UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CENTER FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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ENGLISH 1 - GROUP PROJECT TOPICS

TERM 1 (2022-2023)

1. General topic: Business Travel

Specific topic: Imagine you need to give advice about your city/town to your client
from abroad. He/She is going to have a business trip in your place next month.
Instruction: For each category, decide what advice you would give and explain why.
- Travel – how to arrive in your town: by plane, bus, train, etc.
- Accommodation – where to stay
- Traveling around the city – transportation
- Other useful information – some beautiful sights to see in free time, special foods to
try,etc.
Note: Each student will choose to come from different cities and give different advice
to your own client for each category above.

2. General topic: Business Location

Specified topic: Make a short discussion on the location of your current university.
Instruction: You will need to give the information on:
+ The size and type of space
+ The good things of the location
+ The bad things of the location
+ Your personal preferences
Note: Students can use some of the expressions in exercise 1,8 and vocabulary in
exercise 5 on page 18-19 to help you make correct sentences.

3. General topic: Spending Habits

Specified topic:
Instruction:
First, answer the following questions yourself:
+ What is your favourite day for shopping?
+ Where do you like to buy things?
+ Which products do you usually buy online?
+ What do you spend most money on? (e.g.What percentage of your money do you
spend shopping for clothes?)
Second, ask the same questions to 5 more students in your class. Record the answers.
Third, compare answers and make a presentation with the results of your survey.
Note: Your presentation must include:
+ Graphic presentation of the survey results
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+ Conclusions and suggestions about the spending habits of UIT students.

4. General topic: Work Patterns

Specified topic: You are asked to discuss on your favorite work patterns.
Instruction: Discuss what your work patterns look like and explain your ideas. You
should talk about:
+ The working hours
+ Flexible hours
+ The lunch break
+ Working from home
Note: Students choose different forms of work patterns and discuss. Students can get
some information on page 134,135 and 141 in their textbook.

5. General topic: Cash and Cashless payments

Specified topic: What are the advantages and disadvantages of cash and cashless
payments? Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Instruction:
Your presentation must include:
+ The advantages of cash and cashless payments
+ The disadvantages of cash and cashless payments
+ Your own opinion
Note: You are going to create a magazine or newspaper advert with interesting or
funny pictures to convince people to stop using cash. You can also include some
stories or interviews with “famous people”

6. General topic: Teamwork

Specified topic:
Student 1: You are going to discuss on the advantages of teamwork teamwork in the
working environment. You should talk about:
+ How often teamwork happens
+ Advantages of teamwork
Student 2: You are going to describe your disappointment to the Helper.
Student 3: You are going to give instructions on how to support the Speaker.
Note: Students can get some information on page 63 (Exercise 10) in their textbook.