스피킹 자료- Skills and hobbies
1. how import!ant is it to preserve traditional skills?
Preserving traditional skills is very import!ant thing in giving people sense of belonging and recalling them proud. Since the technology develop, cultures all around world have become similar to each other. Cultural assimilation makes it difficult to keep various traditional skills
2. what skills did your university provide you for your job?
My university curriculums provide a lot of practical skills for my job. I learned injection skills, how to administrate medicine and how to dressing to different wound. At a hospital during the training period. These practices gave me confidence as a nurse and help me to adapt workplace when I started to work at a hospital.
3. what is the role of the family in teaching skills to children?
The family is a smallest unit of society. Children become socialized learning many things in a family. So if parents teach their children in a positive way,.they would be a good person in member of society.
4. what is the most popular skill that people want to learn?
I think learning English is the most popular skill because it is the key of success in a Korean society and if person wants to get better job, English ability is an essential factor. Also if we go abroad we need to speak English that’s why an increasing number of people spend their time to learn English and lots of students go abroad to study English
5. what are some beneficial hobbies for children? Some harmful ones?
I think “ arts and crafts” are good hobby for children to develop their potential ability and also something to improve their interaction with their peers would be helpful for them. Computer games would be harmful for children because they are easily addicted to playing games.
6. what are the most popular hobbies in
Climbing mountains ais the most popular hobby in
7. how are people’s skills today different from those in the past?
I think, in the past people was more skillful than today because handicraft was very common and most products were mans by handicraftsman. But today people usually make products by using various machines and robots so even management skill for machines or computers have improved remarkably, manual skills are less than before.
8. how will people’s skills be different in the future?
I think in the future people’s management skill for computer would develop unexpected level but it would be difficult people who can make something by manual.
9. how have the hobbies Koreans enjoy changed from the past?
In the past common hobby was very simple like climbing mountains, collecting stamps and taking photos because technology was not well-developed. But today machine related hobby is very popular since technology have developed remarkably. People spend their free time playing computer game or surfing the internet.
10. what do you think will be the most popular hobbies in the future?
I think water sports like diving, surfing and yachting will be the most popular activities in the future because our country is surrounded by sea on three sides. and traveling abroad would be common hobby with the help of invention of airplanes since traveling has a lot of advantages like relieving stress and gain various experiences
*Traveling abroad would be popular hobby in the future There would be a lot of planes and it would be more affordable to do so. traveling abroad allows us to gain more and new experiences. There are always new things to experience and there are a lot of countries to travel in the world. it allows you to explore and feel more freedom and independence compared to other activities.
11. do you think having a hobby is good for people’s social lives?
I think so especially group activities develop social skills and learn how to interact other people. Meeting with many people who have different background and different opinion are definitely helpful for people’s social lives.
*Through our hobbies we learn to be creative and explore. We tend to share our ideas with others specially those who have common interest. if you don’t have hobby we tend to be shy and alone. but people with hobby, they tend to be outgoing and sociable. Our hobbies make us sociable specially hobbies that includes other people such as traveling and outdoor sports. also learning how to dance, playing music as long as we do with other people It helps us socialize and it helps us be more courageous and gives us confidence. If person doesn’t have hobby expect that the person likes to be alone and doesn’t know how to socialize and deal with people
12. are there negative effects of spending too much time on a hobby?
If you spend too much time on a hobby you may loose the balance between work and relaxation. For example addiction to watching tv and playing computer games will ruin your health and waste your precious time. Bad hobbies may result in acquiring bad habits.
13. would you say the amount of free time people have has changed over the last 50 years?
The amount of free time have increased a lot with the help of technological advances.
For example, household appliances made women free from heavy house chores and with the help of advent computer we can bank at home and we don’t nee to go shopping in person. Also we can send email to people who live abroad within 5minutes instead of writing letters in a whole night.
*The amount of free time is decreasing because People right now too busy. in the past people have only one occupation but right now people tend to have full time job and part time job. Sometimes people work double even triple. sometimes people don’t sleep enough and sometimes people work even on Sundays or holidays. good thing is we have modern technology because of modern technology we are able to do the things that we cannot not do with short span of time . we can shop on online without going to shop malls because we don’t have time. because of modern technology we can send email with just a click of mouse because we don’t have time to go to the post office. Supposed to be it should be increased because we have modern technologies but since we invest our future we tend to be busier.
14. do you think people will have more or less free time in the future?
I think in the future people would have less free time than today because of busy lives.
Of course the amount of free to time would increased sharply compared to today but
People would be busy learning skills like how to operate new machines and how to adjust new environment.