Collections of Professor Dr David Ngin Sian Pau

                                               Answer one of the following questions in 3 minutes
                                                                             For Final Examination, Section 2.
                                                                                               Oral English,
                                                                                             Advance Level

1. Think of the time when you and your family were in financial crisis in the past. How did you and your
     family try to solve it? How imperative is to solve financial crisis in a country? Who is to blame -
     government and banks or ourselves in times of financial crisis? Explain why!

2. What do know about the current financial crisis? What is the credit crunch and how did it come about?
     What is a slump in the property market and how can this crisis affect your family?

3. What idiolectal expression did you learn in “I’m Feeling Like Chicken” conversation audio file? How do
     you understand the use of “tapas” and “pudding” when having a meal? Explain how important it is to
     use linked-sound method when reading and speaking English.

4. What does it mean by preferred customers, and who do you normally give rebate to? What is the best
     hook you need to make sales skyrocket in a business? Explain the meaning of 3 business slangs from the
     list. (a) cash cow (b) hype (c) cutting edge (d) marketing blitz (e) stuffers.

5. What do you know about the U Thant, and the connection between U Thant and the UNO? What do you
     deserve as a human being and a Chinese English learner? Is every human being deserve respect and
     explain how and why?

6. What makes a person embarrassed in China and English speaking countries such as UK, USA, Australia,
      etc? Explain how to handle embarrassment in business.

7. According to the audio clip and cloze transcript of Facebook Phenomenon, what is the interesting
     backlash in Bristol and how do people make a critique of Facebook? What does it mean by a reluctant
     facebooker? What is the word for “a humorous piece of writing, drama, or music which imitates the style
     of a well-known person or represents a familiar situation in an exaggerated way” ?

8. What were some challenges, difficulties and hardships you’ve overcome or are in the process of
     overcoming? How did you do it?

9. How do you define antidumping laws in your own term and share the advantages and disadvantages of
      keeping it for every one in a country?

10. How imperative is solving the problem of money inflation in a country? What would be the ensuing
       causes if money inflation had been too high?

11. By looking at the world’s economy, who, in your sentiment, is being left behind - developing countries or
       third world countries? Why?