PART 1

Bird

Where can you see a lot of birds in your hometown?

Do Chinese people keep birds?

What kind of bird do you like?

Describe a bird which has special meaning in your country?

How to protect birds?

 

Happiness

Do you think happiness is very important?

Do you think money is very important?

Do you feel satisfied with your current job? If not, what’s your plan in the future?

 

Television

What kind of TV program do you like to watch?

Do you often watch TV?

Did you watch TV more often in your childhood?

 

Handmade

Whether make things by hand is good for children

 

Photo

Do you like photograph?

What are the different between postcard and photo?

 

Swim

When you learn to swim?

Do you like swim in ocean or pools，why?

Is it important for children to learn to swim?

  

PART 2 & 3

 

People:

1. Oldest person you know

 

Part 3

How do the people treat old man in China?

What is attitude of young people toward old man?

How do Chinese families take care of the old retirees?

What do old people usually do after retirement?

Do you think their living conditions can be changing in the future? Why?

What services may government provide for the aged people?

Family or government, which one is better for taking care of the aged people?

Do old people keep pets?

Do you think they are able to keep pets?

What is your opinion towards the sense of family responsibility?

What do you think of your family?

What is the difference in people’s attitudes towards old people in the past, now and future?

What is the reason for this change?

Do you think things would be different in the future?

Old people’s activity?

 

2. A person you like to travel with

Part 3

What is the different between group trip and private trip?

Which one is better?

What is the advantage of travel?

Advantages & disadvantages of international trip

Is it good to have a long journey?

What are the effects of international traveling? (to environment, to trade, to your life)

What do you think of domestic travel and international travel?

Would you travel with a travel agency or alone?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of foreigners traveling in China?

Where do Chinese people usually go for traveling?

Are there any changes in the traveling conception between your parents and you?

 

 

3. A friend who has leading abilities

Part 3

Who make decision in Chinese families, men or women?

Is it difficult for the leader to make decision?

What is the most important ability to lead a family?

Do you think women should work?

Will women have important position in the family in the future?

Is family decision difficult to make? How does it change in the future?

Will you talk to your family before you make decision?

Is there any change in the way that family members communicate with each other?

What kind of activity did you organize before?

Do you think there would be conflict between study and other activity?

What are the qualities you think a leader should have in a company?

Which one you think is more important, the workers or the leaders? Why?

Do you think the high salaries of leaders are fair?

Do you think the workers may find it unfair?

How does the generation gap between the poor and rich develop in the future? Why?

 

 

4. A character from a childhood story

 

Part 3

What kind of story do children like?

Can children learn from these stories?

Are there any stories bad for children?

Is it important for children to learn from a story?

What kind of book do children like to read?

What kind of characters in a book do adults like?

What are the difference between the characters in a book and in the real life?

What cartoon characters do children like?

Will children begin to admire and be crazy about those characters?

 

5. A person in the news you would like to meet

 

Part 3

What is Chinese news usually about?

Are the news programs reporting celebrities?

Why do everyone like to read news?

What kind of people would be more likely to be reported in a news?

How do people get news?

Are the privacies of celebrities over exposed?

What are the differences between the news in the past and now?

What are the differences between the international news and the domestic news?

Getting news from internet and getting news from book, TV, which one is better?

Which is more informative, book or TV ?

 

6. Describe your personality

 

Part 3

What is the good part of Chinese people’s personality?

What affects people’s personalities in modern life?

What kind of people you like when choosing friend or tartner?

What is the important personality in your opinion?

And what personality is important for your future?

What’s the usual personality of a successful people?

What’s the difference between personalities in male and female?

Do you think successful people tends to be more happy?

Would you like to make friends with someone with the same personalities with you or with different personalities with you?

Will the personalities affect your work and career?

Who have the similar personalities with you in your life?

What is success, is it a matter of being strong?

Should everyone in a group have the same personalities?

Does your boyfriend/girlfriend have the same personalities with you?

 

 

7. A neighbor

 

Part 3

What is the most important thing in neighbourhood?

What is the difference between neighbourhood now and past?

Do you want new neighbours?

Where do people usually live now and what about people in the past?

Do neighbors communicate a lot now? What about in the past?

Is it helpful to improve the relationship of people in the neighbourhood by holding many artistic activities?

Are there any changes in the relationships between you and your neighbors now and in the past?

 

 

8. A person who has a healthy life style

Part 3

What kinds of food are unhealthy?

How do you think is healthy life?

In which way is unhealthy life?

Why do people choose the unhealthy food?

What is healthy food?

 

Will there be any improvement in the food safty?

Why are there disadvantages when you do not sleep?

How do teachers influence students lives?

Who do you think should take care of children’s health, parents or teachers?

What kind of sport you like is good for your health?

 

Objects

1.A book you like

Part 3

What is the difference between the books old people and young people read? And why?

What kind of books people read in the past? What about now?

What is the difference between reading in library and on the internet?

Which one do you prefer?

Do you think the government should build public library?

What books have you read when you were a child?

What books do people in different ages read?

What kind of book is popular in China?

Would you recommend book to your friends?

Should children read book? Should adult read book?

What is the difference between the books they read?

What kinds of books will be popular? What do you read now?

Do you usually read online?

How can you find the best information from the internet, will internet one day replace books?

What kind of way of reading do your parents like? What can we get from a book besides reading them?

 

 

2. A vehicle you want to buy

 

Part 3

Do you think this vehicle may cause traffic jam?

Are there more vehicles or fewer vehicles in your hometown nowadays?

What about compared with other cities?

Are traffic jams serious in modern cities? And why?

How do we solve this problem?

Who is mainly responsible for this problem?

Is it because the public do not often use the transportations system?

Do you think the government should make laws?

How do people often go to work?

What is the difference of the public transport between nowadays and past?

Do you think government should solute the traffic problem?

What kind of ways can solve these problems?

What kind of new transportation tools going to invent?

 

3. A foreign food you like to taste

Part 3

Is it expensive in China?

Do you think Chinese food is healthy?

Is there anything unhealthy?

How do young people think of cooking?

Do you like cooking? Do you think it is important?

For cooking, what is the difference between this generation and decades ago?

How is food related to health?

Is it good to teach children to have more healthy food?

What kinds of illness may food cause?

Is there any regulation on food production?

The world now provides more facility to food supply chain, is it positive or negative?

Is it good to eat fresh food? And why?

What government has done to improve children’s health?

Do you think schools should teach children knowledge about healthy food?

 

 

4. An educational TV program

Part 3

Any other educational program except the one you mentioned?

Do you friends like the TV program?

What you can learn from the program?

Do you watch other program?

Do you watch programs with others?

What is the difference if different program in your city?

Do people prefer educational program or fun program?

Do people prefer programs presented by famous person or common person?

Why companies put ads in TV programs?

 

5.  A song that would remind you of a particular time

Part 3

Do your friends like this song and why?

Do you like singing?

Why people often sing?

Do you mind if you are a poor singer?

When you listen to sad songs, do you feel sad?

Why people go to karaoke?

On what occasions do you sing?

What type of song do people in different ages like?

What about young people?

Is singing very popular all over the world?

When people singing together?

Can everyone sing? Why?

 

 

6. A job that will make the world better

 

Part 3

In the past some people worked in factory in the countryside while others worked in the city centre, do you think it will change in the future?

What kind of work may bring people the sense of safety？

Why do lots of people take no jobs but join the military or police?

Do police need special skills?

Do people care about salary when they choose jobs?

Should police highly paid?

What is the salary of police like in China?

Who is better for being a police, woman or man?

What is the most important in jobs?

Do you think the factories in China will pollute the environment?

 

7. A magazine or newspaper you like

Part 3

What kind of magazine is popular?

In China, what kind of magazine do children like?What about women? What about young people?

What is your opinion towards Chinese newspaper?

Why men and women read different magazines?

Why some people read books, while others read magazines?

What is the most popular book in China?

Do you read newspaper or magazine about ladies?

Do /What you suggest others to read?

 

 

8. Describe a foreign movie

Part 3

What kind of films are poplular in China?

What do you care most while watching a film?

What are the differences between the china films and western films?

Do foreign films have some negative influences on Chinese films

Do you want to be movie star, will them be highly paid?

Are American films popular in China, what about in other countries?

Will languages have influence on the qualities of films?

Are movies important for a country?

Should parents supervise children on the films?

What cause the differences between the Chinese films and the American films?

 

 

9. Describe something interesting you want to learn more

You should say: what it is

When you became interested

How to learn it

What success you achieved at that thing?

 

Part 3

Do you think old people should learn new things?

Is it better to know each filed well or become an expert in one field?

Do you learn new knowledge every day?

The way of children education

What’s important for children’s education?

What the benefit of adult education?

What is the relationship between academic and practical things?

Do you think it’s easy for people to obtain information nowadays?

Is internet good or bad?

Do you think the government should set courses for old people?

 

 

 

 

Places

1. A peaceful place/noisy

 

PART 3

What place you think is peaceful?

Is there any peaceful place in city?

Do you think people need loneliness and why?

How do you think people need loneliness and why?

How do noises affect people?

How do we solve the problems caused by noises?

Describe a noisy place?

Do you think your city is noisy or quiet?

How should we do to control the noise pollution?

Where do people like to stay alone?

What they do when they are being alone?

 

2. A school building

Part 3

What is the difference between schools in city and village?

What is the difference between buildings for children and for adults?

Do you think the school facilities should be open to the public?

Do children have enough places to play?

Should school have place for children’s playing?

Are Chinese schools in good quality?

Should schools provide places to live for students?

What is the difference between children’s and adults’ education?

Is there any difference in the textbooks they use?

What kinds of buildings to teenagers and children need?

Are buildings going to develop in the future?

Do you live far away from school?

What is the advantage and disadvantage of if you go to school out of hometown?

 

 

3. A room you preferred to live in when you were a child

Part 3

Are there any improvement of people’s housing condition?

If you have brothers or sisters, would you like to share your apartment with them?

How many rooms are suitable?

Whether the room should has individual design style?

What will make you lose your privacy?

Do you have your privacy?

 

4. A garden

Part 3

What you like to do in the park?

What people living in the city like to do?

What are the different ways of relaxing?

For people in your hometown, is there any other outdoor entertainment except for going to park?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of outdoor activities?

Do you think the grass land is very important?

How to plan the grass land in cities?

What do you think about public garden?

Do you think it is important for a city or a town to build it? Why?

Who would you like to go to garden with?

Do you know how to grow plants? Why you know that? Who teaches you? Why they want to teach you?

 

5. A supermarket or a shop

Part 3

What are the advantages of the shop you mentioned?

Why people like going shopping? Do you like shopping? What do you like to buy?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of shopping?

Do you have any shopping habit? Bigger shop and smaller shop,which one is better?

Men and women, who prefer shopping? What are the differences of their buying habits?

Do you think children also have buying habits?

What do you think of the recent shopping trend? What is the change in shopping in the future?

What is your opinion of saving money? How to save money? Do you think children should also save some money?

Through what ways can they have the concept of saving money?

Is there any way to restrict children’s expenses?

Do you think saving may be influencing in the future?

Do you think people could recycle things to use them again? Why they recycle things?

How about the international shop? Do old people go to international shop? Do you think we should have more shops in cities? What kind of shops they should be?

 

 

6. A street

Part 3

Advantages of living in a big city &living in a countryside?

Do you think we should do something to protect the greenery area?

What are the living areas like in China?

What can the government do in order to improve the living standard in the residential district?

It it suitable to build traditional houses in cities?

Where do Chinese people usually choose to live?

What kind of people like to live in the big cities?

What facilities are necessary in the living areas?

What can the government do in order to improve the living condition in the residential district?

Are there any attractions in your town?

Are there enough gardens in town, should we build more gardens? What are the advantages?

 

7. A historical place

PART 3

What kind of historical place would you like to visit?

What can we get form the historical sites?

Do Chinese people pay more attention to history?

Through what ways can we learn history?

What should government do to protect the historical sites?

Do you think it should be free for the visitors to visit the historical sites?

Should government give money to the historical sites?

How much should the visitors and government pay?

Introduce some historical sites and foreign countries

Why old people prefer to go to museum rather than young people?

 

 

8. A leisure place

describe a leisure place (sport centre or entertainment)

You should say:

Where it is?

What you do in that place?

When you go there?

And explain why it is so popular?

 

Part 3

What are the advantages of building up?

Should the company supply the sports facilities to staff members?

Where do old people usually go for fun?

Where do a family usually go for fun?

Do the staff members in a company need leisure?

 

 

9. Describe a place you want to travel in the future

Part 2 Describe a place you want to travel in the future

You should say:

Where you want to go

How to go there

With whom

And why you want to go there.

 

Part 3

Where should the place be improved?

Do you have some difficulties in travel?

How to solve them?

Now are there many travelers? What about in the future?

What are people’s different attitudes towards travelling?

Some children without parents travel everywhere to make money and survive ,what’s your opinion? How can government solve this problem?

Do you like to travel alone or in a group?

What are the qualifications of the travel companion？

What improvements need to be done for the Chinese tourism Industry?

Do you want to travel abroad?

What transportation means do people in your hometown choose to travel?

What are the advantages of riding bikes?

 

 

Events:

1. A piece of interesting news

Part 3

How do you get the news?

Do you think the international news is important?

How do people in your hometown get news home and abroad?

How do foreigners know the information of China?

Do you think young people pay attention to news?

Do you think people in different ages may have different ways of getting information?

Do they use internet more and more?

How can you develop their interest to news if you have children?

Do you think they will discuss news in school?

School education and parents’ education, which one is better?

Do you think we should encourage students to pay more attention to news?

Is there any way for school to improve students’ ability to obtain information?

Is there any difference in the attitude to news between foreigners and people in your country?

Do you think the information obtained on internet is important?

 

2. An enjoyable phone conversation you had

Part 3

What are the functions of telephone?

Do you think mobile phone is popular in your country? Do you think it is a positive development?

What are the advantages of mobile phone?

Is there any disadvantage about it?

Do you think there are any differences in the way people use a mobile phone between the elder and the youngsters?

Would you like to talk face to face or by phone?

Are there any differences between the young people using cell phone and old people using cell phone?

Do you think cell phone should be prohibited in public places?

Do many people around you using cell phones?

why the elderly don’t like using phone?

Do you usually make phone calls with your cell phone? Why is it important?

 

3. What would you want to do if you have a day off from your work or study

Part 3

Do you prefer a long vacation or short vacation?

Do you think people now are busier?

Does making more money mean the loss of more time?

Do you want to make more money or have more time?

What are the working attitude between people now and in the past?

Why the jobs now are more demanding than those in the past?

Do people like working or resting?

What is more important, working or resting?

What is more important, family or work?

Why do people need vacation?

What are the advantages of having vacations?

What are the differences between the things man do in the family and woman do in the family?

 

4. A musical event you attended

Part 3

What’s the relationship between culture and music? Explain.

Did you have musical lessons in primary school? Did you still have it in middle school?

Do musicians have responsibility to spread their culture to other countries?

Do the behavior of  musicians important when spreading their culture?

How are the western musicians doing on building up the international image of western music?

What are the differences between the traditional music and the modern music?

Is traditional music popular in China, should we protect it? And how?

What are the differences between the attitude towards music of old people and young people?

Can you play instrument?

What is relationship between music and children’s grow up?

Do children listen more or less music now?

Do you go to the concert? Are there any differences between man listing to music and woman listening to music?

Can school hold live concert?

Can music encourage people to communicate？

Does international music have influence on the national music?

 

 

5. Happy event in your childhood or school

Part 3

How to find happiness?

What are the differences between the happiness people get now and in the past?

Do you think people now are happier？

Do money make people happy?

What is the definition of happiness?

What is happiness to you?

Which do you think is more helpful, getting academic help from a teacher or a student？

 

6. A special family event you enjoyed

Part 3

What do you think of the family education/

Should old people live with the whole family?

Do old people and young people have different attitude towards life?

What is the situation of old people like at your home?

What is the advantage and disadvantage of a big family?

What do you think of Chinese one child policy?

Does this policy have Influence on children?

 

 

7. Describe a travel that was longer than you expected

Part 3

What do you think of the traffic situation? What can the government do to improve this?

Do you think there will be more private cars in the future?

 

 

 

8. Sports competiton or a sports match

Part 3

What kinds of activities do Chinese people like to join?

What are the differences between watching those sports event on TV and in person?

Do you like to watch those events on TV or live?

 

 

9. A place where an event of peace took place

Where it is

How long did you stay there

What kind of activities were there

 

Part 3

What can we do to help those people in those cold places?

What should we do to keep peace?

What events of peace did you take part in?

Will you invite others to join those events? How will you invite them?