雅思口语2009新题大全

雅思口语2009新题大全 决战雅思口语—2009新题大全 Part One Name How do Chinese people choose their names? Does your name have any special meanings? Hometown Are there any emblematic buildings in your hometown? Could you please describe your hometown? Where is the oldest place of your hometown? Are there any places of history in your hometown? Which city do you think is the most suitable one for children to live? Is your city crowded? What is the oldest thing in your town? Age/periods of life At what age do people in your country get married? Do you agree that people will get married even later in the future? When do people in your country usually retire? At what age do you think should people get retired? At what age can people legally smoke or get alcohol in your country? Which period of age has cultural meaning? What age is the most important one? Is age or birthday important to the Chinese people? At what age do you feel happiest? At what age do you find the hardest? Sports/Games Are there any new sports recently? What sports and games did you most enjoy playing when you were a child? Do people take as much exercise as in the past? What role do sports play in people’s life? What are the differences between men and women when choosing their favourite sports? Can you name some extreme sports you know? Have you ever tried any extreme sport? Do people in your country do any extreme sport? Why do you think some people are very into extreme sports? How do you keep your figure? What differences are there between men and women to keep figure? Are there any exercise facilities in your community? Is dancing popular in your country? Do you consider dancing as a kind of sport? Do people in your country dance in celebrations or festivals? Why do people dance when they are happy? What can people get from dancing? What is the best sports team in your country? What games do Chinese people play? Will age effect people’s choice of games? Will the development of computer influence games? Do you like indoor activities or outdoor activities? Do schools arrange outdoor activity? Are there famous sports teams in China? Eating/Food How do you make your favourite dish? What do you think are healthy food? What do you think about the fast food restaurant? Can you consider why fast food restaurants in your town are popular? What is the importance of breakfast? Which do you prefer, the breakfast or the lunch? Which do you prefer most, the breakfast, the lunch or the dinner? Is there any special food in your hometown? Do you like to try new food? What are the differences between past and present in the food we eat? Do you think people nowadays can acquire information about the sources of food? Will you eat the food with an unknown source? Shopping Do you like shopping? Why or why not? What kind of shop do you like to visit? Have you ever bought second-hand things? Why or why not? Have you ever done electronic shopping? Why or why not? Can you consider the difference between men and women in their shopping habits? How is your parents’ shopping habit different from yours? What have been the changes in the shops? Transportation How did you come here today? Have you been caught in a traffic jam? How you go to school/work every day? What is public transport like in your town? How do you think it could be improved? Do you think people should use public transport more? Why or why not? Do you think it’s a good idea for people to have their own cars? Why or why not? What are the characteristics of bicycle? Does age effect people’s choice of transportation? Do you like riding bicycles? Are there many Chinese people who ride bicycles? Do old people like bicycles? Is it safe for old people to ride bicycles? Is transportation fee expensive? How to improve the public transportation in your hometown? Weather/Season What is the weather like in your town? Which season do you like best? Why? Which season do you dislike? Why not? Do you agree that weather could affect people’s mood or personality? If yes, in what way? How does the weather affect your lifestyle? Friends Do you have many friends? Are they casual acquaintances or close friends? Do you prefer to stay with your family or with your friends when you are free? Who do you prefer to spend more time, with your friends or your family? How do you usually make friends? What do you usually do with your friends? Do you think friend is important to your life? Why or why not? Do you make friends with you classmates? Do you want to make friends in your course in the future? Are your classmates in your course friendly? Will you live with your classmates? Do you like to help people? What kind of people can give you help? Do you like to make friends with strangers? Colours Which colour do you like? What is your favourite colour? Why? Do different colours have different meaning to you? What do different colours stand for? What is the relationship between colours and personality? Can different colours different people like reflect different personality? If so, in what ways? Which colour do Chinese people like? What is the difference of colour preferences in the past and at the present? Wedding/Marriage/Divorce Have you been invited to a wedding? How is a Chinese wedding arranged? Can you describe the procedure of a Chinese wedding? What do people usually do on a Chinese wedding day? What are the differences between Chinese weddings and foreign weddings? What is the difference between the traditional and modern Chinese weddings? What sort of gifts is given to newly weds on their wedding day in your country? What kind of clothes do people wear in a Chinese wedding? Do the couples live on their own or with their parents? Is divorce rate high in your country? What are the main reasons people get divorced in your country? What do you think of polygamy? Is it allowed in your country? What are the negatives effects to children if their parents get divorced? Time Do you wear watch? Do you think it is important to be on time? Why or why not? How do you feel if you are late for an appointment? Do people in your country take it serious to be punctual? What’s the most important time on a day? Noise What do you know about noise? Can you bear noise? What kind of noise do you hate most? What do you do to avoid noise? What do people do to avoid noise? Taking pictures/Photographs Do you like to take photographs? Do people in your country like to take photographs? What kind of photos do you like to take? How do you arrange your photos? When do you usually take pictures? Why do people take photographs? Do you have any photographs that are precious to you? Why do people become less interested in taking photos? Do people like taking photos? Do you like to take photo with people or natural scenery? Why do some people not like to take photos? Do people often use cameras in China? Animals/Pets What is your favourite animal? Why do you like this animal? Do you have a pet? If not, do you want to? Why or why not? How do you think is the best way to protect wild animals? It is our responsibility to provide animals with better surviving conditions? What pets are popular in your country? Do you think it reasonable or not to clone animals? How do you think of using animals for experiments? Are there any endangered species in your country? Why should we protect animals? Do you raise birds? Who raise birds as pet in your country? Can you name any birds you are familiar with? Is bird-raising popular in your country? Crime Is crime a problem in your country/region/city? Which kind of crime do you think is the most serious problem in your city? Have you ever witnessed a crime? What do you do to protect yourself and your home from thieves? Do you often read newspaper articles about crime? What can you learn from it? Flower Have you ever received or sent flowers? Who were these flowers from? Who did you send flowers to? On what occasion do people send flowers? Can you name some popular flowers you know? Do different flowers have different meaning? Do Chinese plant flowers? Education Why do you choose your major? What do you like to study in your university? Which subject will be helpful when you grow up? What kind of environment should parents create for their children? Do you think what aspects a good teacher should have? Do you prefer your high school teachers or university teacher? Are the teachers in China strict? Would you like to be a teacher? Who has more influence on you, your junior high school teachers or your senior high school ones? What’s the function of doing homework? Is it necessary for children to do homework? Is it necessary for high school students to do homework? Present Do you send presents to other people? Have you ever received presents? Computer and Internet Should children learn computers? What is the influence of the computer on children? What is the influence of the computer on human beings? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the computer? What are the advantages of the Internet? When did you first learn to use the computer? Do you think computer change our life to a better way? Why? When did you first learn to use the Internet? How do you get onto the Internet? How do you learn to use the Internet? Email and letter Do you think it’s better to communicate by phone or email? How do you feel when you receive letter? Do you receive emails? How many times a day? What kind of emails do you write? Do you write Business emails? Do you write personal emails? Which one is more difficult to write? What kind of letter is difficult to write? How often do you write letters? Is it good or not to connect with each other often? Phone Do you often make phone calls? When do you talk on the phone? Who do you often make phone calls to? Do you prefer talking face to face or by phone? Which do you prefer, the fixed phone or the mobile phone? How do you contact your parents? Music and musical instrument/ArtWhat’s your favourite music? Can you play instrument? What kind of musical instrument can produce the songs that you like? Have you ever listened to people playing instrument? Is art important in our life? Please give an example of art that you have learned. Do you know any famous pianist or anyone who plays musical instruments well? What do you like about art? Have you ever been to the museums or the art galleries? Have you ever learned any art? Can you give an example? What kind of experience of art did you have when you were young? What kind of art are you good at? Drawing Do you like drawing? Is drawing important to adults? Is it important to draw for the old people? What are the advantages of drawing to young people? Some people say it’s too hard to learn to draw, what do you think? Spare time What do you do in the afternoon? Which period of time do you like best in a day? Do you like musicals? Have you watched any shows? Do you do the same things in a fixed time everyday? If you were at home this time what would you do? How do you make yourself relax in the spare time? What kind of activities do you like to do after school? What kind of game do you like to play? Are there any traditional games that are still popular? How do people learn to play games? What is the result of playing games? What do you do at weekends? Is relaxation very important? Do you think now we have more pressure than the people used to? Is it necessary for people to be paid more at weekends than on the weekdays? Neighbour Do your neighbours know you? Housework Should we train children to do housework? Do you do housework? What kind of housework do you like to do? Why? What kind of housework don’t you like to do? Why? Are there any changes in the housework between now and in the past? Weather When is the recent rain? Does climate change? Does it rain very often in your hometown? How do you feel when it rains? Do you watch weather forecast? What’s your favourite weather? What do people do in the different weather? Does weather influence human beings? Reading What do you like to read? Why? Why do some people like to read? Why do some people don’t like to read? Has adults’ reading habit changed? When did you first read newspapers? When do you read newspapers? Which kind of newspaper you prefer, the local or the international? Do you like to read books? What kind of books is good to study or work? Do children like to read books now? Do you give books to others as gifts? What’s the difference between magazines and newspapers? Why do some people like magazines and others newspapers? Do you believe in all the news in the newspaper? Park and garden Do you like parks? How often do you go to public parks? What do people do in parks? What is the function of the park? Do you have a garden of your own? Have you planted any plants in your garden? Do people prefer to plant vegetables or flowers? Clothes Do you like wearing skirts? What kind of clothes do you like? Do those around you have the same taste as you? How about formal dresses? Do you think clothes are important to the human? Can you judge a person from his or her clothes? Radio/TV Do you like radio or TV? What kind of people prefers radio? What kind of people prefers TV? How to improve TV programs? What is the influence of advertisements on children? What is your favourite kind of TV program? How can you see English programmes in your city? Work Do you work full time or part time? Do you workmates help you? What kind of help do you get from them? What’s your routine work every day? Do you recommend your university classmates to your company? Have you encountered any difficulties in your job? Accommodation Do you want to move recently? Do you live in a house or in a flat? What is your ideal flat? Is there anything that can be improved in your flat? What can you see from the window of your room? Are there anything stuck onto the wall of your room? Old people How is the situation of the old people in China? What can be done to improve the life of the old people in China? What can make the old people happy? Travel Who travels every day? What’s the influence of the travel on the local industry? What special services should five-star hotels provide? Birthday How do Chinese people celebrate the birthday? Do you think birthday celebration is important to your life? What are the differences between adults and children in their views toward birthday? Do you think are there any varieties in the ways people celebrate birthdays? Do people in your country celebrate birthdays? How? How did you celebrate your last birthday? Is birthday more important for adults or for young people? Teacher Do you think the high school teachers are good? What do you think a good teacher should have? Nightlife Why do some people run night pubs, KTVs, Discos, coffee bars? What are the performances or shows you have seen? What do you think is the most famous traditional culture performance in your country? Do you like to see a show for a second time? Party Do you like parties? Have you been to any parties? Do you think it is very difficult to choose gifts for a party? What are the parties like in China? Do people like going to the parties? Why some people hate parties? Visitor How often do people visit you? On what kinds of occasions do visitors give gifts to you? Swimming Is it good to teach children to swim? Do you like swimming or your friends? Why are some people afraid of swimming? Do you know how to swim? Why do people learn to swim? Where do people go to swim in China? Part Two 1. Describe a family member who has an interesting life. You should say: Who he/she is. What he/she does. What is the relationship between you and him/her. And explain how interesting his/her life is. 2. Describe a visiting city you know well. You should say: Where it is. What you know about it. What happened in this city. And explain how you like/dislike it. 3. Describe an old person you know. You should say: Who this old person is. When and where you got to know him/her. What this person is like. And explain what you think of this old person. 4. Describe a child you know. You should say: Who this child is. When and where you got to know him/her. What this person is like. And explain what you like about the child. 5. Describe a neighbor you know. You should say: Who he/she is. When and where you knew each other. How you feel about him/her. And explain why you like/dislike him/her. 6. Describe a character in a film. You should say: What it is. Who played the role. What impressed you most. And explain why you like/dislike it. 7. Describe you favorite (wild) animal. You should say: What it is. How you know it. What you know about it. And explain why you like it. 8. Describe a band group that you like. You should say: Which band it is. Who the members are. How you got to know them. And explain why you like/dislike them. 9. Describe a family member you admire. You should say: Who he/she is. What does he/she look like. What kind of person he/she is. And explain why you admire him/her. 10. Describe your favorite sport. You should say: What it is. When and where you do the sport. How often you do the sport. And explain why you like it. 11. Describe something you made by yourself. You should say: What it is. When and where you made it. How you made it. And explain why you made it. 12. Describe a course you learned at school. You should say: What it is. How long you have learned the course. Who teaches this course. And explain why you like it. 13. Describe something old you own. You should say: What it is. How you got it. How long you have kept it. And explain why you keep it for so long. 14. Describe a special gift you have received from someone. You should say: What it is. When and where you use it. Who gave it to you. And explain why it is special to you. 15. Describe an important photograph. You should say: What it is about. When and where you took it. Who took it for you. And explain why it is important for you. 16. Describe an advertisement you like. You should say: What advertisement it is. When and where you saw it. What is in the advertisement. And explain why you like this advertisement. 17. Talk about a TV program that you like. You should say: What it is. What it is about. What you learned from it. And explain why you like this program. 18. Describe the thing you are good at. You should say: What it is. How you learned it. And explain what it brought you. 19. Describe a type of music/song you enjoy particularly. You should say: When you started to listen to this type of music/song. How you are attracted to this type of music/song. Which groups of people play this type of music. And explain why you like this type of music/song. 20. Describe the weather that you really enjoy. You should say: What type of weather it is. In which period of the year it is to have this weather. What is special about this type of weather. And explain why you enjoy this weather. 21. Describe your favorite recipe / dish. You should say: What is the dish. When and where you first tasted it. How it is prepared. And explain why it is your favorite. 22. Describe a thing you bought that you are unhappy with. You should say: What it is. When and where you bought it. What you bought it for. And explain why you are unhappy with it. 23. Describe you favorite means of transport. You should say: What it is. How often you take it. What are the advantages and disadvantages of it. And explain why you like it best. 24. Describe your favorite period of time in your life. You should say: When it is happened Where it is happened What happened in this period of time And explain why you think it is your favorite period of time in your life 25. Describe two people in a family. You should say: Who these two people are What they look like Similar with each other or not And explain how they get well with 26. Describe an interesting English activity You should say: What this English activity about When it is held What benefits you get from this English activity And explain why you think it is interesting 27. Describe a cloth you just bought You should say: When you bought it Where you bought it What kind of cloth it is And explain why you bought it 28. Describe a gift you received when you were a child. You should say: When you received it Who gave it to you? What did you do with it? And explain why you like it 29. Describe a traveling in the future. You should say: When you are going to travel Where you are going to travel Who you are going to travel with And explain why you make this travel in the future 30. Describe a letter you received. You should say: Who send it to you? The content of the letter What did you feel when you received it And explain why you talk about this letter. 31. Describe a piece of equipment at your home or at your work You should say: What it is When you get it How often do you use it? And explain why you talk about this equipment. 32. Describe a new or exciting activity You should say When it is held Who is in this activity? Where it is held And explain why you think it is exciting 33. Describe a person who speaks different language You should say: Who this person is What language he or she speaks What you learn from him or her And explain how you communicate with each other 34. Describe an elderly you meet recently. You should say: Who the elder is Where you meet him or her And explain why you remember him/her. 35. Describe an adventure You should say: What it is about When it is made Where it is made in And explain why you talk about this adventure. 36. Describe an ideal park in your mind You should say: What it is called Where it is located What facilities it has And explain why you think it is ideal 37. Describe a favorite book you read in childhood You should say: What the book is about Where you got it Whether the book has a lot of picture And explain why it is your favorite one. 38. Describe a way of relaxing you have enjoyed You should say: What the way is When you use it What you feel about this way And explain why you enjoy this way of relaxing. 39. Describe a thing you’ve lost You should say: When you lost it What you lost What you feel when you lost it And explain why you talk about this thing. 40. Describe an exciting event You should say: When this event is held What it is about Where it is held And explain why it is an exciting event 41. Saving money You should say: Why you save money What your plan of saving money And explain what you save money for 42. Describe a leader in your country You should say: Who the leader is What he or she does? What he or she have done for your country And explain why you admire him/her. 43. Describe a popular kind of equipment in your company You should say: What this equipment is Where you get it from When your company gets it And explain why it is popular in your company 44. Describe someone who you enjoy spending time with You should say: Who the person is What he or she looks like? What he or she does? And explain why you think you enjoy spend time with this person 45. Describe useful equipment such as computer, mobile phone You should say: What this equipment is Where you get it from How useful it is And explain why it is used very often 46. Describe an advice you had from someone You should say: Who give it to you? What is the advice? And explain why you remember it 47. Describe a business you are going to invest You should say: What the business is Where the business is Who you will employ 48. Describe an art activity you have joined on campus You should say: When it is Where it is How you feel about this activity 49. Describe an environment problem You should say: What it is How long it appeared What effect it has 50. Describe a period of age you think is exciting. You should say: When it is. What you did during this period. Who were the friends you got in this period. And explain why you think it is exciting. 51. Describe an impressive wedding you have even attended. You should say: Whose wedding it was. When and where it was. Who you met. And explain why it was impressive to you. 52. Describe a positive change in your life. You should say: What it is. What is the effect on you? How you feel about it. And explain why it is positive. 53. Describe a happy event in your childhood. You should say: What it was. When and where it happened. Who were with you? And explain why it was a happy experience for you. 54. Describe an important success in your life. You should say: When and where it happened. What the success is about. Who helped you with the success? And explain why you think it is an important success. 55. Describe an important city in your country. You should say: Where it is. What is special about this city? The impression this city gives you. And explain how important this city is. 56. Describe an important decision you have ever made. You should say: What it was. When you made it. How you made it. And explain why it was important to you. 57. Describe the worst weather you have experienced. You should say: What it was. When it happened. What happened at that time? And explain why it was bad experience for you. 58. Describe your experience of learning English. You should say: When you started to learn English. Who helped you? How you improved English. And explain the importance of learning English. 59. Describe the emblematic building in your town. You should say: What is the building? Where is it? What the building is like. And explain the meaning of this emblematic building. 60. Describe a shop you like. You should say: Where it is. How you knew it. What you can find out there. And explain why you like it. 61. Describe a way to relax. You should say: What it is. How often you do it. What equipment is needed? And explain how effective it is. 62. Describe a popular game that children play in your town. You should say: What it is. How to play it. Where to play it. And explain why it is popular. 63. Describe a restaurant you like. You should say: Where it is. What food is special? How often you go there. And explain how you like it. 64. Describe a museum you have ever visited. You should say: What it is about. Where it is located. How often you visit it. And explain how you like/dislike it. 65. Describe the type of accommodation you live in. You should say: How long you have lived there. Who you live with. What the accommodation is like. And explain how you like or dislike about the accommodation. 66. Describe a special meal. You should say: Who you were with. Where you were. What you had in the meal. And explain why it was a special meal. 67. Describe an historic building you have seen. You should say: Where the building is located. What the building looks like. What is special about this building? And explain why you like this building. 68. Describe a place / city / country you want to visit. You should say: Where it is. Who you want to be with. What is special or famous about it? And explain why you like it. 69. Describe a house with a garden. You should say: Where it is. What kind of house it is. What you know about this house. And explain the impression it gives you. 70. Describe a work of art. You should say: What it is. How to make it. What it is special about. And explain the importance of this work of art. 71. Describe a family event. You should say: What it was. Who were involved? When it happened. And explain the importance of this family event. 72. Describe the highest building in your town. You should say: What is the building? Where is it? What the building is like. And explain why this building set up. 73. Describe a person who helped you. You should say: Who s/he is. What was your situation? And explain your feeling. 74. Describe the local history in your hometown. You should say: How long is the history? How you know the local history. Who told you? And explain the effect it has on you. 75. Describe a three-day trip you have ever enjoyed. You should say: When and where was the trip? Who you were with in the trip. What you did during the trip. And explain why you think it is an exciting trip. 76. Describe your family history. You should say: Who told you it? What you know about your family history. What you will do with it. And explain the importance it is to you. 77. Describe your favorite book. You should say: What it is When it read it. What it is about. And explain why it is your favorite book. 78. Describe a close friend. You should say: Who he/she is. When you came to knew each other. What are the differences and similarities? And explain why he/she is your close friend. 79. Describe what you would do if you received a lot of money. You should say: Who you would share with. What you would buy. What are the differences and similarities? And explain how you felt about it. 80. Describe a musical instrument. You should say: What it is. How you came to know it. What you know about it. And explain the feeling about the music. 81. Describe a job you would like to have in the future. You should say: What is the job description? How you plan to get this job. What you need to do presently. And explain why you want to take up this job. 82. Describe a website you think is useful. You should say: What is it? When did you find it? How did you find it? And explain why you think it’s useful. 83. Describe something that you have lost. You should say: What have you lost? When did you lose it? Where did you lose it? And explain how you lost it. 84. Describe a difficult homework you have done. You should say: What was it? When did you do it? How did you do it? And explain why it was difficult. 85. Describe an occasion that you were late for. You should say: What was it? When did it happen? Why were you late? And what was the influence on you? 86. Describe an environment problem in a city that you have been to. You should say: What is it? When did you go there? Is the problem serious? And what do you think of the problem? 87. Describe a recent change in your life. You should say: What was it? When did it happen? And what’s the influence on you? 88. Describe a new or exiting event you have done. You should say: What was it? When did you do it? And how do you think of it? 89. Describe a business you want to do in the future. You should say: What is it? Where do you want to start it? What kind of employees do you want to hire? And why do you want to start this business? 90. Describe an important person to your country. You should say: Who is he/she? What does he/she do? What has he/she done for your country? And why is he/she an important person to your country? 91. Describe a person that you like to talk with. You should say: Who is he/she? How long do you like to talk with him/her? What will you talk about? And why do you want to talk with him/her? 92. Describe a postcard or email you’ve received in a holiday. You should say: What was it? When did you receive it? Who sent it to you? And how did you feel when you received it? 93. Describe a training course that you’ve received. You should say: What was it? When did you receive it? Who was the teacher? And how did you feel about it? 94. Describe an advice others give you. You should say: What was it? When did you get the advice? Who gave it to you? And was it useful to you? 95. Describe a person that you want to become. You should say: Who is this person? What does he/she do? And why do you want to become him/her? 96. Describe a second language that you want to learn (except English). You should say: What is it? Is it difficult to learn? How will you learn it? And why do you want to learn it? 97. Describe a good listener. You should say: Who is he/she? What is his/her character? How do you know him/her? And how do you think of this person? 98. Describe an historical event. You should say: What was it? When did it happen? And what is its influence? 99. Describe an impressive lesson. You should say: What was it? Who was the teacher? What did you learn? And why do you think it is impressive? 100. Describe a thing that you want to succeed. You should say: What is it? How will you do it? And why do you want to succeed in doing it? 101. Describe a person who took care of you when you were a child. You should say: Who is this person? What’s his/her relationship with you? How did he/she take care of you? And how do you think of him/her? 102. Describe a swimming pool. You should say: Where is it? Did you swim there? And how do you think of it? 103. Describe a sports center. You should say: What’s its name? Where is it? What can you do in the sports center? And do you like it? 104. Describe a pet that you’ve raised. You should say: What is it? How long have you raised it? What’s it like? And do you like it? 105. Describe a dangerous sport. You should say: What is it? Who does this kind of sport? Have you ever done it? And why do people do this kind of sport? 106. Describe an important electrical appliance which is not computer. You should say: What is it? When do people use it? What’s its influence on people’s life? And why is it important? 107. Describe a person you’d like to spend time with. You should say: Who is he/she? How do you know him/her? What do you like to do with him? And why do you like to spend time with him/her? 108. Describe a person who likes to help others. You should say: Who is he/she? How does he/she help others? How do you know him/her? And why does he help others? 109. Describe a traditional event in your country. You should say: What is it? When did it happen? And how do people celebrate it? 110. Describe an enjoyable event you’ve done. You should say: What was it? When was it? Who were with you? And why was it enjoyable? 111. Describe a craft in China (e.g. painting, pottery). You should say: What is it? How to do it? Who makes it? And how do you like it? 112. Describe a shopping center. You should say: What is it? Where is it? What can you buy in the center? And how do you think of it? 113. Describe a children’s activity. You should say: What is it? Where do children play it? How to play it? And what can children get from the activity? 114. Describe a person who you want to be similar to. You should say: Who is he/she? How do you know him/her? In what ways do you want to be similar to him/her? And why do you want to be similar to him/her? 115. Describe one of your favorite Chinese newspapers. You should say: What is it? How do you know it? And why do you like it? 116. Describe your ideal job. You should say: What is it? Where do you want to work? Who do you want to work with? And why is it your ideal job? 117. Describe a place for listening to music. You should say: Where is it? What kind of music do you want to listen? And why do you want to go there to listen to music? 118. Describe a teenager you know. You should say: Who is he/she? What’s his/her appearance? What’s his/her character? And how do you like this teenager? 119. Describe a foreign visitor to your family. You should say: Who is he/she? Where does he come from? When did he/she visit your family? And how do you think of him/her? 120. Describe a place full of water. You should say: What is it? Where is it? How often do you go there? And how do you like it? 121. Describe a family but not yours. You should say: Whose family is it? How many people are there? How do you know this family? And how do you think of it? 122. Describe a physical activity you do. You should say: What is it? When do you do it? How often do you do it? And why do you do it? 123. Describe a person who is good at work. You should say: Who is he/she? How do you know him/her? What’s his/her job? And why is he/she good at work? 124. Describe a hotel you’ve been to. You should say: Where is it? When did you go there? Why did you go there? And how do you think of the hotel? 125. Describe an interesting animal. You should say: What is it? How do you know it? What do you know about it? And why is it an interesting animal? 126. Describe a concert that you know. You should say: What is it? When is it? Whose concert is it? And how do you think of the concert? 127. Describe a law you know. You should say: What is it? What’s its influence? And how do you think of this law? 128. Describe a white lie that you’ve told. You should say: What is it? On what occasion do you tell it? Who do you tell it to? And why do you tell it? 129. Describe a favorite photo. You should say: What about the photo? Where was it taken? Who were on it? Explain why you like the photo very much 130. Describe a person who is good at cooking. You should say: Who the person is? What does he do? How good he is at cooking? Explain why you think he is good at cooking 131. Describe an exciting sports event. You should say: What kind of sports it is? Where did you watch it? What was the result of the event? Explain why you think it is exciting 132. Describe a view which you can enjoy through the window. You should say: What it is? How does it look like? Where it is Explain why you like the view very much 133. Describe a piece of interesting news. You should say: How did you get the news What about the news What it is relevant to? Explain why you think the news interesting 134. Describe a kind of technique you like to learn in the future. You should say: What it is What it is serving for How can you learn it Explain why you want to learn it 135. Describe a way to educate children. You should say: What it is How can you do it Where you can do it Explain why it is a good way for children 136. Describe a book you like best. You should say: what it is Where did you get the book. How long did you read it. Explain why you like the book very much 137. Describe an ideal working place. You should say: Where it is How it is What kind of work Explain why it is an ideal place for you 138. Describe a person who help you give things to others. You should say: Who he/she is How did he influence you. What did you give to others. Explain why he is the person you think helpful 139. Describe an impressive performance You should say: What it is Where it is Who you were going with Explain why it is the most impressive performance for you 140. Describe an organization you know well. You should say: What it is What function it has What responsibility it has Explain why it is a meaningful organization 141. Describe an important letter you received. You should say: What’s on the letter Explain why the letter is important to you 142. Describe a kind of cloth you wear in special occasion. You should say: What occasion do you wear it What does it look like. What function it has Explain it is necessary for special occasion 143. Describe a teamwork you experienced. You should say: Who were inside the team. What did you do. What result happened in the end. Explain why you think the teamwork successful 144. Describe your favorite season. You should say: What it is How does it feel like. What you do in that season Explain why you like that season 145. Describe something you want buy in the future. You should say: What it is What do you use it for. How can you buy it. Explain why you would like to buy it 146. Describe your hometown. You should say: Where it is What did you do there. What you still remember about it Explain why you like your hometown a lot 147. Describe a piece of furniture at home. You should say: What it is How does it look like. What function it has Explain why you like it very much 148. Describe your ideal house/flat. You should say: Where it is What style it should be What you would use it for Explain why it is your ideal house/flat 149. Describe a thing you want to do but you have never done that. You should say: What it is Where it is What influence it will exert Explain why you want to do it 150. Describe an educational trip. You should say: When it was Where it was What did you do Explain why it is impressive trip for you 151. Describe a famous person you want to meet. You should say: Who he/she is How did you know about him/her What do you like about him/her Explain why you like to meet up with him/her 152. Describe a healthy food. You should say: What it is What nutrition it has How did you eat it Explain why you think it is healthy 153. Describe a favorite movie. You should say: What it is? What is the scenario? What characters in it Explain why you like the movie very much 154. Describe a place where you can listen to the music. You should say: Where it is What music you can listen Who you go with Explain why it is an ideal place for listening to the music 155. Describe a time when you saw an animal. You should say: When it is? What did you see? How the animal is? Explain why you like the animal 156. Describe a sculpture or work of art that you have seen. You should say: When you saw this work of art Where you saw it What it looked like Explain it was so impressive for you 157. Describe something that helped you learn another language (besides your own language). You should say: What it was Who bought it for you Why you chose to learn that language Explain how this thing helped you. Part Three Part Three family life and wedding 1. In what ways have families in your country changed in recent years? 2. What have caused these changes? 3. What has the government done to support families? 4. What is the most important element for a family? 5. What is a traditional family like in China? 6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the traditional family? 7. What are the typical characteristics of a modern family? 8. Which do you prefer, the traditional family or the modern family? 9. Do you think women’s role in the family has changed in recent years? 10. Should husbands and wives have different roles within the family? 11. Which are more important to you: your family or your friends? 12. What conflicts can arise between a person’s family and a person’s friends? 13. What responsibilities do parents have towards their children? 14. And what responsibilities do children have towards their parents? 15. Do you think that family is important to the society? And why? 16. What measures do you think the government should take to consolidate families? 17. What are the differences between Chinese and Western families? 18. Describe wedding traditions with examples? 19. What are the differences between weddings of today and before? 20. How do families treat guests? 21. What are the differences between treating guests now and before? 22. Is living room important? 23. In Chinese families, will male or female be the leader? 24. What is a happy family like? 25. What particular things do Chinese people do if they are going to visit friends? 26. Are there any changes compared with before? 27. What can we do to make guests feel like being at home? 28. Do you think if people are good at something, they will feel happy? 29. Tell me about the structure of a traditional family 30. In what ways do grandparents help in a family? 31. Do you think grandparents are helpful? 32. How can old people find their happiness? Part Three friendship 33. What kind of characteristics must your friends have? 34. How does your family like your friends? 35. What will result in the break-up of friendship? 36. What are the possible factors that cause the break-up of friendship? 37. How do you keep in touch with your friends if you do not see them regularly? 38. What will you lose if you just make friends for convenience? 39. What do you think are the most important factors to make friends and keep a friendship? 40. In what way do people in China make friends? 41. What are the differences between adults and children in terms of making friends? 42. Are there any differences between the way people make friends now and the way they did before? 43. Why is it easier for children to make friends? 44. Why is it difficult for adults to make friends? 45. Can adults make friends with children? Why or why not? 46. What will the friendship become like when getting old? 47. Why is it important that people should join groups or community? 48. What benefits do people get from joining groups? 49. It is a good idea to be alone? So that you do not need to join group. 50. Do you think e-friends are reliable? Part Three neighbourhood 51. Do you think he/she is a good neighbour? 52. What is the difference between neighbours and friends? 53. Do you make friends with your neighbours? 54. Do you think it important to get along well with your neighbours? 55. Is it possible to become a friend of your neighbours? 56. How do people communicate with others? 57. How has the community you live changed in the past 10 to 15 years? 58. Do neighbours become closer or not? Why? 59. Can people feel the sense of community where they live? 60. Do you think sense of community important? Why or why not? 61. What is the role of community in improving the relationship between neighbours? 62. Do people have less face-to-face communications nowadays? 63. Now, people provide less help to others than before, what do you think about it? Do you like the feeling of helping others? 64. How does society see the value of volunteers? 65. What qualities should volunteers have? Part Three education 66. What do you think makes a good teacher? 67. What do you think is the essential quality of a good teacher? 68. What is the difference between a teacher and a mentor? 69. What do you think of the existing education system in your country? 70. What is the difference between the education now and that in the past? 71. What should or could be changed about the current education system? 72. What do you think education should be? 73. Are there any problems in the existing educational system? 74. How can the government solve the problem? 75. What impressed you most when you were at university? 76. Which is the best university in your country? 77. What is the difference between your education and your working life? 78. Do you think that schools should be responsible for teaching those non-academic courses? 79. How has education changed in your country in the last ten years? 80. Is a good education more important to a boy or a girl? Why or why not? 81. How well do you think schools prepare young people for working life? 82. Do you think schools should teach subjects like art, music and dancing? Why or why not? 83. How important is it for schools to have computers for their students? 84. Is the Internet a valuable educational tool? 85. What do you consider distance education/ degree online? What are the advantages and disadvantages? 86. Many teachers bring students to museum for educational purpose, do you think it’s a good idea, if it’s not, what way do you think is good for education? 87. What is a good study environment? 88. Compare students studying at home and studying at school? 89. Have you ever been a volunteer? What do you think about volunteers? How can children shoulder the responsibility of helping others? 90. Do you think everyone should be a volunteer? 91. Should there be any homework to little children? Why? 92. Is there much homework for high school students? 93. Should college students do part time jobs? What can be learned from these jobs? 94. Some parents don’t send their children to school, what’s your opinion? 95. Do students who can go to school have happiness? 96. Do you think teachers in middle school will guide students to choose future jobs? Is it good or bad? 97. When you were in university, did teachers help you to choose your future job? If no, how can we improve? 98. Should people receive further education or training after getting a job? Why? Who should pay? Boss or yourself? Why? 99. If your boss doesn’t pay for you, will you pay yourself? 100. Some teachers let students do things according to their own mind, what do you think? 101. If children help parents with some work, should parents give them some reward? 102. What is the difference between university educational system and middle school educational system? 103. Do you think it’s easy for university students to find jobs? 104. What kind of employment status are young people facing? 105. What effect does your major have on you when you choose your future job? 106. Should schools open designing courses? Part Three aging problem 107. How do you think of the relationship between the young and the old? 108. What do you think of “generation gap”? 109. What should government do to improve the life of the senior citizens? 110. What can the young people learn from the elderly people? 111. How do you consider the aging problem? 112. Does your government do any thing to deal with the aging problem? 113. What things are happening around you protect the elderly people? 114. Do you agree that the old people are more traditional and conservative than the young people? 115. How do people deal with the family conflict between the young and the old in your country? 116. Do we need to show our more special respect and care to elderly people? 117. How is the trend of higher and higher proportion of elderly population affecting the society? 118. How can we better take care of the old? 119. Do we need to set up special preferential policies for elderly people to get better access to public facilities? Part Three childcare 120. Do you agree that children are happier nowadays? Why or why not? 121. What do you think of the elementary education in your country? 122. How has the elementary education improved in your country in the last decade? 123. How important is it for the elementary education to shape the children in their formative age? 124. Is it true that nowadays children are living a more stressful life? If so, why is that? 125. What responsibilities do parents have towards their children? 126. What responsibilities do children have towards their parents? 127. What do you think of the relationship between children and parents? 128. Is the relationship becoming better or worse? 129. What can you suggest to promote the relationship between parents and children? 130. What are the differences in children’s childhood between past and now? 131. Which is more important for one's future life, education at work or in university? 132. How to improve children's independence? 133. Should traditional arts be preserved? And why? 134. Who is the most important person in children's mind? 135. What are the differences between traditional and modern families? 136. What are the differences between study in school and out of school? 137. How should we educate children from the age 1 to 5? 138. What are the differences between teenagers and youth? 139. Should children try new things? 140. What effect do sudden changes have on society? 141. Should we develop children’s ability to face changes? 142. How can adults encourage children to face changes? 143. Why don’t children like changes? 144. Why don’t children like to play out? 145. What are the differences between primary school students now and before? Part Three work life 146. What kinds of people are good to work with? 147. What do you think of teamwork and team spirit? 148. Do you like to work in a team or individually? 149. Do you like to work alone or with a partner? 150. What kind of jobs do you think suitable for team working? Why? 151. What kind of jobs do you think suitable for working individually? Why? 152. What do you think of the relationship between your boss and you? 153. Do you think that a harmonious atmosphere is important to a department? Why or why not? 154. How do people balance between working and recreation? 155. Are the people nowadays busier than before? If yes, what is the main cause? 156. Why do you choose the job you are doing? Should people change their career if they do find no interests on the one he or she is involved in now? 157. What are the disadvantages and advantages of changing jobs? 158. Does money play a decisive role on job-choosing? 159. How to balance the work, family and social life in china nowadays? 160. Is the working pressure getting greater and more severe in china? Especially in cosmopolitan cities along the coastline area? How to reduce pressure and stress? 161. What about the influence of the globalization on people’s career development and job-hunting? 162. What factors do people care about when they chose jobs? 163. What are the disadvantages and advantages of working overseas? 164. Why do people want to change job? 165. What are the disadvantages and advantages of changing job frequently? 166. Why do people dislike competition? 167. What does success mean for an employee? 168. How can boss make his employee feel successful? 169. Besides company, what places do people work? 170. What are the advantages of working in large organizations, 171. How do you think of “working through all night”? 172. Why do some people choose to work in a small company? 173. What is the main working style in your country? 174. Which one do you prefer? Working in a big company or small company? 175. Should schools help students to find ideal job? What jobs suit young people? What jobs suit old people? 176. Should there be age restriction for work? 177. Should companies provide training for young employee? 178. How to manage time? 179. What kind of people work at home? Will it be more popular in the future and why? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this phenomenon? Is the modern way of doing work causing pollution to our environment? Is there any one who brings work to do at home? 180. Do you think it’s good to decorate your office according to your personality? 181. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a place which have a lot of people? 182. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a place which don’t have a lot of people? 183. What essential facilities are needed in workplace? What do you think can influence the friendliness of workplace? 184. What do you think people working overtime? What kind of work is unpaid work? Compared with paid work, do you think unpaid work is less important? What is your opinion toward different jobs, for Example Street cleaner? Why don’t you be a street cleaner? 185. Which is more important in a job? Experience or practice? Part Three price of fame 186. Do you want to become famous? 187. What would you do if you become famous? 188. How can people become famous? 189. What kind of people can become famous in your country? 190. What kind people were likely to be famous in the past? 191. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being famous? 192. What kind of people do Chinese people admire? 193. What kind people are famous in your country now? 194. How can you become a well-known person in your country? 195. How do you understand “the price of fame”? 196. What do you think of the media attention to the celebrity? 197. Do you think it fair to make everything of celebrity public? Why? 198. What is people’s attitude towards famous people? 199. What do you think of the privacy of a well-known person? 200. What do you think the influence of famous people over the society? 201. Is there any bad influence that some famous people may have on our society? 202. What do you think of the relationship between famous people and advertising? 203. Would the well-known persons in TV commercials influence you? 204. Do you often talk about singers with your friends? 205. What do you think of the fact that famous people advertise? 206. Do young people like stars? What qualities should a star have? 207. Do you think the way of thinking change when people become famous? 208. If the famous people fail, what do you think? 209. Are there people famous 40 years ago? 210. How do they do if they want to have privacy with their family? 211. How do charities make money to survive? 212. Do famous people have responsibilities toward children’s growth? Part Three new technology and innovation 213. What are the other domestic equipments you use from time to time? 214. What would be the difference without these equipments? 215. How different life could life if we don’t have them? 216. Do you think people can get what they want by surfing on the net? 217. What are the advantages and disadvantages of computer and Internet? 218. What is the impact of machinery on human beings? 219. What is the difference of technology between last 50 years and nowadays? 220. What impacts have electrical equipment made on people’s life in the past ten years? 221. What role does technological development play in people’s life? 222. What is the difference between the life in the past and at the present? 223. Do you think new technology makes our life more convenient or more complicated? 224. Do you agree that we are enslaved by new technology? 225. Do you think that people are too dependent on technology? 226. How will technology develop in the future? 227. How about the technology in the coming 20 years? 228. Can you compare it with other machines in your home? 229. Do you think people can manage without these inventions? 230. What impacts have electrical equipment brought on human life in the past ten years? 231. If there is no TV, what do you think people’s life will be like? 232. Which is more important to this world, the invention of a TV or the works of a poet? 233. Do you think Internet is an invention? Why? 234. What are the advantages and disadvantages of computers and Internet? 235. What kind of character should inventors have? 236. How should the government help the inventors? 237. What is the difference between young people and old people when faced with new invention? 238. What are the old people and the young people’s attitudes towards new inventions? 239. How do you introduce new things to old people? 240. What are the differences of life in the past and at the present? 241. What role does technological development play in people’s life? 242. In what way do inventions benefit people? 243. What kind of invention will we have in future? 244. How will technology develop in the future? 245. Which industry do you think will be most promising and will have more inventions? 246. What is the influence of your favourite website to you? How did you find it? Why do you like it so much? 247. What are the different purposes for people in various ages? 248. How to make internet easier for elderly people to use, and to use more? 249. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the internet? 250. How do you think shopping online? 251. What is internet? And its development in china. 252. What are seniors' and youths' attitudes toward the internet? 253. What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-commercial and shopping online? 254. What effect does high-tech have on music? Will computer replace musicians? 255. Are there more changes now than before? 256. Is this change good? 257. What kind of people resists change? 258. What effect does technology have on people’s relationship with others? 259. How does the government protect people from cyber crime or porn? Is news in your country in the internet true? 260. How do old people use internet? 261. Are there any differences between the people who use internet and who don’t use internet? 262. What is the difference between old and young when learning computer? Part Three traditional skills 263. Do you think do-it-yourself work can improve people’s practical ability? 264. What could be the main difference between the object you make yourself and the one you buy? 265. What handicrafts are popular in China? 266. What’s the most important skill nowadays? 267. Do you think it necessary to learn traditional skills? 268. What skills have your parents learnt? 269. What skills have you learn? 270. What handicrafts are there in China? 271. Do you believe that some traditional Chinese crafts are becoming extinct? Why or why not? 272. Do you think something should be done to save these crafts? If so, what could be your suggestion? 273. What’s the difference between handicrafts and products made by machine? 274. What is the differences between DIY and “made by machine”? 275. Which one do you think has the higher value to people? Why? 276. Which one do people like better? Why? 277. Is DIY popular in china? Why? 278. Is there any restriction on age in China? Such as the minimum age for driving and marriage? 279. What is the importance of English in china? 280. Should government support the cultural performance? 281. Should children take part in some performance? 282. Why don’t children like making handicraft now? 283. How to encourage children to like handicraft? 284. Why do tourists like buying handicraft? Part Three gift and shopping 285. When do Chinese people send gift/give presents? 286. Why do you think people send gift to each other? 287. What sort of gift do people like to send? 288. What do Chinese people send as a gift? 289. Whom do Chinese people send gifts to? 290. What do Chinese people think of the value of the gift? 291. What is the difference between the gifts that children received in the past and those at present? 292. How do Chinese people think of the value of the gift? 293. Do you consider brand name when you’re buying gifts? 294. Where do you usually buy gift for others? 295. Have you ever tried online shopping? Why or why not? 296. Is online shopping popular in your country? 297. What are the benefits and weakness of online shopping? 298. Do you think people eventually will choose to shop at home? 299. Do you think that traditional store can survive with so many supermarkets around? 300. What are the differences between small shop and supermarket? 301. Why are there a lot of big stores? 302. Do you think small stores will disappear in the future? 303. What is the difference of shopping attitude between the old generation and the young generation? 304. What are the differences between men and women when they shop? 305. What is the trend of the shop in the future? 306. How do stores make advertisements? 307. Which do you think is the best way to advertise? 308. What typical things can visitors to your country buy? 309. What things do young people like to buy in your country? 310. Is it a good idea to save money? Why or why not? 311. Do you think that people are happier if they have money? Why or why not? 312. What can shops do to make shopping more pleasant for their customers? 313. Do you think that in the future people will do most of their shopping using the Internet? Why or why not? 314. What is you opinion towards shopping on the internet/online shopping? 315. What are the differences between an open-air market and a supermarket? 316. What are the reasons that you like going shopping in the street market? 317. Why do you want to save money and what will you buy with it? Part Three snail mail and e-mail 318. What is the difference between the present letter paper and the traditional ones? 319. What do you think the letter paper will be like in the future? 320. When do people write letters now? 321. Is there any difference if compared with the letter in the past? 322. What do people think of the letters now? 323. What is the difference between traditional letter and email? 324. Which one is more popular, letter or email? Why? 325. Do you agree that letter will eventually be substituted by email? Why or why not? 326. Do you think traditional letter will disappear in the future? 327. What are the differences of communications in the past and at the present? 328. What role did letters play 50 years ago and at the present? 329. How do you consider the advantages and disadvantages of letter and email? Part Three photos 330. How can we take good photos? 331. When do people usually take photos? 332. Why do people take photos? 333. What roles do photos play in people’s life? 334. What do you think of the role of photos in mass media? 335. How has the technology of photo taking changed in the past 10 to 15 years? 336. Do you prefer the traditional camera or the digital camera? Why? 337. Do you think the traditional camera will give way to the digital camera one day? Why or why not? 338. Do you think we should throw away the photos which are not well taken? 339. How do photos attract people’s attention? 340. Tell me something about the visual art in your country? 341. How can pictures improve the world? 342. Some photos are telling history, how do you see these photos? 343. What are the differences between art photos and ordinary photos? Part Three clothes and fashion 344. Do you care very much about your clothes? 345. What kind of clothes do students wear in your country? 346. Do you agree that students in schools should wear uniforms? Why or why not? 347. Do you think it is reasonable that some schools forbid students to wear jeans or miniskirt? 348. What is the difference between the clothes people wear now and the clothes in the past? 349. What is the difference between the clothes that people wear on weekends and on working days? 350. How do the elderly/the old generations look at the outfit of the young generation? 351. What kind of clothes/jewellery do people wear on special occasions in your country? 352. What influence do you think globalization have on fashion of clothes? 353. Do you think wearing uniform can affect people’s behavior? 354. Do you think it’s necessary for boss to choose uniform for employee? 355. Why don’t men like shopping? 356. What do you think of bargain? 357. Do you think it’s good for children to shop often? Part Three advertisement 358. Have you ever made any purchases because of advertisement? 359. What kind of advertisements do you like? 360. What are the functions of advertisement? 361. What are the forms of advertisement nowadays? 362. What is the best means of advertising? 363. What is the difference of advertisement nowadays and 10 years ago? 364. Do you think that advertisement impacts our daily life? 365. What impacts have advertisements on people’s life? 366. What are the advantages and disadvantages of advertisement? 367. What are the advantages and disadvantages of different media? Part Three mass media 368. What’s the new bestseller in your town recently? 369. What books are popular in your town these days? 370. What kind of books do Chinese people like? 371. What’s the difference between the books that girls and boys read and women and men read? 372. What are the differences between men and women when choosing what to read? 373. What books do children like? Why? 374. Why do children like pictorials? 375. Will you write a book if it’s possible and why? 376. What happened to people’s reading habits with the development of technology? 377. What is the relationship between reading and computer? 378. What benefits do people get from reading books? 379. What measures should governments take to encourage people to read more books? 380. What are the differences between reading and watching TV? 381. Which is more popular among young people, watching TV or reading books? Why? 382. What do you think of the violence on TV? 383. Is it dangerous to watch too much TV? Why? 384. What kind of TV programs do people in your town enjoy? 385. What have been the changes over the last 10 years about the TV programs people watch? 386. What is the most popular newspaper in your city? 387. What are the advantages of different media? 388. What is the influence of medium on people’s life? 389. What do you think are the best standards and qualities in journalism? 390. What makes a good journalist? 391. Who is the best news reporter in China? 392. Do you think some reporters have to risk their life to make the best news story? 393. Do you think people believe what is said in the medium? Why? 394. Can you give me an example to illustrate that the news is not real sometimes? 395. Why is newspaper still popular today? 396. Do you think people may give up newspaper eventually and read all the news on the Internet? Why or why not? 397. When and where do people like to read newspaper/magazine? Why? 398. In what ways are newspapers better for learning about the news than listening to the radio or watching television? 399. Do you think newspapers should be completely free to say whatever they want? 400. Do you think it is important for people to read a lot? Why or why not? 401. What sort of stories do newspapers and magazines publish about well-known or famous people in your country? 402. Do you think the media should be allowed to publish stories about the private lives of public figures? 403. Which one is more favoured? Newspaper or TV? Why? 404. What are the disadvantages and advantage of TV and newspapers? 405. What are the differences of these two media now and in the past? 406. How can newspapers increase their sales? 407. What’s the difference of popularity of radio and TV in urban and rural area? 408. Do people prefer to the international news or local news or national news? 409. Who are more interested in international news, youngsters or adults? 410. Which one is more popular, radio news or TV news? 411. .Do you think TV makes news interesting? 412. What ways do TV stations use to raise audience rating? Do you think they are proper? 413. Describe a famous journalist 414. How deep will people be influenced by news? 415. Is it meaningful to know news? 416. Is it important to know foreign news? Part Three sports 417. What is the difference of sports between men and women? 418. What kinds of sports do you like to watch and play? 419. Why do most people enjoy sports so much? 420. What do you think the importance of playing sports? 421. What is the difference between watching a game on TV at home and at site? 422. If someone dislikes sport, how could you push him or her to like it? 423. Do you think playing too much sport is harmful? Why or why not? 424. How do you like watching sports program on TV? 425. When and where do you often watch these programs? 426. Do you think advertising is necessary in sporting events? 427. What do you think of keeping fit? 428. What do you think of fitness training in the 21st century in China? 429. What sports do Chinese people like? 430. Do you know anything about extreme sports? 431. Can you name any extreme sport you know? 432. Do people in your country do extreme sports? 433. Can you figure out why people do extreme sports? 434. What is the most popular sports do Chinese people like? 435. Do you think that boys and girls should play together? 436. Is team sport important? What are its disadvantages? 437. What’s the basic if a country wants to achieve good results in sports events? 438. What kind of sports do men or women like? 439. What are the functions of different kinds of sports? 440. What are the reasons that gyms are greatly welcomed by citizens? 441. Do people get hurt in sports? What injuries do people get? Do people support sports? Do you support sports? What are the advantages for a country to hold sports event? What influence do international sports event have on the relationship of countries? 442. What do modern people do to lose weight? Why do lots of people go to fitness centre? Some companies provide fitness facilities to the employees, what do you think? Do you think people do less labour work these days? 443. Do you think men and women should do sports together? 444. Who should teach children swimming? Parents or coach? Do you think there's someone that should pay more than others on swimming facilities? 445. Should children learn swimming at school? Part Three music 446. What is the impact of music on our daily life? 447. What do you think is the function of music? 448. Do you think it is necessary to open a musical course in high school? Why or why not? 449. Why is it easier for children to learn a musical instrument? 450. How often do you listen to the music everyday? 451. Did you listen to music in your childhood? If yes, what sort of music? 452. What do you think parents should do in order to improve their children’s interest in music? 453. What would people’s life be like if we don’t have music? 454. Does music have any negative effects? Why or why not? 455. What is the difference between western and eastern music? 456. What are the differences between the music young people listen to and the elderly people listen to? 457. How important is music to festivals and celebrations? 458. Can you figure out why someone is good at music while someone else has very little ability? 459. Some websites provide the service of downloading music free of charge. do you think it’s proper? 460. Which original sound do you like best? 461. Through what ways can children listen to music? Part Three movie 462. What is your opinion of the Hollywood films? 463. What do you think are the basic factors of a successful film? 464. What is the development trend of the contemporary film? 465. What film do you like when you were young? 466. What kind of films do children like? 467. Do you think that age difference will influence people’s choice of their favourite films? 468. Do you think Chinese films would be popular in other countries? 469. How do you see the problem of piracy/copyright? 470. What are the possible ways to avoid it? 471. What impact do films have on the society? 472. What is the difference between Chinese films and American films? 473. What is the difference between watching TV and watching movies? 474. What are the benefits of watching movies? 475. Why do so many people like watching movies? 476. How often do children watch movies these days? More often than the past? Why or why not? 477. What is the influence of movies on children? 478. Should we control the time of children’s access to films? 479. What are the differences between films nowadays and in the past? How is this affecting the children? 480. What about TV’s influence on children? What are the differences between programs nowadays and in the past? 481. What can be learnt from film? Why are there no documentaries in cinema? 482. Why isn’t documentary popular in China? 483. What are the differences between popular films and unpopular films? What influence does movie advertisement have? 484. Do movies have educational meaning? What can you learn from movies? 485. If you are a director, what things will you pay attention to? Part Three transportation 486. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your favourite transport? 487. Which means of transport do you use most frequently? 488. What are the advantages and disadvantages of different means of transport? 489. What means of transport are available in your hometown? 490. Do you think the government must encourage people to use public transport like subway? Why or why not? 491. Do you think it is necessary for the government to build more freeways and highways? 492. What are the changes of transportation in the last 10 years in your country? 493. What means of transport is most popular in China? 494. Why there are so many people who are buying family cars in China nowadays? 495. Have you ever been caught in a traffic jam? How did you feel? 496. What measures could be taken to solve the traffic jam problem in your town? 497. Should government put more funds in the public housing or public transportation? Part Three holidays 498. What is the difference between the past and the present as regards to holiday? 499. What do people usually during holidays in your country? 500. What type of holiday do people enjoy most in your country? 501. Do people in your country enjoy going abroad to spend their holiday? 502. What are the differences between the young people’s holiday and elderly people’s? 503. What do you define as holidays? 504. Do you think nowadays people have more holidays or fewer holidays? 505. Why do so many people go our travelling on holidays? 506. What are the benefits of travelling? 507. How will tourism industry develop in the future? 508. Which do you prefer? Natural scenery or artificial landscape? 509. Why does government develop tourism industry? How does it develop it? 510. What are the changes of the tourism industry in recent years? 511. What facilities and service should hotels provide? 512. What qualities should hotel staff have? 513. What do you think of the educational holiday? Part Three animal conservation and pet 514. Do Chinese people love animals? 515. What kind of animals do people like? Why? 516. Do Chinese people raise pets? If yes, what do they like? 517. Why do people raise pets? 518. What is the most famous animal in your country? 519. What is the main function of a zoo? 520. Someone says it is totally meaningless to have a zoo in the city. Do you agree or not? Why? 521. Is it possible for animals to have “rights”? If so, what rights should they have? 522. Do you agree that human’s desire to survive is in conflict with animals’ desire to survive? 523. What can we do to save some wild animals which are in danger? 524. Do you believe the saying “to save animals is to save the human being from committing suicide”? Why or why not? 525. Someone think it is totally inhumane to do experiment on animals. What’s your opinion? 526. What sort of animals are people’s preferred pets? 527. What are the problems relating to raising pets? How to solve these problems? 528. What kind of pets is easy to bring up? What is the function of raising pets? 529. what are the differences between raising pets nowadays and in the past,Do you have a pet at home? 530. What kind of pets did people raise before? What kind of pets do people raise now? 531. What pets do people raise in cities? What pets do people raise in the countryside? 532. A lot people become vegetarians, why? How do you think of that? What do people do with animals? How do they work for people? 533. Which animal is the most important to human being both in ancient times and now? 534. How do human being’s movement effect animal’s movement? 535. What kind of animal do you think cannot live in the city? What’s your opinion about people who don't put the birds in cages but free them? What problem might occur in keeping animal at home? 536. Why do you think some pets are clever? Part Three growth 537. At what age are people treated as grown-ups/adults in your country? 538. Do people need excitement in their life? Why or why not? 539. Why is it easier for young people to have exciting experiences rather than elderly people? 540. Do people in your country enjoy the exciting and adventurous lifestyle? Why or why not? If not, what kind of lifestyle then? 541. In what ways is life becoming safer, and in what ways is it becoming more dangerous? 542. Should people always avoid danger, or is it a good idea sometimes to take risks? 543. What risks should people try to avoid? 544. Do you think people take fewer risks as they grow older? Why or why not? 545. How important is it to have adventure in our lives? 546. What do people learn about themselves from having adventures? Part Three reading 547. Do you prefer reading books in the library or at home? Why? 548. How often do you go to library? 549. What kinds of libraries are there in your country? 550. What is the main function of a library? 551. What improvement can be made to attract more people to go to library? 552. Is there any library in the rural area in your country? If yes, what are the differences between the library in rural area and the urban area? 553. What kinds of books do people like reading in their spare time? 554. What kinds of novels are popular in your town? 555. What kinds of roles do book play in people’s life? 556. Can you imagine the future of books? 557. Do you think books will eventually be substituted by computer or any other new technology? Why or why not? 558. What makes good textbooks? 559. What are the problems with the existing textbooks? 560. What could be your suggestion to improve it? 561. Do you read carefully or skim? Part Three travel 562. What do people learn from travelling? 563. Do you think the growth of international tourism is a good thing? Why or why not? 564. How has tourism changed the way people in your country live? 565. How should tourists behave when they visit your country? 566. What do you think is the best way for a tourist to travel if they want to learn about your country? 567. What are the advantages and disadvantages of travelling by plane? 568. What is the difference between the past and the present as regards to travelling? 569. How will the tourist industry develop in the future? 570. What should the government do to attract tourists? 571. What are the benefits of travelling? 572. Why do so many people like travelling? 573. With whom did you go travelling with? What personalities do you think they should have? 574. Why do so many people like travelling? 575. What is the purpose of travelling? 576. What is the difference between the way you travel now and the way your parents did? 577. What are the advantages and disadvantages of tourism for the country? 578. Why there are so many people travelling abroad? 579. What are the differences between the destination for people to travel to nowadays and in the past? 580. What you should prepare and be aware of when you go to a foreign country? 581. What is the influence of the prevailing trend of travelling abroad to the economy? Good or bad? 582. Describe the advantages of living in your friend’s home rather than living in hotels when you go traveling. 583. What makes a tourist attraction popular? Do you think tourism is important and why? What are the differences between preserving tourist attractions now and before? 584. What is the difference between traveling alone and with friends? 585. What problems do people meet when travelling? Part Three celebration 586. Do Chinese people often have party? 587. On what occasions do Chinese people have parties? 588. Do people in your country often have party during the holiday? 589. What do you usually wear in a party? 590. What is the difference between a family party and a formal party? 591. How do Chinese people celebrate the National Day? 592. How do people celebrate birthday in your country? 593. What have been the changes in the last 10 years about the party and celebration? 594. Has birthday party changed during the past 10 years in your country? If yes, what changes then? 595. Why does someone like parties while someone else does like them? 596. If you are going to throw a party, how will you organize it? 597. How important is a festival to a country? 598. What do you usually wear in festivals? 599. Do people always go to parties during festivals in your country? Why? 600. How do you compare the Chinese traditional festivals with the western ones? 601. Do people in your country celebrate western festivals? Why or why not? 602. What gifts do people send to each other in different festivals? Part Three climate 603. What do you think is the cause of the problem? 604. What is the consequence of abnormal weathers in people’s life? 605. What measures could be taken to change this situation? 606. What could be the difference between the weather in the South and that in the North? 607. What could be the effect of the bad weather on our life? 608. How do you get information about weather? 609. Do you think weather can affect people’s mood or personality? If yes, how do they work? 610. What do you consider is the main cause of global warming? 611. What should people do to prevent the global weather from being worse? 612. Do people from north like to live in warm places? What are the advantages of living in the north? 613. What do you dislike about the season that you have described? 614. Do people like to live in warm places? Do people like to live in cold places? Part Three language study 615. When do you think is the best time to start English study? 616. Why do you choose to learn English instead of French or German? 617. What is the most interesting thing in learning English? 618. What problems do you have when learning English? 619. What is the biggest difficulty in learning a second language? 620. Can English take the place of Chinese in China? 621. What other languages are taught in China? 622. Do you think that age is the most important factor in learning English? Why? 623. Why do people think it harder for the adults to learn English, since they have more experiences and skills? 624. What do you think of the English teaching in your country? 625. What difficulties would a foreigner have when he learns your native language? 626. What problems would Chinese people have when communicating with foreigners? 627. What role does technology play in learning English? 628. How to communicate with people effectively and efficiently? 629. What kind of skills is important for people to communicate with each other? Why some people can not express themselves well and communicate with others? 630. What kind of career does need such communicational skills? 631. Do you think it is easier for children to learn a new language comparing to adults? Why? 632. Why adults find it difficult to learn a new language? 633. What do you think of using English as the international standard Language, as a common language for the world? Why? 634. What about the language in the internet? Should it be unified? Why? 635. What is the importance of English in China? 636. How to make the class atmosphere more active? How to make more interactions among teachers and students? 637. Which language is important for you beside Chinese and English? 638. What’s your choice of second foreign language? 639. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of global language. 640. Which language could become global language? 641. Explain the relation between language and culture. 642. Is it possible for a person to know a culture without learning the language? 643. How does culture effect language? 644. If you are an English teacher, what method will you use to raise students’ interest toward English? Part Three cuisine 645. Do you like cooking? 646. Would you cook for your friends when they visit you? 647. Who cooks in a Chinese family? 648. What is the development trend of food industry? 649. What is the biggest problem in food industry? 650. What is the main difference between Chinese food and Western food? 651. Why are KFC and McDonald popular in China? 652. What is the difference between fresh food and canned food? 653. Where would Chinese go when they eat out? 654. In which aspect is the food changing? 655. What changes have taken place in terms of Chinese eating habits? 656. Which do you like best, fast food or traditional food? 657. What do you think of the advantages and disadvantages of fast food? 658. What are the advantages and disadvantages of inviting friends to your home for dinner instead of going to a restaurant? 659. What can we do to solve the problem of food shortages? 660. What changes will take place about people’s eating habit in the future? 661. How do you see GM food? Are you a supporter or a non-believer? 662. Do you believe GM food is the way to solve the world hunger problem? 663. How do you see the fast food? 664. Why do some people like fast food? 665. Why does fast food so popular in your town? 666. Which do people in your country prefer: traditional food or fast food such as hamburgers or pizzas? 667. How do you compare the Chinese traditional food with western fast food? 668. What are the latest changes in people’s eating habits? Why? 669. What is the difference if we compare the food we have today and the food we had 10 years ago? 670. What do you think a healthy diet consists of? 671. What can be done to prevent poor people in the world going hungry? 672. Should rich countries help poor countries with more than just food? 673. Do you think children should be taught about healthy diets and cooking at school? Why or why not? 674. At what age do you think children should be taught to cook? 675. Sometimes clerk and workers choose to buy fast food in the supermarket ,what's your opinion, 676. Do you think that primary school should offer different kinds of food to students? Why? 677. How do you think about the food safety? 678. Do you think it is important to have meals with family members together? Why? 679. What can be called a good restaurant? 680. How can a restaurant attract people? 681. What’s the relationship between tasty food and nutritious food? Should food advertisement be allowed? 682. Do people pay attention to nutrition more than before? 683. Which do people choose to eat? a restaurant or café? Part Three architecture and housing 684. What is the best way to protect the environment of a place? 685. What should the government do to protect historic buildings? 686. What are the important reasons to protect old buildings? 687. What is your opinion about the historic place in the future? 688. What are the possible changes of historic place when more and more people visit it? 689. Do you agree that history plays an important role in the future? 690. Do you think it necessary/important for young people to learn history? Why? 691. How can you teach young people history? 692. Why should we learn history? 693. How does history influence social development? 694. Which event that happened recently can be regarded as history? 695. What are main features of the traditional architecture in your country? 696. What changes have taken place in architecture in the past two decades? 697. What is the development direction of modern architecture? 698. Should we protect our old buildings? Why? 699. Do you think it necessary to protect old buildings? 700. Why are historic buildings and monuments important to a city? 701. Is it better to keep old buildings, or build new modern ones? 702. How can old buildings be protected? 703. Why do people go to museum? 704. How has museum changed in the last 10 to 20 years? 705. Why museums are always popular attraction to tourists? 706. What is the main kind of housing that most Chinese people are living in? 707. Can they afford to buy the desirable flats or houses? 708. Is there any potentiality of housing problems that challenges people’s pressure on income, or lifestyle and living standard? 709. What will city be like in the future? 710. How can a small city grow into a big one? 711. Should government provide cheap flat to poor people? What are the differences between flat and house? Part Three tourism 712. What does the government do to promote tourism in your town? 713. What are the measures taken to keep the natural scenery and modern buildings in harmony? 714. What is the importance of planning to shape a city? 715. What are the differences between the country and the city? 716. Do you prefer to live in the city or in the country? Why? 717. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in the city and in the country? 718. What do you think of the problem of homeless people in big cities? 719. Who should be responsible for homeless people? 720. Can you figure out how people become homeless? 721. What about the facilities of hotels? Are they important to you when you travel? What is the desirable quality of a hotel? 722. Will the hotel quality influence the local tourism industry? Part Three time 723. What are the different opinions towards being late between the Chinese people and western people? 724. Which countries’ people are punctual? 725. Why don’t the people in your country take it serious to be punctual? 726. Are children punctual? Part Three park 727. What about the purpose of park for people’s lifestyle? Should it be beautiful or well-used? Which character is more important? 728. How many parks in your town? Why there are fences around parks? 729. When do people visit parks? Does the park represent culture and history? 730. What should government do to improve the facilities and functions of park to attract more residents nearby? 731. How to improve citizens’ leisure life and lifestyle through better park environment and better out-door gym facilities inside the park? 732. Describe the importance of garden and necessary facility of library 733. What do different people do in garden? 734. What good things can garden bring? 735. Do you think there are enough public gardens in Beijing? 736. What can you learn from these gardens? What about the plants in the gardens? 737. Do these gardens play the same role in both old generation and the young generation? 738. What are the functions of the gardens downtown? 739. Should any fee be charged when going to gardens? why? 740. Should government invest in gardens? 741. Some people plant food in private gardens instead of flowers, what do you think? 742. Do people of different ages choose different gardens to go? 743. What can you benefit from the gardens that are next to your home? 744. What can children do in private gardens? Part Three leadership 745. What are the influences that a good leader can have onto his or her motherland? What about a worse one’s influence? 746. How to be an excellent leader? What are the requirements? What kind of characters a good leader should have? 747. What are the criteria for a good leader? 748. Why some people don’t want to be a leader? 749. Do you want to be a leader? What do you think of the leaders in china? Just try to give me an example. 750. What are the differences of setting up business nowadays and establishing business in the past? Which one is easier? 751. What is the necessary character or personality for professional manager? What are key virtues they should have? Part Three leisure 752. What is the most popular way of relaxation? 753. Some people think we should relax in specific atmosphere and time, what do you think? 754. People think the best relaxation way is to do nothing at any time, just have a rest, what is your opinion? 755. What are the differences between the relaxation ways nowadays and those in the past? 756. What are the advantages of old people playing games? What are the advantages and disadvantages of children playing outdoor games? Part Three environmental protection 757. Do you think people these days have the awareness and consciousness on environmental protection? 758. Is the environmental pollution getting worse because of people’s behaviour? 759. Why the pollution is so severe nowadays? 760. What’s your opinion about the environment in future? Getting better or worse than now? 761. Why do people like water? 762. Can you name some water sports? 763. Is it human right to have water? 764. There is water shortage, what if countries compete for water resource? 765. How to make sure people can be provided with qualified water? Compared with before, do people use more water in daily life? Why? 766. In what places can people play in the water and also on the bank? 767. What do people use water for? 768. Should there be any restrictions about using water? Part Three money 769. Do the rich and the poor hold the same opinion about money? Why or why not? If different, what are they relatively? 770. What do you think about “much money” and “enough money”? 771. Are people getting richer? What is the proportion of people who are getting richer? Why they are earning more money? 772. What is the difference of the consuming habit nowadays and in the past? 773. What do you think about the inflation rate? What is the reason causing inflation? 774. On what occasions will people lose things? 775. How to avoid losing things? 776. Do you think there are more thieves than before? 777. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having business of your own? 778. Do people like to have their one business more than before? What difficulties will you meet if you have your own business? Part Three law 779. Do you think there are many people breaking laws in life? Will you do that? 780. Do you want to be a policeman? Why? What qualities should a policeman have? Do you think you have these qualities? 781. Do you want to be a lawyer? Why? What qualities should a lawyer have? 782. What are the differences between a lawyer and a policeman? 783. Do you think it’s possible not to have laws in a country? 784. 785. Why is law so important in modern society? 786. How to use law to against crime by police officer? 787. What kind of law is your favorite? 788. Do you think we need an international law? 789. Do people abide by law in your country? 790. What role does international law play? 791. Do you think all countries in the world will use the same law? Why? 792. Some people think it’s ok to break laws sometimes and it’s ok to make some small mistakes, what do you think? Part Three advice 793. What should we pay attention to when we give advices to teenager? How do we give advices to teenager? 794. Do you usually get advice from your family? From your friends? Do you always give advice to the young people? What kind of personality should the people who give advice have? 795. What advices should teachers give to students about study? How about personal development? 796. What advices do boss and colleagues give? 797. Which is more useful? Parents’ advice or friends’ advice? 798. What advice do you usually give to friends? 799. Do your parents give any advices on your future job? 800. Will you accept advices by sales men?