Speaking and vocabulary classes Trinity

Class 1: Money
New English file page 50
Compact advanced unit 4
Questions:
1. Is financial education crucial in being wealthy?
2. Is getting in debt always bad?
3. What can be advantages and disadvantages of having an own
business?
4. Are you a fan of investing on the stock market? Why?
5. What is the best way to save money efficiently?
6. Is it fair to always blame financial crisis on the government?
Why?
7. Is it true: The more money you have, the more problems you
have. Why?
8. Why is inflation good for the economy if it weakens our
savings?
9. What would life be like without money?
10. Do you agree with the expression that money makes the
world go round? Why?
Class 2: Power and social issues, crime and punishment
Destination Unit 20
New English File (upper intermediate book) page 160
1. Is crime a serious threat to our lives in Spain?
2. Do security cameras help us preventing crime? Why?
3. Can we relate certain video games as a cause for crime? Why?
4. Is non-violent crime justified in some cases? Why?
5. What do you think the main reason is for causing crime
between criminals?
6. Is the jail or longer jail sentences the best method to fight
crime? If not, can you suggest other method(s) better and more
efficient?
7. Which is for you the most serious crime offence and why?
8. What are your views on death penalty as a sentence? Justified
or too much?
9. Is crime related to poverty? Give example(s)
10. Can the crime ever be solved totally? Argue.
11. How have science and technology changed the way crime
is committed today?
Class 3: Media
Destination page 79, exercise C, D
Compact advanced page page 11 exercise 1, page 12 Exam task
Complete advanced page 85, exercise 3
Speaking questions:
1. Do you think the media has too much power? Explain your
belief.
2. Do you think the media exaggerate their reporting? If so, state
the reasons why they do it.
3. Should the media be more restricted and not have access to
some information? Why?
4. Do the media care about truth or just making money off it?
5. How has technology affected the way we receive our news
today?
6. What can be done to improve the media today?
7. Is it fair to say that the media helped us create healthier society
in general? Why and how?
8. Should the media focus on reporting on domestic or global
problems more?
9. Should the media show graphic violence? Why or why not?
10. How can the media harm people?
11. Should media outlets (TVs, radios, etc.) be punished for
providing false information?
Class 4: Phrasal verbs
Explaining what phrasal verbs are, giving examples and making
exercises
Class 5: Technology
Destination page 31, exercises D, E
Destination page 32, phrasal verbs exercises
Questions:
1. Has technology changed our lives for the better or for the
worse?
2. Is technology the future of our lives?
3. Can the technology sector reinvent themselves and continue
innovating or do you expect stagnation?
4. Can you name some examples where technological inventions
have been bad for the society?
5. What piece of technology you would like to have never been
invented?
6. All of the technological inventions created by humans: the car,
the computer, the airplane, say little about our intelligence, but
speak volumes about our laziness. Do you agree? Why?
7. What is your opinion on artificial intelligence?
8. Is it dangerous to always rely on technology to solve our
problems because sometimes it may not function?
9. At what age should we as parents allow children to have cell
phones?
10. What do you think of violent video games? Explain your
reasonings.
Class 6: Art
Destination page 179, exercises C, D
Destination page 181, exercise I
Destination page 184, exercise A
Questions:
1. Should graffiti be considered as art? Why?
2. Do you think art is important to the society? Why?
3. Why is art so expensive?
4. Do you fins Picasso’s work astonishing or weird? Why?
5. Is fashion an important branch of art for you? Why?
6. Is art an imitation of life? Why?
7. Do you think youtubers or Instagram influencers should be
considered as artists? Explain
8. Some artists say they question the society and the system
through their works of art. Do you believe them or do you think
they do it only for money?
9. Do you think that movies have replaced paintings as primary
form of art? Why?
10. Artists are very lazy people who try to avoid work at all
costs. Do you agree? Why?
Class 7: Relationships and Personality
New English File page 162
Destination unit 24 (choose whichever exercises you want)
1. Do all people have a mixture of good and bad personality
traits? Or are there people who only have good or bad traits for
example, Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler.
2. How does one person’s character influence the personalities of
people around him?
3. Can people change their personality if they want to?
4. Do you believe in horoscope? Do you believe it has anything to
do with our personality?
5. Do you think birth order between siblings has any effect on
their personalities?
6. What personalities do you consider most important in your
best friend and your boss at work?
7. Do you think an adult’s personality is more a result of being
born with it or more a result of having developed it? Why?
8. Do you think the people nowadays are softer than the people
from our parents’ generation?
9. Do the person’s appearance speak about their personality?
Why?
10. Is it fair to say that physically good looking people tend to
have bad personalities?
Class 8: Work
Destination page 47, exercises D, E
Destination page 48, exercises F, G
New English file page 163, exercises 2, 3
1. Is the retirement age just in Spain or should it change? Why?
2. What is the best way to look for a job?
3. What is your opinion on companies imposing a dress code on
its employees?
4. Do you think it is okay to sometimes not tell the exact truth on
the CV or a job interview? Why?
5. What can be the negative effects from working?
6. What are the negative effects of being unemployed?
7. Do you think that working your dream job makes you less
stressed? Why?
8. Do you think that having a minimum wage is good for the
economy? Why?
9. Do you think it is appropriate for companies to require photos
on the CVs? Why?
10. Do you think that the kind of a job one has determines
who that person is? Why?
Class 9: Health and medicine
Destination page 147, exercise D
Destination page 148, exercises E, F, G
New English file page 79, exercise 6b
New English File Workbook, page 230, exercise 1a, 1b
1. Do you believe in vaccination or you prefer natural immunity?
Why?
2. What are the potential problems with increased life
expectancy?
3. What is more serious: physical illness or a psychological one?
4. Can the damage done by stress ever be recovered?
5. What do you think of alternative medicine that hasn’t been
researched enough?
6. Can taking medicine be bad for your body?
7. Do you agree with testing medicine on animals first and then
on humans? Why?
8. Can doing a diet be dangerous to your body? Examples.
9. Why a good sleep is important for our health?
10. Should the government get involved to control and
improve our eating habits?
Class 10: Travelling and tourism
New English File exercises 1a-, 2a
New English File Workbook page 233, exercises 1, 2a, 2b
New English File Workbook page 233, exercise 2c
Destination page 63 exercise C
Destination page 64 exercise D
1. What time of the year is the best to travel? Consider costs,
place, etc.
2. What are the disadvantages of travelling in a big group?
3. Do you think that too much vacation can be harmful and cause
disorders in your life?
4. What are advantages of travelling alone?
5. No one realizes how beautiful is to travel until he/she comes
home and rests his/her head on his/her familiar pillow. Do you
agree?
6. Should travelling be considered an education?
7. How do you think tourism will change in the future, if it
changes?
8. What do you think of the idea of space tourism?
9. Do you think tourism is bad for your planet?
10. Do you think tourism helps people from different cultures
understand each other?