Speaking Test – Part 1 – Visitors
Topic – Visitors:
Q. Do you often invite friends to visit your home?
Answer: Yes, I like to invite friends to visit my home. Sometimes we have gettogethers at home and sometimes when we have to study or make a project, I invite my friends over.
Q. Do you like visitors coming to your home?
Answer: Yes, I like visitors coming to my home. Its good to have relatives and friends come over and we can spend quality time with each other.
Q. Do people often visit you at your home?
Answer: Yes, people visit me at home quite often. We have an extended family system that we follow and a lot of my relatives live in the same city. Also, sometimes my friends and neighbors also visit us at home.
Q. How often do visitors come to your home?
Answer: Visitors come to my home very often, in fact twice or thrice a week.
Q. When do visitors come to your home?
Answer: When someone has to visit, they usually call ahead and come. There are no specific times when people visit us at home.
like having both my friends and relatives visit me. These days everyone is busy on their routines and so, when anyone visits me, it’s a good way to spend quality time with them.
Q. What do you usually do together with your visitors?
Answer: When we have visitors over, we usually sit and chat, discuss the day’s happenings or any social or national issues. Sometimes we share jokes and have a good laugh and all this happens usually over of a cup of tea or coffee and some snacks. Sometimes we also have visitors over for lunch or dinner.
Q. When someone visits you, how do you usually show hospitality (or, entertain them)?
Answer: Hospitality towards visitors is in our culture. In India, guests are treated like God. We show our hospitality by making them feel comfortable and offering them drinks and snacks or food, depending on the time of the day.
Q. What would you suggest a visitor should see and do in your country?
Answer: India is a very beautiful country to visit, and there are just too many things to do there. Once you visit this Himalayan country, you will be able to see some of the most beautiful and, of course, the tallest mountain ranges in the world apart from the Himalaya. One can also see beautiful forests and ancient Buddhist architectural sites.
Once arriving in Bhutan, one chooses to do a lot of things, but one thing which almost everybody wants to do is to hike The Tiger’s Nest Monastery (Paro Taktsang), which certainly is one of Bhutan’s most iconic landmarks and is located at the side of a steep cliff wall in the Paro valley. But, if you are really into learning the festivals of the Bhutanese people, you can always enjoy some religious festivals (called “Tsechus”) from up close apart from meeting the locals and enjoying their traditional foods.
Q. Are there any traditional arts or music you would recommend?
Answer: Bhutanese arts, culture, traditions and music are well-rooted in the religion of Buddhism. As far as music is concerned, I would recommend folk songs (traditional music) which can be classified as Zhungdra and Boedra. Zhungdra is sung by the use of extended vocal tones and relatively simple instrumental melody. I would also recommend “Cham” dance which involves a series of masked dances by wearing colourful costumes during the religious festivals.
Q. Tell me about the kind of foreign visitors or tourists who go to your country.
Answer: Most tourists, who come to visit Bhutan, arrive on a short term basis, and they are mostly the nationals of Asian countries, followed by the Europeans and the US. Since tourism began in Bhutan in 1974, the number of visitors to this Himalayan country has only increased with 260,000 people arriving in the year of 2018.
Q. In what ways has tourism changed your country?
Answer: Tourism has changed Bhutan in many ways. Because of tourism, seeing teenagers in jeans and hooded sweatshirts, smoking cigarettes, instead of wearing the traditional Gho (a knee-length robe) is a normal phenomenon these days. It is because of tourism that Bhutan has seen better roads being built, instructions in English for schoolchildren is being mandated, as well as the television network and the Internet service being introduced.
