AWARDS

Describe the pictures below and answer these questions:

1. What is the purpose of awards? Why are they so important? When should
awards be given? Where should award giving ceremonies be held?
2. Do you think awards are necessary
3. What kind of people should juries be composed of?

4. What different awards can you think of? What makes an award internationally
famous? What awards, international or national, are well-known in Spain? Can you
mention…

• A Spanish Award?
• An Italian Award?
• A French Award?
• A British Award?
• An American Award?
• An Award from Asia or Africa?

5. Do you know of anyone who has ever declined / turned down an award? If so, why
did they reject it?

6. What do you think of the fact that Barack Obama has been granted the Nobel Peace
Prize?

7. Which of the following criteria do you think should juries take into account when
giving out an award: financial contributions to a project, achievement or excellence,
influence, fame? Can you think of any time when an award was given for the wrong
reasons? Do you know of any awards that have been a cause for controversy?

8. Do you think awards can change the recipients of an award? Do you think the fact
that someone has been awarded a prize can go to their head?

9. If you were to create a new award, what award would that be?

10. Can, or should, a prize be awarded to two or three people at once? Can awards be
given posthumously?

11. 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? Do all awards carry a monetary
prize given to the recipient?