This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about the US election!
US politics has become a worldwide media show, and every country seems to follow the US elections with interest. But are you interested, and what do you think about it?
This month, US citizens will vote on who their next president will be. This year the candidates both have their own popularity issues, so it will be a tight race!
Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about the US election!
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Conversation Questions: The US Election!
- 1. Is the US election a big topic in your country?
- 2. What was the first US election you remember, what do you remember about it?
- 3. Do you think the US political debate has become too confrontational?
- 4. How would you compare the US election to elections in your country?
- 5. What do you think of the media coverage around the US election?
- 6. Does the outcome of the US election directly affect your life?
- 7. What do you think is the weirdest thing about US politics?
- 8. Does it really matter who wins the US election?
- 9. Who do you think will be the next president of The United States?
- 10. “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Noam Chomsky – What do you think of this quote?
Vocabulary
- Election
- a time when people vote in order to choose someone for a political or official job
- Debate
- (a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part
- Confrontation
- behaving in an angry or unfriendly way that is likely to cause an argument
- Compare
- to examine or look for the difference between two or more things
- Media coverage
- the amount of attention and exposure a person, brand, event, or topic receives from the media
- Outcome
- a result or effect of an action, situation, etc.
- Freedom of expression
- freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority
- Despise
- to feel a strong dislike for someone or something because you think that that person or thing is bad or has no value
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Model Answers & Vocabulary
To help you prepare for the Thinking in English conversation club this week, the wonderful English tutor Thomas Brock has created vocabulary lists and some model answers.
The model answers are split into intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced level responses. Hopefully this will give you an idea on the differences in quality between intermediate and advanced response, and perhaps inspire your own answers to these questions!
B1 (Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
B2 (Upper Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
C1 (Advanced Level)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
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