## Task 8 - Speaking

Talking about health part 2
You are going to talk about health.

- Form groups of three or four pupils.
- Everyone chooses five questions.
  (Did you choose the same one? Pick another one.)
- Discuss the questions in your group.
- Report about your discussion to the rest of the class.

Read the questions.

1. Are you addicted to anything, such as coffee, tobacco?
2. Are you afraid of the dentist?
3. What is the ideal amount of sleep to get per night? Are you getting it?
4. Is your country smoker-friendly?
5. Would you rather be anorexic or obese?
6. What would you do if the doctor told you that you only had a month to live?
7. Do schools in your countries have cafeterias? Do they serve healthy food?
8. Does anything run in your family?
9. What’s the best way to lose weight?
10. Is your country’s cuisine healthy?
11. If you found an elixir that, once drank, would allow you to live forever, would you drink it?
12. Do you worry about the safety of the food you eat? What won’t you buy?
13. Would you like to be a doctor? Why or why not?
14. What methods are used in your country to prevent pregnancy?
15. What important factors should a couple consider before having a baby?
16. Do you believe today’s generation of teenagers are more sexually active than the generation of 30 years ago? If so, why?
17. What is something you are not spending enough time doing?
18. What do you think of vegetarianism? Veganism?
19. Do you have any allergies?
20. What would you do if you found an unconscious person lying on the street and there were no telephones nearby?
21. Do you believe people of the same blood-type have similar characters?
22. Have you ever donated blood?
23. Do you think technology will help humans live longer and longer?
24. What is the key to long life?
25. What’s your opinion of vaccinations?
26. Would you rather be blind or deaf?
27. Would you rather be quite short or quite tall? Why?
28. What’s your opinion of tanning, and tanning salons?

## Preparation oral exam: Article

For your oral exam (next February) you have to discuss 3 news articles. You are going to practice this today.

You have read the article in task 8, so you already know what it is about. Prepare yourself for the following things:

1) give a brief summary of the article: what is it about? use the summary-sheet to help you summarize.

2) prepare yourself for questions your teacher may ask you about the article:

- what does.... mean? (make sure you can explain difficult words in English)

- what is the most interesting fact in the article, why?

- how do you feel about the article? Explain why.

- what is the aim* of the article? to entertain,inform, convince or persuade. Explain why.

- Is this article relevant* to you? Explain yourself.

3) Talk about it in pairs. Imagine it is for your oral exam: which difficult questions and questions would your teacher ask?

Words to help:

*aim = doel

*relevant = van toepassing