1. Personal Characteristics
(Osobní charakteristika)

2. Personal Characteristic
 Introduction (name/age/date and place of birth)
 Your family (parents, siblings - name/age/job)
 Your appearance (height/face/hair/eyes)
 Your good and bad qualities
 Your hobbies, free-time activities
 Your likes and dislikes

3. Personal Characteristic
 Your favourite clothes, accessories
 Kindergarten
 Elementary school – favourite subjects
 Studying at this school/subjects
 Your future job
 Your future life

4. What is your name, how old are you? When
and where were you born? What do you do?
Examples of answers:
My name is Jan Novák, I am 17 years old and I was
born on the 27th of January 1995 in Pardubice.
I am a student of the second grade of the Secondary
Automotive School Holice in the field Road
transport/Autotronic.

5. Can you describe your family in short?
Examples of answers
I live with my family the village Horní Ředice.
My mother´s name is Iva, she is 38 years old and
she works as a shop-assistant.

6. Can you describe your family in short?
My father´s name is Zdeněk, he is 42 years old
and he works as a driver.
I have got one older sister, her name is Míša and
she studies at the University in Prague.

7. How would you describe yourself in short?
What do you look like?
Examples of answers:
I am tall and slim, I have got oval face, short
brown hair and blue eyes.
I am of medium build, I have got long curly hair
and I wear glasses.

8. What are you like? What qualities do you
have?
Examples of answers:
I am friendly and optimistic, but sometimes I am
rather lazy.
I am hard-working and quiet, but sometimes I am a
bit shy and stubborn.
I am reliable and responsible, but I am also a bit
talkative and quarrelsome.

9. What do you do in your free time? What are
your hobbies? Do you have any weekend or
summer jobs?
Examples of answers:
I like playing football and volleyball and I also repair
my car in my free time. Every Saturday and during
holidays I work in a tire-service.
My hobbies are fishing and hanging out with friends.
I sometimes help my father in his shop – he has a
shop with spare parts.

10. What do you like? What don´t you like?
Is anything you hate?
Examples of answers:
I like swimming and the sea, but I don´t like
thundrestorms. And I hate spiders.
I really like chocolate and ice-cream, I hate
spinach.

11. What do you usually wear? Do you wear
glasses/ any accessories?
Examples of answers:
I usually wear a t-shirt and a pair of jeans, and a
sweatshirt in colder days.
I wear glasses or sometimes contact lens.
My typical accessory is piercing.

12. How and where did you spend your first years?
Did you go to the kindergarten? Where did you
attend the elementary school?
Examples of answers:
From the age of three to the age of six I went to the
kindergarten and in the year 2001 I started to attend
the elementary school in Ředice.
I never went to kindergarten, I was at home with my
mum and at the age of six I started my compulsory
school attendance.

13. What were your favourite subjects and
teachers? When did you finish your
elementary school?
Examples of answers:
My favourite subjects at elementary school were
geography and physics, I didn’t like math, because
our math teacher was very strict.

14. What were your favourite subjects and
teachers? When did you finish your
elementary school?
Examples of answers:
My favourite teacher was our biology teacher;
she was very funny and kind.
I finished elementary school at the age of fifteen,
in the year 2010.

15. Why did you decide to go study at the school
in Holice?
Examples of answers:
I have been interested in cars and motorcycles since
childhood.
I visited this school with my parents at „The Open
Doors“ and I liked it here very much.
My choice was easy– I live not far from school
and I am interested in cars very much.
My parents helped me with the choice.

16. Why did you decide to go study at the
school in Holice?
Examples of answers:
The first reason was that I am interested in cars; the
second one was that this school has a very good
reputation.
At the basic school I was interested in technical
subjects and I had good marks.
I would like to work in automobile (automotive)
industry.

17. When did you start studying here at this
school? Did you have any problems in the
beginning?
Examples of answers:
I started to study at this school in the year 2010 and at
the beginning I had a lot of problems with maths.
The most difficult subject for me was technical
drawing.
The biggest problem for me was that I wasn’t used to
learn.

18. Subject at our school
 Czech languague
 Road vehicles
 Technical drawing
 P.E.
 English languague
 Measurement checks
 Engineering
 ICT
 Math
 Mechanics
 Electrical engineering
 Practical training
 Physics
 Economics
 Parts of machines
 Citizenship

19. What are your favourite subjects here? Are
there any subjects that you don’t like
much?
Examples of answers:
I like technical subjects and PE, but I don´t like
English – it is too difficult for me.
I like Czech and English language, but I don´t like
mathematics and I hate computers – our teacher is
very demanding.

20. What would you like to do in the future?
Examples of answers:
After graduation I would like to study at a
technical university.
After graduation I would like to travel and visit the
biggest European cities.

21. What would you like to do in the future?
Examples of answers:
In the future I would like to find a job abroad and
earn a lot of money.
I would like to live in a big city – there are more job
opportunities there.

22. What would you like to do in the future?
Examples of answers:
I would like to live in a village, life in the village is
more peaceful (quieter, calmer) and there is beautiful
nature there.
I would like to find a nice and good woman (wife), build
a house in a village and have two children – a daughter
and a son.
I would like to find an interesting and well-paid job in
automotive industry.

23. Useful vocabulary
Road Transport
silniční doprava
Autotronic
autotronik
be used to
být zvyklý
abroad
v zahraničí
of medium build
střední postavy
field
obor
talkative
upovídaný
job opportunities
pracovní příležitosti
shy
plachý
responsible
zodpovědý
stubborn
tvrdohlavý
reliable
spolehlivý
kindergarten
školka
well-paid
dobře placený
attend school
chodit do školy
reputation
pověst
to the age of six
do šesti let
from the age of three od tří let
Compulsory school attendance
povinná školní docházka
The Open Doors
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