Exámenes Escuela Oficial de Idiomas EOI 2010 3 RELATIONSHIPS

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Hi guys welcome to another edition of Marek Connell English. Now in these videos I'm going to help you the e o speaking exam. I'm going to give you an example of what a native speaker would say in these situations. Today we're going to speak about relationships. Now the monologue part of the Escuela Oficial exam lasts between 3.5 and 4 minutes. Normally you have 5-8 questions which you can answer. Now you have to choose 1 of these questions. At least 1 but you can answer 3, 4, 5 as many as you want to, but you can equally choose 1 question and just focus on the speaking about that for 3.5 minutes. I would always recommend preparing maybe 3 or 4 sections so if you run out of time during the exam you can always switch to another question to fill the time that you have left. Now you normally have probably around ten minutes to prepare for the monologue and the dialogue of the Escuela Oficial speaking exam. What happens is while 2 other candidates are doing the speaking exam you are preparing and making notes and then when they finish you and your partner go in and you do the monologue and dialogue and you can use your notes to help you. OK so relationships. Question1: Changes in the concept of the family. Ok, so nowadays families are changing quite a lot. Divorce is something that is happening a lot nowadays. People get married and then 5 minutes later they get divorced. Sometimes they also have children during their relationships, so it's becoming more and more common for there to be step children in families and children, to have half brothers and half sisters. Question 2. The right time to fly the net. Well, with the financial situation that we have at the moment it's becoming more and more difficult for young adults to find the right time to leave home. In Britain, people leave home a lot earlier, maybe at the age of 18, 21, usually through the process of university, young adults will leave home. I think it's becoming more and more common for people to stay with their parents, children to stay, to live at their parents home for longer until they can afford to either, rent or to buy a house and move out. 3. Our society's response to the issue of the elderly. Now, the topic of becoming old is quite a touchy subject and we have a lot more old people on the planet now because medicine is becoming more advance and we have a lot more facilities and resources to help people to live longer and that's a good thing but at the same time we have a lot more work to try and keep those people alive and living a good life. I think at the moment, unfortunately, people's attitude towards elderly people is that they send them to and old people's home and they go there and they are forgotten about. I think it's very nice when a family has the resources and the time to take care of, effectively the people who took care of them when they were growing up. But because our lives are so busy nowadays that's becoming more difficult to do. So I think the more important thing to do is try and find the time to respect and take care of elderly people. Definitely I think elderly people are wiser than us youngsters, they've had the experiences, they've got the knowledge and really we should really appreciate the time we have with them and listen to their ideas. 4. Parents staying together for the sake of their children. This is a difficult topic. I mean, again families are changing. People are getting divorced. I think divorce is around 50%. I think around 50% of marriages end in divorce. I think children should always be a priority for parents but at the same time parents are people and you have to think about yourself sometimes as well. I think it is difficult, it's a difficult question to answer. I wouldn't say that its always the best thing for parents to stay together just because of their kids, but I also think that if you don't, if you have kids I think they can be the reason for you staying together. I think you can find inspiration in your kids and, you know, if you don't have kids, it's often easier to go your separate ways but when you have kids, then you have more responsibility and you have to dedicate your life to bringing up those children and supporting your family. 5.How are family relationships different from those with friends? I think the difference between family and friends in terms of relationships is becoming blurred. I think probably 20-30 years ago we had a much stronger connection to our families and now, again the family concept is changing, people are travelling a lot more and I think we obviously try to keep in contact with our family and friends but at the same time it's quite difficult and we live, we lead very busy lifestyles, so it's difficult to keep in contact. Things like Skype and whatsapp make it easier and you know, the fact that you have the weekends sometimes free and you can have dinner with your friends and catch up for coffee and things like that- that's a godsend....