SALESIAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

ONLINE ENGLISH COURSES

LEVEL: B1.2 / SIXTH

TEXTBOOK: Empower B1+ Combo B

SPEAKING PROJECT

MID-TERM

TOPIC: Which country could be the worst place to be a ________.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the harsh conditions professionals face when they work in a
difficult environment.

GRAMMAR TOPICS:

- Modals of obligation
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Modals of deduction
- Quantifiers
- Reported speech
- Verb patterns

VOCABULARY:

- Compound nouns; Multi-word verbs

Describing food
- Buildings
- Verbs and prepositions
- The news
- Shopping; Reporting verbs

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Search for a job that is difficult to be done in a specific country, city or town.
2. Find information about a specific person who performs that job in a difficult
situation.
3. Include the following information:
 Brief description of his/her life (childhood, teenage hood and adulthood)
 Important events in his/her life
 What are the difficulties he/she faces in his/her job/ in his/her family?
 What are the rewards?
4. After you find the information, organize it and present it in oral form. Film
yourself for 4 minutes describing what you have found in your research.
5. Upload your video on the AVAC platform and include the online sources you
used to make this project.