KS - otázky ke zkoušce
Otázky ke zkoušce :
1. My family. An average day in your family. What are the differences between English and Czech families?
2. My daily programme. My morning routine and my work. The best day in my life.
3. My hobbies - sports, cinema, theatre, travelling, my weekends.
4. My house/flat. Describe your flat or house.
5. What do you do? Where do your work? How does your average working day look like?
6. Travelling. What do you know about GB or the USA? What do you know about London? What are British/American people like?
7. Meals and drinks. Describe your favourite drink and meal. What is typical for Czech cooking?
8. Holidays. Describe your last holiday. What are your holiday plans for this year?
Odborné texty k ústní zkoušce:
1. Oiling Engine parts
All engines, whether in a car, a boat or a generator, need oil to lubricate the parts. This oil gets dirty and needs to be changed, which is an operation that can be messy, expensive and dangerous. A new oil filter has been developed which does the job so well that the oil only needs changing once a year or about every 40,000 kilometres.
The filter is made of aluminium and is 9.5cm in diameter and 5cm long. It fits between the engine and the standard full flow oil filter. As the engine oil flows through the aluminium filter, the filter removes water, carbon and solid particles. This prevents acids and other harmful things building up in the oil, extending the life of the engine oil and the engine itselfs.
2. Energy economics: growth, resources and policies
(By Robert Eden & Geoffrey Evans, Cambridge University Press)
The author presents a view of the basic issues the research efforts have attained since the 1973 oil crisis. The book is in five parts.
It begins with a discussion of the economic and technology of energy demand.
The second part analyses the main supply factors for oil, coal, nuclear energy, renewable and unconventional energy sources.
The third part examines the market for energy, the structures of costs and prices, and the way in which the market is brought into balance.
Part four considers the world energy outlook and discusses energy prospects for differnt world regions.
The concluding chapters deal with energy policy issues and the available policy instruments illustrating the problems that arise on a worldwide, regional and national scale.
3. All over the world people are moving from the country to live in or near towns and cities. Those of us who already live in cities know how it feels to live surrounded by noise and fumes of city traffic. It is not pleasant. But more than that, the increasing amount of combustion engine traffic is costly in terms of human lives and fuel resources. One solution to this waste of energy might be a special form of transport for inner city use. Something which uses fuel economically, without polluting the atmosphere, and gets you around the city in reasonable comfort. Perhaps an electrically driven car or taxi?
4. The Institute for Great Discoveries is situated within an easy reach of public transport. There are three buildings set in a beautiful park. The director's office and the rooms for the administrative staff are in the smallest building. You can find two lecture halls and the library in the large circular building. There are 200 seats in the large lecture hall and 30 seats in the small one. Laboratories and study rooms for scientists and researchers are situated in the third building. Dining and bar facilities for the staff can be found also in the Institute. Excellent shopping facilities are within a walking distance.
5. The solar system.
The four inner members of the solar system are known as the terrestrial planets. Mercury is the innermost member of the solar system Venus, one of the brightest objects in the sky, orbits the Sun between Earth and Mercury. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, with a diameter of 142,800km. It is the closest of the outer planets. Saturn, like Jupite, is composed mainly of hydrogen and it is the second largest planet. Neptune, discovered in 1846, is over a billion kilometers beyond Uranus. Mars is the terrestrial planet furthest from the Sun.
6. Medical fridge
Keeping medical products cool in hot weather is important when the contents will spoil quickly at the wrong temperature. There are portable fridges for use in mobile clinics and vaccination schemes. Most of these fridges use a gas or paraphin flame to evaporate the cooling fluid. DE Ltd. have introduced a fridge built on a different principle. An electrically-powered motor pumps the refrigerant. This means that when the door has opened, the inside of the fridge will recover its preset temperature very quickly.
7. Medical fridge
This medical fridge can be run off a car battery in a vehicle or a separate car battery. With adaptations, which cost more, the fridge can run off solar power or a wind generator.
The great advantage of this new portable fridge is that it consumes only 20 watts of electric power - about the same as a vehicle rear lamp. There are two models - 50 litre one and a 100 litre version. At an outside temperature of 40ºC these fridges can keep their contents at freeying point.
Both models will be on display in the company's showroom next month.