1.

In about 150 words, write your opinions regarding the structure of the Romanian
education and the opportunities it offers.

2. Write twelve DOs and DON’Ts for successful oral presentations.

3. Think of one different eating and drinking establishment in your town/ area and
give it a description. You should consider:
a. type; e. cuisine;
b. location; f. dishes;
c. target customers; g. atmosphere;
d. prices; h. peculiar features.
Some of the following phrases might prove useful:
 friendly/ cosy/ relaxed/
sophisticated atmosphere
 elegant surroundings
 authentic national/ traditional/
regional/ home-made dishes
 reasonably priced meals
 excellent cuisine
 live music
 quick/ impeccable service
 excellent wine cellar
 romantic dinners
 dinner and dancing
 business lunches
 have a snack with the drinks
 a la carte
 three-course, fixed price menu
 own band
 floor show
 Turkish coffee.

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4. Imagine an 10-reply dialogue for one of the following situations:
a. A good friend of yours has invited you to a movie. As you cannot remember details, you
give her a call.
b. b. You are a teacher preparing an important event in your school. You have just been
informed that several changes have occurred regarding the number of guests, the menu
and entertainment staff. Call the principal to make things clear.
5. In about 150 words, present the following subject of discussion at a meeting.
Background information: You are the manager of a Training School and have called a
meeting to discuss what to do about one of your staff, Ann Smith. She is an extremely
valuable person for the teaching team, but has recently expressed dissatisfaction with the job
and is thinking of leaving. You are looking for suggestions to make her change her mind.
6. In about 150 words, give a presentation of your country/ town/ workplace etc.
considering relevant facts and figures.

7. In about 150 words, present a public situation in which you were dissatisfied
and specify what the course of action you took was.

8. In about 150 words, say how Romanians usually spend their holiday. Refer to
types of tourisms they favour, resorts, comfort, price, location etc.

1. Education in Romania is very extensive and is of good quality. The

opportunities they offer are of a large scale only that in Romania what
follows after school does not help us and many of them are heading to
foreign schools, working abroad. Education from the lowest level is a very
tough one, we started to turn small children into robots that we learn that
only the book is important and when it comes to practice, it knows nothing.
It is good to want to make them the best to have the best opportunities but
the exaggeration of today does nothing but make a world for which
everything that matters is money and friendship, the family are just some
tools we barely remember. The structure must remain as it is not to change
it and turn the school into a parent-child or child-teacher struggle.
2. DOs
- Make a plan!
- Make a brief introduction!
- Tell a story!
- Count on emotions for a successful show!
- Ask questions!

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 - Use verbal language effectively!
- Have fun!
- Violate the rules!
- Call for action!

DO NOT
- Do not load the presentation with much text!
- Do not keep an eye on the video projector!
- Do not have spelling mistakes!
- Do not give up a negative state!
- Do not be silent!

3. "La bunica" restaurant located in Bran village, Poarta village, Brasov

County, Nr. 132, is a local restaurant with local cuisine and beverages. The
target customers are especially tourists who are not missing, but also the
people from the locality who want to eat in the "city". The atmosphere is
warm and friendly, and a weekend band is delighted with beautiful songs.
The food is especially traditional, pork, lamb, chicken, beef, chicken,
chicken, chicken, sour soup, sour soup, etc ... and dishes found in any
restaurant sneakers, purees, pulp, pork neck, pork ribs, chicken wings, fries
... etc and as desserts we find apple pie, cheese pie, pancakes, papanas,
tiramisu ... depends on the season and the number of clients. The prices are
for all your pockets depending on your weight and your own wishes. Drink
is generally local, cranberry, wine and sour-cherry, but it also brings wisky
or something sweet for women. The hall is very elegant and there is enough
room for dancing, and the location is surrounded by mountains, which puts
the restaurant in a very romantic position for young people. The person is
very cute and generous makes you revisit every time in the same place.

4. -Hello Maria!
-Hi, Alexandra!
-How are you Maria?
- Look good at home, I think about what I should wear tonight for the film.
Have you thought about what to wear?
- I do not know for sure, but I think it's gonna be simple and comfortable.
You know what we wanted to talk about ... I've forgotten where we have to
meet for the movie and what time it is.
-You stay quiet there is nothing happening, you know I almost always
forget and I always call you when there's something. We have to meet at

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 18:30, in Brasov in the bus station, the movie starts at 19:00 but until we
speak we get on time.
-Ok we hear tonight, I kiss you!
-Kiss!

5. First of all, I'll try to find out Ann Smith's frustration and why he got to the
point of leaving. Then all these discussions will have with the director and
the other employees and I will try to settle this embarrassing situation. I will
try to convince the director that we can not find someone better and that he
has a long experience in this institution and his departure will degenerate
the course of didactics. I will try to convince him to give him more days off
and if he can raise his salary or offer him free service. Then I will try to
convince her that she is loved by everyone in the institution and without it
we are lost and want to stay with us. In general, negative emotions make
people give up on a job more than a small salary.

6. Dear traveler, welcome to the land where green is more intense than
anywhere and the sky clearer and closer to people. You arrived in Bran, at
the confluence of the Carpathians, the Orientals, the Southern Carpathians
and the Transylvanian Depression. You are in the heart of Romania, one of
the most important points of the Romanian history, culture and tradition. In
this city of nature built by the Divinity with much love and given to people
to enjoy it, wherever you enter, you will be greeted by tall mountains that
offer you a stunning view and beautiful people. The high elevations of the
Bucegi and Piatra Craiului Mountains surround and protect this area from
the beginning of the world, and there are hills flowing up to the Turks,
where hundreds of years are great and imposing Bran Castle.25 km west of
Brasov, on the road that runs through the old Bartolomeu district and which
connects the great city at the foot of the Tâmpa de Cîmpulung Muscel for
centuries, there are the Bran villages. The legends of the place are
mentioned by an old man named Bran who owned these melaguri, known as
the Bran - Moieciu - Fundata area, which he divided his 14 sons for the sake
of life, and so the 14 villages that existed and today: the Gate, Predeluţ,
Şimon, Sohodol, Moieciu de Jos, Moieciu de Sus, Cheia, Zbârcioara,
Magura, Cave, Fundata, Fundăţica, Sirnea and Carul Drumului.

Among the beautiful hills, high mountains and crystalline rivers you will
find fragments of history, tradition and legends. The gentle tile lies in the
shadow of the impressive inhabitants of the Bucegi Mountains, whose

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 columns of stone support since the world and the earth are the sky. Here
you will find the most fascinating stories about old peoples living in the past
in perfect connection with nature. Here you will be able to quench your
thirst with pure water springing from the deepest springs, here your gaze
will be spoiled with landscapes of paradise, here you will feel the rust of
grass, here you will be filled with energy and joy.In our country lived
ancient pelasge tribes, the Dacians lived, Romanians, Turks, Hungarians,
Saxons and other peoples lived, here Romanians fell in love with Romania
with blue blood and here the beauty was beautiful. If you come here, take
with you in your thoughts all that we have more beautiful, leave you respect
for nature, history and people, not move anything in its place. When you
meet a flower, enjoy it, do not move stone slabs from their place, leave the
green forest, leave your mark on the walls just touching them without
writing, taking stories and legends with you, going further tell them to
others.

7. This weekend I had the pain to see how a woman is offended by a salesman
in the bus station just because she asked how much a juice bottle cost. This
vendor has criticized the client as "poor," just because he did not notice the
price in the refrigerator where the juice was. The most ugly thing is that her
boyfriend was pretty talkative next to the client and had to watch her mother
be offended. Unfortunately, you can not do anything in this situation
because the seller did not have a little respect for those around her and
would have done the same thing to any customer. I felt very nervous that I
could not help her and that we were all just some of the viewers of this kind
of happening. From my point of view this kind of people should be sued, it
is your right as a consumer to have served and beautifully spoken,
especially because you did not have an irrational behavior towards the
hunters.
8. Romanians spend their holidays depending on the holiday and the present
season. During the winter most often go to the mountains in the resorts
where they can ski, but many of them return home after a season of work. In
summer almost everyone goes to the sea but there are those who go to the
mountains. In Romania there are many resorts such as: Costinesti, Mamaia,
Vama Veche ..etc. The most fashionable and most sought after resort is
Mamaia, where there are thousands of tourists, both Romanians and
foreigners. Every Roman chooses the resort to go after the budget of the
more money people choose to go to luxurious resorts where prices also
reach thousands of euros and those with a lower budget choose the quieter
beaches and hotels that have prices to 100 lei up. Food is everywhere at an

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affordable price and is extremely tasty. Not to mention the traditional food
that Romanian tourists find in the villages that visit them during the year
when they have leave, it is extraordinarily tasty and makes it come back
every year. Romans know how to have fun no matter where they are.