Státní základní jazyková zkouška z angličtiny

Tematické okruhy ke konverzaci

1. Family.(Family members. Generation gap. Wedding preparations. Reasons for divorce. Housekeepers and breadwinners. Looking after children. Au-pair girls. Dailies.)

2. House and home.    (Various types of houses, flats, furniture, moving house. Repairs, kitchen – electrical     devices, other equipment. Rent, payments, household expenditures)

3. My town. My village.     (Location, size, landmarks, history, present problems – transport, traffic, pollution,     supermarkets, culture, surroundings, countryside, other remarkable places of interest in the surroundings.)

4. Shops, shopping, services.    (Various goods, phrases in a shop, different kinds of shops, advantages of a supermarket,     its disavantages. At a beauty parlour, at a haidrdresser´s, at a travel agency etc. Making a complaint. Bargains, purchases on the never-never.)

5. Jobs. My job. Future carrer.    (Advertisements, applications. Job centres, various jobs. Essentials qualities, qualifications,     getting promoted, being self – employed, vocational training. Business trips. Part – time jobs.)

6. The Czech Republic. Prague. Other places of interest.    (History, Sights, Geography. Industry. UNESCO heritage sites, architectural styles.     Attractive places. Government.)

7. Financial matters. Communication.    (Family budgets. Earnings. Savings. Paying at the till. Telephoning - basic phrases. E-mail. Chatting on the internet. Formal and informal letters.)

8. Sports and games. Daily routine. Hobbies.    (Indoor and outdoor sports activities. Individual and collective games. Winter and summer sports and games. The Olympic Games. Famous Czech sportsmen. Hobbies according to  the age).

9. At the doctor´s.     (Childhood diseases. Civilization and fatal diseases (AIDS). Regular check-ups. Vaccination. Complaints at the doctor´s.  Symptoms of influenza. Keeping fit. Keeping a slimming diet.Healthy lifestyle. Spa towns.

10. Clothes and fashion styles.    (Casual clothes, packing a suitcase in winter and in summer, social events.Various        materials, patterns, cuts, uniforms. Scottish national costume. Needlework. Phrases in a clothes shop.)

11. Meals. Czech and English eating manners and cuisines. Food. At a restaurant.    (Fatty food. Recipes - sweet products. Christmas dinner, a birthday party – a list of food.  Phrases in a restaurant, fast food restaurants-advantages and disadvantages.)

12. Culture and entertainment – cinema-going, theatre performance, music festivals, different kinds of books, fine arts.    (Academy Awards, directors, box-office successes. Theatre tickets. Prague Spring Music  Festival, Czech singers. Word-famous books, your favorite genres. English painters, Czech painters who decorated the National Theatre.)

13. Education. Language studies.     (Primary, secondary and terciary education. Schools for factory-workers, office-workers.      Academic education.Subjects, examinations, rules at schools. English public schools, best- known universities in the Czech Republic and in Great Britain. The roots of  the E. language,  the best way to learn it, the main obstacles.)

14. Going on holiday. Tourism. Sightseeing.     (Foreign countries. Preparations for a stay abroad. Different kinds of holidays. London     and its sights. Prague and its sights. Architectural styles. Guides and travel couriers. Getting lost and asking the way. Writing a picture postcard.)

15. Travel and transport.     (Various means of transport. Going by plane. Going by car. Car parts. Driving-test. City     traffic, public transport. At the railway-station, going by train. Eurotunnel. The English  Channel.)

16. Seasons of the year. Weather.     (Trees, animals, flowers. Floods in spring. Slippery roods and heavy frosts in winter.      Stormy weather in summer. A typical lovely day. Nasty weather in autumn.).

17. Life environment.(Conservationists,ecologists, environmentalists.Rainforests and animals in danger. Pollution-various sorts.  Ozone layers – the harmful one and the useful one.The main polluters.Global warming. Greenhouse effect. Sources of energy. People and their waste and litter.)

18. Mass Media.     (TV news, TV programmes and their influence on TV viewers. TV channels. Radio.  Newspapers-different sorts. Advertisements. Lonely heart columns. Reviews. The internet)

19. Holidays, festivals, celebrations, traditions.     (Christmas in the Czech Republic and English speaking countries. Easter. October and  November and traditional festivals in the USA and Great Britain and this country. Festivals  of folk songs and dances. Parades.)

20. Progress in technology. (Various sources of energy, from simple tools to automation and robotics,from industrial revolutions to the scientific-technical revolution ,military research, space research. Important scientists, their inventions and discoveries.. Labour-saving machines and time-saving electrical appliances in our households.