Speaking Tasks. III Year. Summer Exam

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Speaking Tasks. III Year.

Summer Exam

1. Let’s say you meet an old school-friend socially and over the conversation you share the challenges of your
formative years of adolescence, contradictions and fighting for a place under the sun, with examples and
conclusions.
2. Imagine you’ve just attended a lecture “Contemporary struggle for social acceptance as a personality”. Share
your own memories how this struggle was fought and acceptance gained in your youthful years.
3. Assume this is a literature class and you decide to describe a book’s characters (choose any book you’ve
read) as per their basic human orientations. Underpin your conclusions with reasoning and examples.
4. Let’s pretend you are starting a company. At the moment, you commit your prospective personnel manager
to find the right people for key positions: production manager, PR manager, sales manager, financial
director, IT engineer and receptionist. Explain what kind of archetypes you think will be appropriate and
justify.
5. Assume you are a writer. While sketching characters for the forthcoming book you look into all sorts of
behavioural research. You foresee how a character must operate, which way they will be in relationships,
how they are to act in emergencies etc. Now share what kind of resources you make use of and what the
range of possibilities is.
6. Let’s imagine you are dispatched on an expedition to some backwoods. You are appointed the leader and
you have four people in subordination, representing Hippocrates’ four temperamental archetypes. Say how
you are going to distribute duties, organize coordinated work and free time, supposedly build friendly ties,
based on their inherent qualities and temperaments.
7. Imagine you talked to somebody seeing art as making no sense, unless it is a full replica of a real being or
thing. Now being aware how art has evolved through history, try to explain others when you think this kind
of people became suspicious of art, then critical and ultimately distanced themselves from it?
8. Imagine you stand before a painting, regardless whether it’s good or bad. Now that you have been through
theories, historic periods and genres, how much more can you tell the baffled public around you about the
painter and his/her intent in the picture?
9. Stand your ground with a few sceptics that a painting, even though distorted, is a lot more than a plain
photo, even though it’s accurate in representation. Tell them the whole lot about historic backgrounds
behind the canvases, painters’ purposes and intents, available toolkits and methods.
10. Let’s assume there are people asserting that art is unrelated to political, economic or social circumstances.
However, historic readings suggest otherwise. Now give evidence that the link between politics, economy,
social life and art has always existed, drawing examples chronologically from the earliest times.
11. Art is within our reach. Prove it to someone finding excuses, telling how much you have learnt about art,
artistic schools, movements, styles and the artistic scene from home through your PC within a few clicks.
12. Imagine you’ve been implicated in a dispute Conceptual Art: For or Against. Identify your standpoint
whether sceptical, tolerant or supportive. Give reasons and exemplify.
13. President Trump called global warming a hoax. Counter the claim with evidence.
14. Imagine you are given the floor to call for climate action. Focus on what is doable, say what is a question of
near future and find arguments to target the sceptical folk.
15. People are petrified on hearing about Earth’s 6th mass extinction being in progress. Assume you have a
chance either to calm everybody down, caution or intimidate into action. Talk to an audience during a radio
programme, using the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
16. We are living at the time of unprecedented urban growth, economic activity and neglect of law. These
eventuate into destruction of habitats. Assume you are on an environmental panel and you summarize what
is human footprint like in the area where you live.
17. Debate with an audience on an ideal balance between the technosphere of towns and wilderness of
Chornobyl woods that will allow humans sustainable living.
18. Talk to a zoo manager on your expectations, zoos’ role and prospects of rewilding in Ukraine.
19. Give an idea of the home-reading book you’ve been reading, telling where the story is set, who the main
characters are, an idea of the plot, storylines, author’s narrative style and your general evaluation.
20. Let’s imagine a friend of yours is looking for a fiction book to read. Tell this imagined friend about an
admirable book you once read, putting emphasis on the book’s strong points and things he/she may be keen
on.

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