UPPER-INTERMEDIATE – TEST
05.01.2022 2022-08-25 16:20UPPER-INTERMEDIATE – TEST
Personalities
Past
Describe your best friend or a colleague from the past.
Present
Describe/recommend your best friend or a colleague.
Who is it? How long have you know him/her?
What does he/she look like?
- age (about, mid-, early-, late-)
- height and built
- hair
What’s he/she like? (Give some positive and some negative characteristics). Use the following adjectives:
- adventurous, moody
- ambitious, arrogant
- assertive, bad-tempered
- calm, cheerful
- conscientious, easy-going
- eccentric, funny
- forgetful, critical
- immature, impulsive
- insecure, insincere
- loyal, open-minded
- optimistic, posessive
- reserved, self-confident
- stubborn, vain
- well-balanced, wise
Future
Describe a person who you would be happy to have as a friend or a colleague.
Illness and treatment
Past
Have you ever had to give first aid? When was it? Who to? Why? What happened? / Has anyone had to give first aid to you? Why? What happened?
How much had you known about first aid before?
Do you think you should have learnt more about first aid in the past? Would you have been able to act more confident in critical cases, if you had spent more time studying this subject?
Present
What do you usually do when:
- you have a temperature
- you have a cough
- you have a headache
- you sneeze a lot
- your back hurts
- you have a soar throat
- you see that somebody has just fainted and is unconscious
- you feel dizzy
- you sprain your ankle and it’s swollen
- you have food poisoning
- you have high/how blood pressure
- you have do deal with allergy
Future
Would you learn more about medicine and a healthy life style from a medical point of view?
What exactly are you going to do and when are you going to start?
How long will it take you?
Are there any fixed plans?
How will your life change, if you do this?
If you learnt a lot about how your body really works, would you physically check if that’s true? And if you checked and managed to make sure, that everything works, would you follow all the recommendations and would you be able to change your life completely by getting rid of bad habits?
Is there anything you should do first?
Crime and punishment
Past
Have you or someone you know ever been a victim of a crime? When was it? What happened? Why did it happen?
Did you call 911? How fast did anybody help you? Were there any witnesses?
Did the police investigate the case? Was/were the criminal/s caught? Were you there when the police was questioning him/her/them?
Did you sue him/her/them? What happened in court? Was there enough evidence? Was the judge unbiased? How many people were there in the jury? What was their verdict? What was the judge’s sentence?
Who was found guilty? Was anyone acquitted and allowed to go free?
Is there anything you should have done to be able to prevent this crime? What would have happened, if you had done this?
Present
What are the most common crimes in your town/city?
- blackmail
- bribery
- burglary
- drug dealing
- fraud
- hijacking
- kidnapping
- mugging
- murder
- rape
- robbery
- smuggling
- terrorism
- theft
- vandalism
Do you enjoy reading detective novels or watching TV crime series?
Where are you used to watching movies? Where are you used to reading? How often do you usually do this? How long have you been doing it?
Future
What would you do to protect your children form being criminals? How would you bring them up?
What exactly are you going to do to improve your parenting skills? How are you going to deal with teenage problems? What are you going to do to help your children to develop the proper attitude towards youth offenders and criminals in general?
Will it be easy for you to be a parent?
Do you have any fixed plans so you could prepare yourself for managing your future children’s lives or is it ok for you to copy your parents’ experience?
What will you do, if you realize that your idea of what is right and what is wrong isn’t acceptable for the new reality?
What would you do, if your child made friends with some bad guys and committed a crime?
Is there anything you should do to prevent that?
Your Style
Past
Where did you use to buy clothes when you got to university? Did you use to do this alone or were you influenced by your parents/friends by choosing clothes?
How long had your parents been buying clothes for you before you stopped them?
Have you ever been abroad just for going shopping? When was it? Where did you go? Who with? What did you buy? Did you have any problems with the excess baggage?
Have you ever bought clothes online? When was it? What did you buy? How fast was everything delivered? Was everything ok with the size? What web service was it?
Present
Do you dress up often or do you tend to wear casual clothes?
Do you prefer wearing plain or patterned clothes? What are you used to wearing?
Do you consider yourself to be quiet trendy? How often do your tastes change?
What are your three favourite items of clothing?
Where do you tend to buy most of your clothes? Why? How long have you been doing it in that particular place?
Future
Would you learn more about fashion or would you rather keep buying everything you just like? Why (not)?
What are you going to do about it?
Will it be a problem for you to hire a fashion adviser?
Do you have any fixed plans?
How will your life change, if you change your look?
Would you buy latest fashions only, if you had a chance? Why?
Is there anything you shouldn’t do? Is there anything you’d better do as soon as possible?
Is there anything special you’ll be wearing next weekend?
Music
Past
Have you ever…?
- sung in a choir
- been in a talent contest
- performed in front of a lot of people
Did your parents listen to a lot of music when you were growing up? What kind of music was it?
Have you even seen a live performance of a world-class musician or musicians? When was it? Where was it? What kind of music was played? Did you like it?
Have you ever had to travel abroad to see your favourite musician, a band or a DJ performing live? When was it? Who did you go with? Did you enjoy the show?
Is there anything you should have done more often in the past? For example, going to music festivals or live concerts? What would have happened, if you had done this?
Present
Do you know that music tastes can reveal a lot about your personality? What kind of music do you like? Why? Do you use music to intensify certain kinds of feelings or as a background?
Do you have your favourite
- band
- solo artist
- song or album track
- composer
- piece of music (symphony, sonata, etc.)
- soloist
- conductor
What do you think of …
- alternative music
- classical music
- country music
- dance music
- hip hop
- gangsta rap
- funk
- jazz
- opera
- have metal
- pop music
- soul music
- rock music
- lounge music
Future
Is there anything you would be happy to do in terms of music? What would it be? Why?
When are you going to make this dream come true?
How long will it take you?
Are there any fixed plans?
How will your life change, if you manage to do this?
What would happen, if you were able to precipitate everything?
Is there anything you should do first?
What will you have done by the end of this year?
The Media
Past
Did you use to read any newspapers or magazines when you were at school or at university?
Talk about different sections.
- frontpage
- advertisement
- cartoon
- crossword
- horoscope
- review
- weather forecast
Which one/ones was/were your favourite?
Have you ever got in touch with a newspaper or a magazine? What for? (If not – why not?)
Present
Are there any people from the media you know or like
- a commentator
- a critic
- an editor
- a freelance journalist
- a newsreader
- a paparazzi
- a show presenter
- a press photographer
- a reporter
Talk about them and their work in details.
How long have you known them?
How long have you been following their careers?
Is there anything you are used to doing together?
Future
Would you like to know more about today’s media to be able to promote you your business or your services?
Are going to learn more about digital marketing? If yes, what exactly you are going to do? If no, why isn’t it important for you?
Can you predict, how the Internet will evolve?
If you need to promote your business or your services, will you choose TV or the world wide web?
If you had a chance to learn everything you need and work independently or hire a professional team, what would you choose and why?
Is there anything you should do in the nearest future?
Will you have done this by the end of the month?
Your town/city
Past
Describe your experience of going sightseeing in different places. Talk about the things from the list:
- a cathedral
- a mosque
- a church
- a tamale
- a chapel
- a synagogue
- a square
- a tower
- a concert hall
- a stadium
- a statue
- a monument
- pedestrian streets
- hills
- mountains
- a forest
- a harbour
Present
In which part of your town/city do you live? (in the centre, on the outskirts, etc.). How long have you been living there?
What do you like best/least about your neighbourhood?
Are there any famous landmarks or sights in your town/city?
Are there any problems with…
- homeless people
- pollution
- crime
If you had to choose one adjective to describe your town/city, what would it be?
Are you happy living there or would you like to move?
Where are you used to going for a walk?
Future
How would you solve these problems?
- homeless people
- beggars
- pickpockets
- overcrowding
- pollution
- poverty
- traffic jams
- slums
- vandalism
Feelings
Past
Have you ever experienced these feelings? Have you ever been
- confused
- disappointed
- glad
- grateful
- homesick
- lonely
- nervous
- offended
- relieved
- shocked
When was it?
What had happened?
What happened next?
Is there anything you should have done?
What would have happened, if had been able to change it?
Present
What do you know about emotions and controlling them?
How often are you
- astonished
- delighted
- desparate
- devastated
- exhausted
- furious
- miserable
- stunned
- terrified
- thrilled
Is it normal to behave unnaturally polite and tolerant in public or at work? Especially with crazy, arrogant and aggressive people, who don’t hesitate to offend you and even physically hurt you. Share your experience.
What do you know about emotional intelligence?
Do you work on the emotional part of your personality? If yes, how long have you been doing?
Is there anything you are always used to reacting positively/negatively? Is it a person or a situation?
Future
Are there any feelings you would be really happy to experience more often?
Are there any feelings you would be really happy to get rid of as soon as possible?
What are you going to do about it? Are you going to cope alone or are you going to look for a specialist?
How long do you think it’ll take you?
How will you life change, if you do this?
What kind of a person would you become, if you were able to control all your emotions?
Do you think you should try to do this?
What will you have changed by the end of the year?
The weather
Past
Have you ever been to places where you could experience theses extreme weather conditions?
- blizzard
- drought
- flood
- hailstorm
- heatwave
- hurricane
- lightning
- thunder
- monsoon
- tornado
Where was it? When was it?
Where you prepared? What did you do?
What happened?
Present
Describe the weather in the place you live.
When is it
- cool
- chilly
- cold
- below zero
- freezing
When is it
- mild
- warm
- hot
- scorching
When is it
- damp
- misty
- foggy
- smoggy
- drizzly
- wet
How often is it
- raining
- pouring
How often are there
- showers
- breezes
- gale-force winds
Future
Would you live in a place with four seasons or with just one?
Are you going to spend you next winter holiday in a hot country? Where are you going to go? Who with?
What will be the weather like at that time?
What will you do, if the weather gets worse?
Where would you live, if you could choose any place on the planet. Describe you perfect weather conditions.
Is there anything you should be very careful with, e.g. seasonal allergy?
Business and advertising
Past
Tell a story of a company you know.
Who set it up and when was it done?
What was the first project and who launched it?
How fast did they get bigger?
How fast did they expand to other countries?
How did they operate on other markets?
Did they export anything?
Have they ever had to merge with another company?
Have they ever had any unforgettable or funny commercials?
Present
Present your company or a company you work for.
Is it a big company? Is it multinational?
How many employees are there? Do you have any problems with staff turnover? How often does anybody gets redundant?
Where is the head office? Do you like the top-management? What can you say about the owner/s?
Do you have any branches? Where?
What do your clients/customers say? What reputation do you have?
How do you promote your business?
Future
Would you be happy to work for a company or would it be better for you to become self-employed or to set up your own company?
What are you going to do? When?
Will you need any loans for business development?
How will you promote your business?
Is there any company you would be happy to take over, if you had a chance?
Should you create a slogan?
What will you have done by the end of the year?
