Track 20

Track 20

1 Examiner: How are schools today different from schools in your parents’ generation?

Candidate: There is much less discipline and pupils are difficult to control. Standards of behaviour have really declined.

2 Examiner: In what ways has the countryside in your country changed during your lifetime?

Candidate: There are far fewer young people living in the countryside. Many of them have had to abandon rural life and move to the cities to look for work.

3 Examiner: What do you think is the most significant change in the way people communicate?

Candidate: Social networking sites - definitely. Just look at the way they’ve evolved over the last few years. You could almost spark a revolution with a click of a mouse.

4 Examiner: What do you think will be the most significant change in people’s life style in the next ten or twenty years?

Candidate: I think as energy becomes more expensive, we will have to modify how we live- consume less, conserve more.

5 Examiner: In what ways has the experience of living abroad affected you?

Candidate: I’ve had to learn to adjust to different ways of doing things - shopping, cooking, socializing - all sorts of things.

6 Examiner: How, in your view, are patterns of employment in your country likely to change in the next few years?

Candidate: Many more people are going to work in financial services. That whole sector is developing very rapidly in my country. There are lots of opportunities now.