in life. Q Do most people in your country prefer to spend any extra money have or save it? Q Do you think that money is the most important thing in modern society? Q Do you think that people of different ages spend their money on different things? Q If you had one million dollars, what would you do with it? Q Do people who have a lot of money use it wisely? Topic Card PracticeTOPIC 39 TV Tell me about the role TV plays in your life or your family life You should say: how much TV the people in your family watch whether you enjoy the same types of programmes how its role in your family has changed over time and pare its role to other forms of leisure activity. Q How much do you think that TV influences our lives? Q Do you think that children watch too much TV? Q Do you think that there is too much advertising on TV? Q Compare the kinds of programs that young and old people watch Q Is there too much violence on TV in your country? Q Are many foreign TV programs shown in your country? Topic Card Practice TOPIC 40 Weather Tell me about the weather in your city. You should say: what the weather is usually like in the different seasons whether people often discuss the weather in your town or city what people think of the weather in your town or city and say whether you think the weather in your town or city is better or worse than in other places. Q What it your favorite time of the year? Q Do you do different things in summer and in winter Q What do you do when the weather is wet? Q What kind of clothes do you wear in the spring/summer/autumn/ winter? Q Is it often very hot/cold in your country /region/city?