ADVANCED 1: TOPICS FOR FEBRUARY TESTS 2018
JOBS
Working conditions
Skills and qualifications
Dream job
Your line of work
Current job / career
Successful career
Work life balance
Families and working hours/ timetables
Job interviews
Work situation in Spain
Job satisfaction
Salaries and wages
Entrepreneurs
Being a CEO
Running a company
Job cuts
Being a trainee or an intern
Apprenticeship contracts
Being self employed
Women at work: breaking the glass ceiling
FREE TIME/ LEISURE
Unusual hobbies
What would you take up and why?
What would you do on a sabbatical/ gap year?
Adjectives to describe free time activities
Comparing different options
TRAVELLING
Dream trip
Travelling companions
All-inclusive package holidays
Travelling solo
Destinations
Accommodation
Activities
Travelling anecdotes and experiences
When things go wrong: complaining
Couchsurfing
AirBnB / Blablacar(collaborative consumption and sharing)
Being a traveller or a tourist
Green tourism
Tourism in Spain/ your region/ city
Going on a cruise / going camping
ENVIRONMENT
Main environmental issues in your region
Worldwide environmental problems
Are you eco-friendly?
The three RRRs
Animal issues
Environmental education at schools
THE FUTURE
How do you imagine yourself in 10 year’s time? What will you be
doing? What will you have done?
How do you imagine your country/ city in 10 years’ time?
education
housing
environmental issues
job market
traffic and transport
cultural events
Gadgets and devices
Smartphones and you: life savers or life destroyers?
Important technological developments
PERSONALITY
Qualities and flaws
Personality traits
What important traits do you consider important in a good friend/
boss/ partner?
Are you a..? :
o Keeper
o Scholar
o Free spirit
o Dreamer