IES BLAS INFANTE. CÓRDOBA.

ISE I Subject areas for the Conversation phase of the Interview

One subject area will be selected by the examiner from the list below.
CONVERSATION TASK 2’
Language functions: Subject areas
Describing past actions in the indefinite and recent past 1.​ Fashion
Describing the future — informing and expressing intention 2.​ Learning a foreign language
Giving opinions, preferences and reasons 3.​ Money
Describing consequences with certainty and uncertainty
4.​ Travel
Expressing obligation
Asking for opinions and information 5.​ Rules and regulations
6.​ Health and fitness

1. Fashion
1.​ What is the influence of fashion on you?
2.​ Do you follow the latest fashion?
3.​ Do you like fashion?
4.​ Why do you think fashion comes back from time to time? What do you think about it?
5.​ Is fashion art or business? Why?
6.​ Is fashion similar in all countries and continents? Why?
7.​ What do you think is in fashion these days?
8.​ Where do you buy your clothes?
9.​ What are my favourite clothes brands and why?
10.​ Among these styles (high fashion, extreme fashion, street fashion, old-fashioned) which do you think is the most
attractive? Why?
11.​ What would you wear for a wedding?
12.​ What kind of clothes do you usually wear to go to school? Do you have to wear a uniform?
13.​ What clothes go with a tie?
14.​ Would you rather wear a long-sleeved shirt than a short-sleeved shirt in summer?
15.​ What do you prefer to wear in summer: a spaghetti strap dress or shorts with a T-shirt?
16.​ Have you ever worn a tuxedo?
17.​ How often do you wear high heels shoes?

2. Learning a foreign language

1.​ What are the advantages of speaking English?
2.​ Are some languages more difficult than others? Why?
3.​ Should the government pay for people learning languages or should people pay for it? Why?
4.​ When and why did you start getting interested in languages?
5.​ Do culture and languages go together? Why?
6.​ Which do you think are the best ways to learn a language?
7.​ Which ways have you tried?
8.​ Which ways would you like to try in the future?
9.​ What do you have to do to really learn a language?
10.​Which is your favourite activity in the English class?
11.​Which activity you find most difficult?
12.​How good are you at speaking English?
13.​How do you use the internet to learn a language?
14.​Which technique do you use to learn vocabulary?
15.​Which part of grammar do you find most difficult?
16.​Do you speak French?
17.​Which languages do you want to learn?
18.​Do you think it is necessary to live abroad to learn the language?
19.​When did you start learning English?

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3. Money
1.​ Why is money so important nowadays?
2.​ What if there was just one currency all over the world.
3.​ Do you think using credit cards is a good thing? Why?
4.​ Is the euro a positive or a negative thing? Why?
1.​ Do you receive any pocket money from your parents?
2.​ Do you have a job?
3.​ Do you know any teenager who works?
4.​ How do you pay for things?
5.​ Do you need to do anything to get this money, like any house chores?
6.​ What do you usually spend your money on?
7.​ Do you spend your money on anything else?
8.​ Do you like going out with your friends at the weekend?
9.​ Do you spend anything when you go out with your friends?
10.​When you go out at the weekend, what do you spend your money on?
11.​Do you have a bank account/credit card?
12.​Which type of payment do you usually use is a shop/ restaurant/ on the Internet? (a cheque/ credit card/ debit card/ cash)
13.​What kind of card would you prefer to use, a debit or a credit card? Why?
14.​Are there any places where credit and debit card are not accepted in your country?
15.​How do you think Spanish families spend their money: on food/ on education/ on entertainment?
16.​Do you think people spend money wisely or unwisely?
17.​What kind of mobile phone do you have?
18.​Do you think younger people should get a lower salary than an adult?

4. Travel
1.​ What is travelling? To go, move, or journey from one place to another.
2.​ What are the main reasons for travelling? For pleasure, for business, for studies, to visit friends or relatives, for
religious reasons, for shopping, etc.
3.​ Can you name some holiday types? A beach holiday, a short break, adventure travel, backpacking, camping, a family
holidays, a city break, a cruise, a cultural holiday, learning holiday, snow and ski, journeys by rail, food and wine
holidays, health holidays, spa breaks, etc.
4.​ What is your favourite holiday type? Why?
5.​ Can you explain what jet lag is?
6.​ Why is it travelling that important today?
7.​ Where did you last travel to? Why? I travelled to …. I went there to/ because…
8.​ Tell me about your last trip abroad.
9.​ Whereabouts in Paris did you stay?
10.​Where did you last go on holiday to? On my last holidays I went to … It was a …….holidays. …..
11.​Why did you choose this kind of holiday?
12.​Do you prefer cultural holidays or sunny holidays?
13.​Have you ever been camping? I like sleeping outdoors.
14.​Have you ever been on holidays without your parents?
15.​Have you ever to other parts of Spain?
16.​Have you ever gone on a skiing holiday? Where did you go to?
17.​Have you ever travelled to visit a relative?
18.​What is the main reason for you to travel?
19.​Can you name different kinds of accommodation? Hotel, bed and breakfast (B&B), youth hostel, hostel, rent an
apartment or a house (self-catering), guest house, camping, house exchange, country house, cottage, etc.
20.​What kind of accommodation would you choose to visit a city as Liverpool?
21.​What are the advantages and drawbacks of every kind of accommodation?

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22.​ Where would you like to travel in Spain/abroad?

23.​Which accommodation would you choose?
24.​Who would you like to travel with?
25.​How long would this ideal trip be?
26.​Tell me about the best trip you have ever made.
27.​What is the most popular kind of holiday in Spain?
28.​Where do most people go?
Questions related to predictions about the future of travel: WILL+INFINITIVE.
29.​What do you think the most popular tourist destination will be in 100 years time?
30.​What do you think is the most environmental friendly type of holiday?

5.Rules and regulations

1.​ What do you have to do at home?
2.​ What you mustn’t do at school?
3.​ Do you respect the school rules?
4.​ Are there too many rules at this school? Why did you choose this school?
5.​ Tell me one of your school rules which you do not like and why?
6.​ What happens if you arrive late to school?
7.​ Write some rules and regulations you have in your life.
8.​ Do you think rules are important?
9.​ Say some regulations that people don’t normally respect in Spain.
10.​What would you do with someone who breaks important rules?
11.​Spanish rules are less strict than in other countries. True or false. Explain it.
12.​Are rules and regulations necessary? Why?
13.​What if we lived in a world without rules?
14.​What happens when you break the rules?

6.Health and fitness

1.​ What do you think about getting healthcare advice on the Internet?
2.​ Have you ever been to a hospital? If so, was it to visit someone or because you were ill? What was the health problem?
3.​ When did you last visit your GP (médico de familia)? What was wrong with you?
4.​ What are the opening times of your local surgery? What happens if you’re ill when it’s closed? Talk about services for
emergencies and Seguridad Social (NHS= National Health Service)
5.​ Do you follow a healthy diet?
6.​ What do you have to do to have a healthy diet?
7.​ Are you a vegetarian? If not, do you have friends who are veggie?
8.​ How often do you go to the dentist’s? How do you feel about going?
9.​ Are healthcare services free in Spain? Do you pay for medicines?
10.​What do you do to keep fit?
11.​What happens if you do not do any physical activity like sport or exercise?
12.​Would you like to be a vegetarian?
13.​Tell me reasons to be a vegetarian.
14.​Why is practicing a sport so important nowadays?
15.​Do you think professional sportsmen are healthier than the rest of the people? Why?
16.​What is eating properly to you? Explain it.
17.​Olive oil and the Mediterranean diet seem to be very healthy. Why?