Part Two and Three

1. Relaxation                         

Describe a way you found was relaxing

What it was

Where you did it

Whom you did it with or alone

How you felt after you have done it

Why it was relaxing

(1). In modern society how do people get relaxed?

(2). What is the difference between the relaxation of Chinese students and foreign students?

(3). What are the ways for people to relax?

2. A person you like to talk to

Describe a person who you like to talk to

Who he/ she is

How often you talk to him or her

What you usually talk about

Others also like to talk to him/ her

How you can learn from him/ her

The reason why you like to chat with him/ her

(1). What is the difference between the conversation between adults and children and the conversation between adults?

(2). How do children learn a language?

(3). Some people believe that babies have learnt to talk even before they were born. Do you agree or disagree

(4). It is said that children learn language faster than adults, do you agree or not?

(5). Nowadays children tend to be more mature, is it good or bad?

(6). Talk about the importance of communication

(7) what kind of person needs to learn communication skills?

(8) is it easy or difficult to learn a language?

(9) what are the differences between human communication and animal’s communication?

(10) how to help children to improve their lecture skills?

(11) can robots talk as human do in the future?

(12) is there any difference between children and adults’ way of choosing a friend?

(13) what is the way to be famous?

(14) is famous important to you?

(15) how do you think the famous effect the family?

3．A famous person in your country/ a person you want to be similar to in the future

Who he/ she is

What he/she did / what he/she famous for

How people in your country respect/ like him/her / how you want to like him/her

The reason why you want to talk about him/her  / why you want to be him

(1). Is it important to be independent?

(2). What are the differences between the children now and in the past?

(3). Why do many companies ask famous people to advertise?/ is it good to employ famous stars to do advertising?

(4). What qualities should the famous people have?

(5). Do you like to be famous?

(6). What is your opinion towards famous stars?

(7). Will stars influence children?

(8). Which kind of stars is popular with children in China?

(9). What do you think of advertisements with stars or sport stars?

(10). Do you think stars should do good deeds to set up an example?

(11). Do you think children like advertisement? Why?

(12). What do you think of advertisement with children?

(13). Do you think stars are responsible for the public when advertising?

(14). What do you learn from him/ her?

(15). What do you think of popular family?

(16). Do you think parents should be models for their children?

(17). What influences do parents have on their children?

(18). What do you think of the newly developed courses about rearing children?

(19). What kinds of famous people do children like? Why?

(20). Should the government put more into children’s social welfare?

(21). Should parents take part in training courses? Why?

4．A person who once took care of you when you were a child

Who he/ she is

How often he/ she takes care of you

What your relationship is

How long had he/ she taken care of you

What influence he/ she had on you

How you feel of this experience

The reason why you remember him/ her so much

(1). How to take care of children?

(2). At what age do Chinese children go to school usually?

(3). As for taking care of children, what is the difference between now and in the past?

(4). Is it important for children to receive preschool education?

(5). What are the differences between teaching a preschool child and a child at school?

(6). In what aspects does technology influence teenagers?

(7). Do the old have the responsibility to raise their grandsons?

(8). What are the advantages if children brought up by their parents?

(9). What are the differences between child education in the past and nowadays? Why?

(10). What are the changes between children now and in the past?

5．A person who once helped you

Who he/ she is

How he/ she helped you

How you got to know each other

How you think of him/ her

(1). Why do we need to help others?

(2). Compared with people in the past, people in modern society are more willing to help others or not?

6．An interesting old person

Who he/ she is

How you met him/ her

What relationship is between you

When you got to know her/him

How you like him/ her

The reason why you think it is interesting

(1). What are the advantages and disadvantages of being old?

(2). Why old person always do not agree with the youngsters?

(3). Do you think the old person’s life will be better in the future?

7. Family event / traditional event / happy event/ a new exciting thing

What the important family event is <<< wedding

What you do in the event<<<who got married<< who participate in it<<

When it is<< what they were<< how important it is

How you like it<<< what they did on the day<< how people celebrate it , what do you think of it

The reason why do you like the event<< explain how you felt about this wedding<< why it is important<<<< why you think it was new and exciting

(1). Do you like the family union?

(2). How do people celebrate their weddings in modern times?

(3). Is it true that many people hold celebrations a month after their babies were born?

(4). Will you choose a small ceremony or a big ceremony for your wedding?

(5). Say something about the custom of wedding, and compare the modern wedding and traditional wedding.

(6). What is the special activity during the wedding?

(7) what are the differences between Chinese wedding and western wedding?

(8). What are the Chinese traditions in cooking and dressing?

(9). Do young people discard traditions in China?

(10). What can you learn from history/ world history? / do you think historical class is useful , why?  / is local history useful?

(11). Compare old people’s experience with young people’s experience

(12). Do you think people’s memory will different from the real thing happened?

(13). Who are more interested in new things, the old or the young? Why?

(14). Should it be the government or the individuals take the responsibility of people’s life?

(15). Are you willing to try new things? Why?

(16). Who are more willing to try new things, children or adults?

(17). Do you think it is good for children to learn at an earlier age?

(18). What is the difference between wedding in traditional and modern life?

(19). What are the changes about clothes?

(20). How do you feel that people needed to get their leader’s permission when they planned to marry in the past?

(21). How do you think that people spend too much money on wedding?

(22). What is the modern wedding ceremony like?

(23). What is the importance of wedding ceremony?

8．  Business you are going to run/ a particular success you hope to get/ restaurant or café’ / an ideal job / a success you want to achieve/ job

What business it would be<<what it is << where you like to work

Where you would like to start<<how you achieve it <<< what skills it would need you to have

Who you would employ<<< what difficulties there are<<< in what way you would like to work

The reason why you start such a business<< why you want to do it,,, << why you would like to take it

How you feel when you achieve it

(1). Say something about the disadvantages and advantages of starting a business.

(2). Compared with the past, is it easier to start a business?

(3). What capacity you need to have to start a business?

(4). What are the advantages and disadvantages of competition?

(5). what skills and personal qualities does a person need to have when running his or her own business?

(6). Do you think some companies have responsibility to the environment?

(7). How many types of success are there do you think?

(8). What is your definition of success?

(9). What is the differences between the standard for success in the past and now?

(10). What are the public opinions towards success?

(11). Does being rich mean success?

(12). Is fast food/ Chinese food healthy?

(13). Who should take responsibilities to raise people’s awareness towards health? Government, school or parents?

(14). Why do Chinese children have interested on western food?

(15). Is it good to change jobs now and then?

(16). What kind of job is attractive to you?

(17). Do you think teamwork is important?

(18). How to balance work and family?

(19). Do people like setting goals for themselves in your country? What kind of goals do they usually set? Do you have any goal?

(20). What will they do, if they fail to achieve the goal?  What will you feel if you fail?

(21). What kind of fun can you get from your work?

(22). Is there any social meaning of eating out?

9．. Shopping

Describe your favourite shop

Where it is

Which kind of people go to / work at there

What kind of things you buy there

Your feeling of this shopping

(1). What are the advantages and disadvantages of those large shops/ supermarkets?

(2). Do you like shopping? Why?

(3). What kinds of people do not like shopping?

(4). What kind of store are there near your home?
(5). What do you often buy there?

(6). What are the other ways to purchase things?

(7). Will store disappear one day?

(8). Do you like to shop in the big stores or small ones? Why?

(9). What are the threats big stores give small ones?

10. Library

What it is

Where it is

What it is like

What is shown there

Why you think it is good

(1). Is library in cities important for people like Beijing?

(2). Do you think reading through the internet has some influence on library?

11. TV program/ movie/ film

What it is about

When you usually watch it

How often you watch it

How you like it

The reason why you like to watch it

(1). Do you like reading through internet?

(2). Compare reading the news in TV with reading the news in newspaper. If you want to have a deeper understanding of the news, is still TV a better choice?

(3). Is there any regulation on the content of the news?

(4). What kind of regulation should be in the future?

(5). In what ways do TV programs influence children?

(6). What are the differences between TV programs in the past and now?

(7). Do people like movie in your country?

(8). Tell me something about the future and the development of china’s film industry.

(9). What films do men and women like?

(10). What the differences between watching a film at home and in the cinema?

(11). What kind of films do the old like?

(12). Do you think China should forward it films to the international market?

(13). What are the advantages of doing it?

(14). Can you tell me the history of films in your country?

12. An impressive journey/ a place where you want to visit / Adventurer____3-day travelling

Where you visited<<<<where you would like to go

When you had <<<<<when you plan to have

How you took it<<<what you would like to see and buy

What you saw there <<<by what way you would like to take the adventure

How you like it

The reason why you wanted to take such a journey

(1). Why do people travel?

(2). What are the problems brought by travelling?

(3). Is tourism important to economy?

(4). What kind of benefits can people get from travelling?

(5). Will the increase of tourists influence the scenery spot’s environment?

(6). Which part of the world you want to go in the future?

(7). How does weather influence your life?

(8). How does tourism influence the environment?

(9). Why do people like exploring new places?

(10). What are the conditions for exploring?

(11). How people influenced by the places they live in?

(12). What kind of problem may people meet on the way to work?

(13). Which way do you like, by train, or by plane or ….? Why?

(14). What influence have on those people who go abroad?

(15). Dose travelling abroad enhance the culture communication?

(16). What influence may tourism have on economy?

(17). What are the qualities that an adventurer must have?

(18). Will you go there again in the future?

(19). What deeper impression did you get?

(20). What often happens to people in China when they commute to work, in particular, for a long distance?

(21). Why do people like travelling

(22). What do you think people get from travelling abroad?

(23). Why is international communication important?

13．Gift you gave to someone

Whom you gave it

What was the receiver’s reaction?

What you felt after he/ she got the gift

The reason why you chose to give this gift

(1). What presents are suitable for children?

(2). Is it necessary that every present should be educational?

(3). Why do children like to receiving gift?

(4). What are the differences between those home-made gifts and those bought from stores?

(5). Nowadays some people put too much emphasis on gifts, what kind of effect will it bring about?

14. A thing you lost

What you lost

When you lost

Where you lost it

How you lost it

How did you feel when you lost it

(1). What are the most common things do people lose?
(2). Are there many thieves in China?

(3). Will crime rate increase in Guangzhou? / do you think the number of thieves has increased?

(4). How to protect things from being lost? / what kind of measures can we take to avoid being stolen?

(5) why do you think the strangers should be noticed?

(6) what should the society do deal with the problem?

(7). Are there more and more thieves in Shanghai?

(8). How can people protect personal properties?

(9). What are the differences between the rich and the poor as regards to protecting their properties?

15. Photo

Describe a photo which is important to you

Where you took it

Who/ what are in the photo

Where it is

How important it is

The reason why it is important

(1). Do you like taking photo? Why?

(2). Why do people like taking photos?

(3). What are the differences between the photos in the past and now?

(4). Why do some people like taking photos about other’s privacy?

(5). Which one is better? Home video or photo?

(6). Do you have a professional camera?

(7). What is the difference between the photos taken by you and the professionals?

16. Learn a language

Describe a language you learnt or are learning or going to learn

What it is

When you learnt/ are going to learn

How you learnt / are going to learn

The reason why you want to learn this language

(1). If you will learn a second language, which one will you choose? (Except English)

(2). Describe what will you learn about the language and how to learn it?

(3). What can people get by learning language?

(4). Why some people can learn English very well, while some can not?

(5). What are the advantages and disadvantages of having an international language, such as English?

(6). How can teachers arouse students’ interests to learn English?

(7). Do you think it is important for schools to teach a foreign language?

17. Weather

Describe a weather in your city

What it is

How it changes by day

How you like it

The reason why you are influenced by the weather

(1). What is the difference between the weather you described and the other day’s weather?

(2). What do people usually do in this kind of weather?

18. Email/ letter  / an important letter

Describe an email you have got recently

What it is  / who wrote you this letter

When you got it / what is the content

Where it came /

What is your feeling when you received it / why you consider it as so important

(1). Is it convenience to communicate by email?

(2). Do you send email to your friends on holiday?

(3). Do people in your city like travelling? Where do they usually do?

(4). What kind of advantages has tourism brought to a country?

(5). Is it good to have a long holiday?

(6). Do people around you write letters very often?

(7). What are the advantages and disadvantages of writing letter compared with mobile phone?

(8). Do you believe that letter can build the bridge for people to communicate?

(9). What are the functions of business letter?

(10). What is the difference between email and letters?

(11). Which will you choose if you are a businessman? Why?

(12). Are the letters in ancient times interesting?

19. Ideal house

Describe a house in which you would like to live in the future

What kind of design you want to have

What is its location

How to decorate

Why you want to decorate in this way

(1). What are the differences between living in downtown and suburb?

(2). Should the government regulate the house market/ decide where to build houses and provide cheap houses for rent?

 20. A person who always help others

Describe a person who helps a lot of people

Who he/she is

Where he/she lives

How he/she helps others

Why you choose him/her to talk

(1). Where can those old get help?

(2). What kind of person always helps others?

(3). Why do they help others?

(4). How to help others?