Maturitné okruhy úroveň B2:

1. FAMILY

• curriculum vitae (personal data: name, place of residence, date and place of birth, marital status, important moments in life)
• family members (appearance, character, hobbies)
• family relationships (relationships among siblings, parents and children, grand-parents, helping each other, domestic chores, weekday schedules and family celebrations)
• your ideas about your future family, partner, living/accommodation, employment
• the family and society (functions of the family, the family in the past and at present, the generation gap, problems of single-parent families, divorce, low birth–rate)

2. CULTURE AND ART

• cultural options in the city and in the country (museums, exhibitions, theatres, cinemas, concerts, the circus, dance)
• popular forms of culture and art (genres, famous personalities)
• attending cultural events
• music, film, theatre and folk festivals, atmosphere
• other forms of art – folk music, dance, painting, sculpture, architecture – well-known artists/performers

3. SPORTS

• kinds of sports (team, individual, summer, winter, popular, amateur, professional)
• the sports I like/ I am interested in (actively, passively, why?)
• why sport is important for the development of a person’s character (physical and mental health)
• important sports events, competitions, the Olympic Games
• lifestyle of sportsmen

4. HOUSING

• my home (description of the area where I live, furnishings/appliances)
• living in the city and in the country (pros and cons)
• ideal housing (own ideas about living)
• home and its importance in the life of a person (how people live in Slovakia and in other countries)
• young families and their housing problems ( purchasing/renting a house, children in housing estates)

5. SHOPPING AND SERVICES

• shopping facilities (shops, hypermarkets, markets)
• services (post office, bank, police station, petrol station)
• sales promotion and its influence on customers
• ways of shopping and payment (catalogue selling, to buy something on an instalment plan, weekly shopping, e-commerce
• imported products, export of Slovak goods

6. HEALTH CARE

• human body
• common diseases and diseases caused by current lifestyles, injuries, mental and physical conditions, seeing a doctor, at the chemist’s/pharmacy
• healthy lifestyles, physical and mental hygiene
• national/public and private health care, health insurance, specialists
• stressful situations in our lives

7. TRAVEL

• preparation for the journey, resons, destinations, the importance of travelling (work, holiday, business trip)
• means of transport (advantages and disadvantages of various means of transport)
• travelling individually and in a group (ways and kinds of transport, kinds of accommodation, board/catering)
• travelling in the past, at present and in the future
• possibilities of travelling abroad

8. SCHOOL AND STUDY

• educational systems (kinds of educational institutions, examinations, organization of the school year, marking/grading, holidays/days off)
• lessons (timetable/schedule, subjects, recess, breaks, school food, what lessons look like)
• student life (free time, hobbies, after-school activities/extracurricular activities, part-time/seasonal jobs, friends, pocket money)
• learning a foreign language/exchange stays abroad, educational stays, language courses, au-pair)
• student/teacher relationships

9. JOB

• kinds of labour (white collar and blue collar), job choice, motivation
• labour market (offer of employment, unemployment, job application, curriculum vitae (CV), job interview
• working hours, free/leisure time (improvements in the workplace, new technologies)
• employment opportunities in Slovakia and abroad, working conditions (pay, wage, salary, social security)
• career and family life, employment of women (maternity leave), requalification, retired people

10. HUMAN RELATIONS

• interpersonal relationships (family, school, neighbours, generations)
• friendship and love (value systems, attitudes, gatherings, celebrations)
• social issues (how communities and individuals relate to the disabled, the addicted and homeless)
• negative phenomena (aggression, vandalism, egoism, indifference)
• methods of solving conflicts

11. THE HUMAN RACE AND NATURE

• seasons, weather
• the wildlife around us – fauna (animals in the wild, at the ZOO, at home) and flora
• the state of the environment (soil, water and air pollution, natural disasters)
• environmental protection (national parks, protected regions, environmental education)
• the influence of the environment on human life (agriculture, healthy nutrition, agrotourism, organic crops)

12. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• life in the past and today (achievements in science and technology, and changes in the standard of living, household appliances)
• extraordinary discoveries in science and technology
• science and technology helping humankind (electronics, information technology / computer science, nuclear physics…)
• misuse/abuse of science and technology (weapons of mass destruction/arms, substance abuse, violence, consumer society, new diseases)
• mankind and science and technology in the future (replacement of the teacher by the computer, children and computers, brain drain)

13. MAN AND SOCIETY

• morality (behaviour of the younger, middle and older generations, ethics in family and at school)
• social etiquette – get-togethers/gatherings, greetings and congratulations, etiquette of visits, reasons and time, subject of conversation, hospitality
• norms and how they are broken (morality and law, misunderstandings and conflicts)
• expression of concern and help to people in need, sponsorship and sponsors (reasons and forms)
• the influence of society on family

14. COMMUNICATION AND ITS FORMS

• kinds of communication and the importance of communication (verbal and non-verbal)
• communication in varius situations (in public and in private lives, among the young, young and older, in the street, at school, at home, in everyday life, in unique situations)
• modern forms of communication (mobile phone, computer, e-mail, the Internet)
• language as means of communication (teaching/learning of languages, in which spheres of life they can be used, how foreign languages are spread and used)
• language: standard, colloquial, slang, professional

15. MASS MEDIA

• kinds of mass media (printed and electronic, their use, advantages, disadvantages)
• the press (newspapers, magazines, articles), how to choose them, where to buy them – favourite columns
• radio, TV (favourite kinds of programmes, ratings)
• the influence of mass media on life of an individual, family and society
• the Internet and its influence on a person and society

16. YOUNG PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

• characteristics of young people (appearance, fashion, character traits, interests
• the position of young people in society (rights and duties, possibilities of study, work, young families)
• relationships among peers and generational relationships (conflicts – reasons, their expression, consequences
• reasons and consequences of alcohol consumption, smoking and taking drugs
• young people’s vision of the future (expectations, dreams, fears)

17. FOOD

• daily food and drink (breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper), favourite dish/food
• places where people eat (at school, at home, in a restaurant)
• national cuisine – customs, specialities (ingredients, meals, table setting)
• international cuisine (characteristics, differences, specialities)
• healthy diet (children’s eating habits, vegetarianism, dieting)

18. HOBBIES, FREE TIME AND LIFESTYLE

• how people spend their free time
• formally organised free time (extra-curricular activities, clubs, seasonal jobs/part-time job
• hobbies (arts, culture, music, books, sport, do-it-yourself, outdoor activities)
• the influence which changes in society have on how we spend our free time
• free-time activities according to age

19. MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

• holidays, customs and traditions (religious and public holidays, national traditions and various events)
• the coexistence of various ethnic groups in one country
• bringing cultures together (contacts in the past and at present), personal contact with other cultures, tolerance
• racial discrimination, intolerance, aggression, relations with minorities
• cultural values of other nationalities, coexistence in Europe

20. TOWNS AND PLACES

• important places in my life (birthplace, where I have studied and where I have spent my weekends and holidays)
• tourist guide (welcome, basic information about their stay)
• places of interest for tourists (castles, chateaux, spas, caves) and towns
• places suitable for relaxation and for entertainment
• my dream place

21. CLOTHING, FASHION

• the influence of weather and climate on what people wear
• clothes and accessories for various occasions
• how people decide what to wear (fashion, age, mood/atmosphere, possibilities) care of clothes
• fashion trends – clothes, designers, fashion shows
• fine feathers make fine birds/clothes make the man, made-to-measure/tailor-made clothing/tailored clothing or mass-producing clothing (in the clothes shop, at the tailor’s/dressmaker’s

22. BOOKS – OUR FRIENDS

• books – variety/ how people choose where and when they read
• favourite author, genres
• a book I have read by an author from an English-speaking country
• e-books, audiobooks, printed books (their advantages and disadvantages)
• young people´s attitude to reading (libraries, bookstores)

23. ROLE-MODELS AND IDEALS

• positive and negative traits of a person, the ideal person, criteria of values
• the person I respect
• real-life and literary heroes
• heroes are not born, they may become one (person’s reaction in a critical situation)
• me as a hero

24. THE COUNTRIES WHOSE LANGUAGE I AM LEARNING

• the countries and their inhabitants
• the place I would like to visit
• uniqueness, customs, traditions and conventions
• stereotypes and prejudices
• the country and its place in the world

25. SLOVAKIA – MY HOMELAND

• the country and its inhabitants
• places I would recommend to a foreigner
• customs and traditions
• sterotypes and prejudices
• the place of Slovakia in united Europe

Maturitné okruhy úroveň C1:

A. Oblasť osobného života

1. Rodina a spoločnosť

• Vzťahy medzi ľuďmi
• Dospievanie
• Osobné perspektívy
• Osobnostný a sociálny rozvoj
• Sociálna spolupatričnosť

2. Domov a bývanie

• Bývanie v rodine
• Bývanie mimo rodiny
• Životné štýly
• Ideálne bývanie

3. Starostlivosť o zdravie

• Choroby a nehody
• Tradičná, alternatívna medicína
• Starostlivosť o telo
• Zdravý spôsob života
• Nemocnice a zdravotné strediská
• Lekáreň a lieky, riziká, vedľajšie účinky

4. Voľný čas Knihy a literatúra

• Filmy a médiá
• Výstavy a veľtrhy
• Kultúra a jej vplyv na človeka
• Umenie a rozvoj osobnosti

B. Oblasť verejného života

5. Multikultúrna spoločnosť

• Aspekty globalizácie
• Demografické zmeny
• Migrácia, xenofóbia, tolerancia
• Jazyková rôznorodosť
• Zbližovanie kultúr a rešpektovanie tradícií

6. Človek a spoločnosť

• Spoločenský život
• Politický život
• Občianska zodpovednosť /li>
• Cirkvi a náboženské vyznania
• Marginalizované skupiny

7. Človek a príroda

• Spoločnosť a životné prostredie
• Ekológia
• Chránené krajinné oblasti/li>
• Trvalo udržateľný rozvoj

8. Hospodárstvo

• Hospodársky rozvoj
• Vzdelanostná spoločnosť
• Ekonomika a obchod
• Cestovný ruch

9. Veda a technika

• Technický pokrok
• Informačno-komunikačné technológie
• Veda v službách ľudstva
• Riziká vedeckého a technického rozvoja

10. Obchod a služby

• Nákupné zariadenia
• Konzumný spôsob života
• Reklama
• Banky
• Pošty a telekomunikácie
• Kultúra nakupovania a služieb

11. Krajiny a miesta

• Slovensko v EÚ
• Európska únia
• Urbanizácia Slovenska a Európy
• Krajiny a svetadiely

C. Vzdelávacia a pracovná oblasť

12. Vzdelávanie

• Práva a povinnosti pri vzdelávaní
• Vzdelávacie systémy
• Svet práce
• Odborná profilácia
• Celoživotné vzdelávanie

13. Šport

• Vplyv športu na rozvoj osobnosti
• Nové trendy v športe
• Fair play športového zápolenia
• Športové udalosti

14. Mládež a jej svet

• Predstavy mládeže o svete
• Vzory a ideály
• Vzťahy medzi generáciami

15. Zamestnanie

• Voľba zamestnania
• Pracovný trh
• Pracovné činnosti a profesie
• Pracovné podmienky
• Nezamestnanosť

16. Slovensko a krajiny, ktorých jazyk sa učím

• Študijná a pracovná mobilita
• Vybrané historické a kultúrne špecifiká rôznych krajín
• Vybrané osobnosti
• Jazyk ako spoločenský a kultúrny prostriedok