SPEAKING TEST QUESTIONS.

1. Why do you like the place where you live? or Why don´t you like it?
2. What are your plans for the future?
3. Why have you chosen to be an English teacher?
4. Why did you start studying English?
5. What talents or qualities should an English teacher have?
6. Have you ever been to England or an English speaking country?
7. Why do people wear uniforms at work?
8. Who do you most admire? Why?
9. What could you do when you were a child? (qué sabías hacer…?)
10. What would you like to be able to do that you can´t?
11. What would you change about your life?
12. Which changes would you find easy to get used to?
13. Are you addicted to any kind of food or activity?
14. What is the best excuse for lateness you have made up?
15. What are your main interests outside school?
16. What is the most exciting experience of your life?
17. What is the best holiday you have ever been on?
18. What would your ideal house be like?
19. Do you think it is better to travel alone or with other people? Why?
20. What are the benefits of studying English in an English-speaking country?
21. Did you play tricks on your friends when you were a child? Do you regret it now?
22. What do you like doing in your free time?
23. What´s your favourite day and why?
24. Which are your favourite and least favourite sports? Give reasons.
25. Which sports do you enjoy watching live on TV?
26. In what situations do you listen to music? How important is music to you?
27. How do you think new technological developments will change the media in the future?
28. Are you a risk-taker or do you prefer a safe, predictable easy life?
29. Do you think print media will ever disappear completely? Why (not)?
30. Is there any kind of weather you dislike?
31. What did you do the last time the weather was good?
32. Where do you usually go on holiday?
33. Tell me about a film/book you have seen/read recently.
34. What do you think are the worst inventions ever?
35. What inventions or discoveries would you like to see in the future?
36. Do you think it is easier or more difficult for people to make friends now than it was in the
past?
37. How have you got here? By public transport? Can you drive? Do you usually use public
transport? Why (not)?
38. Which skill is more difficult to learn, using a computer or driving?
39. Do you think people have become more dependent on IT (information technology)? Why?
40. Talk about a film you didn´t enjoy.
41. Would you be interested in working as a firefighter/doctor/etc? Why (not)?
42. Do you take after your mother or your father? (Te parecés …?)
43. What types of things do you enjoy doing with your family?
44. What do you like most about your best friend/mother/brother etc?
45. Have you ever bought anything on impulse?
46. What kind of shops have you been in during the last fortnight?
47. Do you think you will always live in the same area?
48. How has your house changed in the last 10 years?
49. What will you be doing this time tomorrow?
50. How will your life has changed in ten years´ time?
51. Would you enjoy going on holiday on your own?
52. What is the best/worst holiday you have ever had?
53. What kind of things do you like doing on your holidays?
54. Is there anywhere you would particularly like to visit? Why?
55. Is it better to spend a summer holiday in the countryside of on the coast?
56. Do you know any places with mysteries or legends attached to them?
57. What would you do if you came into (=heredar) a lot of money?
58. Do you think you would make a good detective? (ser un buen detective) giro idiomático.
59. What weather do you prefer? What weather conditions do you least like? Why?
60. What can we do to help the environment?
61. Which pets have you owned? What advice would you give to someone thinking of buying
the same animal? Which animal makes the best pet?
62. Have you done anything interesting with your friends recently?
63. Do you enjoy long journeys?
64. What good memories do you have of school?
65. Do you prefer individual sports or team sports?
66. What will you put in your time capsule to show people in the future what life was like
today?
67. What board games do you have at home?
68. Do you like chess? Should it be in the Olympics?
69. What´s the most amazing/unusual thing you´ve ever done?
70. What is your favourite animal? Why?
71. What places in your city do you go regularly? Why?
72. Which country would you not like to visit? Why?
73. What have you got in your bag?
74. What are your favourite holidays? When are they? What do people do?
75. What subjects or sports are you good at?
76. Where do you normally have lunch?
77. What do you usually have for lunch during the week?
78. Do you ever cook? What do you make?
79. Do you prefer eating out or at home?
80. Do you need to buy any food today?
81. What would you like to eat right now?
82. Is the diet in your country getting better or worse?
83. What is the most amazing scenery you have ever seen?
84. Have you ever been disappointed by a birthday present?
85. Which do you find more tiring, clothes or food shopping?
86. What was the most boring film you have ever seen?
87. Do you ever get frustrated by technology?
88. Do you think running is the perfect sport? If not, what is?
89. What is the best thing of living where you live?
90. What are your teachers like? Or boss.
91. What do you like about your job/the place where you work/school?
92. Would you like to be part of a big family? Why (not)?
93. Pros and cons of home schooling.
94. When was the last time you bought something you didn´t need?
95. What advice can you give to save money?
96. Do you think people will eat insects in the future? Why (not)?
97. Would you like to live to be 1,000?
98. Would it be a good idea to have two separate days off every week instead of a weekend?
Why (not)?
99. What is your worst day of the week? Why?
100. Would you like to be an extra or even an actor?
101. What films or shows would you like to appear in?
102. What apps do you use to help you with studying?
103. Do you think it is fair that famous people get others to do things for them?
104. Whose book would you most like to ghost write?
105. Have you ever entered a competition? Did you win?
106. What people do you know from history? Why are they famous today?
107. What do you do with your old clothes when you don´t wear them anymore?

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS.

1. If I were to choose between… (si tuviera que elegir… fijate el uso de were + infinitive)
2. The more you practise, the better the results will be (usar esta estructura paralela)
3. Usar linkers de adición y de contraste.

Addition linkers= what is more, moreover, besides, apart from that.

Contrast linkers= However, On the other hand, whereas=while

4. Usar la estructura

Get used to + ing= acostumbrarse a algo

Be used to + ing= estar acostumbrado a algo.

5. Usar

I wish I could play the guitar (cuando preguntan qué habilidad quisiera tener)

Como estas estructuras no se parecen a las del español, suman más puntos.

6. Si se puede usar el pre. Perfecto continuo, suma mucho.

Lately, I ´ve been reading a lot…etc.
7. Para empezar a contar una película o una anécdota, empezar siempre con el pasado
continuo y después seguir la secuencia con el pasado simple. Si se puede incluír un pasado
perfecto después de “remember, because o realise”
8. Usar compound adjectives para describir la personalidad de alguien, suma.
Easy-going, two-faced; tight-fisted; hard-working; self-confident; self-serving (=interesado);
Laid-back (relaxed) etc.