Topics for the final exams:

https://eduline.hu/erettsegi_felveteli/2012/6/11/Angol_szobeli_erettsegi_tetelek_2012_2HRWM3

http://iteslj.org/questions/weather.html

 WEATHER EXPRESSIONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0N-4spJDw0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/ask_about_english/081007/

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quiznet/pdfs/qnet_206_weather_vocab.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/quiznet/2012/05/120511_flash_quiz_2_weather.shtml

WEATHER AND NATURAL DISASTERS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p26O_GvX0I#t=27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p26O_GvX0I

AUTUMN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0BtV7_Eyw

WINTER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiUqSqbS2A&list=PL517E45C288B247FD

Why Summer is my Favorite Season of the Year (sample essay)

https://www.essaybot.com/sample/essays/detail?id=112305&query=Why%20Summer%20is%20my%20Favorite%20Season%20of

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1046_house

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

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

http://iteslj.org/questions/christmas.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/christmas.html

On New Year's Eve, people traditionally take a shower in the fountains in Trafalgar Square! The Christmas tree is an annual gift from Norway.

http://iteslj.org/questions/newyearday.html

 On 14th of February, St. Valentine's Day, many people send a card to the one they love or someone whom they have fallen in love with. People usually don't sign these cards and a lot of time is spent guessing who has sent them!

Ash Wednesday is the day in February when the Christian period of Lent begins. This refers to the time when Chris went into the desert and fasted for forty days. Although not many people actually give up eating during this period, on Pancake Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, they eat lots of pancakes. These are made from flou, milk and eggs, and fried in a hot pan. Some towns also hold pancake races on that day. People run thhough the streets holding a frying pan and throwing the pancake in the air. Of course if they drop the pancake they lose the race.

At Easter time, the British celebrate the idea of new birth by giving each other chocolate Easter eggs which are opened and eaten on Easter Sunday. On Good Friday bakers sell hot cross buns, which are toasted and eaten with butter. Easter Monday is a holiday and many people travel to the seaside for the day or go and watch one of the many sporting events, such as football or horse-racing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1458_easter
As summer comes, Britain likes to celebrate the end of the winter. Much of this celebration is connected with dancing, which is performed to encourage life and growth and to drive away harmful spirits. Children may be seen dancing round the Maypole on village greens, weaving their brightly coloured scarves into a beautiful pattern. Morris men dance all day long on 1st May, waving their white handkerchiefs to drive away the evil spirits and welcome in the new ones.

Halloween means “holy evening”, and takes place on October 31^st. Although it is a much more important festival in the United States than Britain, it is celebrated by many people in the UK. It is particularly connected with witches and ghosts.

At parties people dress up in strange costumes and pretend they are witches. They cut horrible faces in pumpkins and other vegetables and put a candle inside, which shines through the eyes. People may play difficult games such as trying to eat an apple from a bucket of water without using their hands.

In recent years children dressed in white sheets knock on doors at Halloween and ask if you would like a “trick” or “treat”. If you give them something nice, a “treat”, they go away. However, if you don’t, they play a “trick” on you, such as making a lot of noise or spilling flour on your front doorstep!

Guy Fawkes Night

In 1605 King James I was on the throne. As a Protestant, he was very unpopular with Roman Catholics. Some of them planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5th November of that year, when the King was going to open Parliament. Under the House of Lords they had stored thirty-six barrels of gun powder, which were to be exploded by a man called Guy Fawkes. However one of the plotters spoke about these plans and Fawkes was discovered, arrested and later hanged. Since that day the British traditionally celebrate 5th November by burning a dummy, made of straw and old clothes, on a bonfire, whilst at the same time letting off fireworks.

This dummy is called a 'guy' (like Guy Fawkes) and children can often be seen on the pavements before 5th November saying, 'Penny for the guy.' If they collect enough money they can buy some fireworks.

If you try to catch a train, a bus or an airplane on December 24^th, you may have difficulty in finding a seat. This is the day when many people are traveling home to be with their families on Christmas Day, December 25^th. For most British families, this is the most important festival of the year, it combines the Christian celebration of the birth of Christ with the traditional festivities of winter.

     On Sunday before Christmas many churches hold a carol service where special hymns are sung. Sometimes carol-singers can be heard on the streets as they collect money for charity. Most families decorate their houses with brightly-colored paper, and they usually have a Christmas tree in the corner of the front room, glittering with colored lights and decorations.

       There are a lot of traditions connected with Christmas, but perhaps the most important one is the giving of presents. Family members wrap up their gifts and leave them at the bottom of the Christmas tree to be found on Christmas morning. Small children believe that their gifts come from Santa Claus. Their parents tell them that Santa Claus lives in the North Pole and, on the night before Christmas, he travels the world in a sled pulled by reindeer. He goes down the chimneys of houses to leave gifts only for children who have been good. At some time on Christmas Day, the family will sit down to a big turkey dinner followed by desserts specially prepared for the occasion.

       Later in the afternoon, they may watch the Queen on television as she delivers her traditional Christmas message to the United Kingdom. If they have room for even more food they may enjoy a piece of Christmas cake. December 26^th is also a public holiday, and this is the time to visit friends and relatives or be a spectator at one of the many sporting events.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1120_christmas

Susan Sheerin, Jonathan Seath, Gillian White: Spotlight on Britain; Oxford University Press, 1985

https://testbig.com/ielts-essays/ielts-essay-nowadays-many-people-go-shopping-their-free-time-shopping-has-replaced-many

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

https://www.preservearticles.com/201104306080/short-essay-on-friendship.html

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

A "typical" British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, but in recent years there have been many changes in family life. Some of these have been caused by new laws and others are the result of changes in society. For example, since the law made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has increased. In fact one marriage in every three now ends in divorce. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is now more tolerant than it used to be of unmarried people, unmarried couples and single parents.

Another change has been caused by the fact that people are living longer nowadays, and many old people live alone following the death of their partners. As a result of these changes in the pattern of people's lives, there are many households which consist of only one person or one person and children.

You might think that marriage and the family are not so popular as they once were. However, the majority of divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.

Members of a family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - keep in touch, but they see less of each other than they used to. This is because people often move away from their home town to work, and so the family becomes scattered. Christmas is the traditional season for reunions. Although the family group is smaller nowadays than it used to be, relatives often travel many miles in order to spend the holiday together.

In general, each generation is keen to become independent of parents in establishing its own family unit, and this fact can lead to social as well as geographical differences within the larger family group.

Relationships within the family are different now. Parents treat their children more as equals than they used to, and children have more freedom to make their own decisions. The father is more involved with bringing up children, often because the mother goes out to work. Increased leisure facilities5 and more money mean that there are greater opportunities outside the home. Although the family holiday is still an important part of family life (usually taken in August, and often abroad) many children have holidays away from their parents, often with a school party or other organized group.

Who looks after the older generation? There are about 10 million old-age pensioners in Britain, of whom about 750,000 cannot live entirely independently. The government gives financial help in the form of a pension but in the future it will be more and more difficult for the nation economy to support the increasing number of elderly. At the present time, more than half of all old people are looked after at home. Many others live in Old Peoples' Homes, which may be private or state owned.

(Spotlight on Britain, Sheerin, Seath, White)

QUESTIONS

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

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

http://iteslj.org/questions/meaningoflife.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/names.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/haveyou.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/howoften.html

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

http://iteslj.org/questions/beauty.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/behavior.html

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

http://iteslj.org/questions/personality.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/jobs.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/unemployment.html

Here are a few of the people, companies, and events that have played a role in the collision of technology and media over the past half-century or more.

https://www.niemanlab.org/riptide/timeline/

+ people who work in the media

Essays:

https://www.essayforum.com/writing-feedback-3/essay-mass-media-influence-peoples-ideas-15430/

https://www.studymode.com/essays/Advantages-And-Disadvantages-Of-Tv-199809.html

https://ieltstime.blogspot.hu/2012/05/sample-answer-ielts-writing-task-2_8110.html

https://intermediate5.blogspot.hu/2008/05/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-mass.html

INTERNET TAX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgxglVm_2OY