ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

HA NOI
FINAL EXAMINATION
SUBJECT: FINAL EXAMINATION

SUBJECT: Speaking- Level: SUMMIT 1 (E5)

Duration: 3 hours
Section D1: PANEL DISCUSSION (12 marks)

1. Music will save the world. Do you agree or disagree?

2. Money has nothing to do with happiness. Do you agree or disagree?
3. You are what you wear. Do you agree or disagree?
4. Animals should be used for entertainment such as circuses, bullfights, or cockfights. What is
your opinion?
5. Living in the mega-cities has a lot of advantages. Do you agree or disagree?
6. Advances of technology such as email, voice mail, cell phones, and the Internet are
destroying any idea of privacy and leisure. Do you agree or disagree?
7. Parents should let their children have or do anything they want. Do you agree or disagree?
8. What are some reasons people donate money?
9. Pets bring a lot of benefits to people. Do you agree or disagree?
10. Who do you think should spend more time making themselves attractive men or women?
Why?
11. Do you think people should just accept the way they look or try to change their appearance?
12. In what ways is your generation most different from your parents generation? What do you
like best or respect most about your parents generation?

Section D2: INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE (8 marks)

1. Where would you prefer to live, in a big city or in a small town? Why?
2. Would you like to spend or save money? Why?
3. Do you care much about your appearance? Why? Do you do anything to improve
it?
4. Are you a fashion follower? How important is fashion to you?
5. Do you like raising a pet at home? Why?
6. What do you do in your free time? Are you a slave of technology?
7. Are you satisfied with the amount of leisure time you have in your life? Why?
8. Are you a careful shopper, or do you buy things on impulse?
9. What animals do you think make good pets or bad pets? Why?

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10. Talk about the people and organizations you would or would not give money to.
Explain your reasons
11. What things do people do today to make themselves more attractive? Which
techniques do you think are the most successful?
12. Have you ever been underdressed or overdressed for an event? What happened?
How did you feel?
13. Do you think the way a person dresses has an effect on how he or she works? In
what way?
14. What is more important to you a persons beauty on the outside or on the
inside? Explain.
15. In your opinion, how should people behave in public places? Do you think its
important to speak up when people behave inconsiderately in public?
16. Why do you think animals become endangered? What are some threats to the
survival of animals in the wild?
17. Which type of advertising do you find the most effective? Why?
18. If you could give parents one piece of advice, what would it be? If you could give
teenagers one piece of advice, what would it be?
19. In your opinion, what technological advances save us time?
20. In your opinion, why does one person develop into a risk-taker and another into a
risk-avoider?