Track 51

Track 51

What are your hobbies?

What is your favourite musical instrument?

Do you prefer action films or comedies? Why?

Do you think it is important to read novels and poetry? Why?

Sample answers:

Examiner: What are your hobbies?

Candidate: There is no one thing I’m fanatical about. I have various interests. I’m a keen cook and love to create new dishes and then invite my friends over to taste them. I love playing cards, especially Uno. Most of my friends are crazy about karaoke and I go with them from time to time but it’s not really my kind of thing.

Examiner: What is your favourite musical instrument?

Candidate: What is my favourite instrument? I would have to say the piano. I’m not a big classical music fan on the whole but I do love a bit of piano. It’s the emotion it can express that fasc inates me, the way man and instrument become one and the pianist gets lost in the music.

Examiner: Do you prefer action films or comedies?

Candidate: Neither really. If I had to choose between them I’d pick comedies, but what I really like is horror films, especially those involving ghosts. I enjoy getting a good fright.

Examiner: Do you think it is important to read novels and poetry?

Candidate: Well, my teachers always told me it is. But reading, I can take it or leave it. I can ‘t remember the last time I picked up a real page-turner. I don’t think it’s important to read. You can be entertained by films and you can be educated via the televis ion, watching documentaries and so on. So, I don’t feel I’m missing out on anything.