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SPEAKING EXERCISE - QUESTIONS ON AWARDS
- What is the purpose of awards? Why are they so important?
- Do you think prizes are a good and efficient way to link up the world? Are they necessary?
- What kind of people should juries be composed by?
- When should awards be given? Where should they be held?
- What different awards can you think of?
- Can you mention
- A Spanish Award?
- An Italian Award?
- A French Award?
- A British Award?
- An American Award?
- An Award from Asia or Africa?
- What are the recipients of an award like? Do you think the fact that someone has been awarded a prize can go to their head?
- If you were to create a new award, what award would that be?
- Do you know of anyone who has ever declined an award?
- Should awards be given posthumously?
- Which of the following criteria do you think is more important when giving an award: money, achievement, influence, fame? Can you remember any time when an award was given for the wrong reasons? Do you know of any awards that have been a cause for controversy?
- Can, or should, a prize be awarded to two or three people at once?
- Where does the money for awards come from? How much does the recipient of a Príncipe de Asturias Award get? And of a Nobel Prize?
- What makes an award internationally famous?
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