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Subject areas Trinity GESEII and ISEII

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Subject areas Speaking

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  1. G GR RA AD DE E 7 7 T TR RI IN NI IT TY Y S SU UB BJ JE EC CT T A AR RE EA AS S V VO OC CA AB BU UL LA AR RY Y L LI IS ST TS S + + C CO ON NV VE ER RS SA AT TI IO ON N P PR RA AC CT TI IC CE E V VI IL LL LA AG GE E & & C CI IT TY Y L LI IF FE E Public transport Noisy Motorways Leisure facilities Commercial/shopping centres More job opportunities More/less dangerous Countryside Queues Flat Roads Entertainment Stressful Higher crime rate Advantages & disadvantages of living… Plenty/nothing to do To take … (time) to get to work Probably the main advantage of living in … is that … In addition, there are …, such as …, as well as … Moreover, … Less stressed Crowded Rents Parking space / car park Environment More lively Safer Traffic jam Dirty Rush hour Cost of living Roads get congested Unemployment Too… / Not so… Quality of life More/less choice of things to do Neighbourhood/neighbours On the one hand…, but on the other hand … However, there are also disadvantages, like … I like the fact that …, but I don’t like the fact that … To commute to work Green areas 1.In your opinion, what are the main advantages/disadvantages of living in a village/city? 2.If you could choose, where would you live, in a village or in a city? Why? 3.If you lived in a village/city, what do you think would be the main advantages/disadvantages? 4.What can a visitor do in your city/town? 5.What’s the best/worst thing about living in a village/city? P PO OL LL LU UT TI IO ON N & & R RE EC CY YC CL LI IN NG G C Ca au us se es s o of f p po ol ll lu ut ti io on n G Gl la ac ci ie er rs s F Fo or re es st ts s R Re ec cy yc cl li in ng g / / t to o r re ec cy yc cl le e H Hu un ng ge er r A Ai id ds s A Am ma az zi in ng g O Oz zo on ne e l la ay ye er rs s S St te ee el l c ca an ns s P Pl la as st ti ic c G Gl lo ob ba al l w wa ar rm mi in ng g H He ea at t w wa av ve es s T To o r re eu us se e A Av ve er ra ag ge e T To o b be ec co om me e e ex xt ti in nc ct t C Cl li im ma at te e T To o b be e i in n d da an ng ge er r O Ov ve er r- -p po op pu ul la at ti io on n T To o s su ur rv vi iv ve e / / s su ur rv vi iv va al l D De ev ve el lo op pe ed d c co ou un nt tr ri ie es s P Pa ap pe er r T To o s sa av ve e e en ne er rg gy y F Fl lo oo od ds s C Ca ar rb bo on n e em mi is ss si io on ns s E En nv vi ir ro on nm me en nt t T To o d di is sa ap pp pe ea ar r C Cu ur re es s R Ra ai in nf fo or re es st ts s I In nh ha ab bi it ta an nt ts s T To o d de es st tr ro oy y/ /d de es st tr ru uc ct ti io on n W Wo or rl ld d p po op pu ul la at ti io on n T To o m me el lt t S Se ea a l le ev ve el l E Ex xt ti in nc ct ti io on n P Po ov ve er rt ty y S Sc ci ie en nc ce e T To o i in nc cr re ea as se e G Gr re ee en nh ho ou us se e e ef ff fe ec ct t N Na at tu ur ra al l r re es so ou ur rc ce es s G Gl la as ss s E Ef ff fe ec ct ts s T To o r re ed du uc ce e T To o r ri is se e T To o f fa ac ce e e ex xt ti in nc ct ti io on n I Il ll ln ne es ss se es s S St ta at ti is st ti ic cs s T To o c co on nt ta am mi in na at te e/ /p po ol ll lu ut te e W Wa as st te e/ /r ru ub bb bi is sh h R Re en ne ew wa ab bl le e r re es so ou ur rc ce es s 1.How many ways can you think of saving energy? 2.What advice could you give to stop the air/water pollution? 3.What are the main causes of pollution where you live? 4.Do you recycle often? Tell me about it. 5.Do you separate rubbish? 6.Which options for recycling do you have where you live? 7.How many types of products can be recycled? 8.How do you recycle at home/school? 9.Are there any laws in your country to reduce pollution? E EA AR RL LY Y M I I u us se ed d/ /d di id dn n’ ’t t u us se e t to o… … T To o f fo or rg ge et t I I c cl le ea ar rl ly y/ /v va ag gu ue el ly y r re em me em mb be er r… … ( (- -i in ng g) ) ME EM MO OR RI IE ES S C Ch hi il ld dh ho oo od d m me em mo or ri ie es s I I r re em me em mb be er r… … ( (- -i in ng g) ) T Th he es se e d da ay ys s I I s st ti il ll l l li ik ke e… … E Ea ar rl li ie es st t m me em mo or ri ie es s T To o r re ec ca al ll l N No ow w I I r re ea al li iz ze e… … I I w wa as s o on nl ly y … … y ye ea ar rs s o ol ld d A As s t ti im me e h ha as s p pa as ss se ed d… … N No ow wa ad da ay ys s I I’ ’l ll l n ne ev ve er r f fo or rg ge et t … … 1.Tell me about the first memory that you have from your early childhood. 2.Did you use to … when you were a little child/lived in…? 3.Is there anything else you remember about it? 4.How long did you live/study there? Página 1

  2. G GR RA AD DE E 7 7 T TR RI IN NI IT TY Y S SU UB BJ JE EC CT T A AR RE EA AS S V VO OC CA AB BU UL LA AR RY Y L LI IS ST TS S + + C CO ON NV VE ER RS SA AT TI IO ON N P PR RA AC CT TI IC CE E N NA AT TI IO ON NA AL L & & L LO OC CA AL L P PR RO OD DU UC CE E & & P PR RO OD DU UC CT TS S Cured/Iberian ham To import from other countries Olive oil Red/white wine To export abroad Cheese 1.What kinds of products are made in your country/region? 2.What are the main products which are exported from /imported to your country? 3.Where is the most famous type of … made/produced? 4.Can you think of some advantages of buying local/national products? N NA AT TI IO ON NA AL L C CU US ST TO OM MS S Customs/traditions To adjust to sthg Paella Eating timetables Nationalism To get (some) time to get used to sthg To be hard to get used to sthg Gazpacho Driving lane Patriotism To find sthg difficult/interesting/enjoyable-enjoying Bullfighting Easter Tapas Siesta (nap) To be good fun To be funny (=curioso) Christmas Kisses 1.What are the main national customs in your country? 2.Do you celebrate any national festivities? Tell me about them. 3.Tell me about the main food/religious/timetable… customs where you live/in your country? 4.What do you think you would miss more from your country/city if you went to live abroad? 5.Tell me about some of the funniest customs that you know from other countries. 6.Have you ever been abroad? What customs did you like more about this country? 7.Where is it normal practice to …? E ED DU UC CA AT TI IO ON N Marks Teenagers Primary/secondary school Examinations/tests Grant To graduate Timetable To attend classes To be brilliant/good/bad at school University/higher education Nursery school/kindergarten To pass/fail an exam Private schools To learn by heart Bullying Discipline To get (reasonably) good marks Professors To leave school Grades State schools School year Behaviour Punishment Playtime/lunch break Subjects Degree Headmaster Boarding schools Classmate Assessment 1.How good are you at school? What kind of marks do you usually get? 2.Do you think of going to university/having a higher education when you leave school? 3.What are your favourite subjects? What subject(s) are you especially good/bad at? 4.Do you usually get nervous when you take an exam? 5.What would happen if you didn’t pass your final exams? 6.Can you name some advantages of studying/learning with technology? 7.What would you like to be in the future? 8.What would you do if you saw your best friend cheating on a test? 9.Is there any/a lot of bullying at your school? Can you tell me some examples of it? C CO ON NN NE EC CT TO OR RS S/ /U US SE EF FU UL L E EX XP PR RE ES SS SI IO ON NS S If I were you, I would … Perhaps/maybe Why don’t you …? In fact I’m afraid I don’t agree with you about that I don’t think that’s right I have no idea Because of / due to In my opinion, … What/how about … (-ing)? In spite of I see your point, but I think that … That’s right/you’re right about that I don’t know/I’m not sure about that I think you should/ought to … I mean You’d better … I agree Well, I think you could … You know Do you think it is a good idea to…? Although I (don’t) think so I think you’re wrong about that I/they… may/might go/be… Página 2

  3. SUBJECT AREAS FOR TRINITY ISE II EXAMINATION (GRADE 8 GESE) THE WORLD OF WORK Job interview To be interviewed for a job Previous experience Large international organization / company Secretary Ability to use modern technologies, such as computers, … Manager Negotiations Secretarial experience Assistant to … Skills Personal assistant Qualifications Speak several foreign languages Boss Growing company / firm To apply for a job To be fired To be essential or desirable Employer Duties and responsibilities involved Full time To do overtime Fluency / to be fluent in a language Success / failure Advertisement To leave a job To be responsible for … (-ing) To be available Employee Promotion / to be promoted Sales director Successful Application form To retire Must be capable of … (-ing) Team Business To go on strike Personnel Department Candidate To resign The job involves … (-ing) Partners / colleagues Busy Part time Temporary Contract Wage / salary 1.Is it typical for men and women to have the same jobs in your country? 2.Would you prefer to have an easy routine job or a job in which you made a lot of decisions? 3.Do women usually work after they get married in your country? 4.Who in your family or among our friends has the most interesting job? What about the most boring? 5.What skills do you think are necessary to work in the service sector? 6.Do you think staff in the service sector get well-paid? 7.What do you think are the main conditions for a good job? 8.What do you think is more important, to get well-paid or to enjoy your job? 9.How long has your mother/father been working in the same job? Do you think he/she is happy with it? What are some of the main problems/benefits? 10.What kinds of jobs do you think will be the most important in the next ten years? SOCIETY/LIVING STANDARDS Poor / rich Wealth Living costs GDP (gross domestic product) Treasury Butler Working class Income distribution Social services Public welfare Tax inspector Salary High / middle / low class Unemployment Community Worker High society Live on (one’s salary) Poverty Economy Taxes Exchequer Maid 1.What is the most common kind of accommodation/housing in your city/area? 2.Is it difficult for young people to afford to buy their own house in your country? 3.Have living standards improved in this country in the last few years? In which ways? 4.In which ways has the crisis affected your living standard? 5.Could you suggest any way(s) to solve the crisis? 6.Which would you say are the main worries of people nowadays? 7.If it were in your hands, how would you change the distribution of health so that it is more fair? 8.Have the costs of living risen in your country this last year? Give some examples. 9.Have you ever helped in any social services project?

  4. SUBJECT AREAS FOR TRINITY ISE II EXAMINATION (GRADE 8 GESE) SUPERNATURAL Ghost Paranormal Sacred Invisible Beyond reality With To freeze UFO Hell Haunted house Spirits Reason White noise Dead Spectrum Fortune teller Alien Ghostbuster Cemetery Superstition Secular Psycophonia Alive To yell Psychic Frightening Chains Ghostly Profane Religious Paranormal phenomenon Witchcraft To cry Horoscope Heaven 1.Do you believe that dead people come back to life as ghosts? 2.Do you believe in fortune tellers or in horoscopes? 3.Do you think that some people can predict the future? 4.Has anything ever happened to you that you cannot explain? 5.Do you believe in reincarnation? 6.Are you afraid of spirits? 7.Do you believe in life after death? Where do you think dead people go? 8.What is the most frightening experience you have had? NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS Pollution Glass Tree cut down Dry Environmental policy Aerosols Ocean Human influence on climate change Organic fuels Wind power To pollute Cardboard Woods Deforestation Atmosphere Hurricane Sea Ozone depletion To recycle CO2 emission Acid rain Climatic change Temperature Typhoon Glacier melt Ozone layer Paper Greenhouse effect Desert Global warming Solar radiation Water level Greenhouse gases Fossil fuels Land use Desalination process Solar energy Solar panel 1.Who do you think should be responsible for recycling, individual people or the government? 2.What is the most important environmental incident that has happened in your country recently? 3.Can you remember any environmental disaster which has happened recently? 4.Do you know any animals that have become extinct in your country? 5.Do you think the environment would be as damaged as it is now if we had been more careful? Give examples. 6.What, for you, is the most important issue that threatens the survival of life on Earth? PUBLIC FIGURES Artist Sports person Celebrity Be used to sthg/doing sthg To be under a lot of pressure Be followed Interviews Ordinary life Actor/actress Politician Under pressure Can’t help To feel uncomfortable Be asked for autographs To be awarded a prize Film star Religious leader The media Become popular/famous Journalists/reporters Success / to be successful Magazines Musician Fame/famous Media appearances Well-known Scandal Fan club Public interest

  5. SUBJECT AREAS FOR TRINITY ISE II EXAMINATION (GRADE 8 GESE) 1.What kind of things do you think you would miss about ordinary life if you were a celebrity? 2.Who are the most famous people in your country? 3.What do you think it would be like to be famous? 4.Name some famous people from your country. Who appear in the media the most? 5.Do you think that celebrities have a right to keep their personal life private? 6.The media say that they have the right to report about people’s private lifes if it is in the ‘public interest’. What kinds of things do you think should or should not be reported? 7.Have you ever met anyone famous? PERSONAL VALUES / IDEALS Hypocrisy / hypocrite Environmental principles Respect for the beliefs of others Amnesty International To worry about sthg To buy Fair Trade products Bringing up children morally To be concerned about sthg Ethical consumption/work Equality Compassion for people in need Kindness to animals Inhumanity Universal Declaration of Human Rights To fight poverty To get sthg in return To promote human rights values To discourage sby from doing sthg Physical and mental integrity Voluntary movement To volunteer overseas Volunteering To join Human rights standards Compassion for people in need Contribution to development Support of human rights Protest groups Charities pacifism To encourage/persuade sby to do sthg Freedom of conscience and expression Fair treatment regardless of race, gender and sexuality To refuse to do sthg To support and respect human rights To have the right to do sthg To take action to stop sthg / prevent sthg from happening Opposition to discrimination (of any sort) To share personal values To treat sby fairly/unfairly Religious beliefs To build a fairer world To manage without sthg Long-term, sustainable solutions 1.What are the most important values for you? Things you really believe in? 2.Would you consider volunteering for an international organization? 3.What do you think would be the best thing about being a volunteer overseas? 4.What do you think are the main things a volunteer might find difficult? 5.Would you like to volunteer with VSO? Why/why not? 6.What do you think is more important, money or love? Why? 7.What do you think are a teenager’s values nowadays? 8.Do you think physical appearance is a main concern for people nowadays? Give examples. 9.What aspects of life are more important for you? 10.Where do you think you’ve acquired your personal values (at home/school)? 11.What do you think are the main differences between personal values nowadays and some 30-50 years ago? 12.Is religion important in your life? Explain why. 13.Do you think that nowadays there is enough compassion for people in need? Give examples. 14.Do you think there are enough environmental principles? Give examples. 15.Do you think there is a lot of discrimination nowadays? Give examples. 16.What do you think of the existing scientific experiments with animals? 17.Do you think that nowadays there is enough respect for the belief of others? 18.Do you think that nowadays human rights are fully respected? Give examples. 19.Have your parents/friends/teachers’ opinions any value for you? 20.Do you try to respect other people’s values even though they differ from yours?

  6. SUBJECT AREAS FOR TRINITY ISE II EXAMINATION (GRADE 8 GESE) CONNECTORS / USEFUL EXPRESSIONS I wish I / if only I … At the time / at that time After a while Something else is that… Even though Because of / due to Not only… but also… In short I wonder if … When For a while Whenever Although Therefore Moreover On the whole At the beginning…after One day In spite of / despite the fact that… In other words However Nowadays In addition To sum up At first Recently For instance So to continue Nevertheless Such as… Furthermore In conclusion

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