These pictures are about family and home. When people fall in love, they get married and have children. In Hungary in a classical family usually the wife does the housework and the husband works a lot at his workplace. There are many things to do at home, e.g. hoovering, dusting, cleaning the windows and cooking. Sometimes men also cook. They are good cooks. Men work in the garden and in the garage. When there are some children, mothers spend much time with them. I think people in Hungary usually have two children. There are two or three rooms in a home. Bedrooms, a living-room, a bathroom and a kitchen. It is nice to have a garden. The whole family meets on special days like Christmas and birthdays, and they celebrate together.

These pictures are about family and home. When people fall in love, they get married and have a family. In Hungary in a classical family usually the wife does the housework, e.g. hoovering, dusting, cleaning the windows and cooking. These are not easy jobs but it is a tradition that women work at home for the family. The husband works a lot at his workplace and many times he goes home late. Men work in the garden and in the garage at weekends. They do the difficult jobs around the house or in the flat. Mothers spend much time with the children. They stay at home with them for 1-3 years. The whole family meets on special days like Christmas and birthdays, and they celebrate together. The family usually has a big dinner and there is always a cake for birthdays. Relatives like grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins visit each other. They sit and talk a lot. If it is nice weather, they sit in the garden or they walk in a park.

When people are in love they want to get married. This is still the tradition in Hungary although more and more young people move together without getting married. They say they do not want the formality of marriage and maybe they do not trust each other so much. In Hungary many couples divorce and it also could be the reason of not getting married. The modern way of life can lead to an impatiente behaviour and in the end to divorce. When people have children it is still important to be formally a family. More social benefits are given to families than to single parents. Also a traditional family model is more beneficial for the children in their life. It is important to see a man role model and a woman role model in order to ’copy’ the examples. In Hungary it is usually a small family that lives together. Grandparents visit or the family visits the grandparents. It can also cause a problem for the parents who would need more time to relax and entertain themselves without the children. This way children do not see how elderly people live and they do not have a picture of their life. It would be useful to spend more time with grandparents and learn to help them.

It is sometimes difficult to cope with private life and career at the same time. Many people try to do so and many people fail it. Modern life requires people to work long hours at work thus leaving little time for the family. And who is going to suffer? Everybody. When a couple is planning their life, everything seems to be beautiful. Then reality appears and work takes over. Even family planning is at risk. How can a woman with a successful career stay at home for some years? Or should families have a baby-sitter who will enjoy the special times with the children? Families decide this way or other but the two cannot go together in a satisfactory way. While this is an everyday issue in the Western world, overpopulation is getting worse and worse in other parts. Family planning is not known in many countries, cultures are very different. Where modern life has not reached, people do not face the question of career versus family. Other issues appear there though, like nutrition, clean drinking water, healthy living, curing dangerous diseases, etc. The governments of overpopulated countries cannot cope with the problems and cannot support the families. People need to rely on each other and generations help each other. Family ties are live there where modern technology is little.

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HOW TO DESCRIBE A PICTURE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lzfD2rLpm8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suYiaeo5oAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfoWtbPHTPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-EA4nqsNTQ

https://www.cristinacabal.com/pre-intermediate/description.pdf

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/describe-photo-or-picture

https://subliminalmanipulation.blogspot.hu/2010/09/heres-fun-test-to-check-how-perceptive.html

https://inyt.pte.hu/eclminta/files/ReadingB2.pdf
https://inyt.pte.hu/eclminta/files/WritingB2.pdf
https://inyt.pte.hu/eclminta/files/WritingB2.pdf

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The European Union (EU) is a group of 27 countries that operates as a cohesive economic and political block. Nineteen of the countries use the euro as their official currency.

Europe — the land of high culture, high fashion, delicious food and centuries-spanning history. 

FRANCE is famous for fashion, the Eiffel Tower, croissants and cheese.

FRANCE is worth visiting because you can visit the Eiffel Tower, eat croissants and cheese.

ITALY is famous for ...

ITALY is worth visiting because ...

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WORST:

LANGUAGE learning: 

Most students learn English in school. 

1995 European Commission’s White Paper "Teaching and learning – Towards the learning society", stated that "upon completing initial training, everyone should be proficient in two Community foreign languages". The Lisbon Summit of 2000 defined languages as one of the five key skills.

In fact, even in 1974, at least one foreign language was compulsory in all but two European member states.

On average in Europe, at the start of foreign language teaching, pupils have lessons for three to four hours a week. Compulsory lessons in a foreign language normally start at the end of primary school or the start of secondary school. In Luxembourg, Norway, Italy, Malta and Spain, however, the first foreign language starts at age six, in Sweden at age seven and in Belgium at age 10. About half of the EU's primary school pupils learn a foreign language.

The European Union has 23 official languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenia, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.

https://www.ef.com/wwen/pg/study-abroad/english/

The Erasmus Programme ("EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students"^[1]) is a European Union (EU) student exchange programme established in 1987.^[2][3] Erasmus+, or Erasmus Plus, is the new programme combining all the EU's current schemes for education, training, youth and sport, which was started in January 2014.

More than 9 million people have participated to the Erasmus programme since its creation. Students who join the Erasmus Programme study at least three months or do an internship for a period of at least 2 months to an academic year in another European country. 

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As an EU national you are entitled to take up work or look for a job in another EU country. 17 million of EU citizens are currently living or working abroad. The EU promotes fair employment conditions for people working abroad, as part of the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Find a job in Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/eures/portal/jv-se/home

http://europa.eu/kids-corner/countries/flash/index_en.htm

http://europa.eu/teachers-corner/pdf/europe_nutshell_en.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/eures/main.jsp?acro=eures&lang=en&catId=1

https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/eu-facts.html

After the Second World War, Jean Monnet, a French political economist and diplomat came up with the idea of European cooperation. Another Frenchman, Robert Schuman, who liked Monet's idea, mentioned the plan in his speech on 9th May 1950. In 1951, six countries, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France and Germany formed the European Coal and Steel Community(ECSC), in 1957 the European Economic Community (EEC) was set up. Members of the EEC shared a common market, where it was easier to trade. After years of discussion other European counties joiuned the cooperation. 1973: Britain, Denmark and Ireland, in 1981 Greece, in 1986: Portugal and Spain, in 1995: Austria, Finland and Sweden. In 1992 the name was changed to European Union (EU). Hungary joined in 2004. In 2014 the EU has 28 members (Croatia joined in 2013)

People living in the EU are free to live, work or study in whichever EU country they choose, when you cross the borders between most European countries, you no longer need a passport. The EU encourages people to spend some time studying or training in another European country.

The EU has its own anthem (Ode to Joy by Beethoven), flag (12 golden stars on  a blue background), a single currency (euro), a European Parliament (plus a European Commission, The Council of the European Union and the Court of Justice).

Anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_-KoBiBG0

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f8b2be8aa155c001b2696b1/the-european-union

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has widened a quarantine to include  (1) … .

Port Loko and Bombali in the north and Moyamba in the south are in effect to be sealed off immediately.

Nearly 600 people have died of the virus in Sierra Leone and two eastern districts have been isolated  (2)….

The move follows a three-day nationwide lockdown that ended on Sunday night.

New figures released by the UN World Health Organization show that (3) ….

During Sierra Leone's three-day curfew, more than a million households were surveyed and 130 new cases discovered, (4) ….

President Koroma said the move had been a success but had exposed "areas of greater challenges", which was why other areas were being quarantined.

Only people delivering essential services can enter and circulate within areas under quarantine.

According to AFP news agency, the extension of the indefinite quarantine means more than a third of Sierra Leone's 6.1 million population now finds itself  (5) ….

In a televised address, the president acknowledged that the isolation would (6) … .

"[But] the life of everyone and the survival of our country take precedence over these difficulties," he said.

According to WHO, the situation nationally in Sierra Leone continues to deteriorate with a sharp increase in the number of newly reported cases in the capital, Freetown, and its neighbouring districts of Port Loko, Bombali, and Moyamba, which are now under quarantine.

Despite efforts of deploy more health workers and open new Ebola treatment centres in the worst-affected countries, (7) ….

The situation in Guinea appeared to be stabilising, with up to 100 new confirmed cases reported in each of the past five weeks, but it was still of grave concern, it said.

A. unable to move freely

B. 2,917 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea worst affected

C. there was still a significant lack of beds in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with more than 2,000 needed, WHO said

D. three more districts in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola.

E. the authorities say

F. since the beginning of August

G "pose great difficulties" for people

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29360484

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVY4fMRBQOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BJhVxmjRK8

https://www.esl-lab.com/

https://www.5minuteenglish.com/listening.htm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/09/140917_vwitn_message_in_a_bottle.shtml

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIIvUiByA_8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EubqKQJVykI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESRue4aUpFk

https://iteslj.org/questions/sports.html

https://www.esl-lab.com/worldcupsoccer/worldcupsoccerrd1.htm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/talkingsport/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1646_football

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/quiznet/2012/06/120606_flash_quiz_3_torch_relay.shtml

https://www.esl-lab.com/ (running shoes)

• When were the first Olympic games?
• Why did they take place?
• When are the first Olympic games you remember?
  • When and where were they?
  • Did your country win any medals?
• When and where were the best games?
• How many Olympic sports can you name?
• Which sports are your favorite?
• How many medals did your country win in the last Olympics?
• Which sport is your country good at?
• Where are the next games?
• How is a country chosen to hold the games?
• Is holding the games a financial incentive?
  • Is it good for the country that holds the events?
• Which Olympic sports do you like to watch on TV?
• Does your country do better at the summer or the winter Olympics?
• Do you think that the Olympics are important, or have there been too many negative things (use of performance-enhancing drugs, corrupt judges) in recent history?
• Should professional athletes be allowed in the Olympics?
• Do you think it's fair that an athlete who lives in one country and competes in another country can come back to his/her home country to be part of the Olympic team?
• Do countries spend too much time on the Olympics?
• If we held the Olympics tomorrow in this class, in which sport would you win the gold?
• If you had to change one Olympic sport, which sport would you take away and which sport would you add?
• What is the most difficult Olympic sport?

 If you want to stay healthy, energetic and slim, you should play sports regularly.

If you ask me, we spend too much time indoors (especially in winter), we sit at our desks at the office or school all day long. That's why I really like outdoor sports, like skiing. I go skiing when I can find the time and money. After a week on the slopes I feel refreshed and very fit. However, skiing has some disadvantages; you have to buy or rent the equipment, which is very expensive. You need skis, boots, bindings, poles, a good jacket and trousers, a helmet, gloves, goggles.

If you can't afford skiing, you can start running or jogging. It is a great individual sport. You don't need a partner, you don't have to travel or buy costly equipment. Just step out of your house and start running. Of course, you should invest in running shoes and use common sense. I mean, start with a short distance, then add kilometres step by step. And, of course, avoid dark and deserted streets and don not run in the park after sunset.

I'm also fond of cycling. If you cycle to work or school you can keep fit and protect the environment at the same time. You can also go on bike trips and ride your bike in beautiful places, like riding on the wonderful Lake Balaton cycle trail.

I also enjoy playing team sports like hockey, football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, water polo, ultimate, lacrosse, American Football, rowing, cricket, handball 

because I can play with my friends and team sports also teach cooperation. Being a good team player is important when you want to work as part of a group.

There are sports that are more popular with men, like football, boxing, weightlifting, wrestling or car racing. But generally, girls and boys can do the same sports. Car racing is considered dangerous, but not as dangerous as extreme sports such as paragliding, skydiving, rock climbing or rafting.

The ideal type of exercise depends on you age, too. Young people prefer more dynamic sports, like basketball or running, whilst older generations are keen on hiking, walking or gardening.

https://iteslj.org/questions/lifesofar.html

https://iteslj.org/questions/childhood.html

https://iteslj.org/questions/getting.html

https://iteslj.org/questions/age.html

https://iteslj.org/questions/birthdays.html

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