Looking for help with speaking exam
Hello everybody,
I'm taking an English exam tomorrow and just have received a list of possible topics for the monologue I will have to give. Could you please help me by chosing some of the issues and writing down the ideas that come to your mind?
Due to the lack of time, I'm afraid I won't be able to prepare the speech properly, so I'd appreciate if you gave me a hand making a sort of brainstorming.
What would you say if you were asked for speaking about some of these matters?
In the exercise we'll be given about 10 or 15 minutes for thinking about the subject and then we'll have to speak for 4 minutes in a row.
Possible topics for speaking exam, C1 level:
1.- Can we rely on information from the internet and social networks?
2.- Are the radio and TV more reliable as sources of information than the Internet?
3.- Having more sources of information, is communication less effective?
4.- Are we obsessed with mobile phones? We lose face-to-face communication, mobile games...
5.- Do you think that we live better or worse than we did 10 or 30 years ago?
6.- Paper books vs ebooks
7.- Environment and climate change.
8.- Should the Government ban hunting and other blood sports?
9.- Childhood obesity
10.- Should the retirement age lowered or raised?
11.- Do mass media pay too much attention to celebrities and famous people?
12.- What's the influence of the reality shows on our society