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1. Now let’s talk about customs and traditions. What can you tell me about your favourite holiday in Britain?

2. Do you find some British holidays and traditions special? Why (not)?

3. What questions can you ask a British teenager about his/her birthday celebration?

4. What national souvenirs will you recommend a British tourist to buy?

5. Nowadays more and more people are getting interested in customs and traditions of different countries. What do you think about it?

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1. Now let’s speak about science. What scientific achievements do you find very important?

2. Do you use many gadgets and devices at home? Why (not)?

3. What questions would you ask an outstanding scientist?

4. Give me a piece of advice on how to convince my parents of the necessity of a mobile phone for every teenager.

5. Parents think that the internet influences negatively the development of teenagers’ thinking skills. Children, on the contrary, believe that it’s impossible to imagine our modern world without the internet. What is your point of view?

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1. Let’s talk about sport and a healthy way of life. What influences a person’s health?

2. Is home-made food better than junk food? Why?

3. What questions will you ask a fitness coach?

4. What activities can you advise a person who wants to have a healthy way of life?

5. What health problems docs fast food lead to? What should you do to avoid them?

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1. Let’s talk about sport and a healthy way of life. What do you do to keep fit?

2. Do you agree that bad habits, like smoking, can be dangerous? Why (not)?

3. What questions will you ask a professional sportsman?

4. What can you advise a person who doesn’t know what kind of sport to take up?

5. If you had an opportunity to open a health centre what would it be like? What would you offer to the visitors?

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1. Let’s talk about clothes and fashion. What role does fashion play in your life?

2. Do you prefer fashionable clothes to comfortable ones? Why (not)?

3. What questions can you ask a shop assistant in a big shop?

4. What would you advise your friend who wants to buy some new clothes?

5. They say that young people pay a lot of attention to their style and want to be fashionable. What do you think about it

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1. Let’s talk about travelling. What role does it play in your life?

2. How do you like to travel?

3. What questions should you ask a travel agent to learn more about a tour?

4. You’ve visited some foreign countries. Which of them did you like most and would recommend your friend to visit?

5. Today people are tired of exotic countries and prefer to spend holidays in the

countryside in Belarus. What can attract people to it?

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1. Now let’s talk about environment. People say that our planet is in danger. Do you share this opinion?

2. What do you think people should do to protect the environment?

3. What would you like to ask your British friend about measures that are taken to protect the environment in Britain?

4. A friend of yours wants to develop a programme to protect the city where he lives.

Give him a piece of advice.

5. Green School o f the Year contest is held in the

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1. Now let’s talk about weather and climate. What is happening to weather and climate nowadays?

2. Are you weather dependent?

3. What questions would you ask a meteorologist?

4. What can you advise a person who wants to become a meteorologist?

5. They say there’s no bad weather, there are bad clothes. What do you think about it?

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1. Let’s talk about Belarus. What do you know about our country?

2. Do you know any symbols of our country?

3. What questions about Belarus do you expect to hear from a British teenager?

4. What Belarusian sights would you advise a foreigner to visit?

5. They say that Belarus is at the crossroads of Europe. Explain why?

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1. Let’s talk about Britain. What do you know about this country?

2. Would you like to visit Britain? Why (not)?

3. What would you ask a British teenager about national holidays in Britain?

4. What sights in England would you advise me to visit?

5. They say it’s important for a person to speak English nowadays because it is popular all over the world. What is your opinion?

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1. Let’s talk about mass media: TV, newspapers, radio. Which of these does your family like?

2. Are all means of mass media popular among your schoolmates? Why?

3. What questions will you ask people who live without a TV set, computer or radio?

4. My cousin spends a lot of time chatting in Contact and it makes all the family angry.

5. Can the internet replace all the other means of mass media? What is your point of

view? What can you advise him and the family to do in this situation?