WORK
1. What ratio of work to leisure would be your ideal? Answer using percentages.
2. Are the people in your country famous for working hard or for having a good social life?
3. What jobs would you most and least like to do?
4. What jobs have you done in your life and what did you like and dislike about them?
5. Which age-groups are worst affected by unemployment in your country?
Should people who have never worked before be entitled to unemployment benefit?
6. What are the causes of unemployment and how is the problem solved in your country?
7. Do women in your country have equality of job opportunities? Are they paid as well as men?
8. Are there many migrant workers in your country? If so, what kind of jobs do they do? What are their working conditions like?
9. Do people leave your country to find work in other countries? Where do they go?
What sort of jobs do they get? Are they made welcome?
10. Do workers in your country pay a lot of income tax to the government?
Do people with large salaries pay a much higher rate of tax than other workers? Do you think they should?
11. Do you think that every worker should have the right to join a Trade Union?
12. Do you think that every worker, (including doctors, nurses, teachers, the police,
ambulance crews and fire fighters), should have the right to go on strike?
YOUTH & OLD AGE
1. Are young people generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents?
2. Should adults try to teach young people lessons, such as the dangers of drinking too
much, taking drugs or contracting the HIV virus, or should they leave them alone to
find out about these things themselves?
3. What do you think is the best age to be? Explain your opinion.
4. Most countries give young people rights as they reach a certain age. For example, British people can legally make
love or fight for their country at the age of 16; they can drink, vote and drive a car when they are 18.
Does your country have similar laws? Do you think that any of the age limits need changing?
5. Should young people have to do some form of military or community service by law?
6. Should people of between 60 and 65 be obliged to retire from their jobs in order to
make way for younger workers?
7. Are there many things that the old can teach the young or are they hopelessly out of
touch by the time they reach a certain age?
8. In most countries, compulsory education is targeted at 5 - 16 year olds. Would it
be better to offer it to pensioners who want to learn rather than young people
who prefer not to be in school?
9. In Russia, China and many other countries, there is a tradition of choosing leaders
who are advanced in years. Do you think that older people make better leaders?
10. Many elderly people have disabilities which limit their mobility. Do buses, shops
and public buildings in your country provide easy access for the disabled or are
your towns and cities designed mainly for the young and able-bodied?
11. Should the elderly be expected to pay for residential care out of their own savings or
should appropriate accommodation and nursing be provided by the tax payer?
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