Part1

个人信息类         

Work or studies

Your Work

1.           What work do you do?

2.            Why did you choose to do that type of work (or. that job)?

3.            Do you like your job?

4.            Is it very interesting?

5.            (Possibly) Do you miss being a student?

Your Studies

1.            What subject(s) are you studying?

2.           Why did you choose to study that subject?

3.            Do you like your subject? (Why?/Why not?)

4.            Is it very interesting?

5.            (Possibly) Are you looking forward to working?

6.            Do you prefer to study in the mornings or in the afternoon?

Teachers

1.    Do you have a favorite teacher?

2.    Do you want to be a teacher in the future?

3.    What kinds of teachers do you like?

4.    Do you think teachers should be angry at students or not?

5.    Do you like strict teachers?

6.    What's the different between young and old teachers?

7.    Is it important for teachers to interact with students frequently?

8.    What’s the most important part in your study, teachers or classmates?

Hometown

1.   What’s (the name of) your hometown (again)?

2.    Is that a big city or a small place?

3.    Please describe your hometown a little.

4.    How long have you been living there?

5.    Do you like your hometown?

6.    (Possibly) Do you like living there? *

7.    What do you like (most) about your hometown?

8.    Is there anything you dislike about it?

9.    Do you think you will continue living there for a long time?

Accommodation

1.What kind of housing/accommodation do you live in?

2.Do you live in a house or a flat?

3.Who do you live with?

4.How long have you lived there?

5.Do you plan to live there for a long time?

6.(If you answer you haven't lived there long) What's the difference between where you are living now and where you have lived in the past?

7.Can you describe the place where you live?

8.Which room does your family spend most of the time in?

9.What do you usually do in your house/flat/room?

10.Are the transport facilities to your home very good?

11.Do you prefer living in a house or a flat?

12.Please describe the room you live in.

13.What part of your home do you like the most?

 

 

个人爱好

Vegetables and fruits

1.      What's your favorite vegetable and fruit?

2.      How often do you eat fruits?

3.      Are there any special fruits in your hometown?

4.      Should we eat vegetables every day?

Snacks （New）

1.    What kinds of snacks do you like to eat?

2.    Is it healthy to eat snacks?

3.    Do your parents allow you to eat snacks?

4.    What was the most popular snack when you were young?

5.    What kinds of snacks do children in your country like to eat nowadays?

Trees

1.     Do you like trees?

2.     (Similar to above) Do you like (to go to) the forest (or, a forest)?

3.     Is there a forest near your hometown?

4.      Would you like to live in a place that has lots of trees?

5.     Where can one find trees (or forests) in your country?

6.     Do you think places with trees attract more visitors than places with few trees?

7.     Did you ever (like to) climb trees when you were a child?

8.     Have you ever planted a tree?

9.     Do you think more people should plant trees?

10.(Similar to above) Do you think we should plant more trees?

11.Do you think trees are important?

12.What would you say are the benefits of having trees?

13.Do you think we need to protect trees?

Television （New）

1.      How much TV do you (usually) watch?

2.      What's your favorite TV program?

3.      Did you watch much TV when you were a child? (How much?)

4.      What (types of) programs did you watch when you were a child?

5.      Do you think television has changed in the past few decades?

6.      (Possibly) Do you think television has changed since you were a child?

7.      Has television changed your life in any way?

Film

1.    Do you like to watch films?

2.    Do you prefer foreign films or Chinese films?

3.    How often do you go to a cinema to watch a movie?

4.    Do Chinese people like to go to a cinema to watch a film?

5.    What kinds of movies do you like best?

6.    What was the first film that you watched?

Swimming (New) ／Sports

1.    Do you like swimming?

2.    Is it difficult to learn how to swim?

3.    Where do Chinese like to go swimming?

4.    What’s the difference between swimming in the pool and swimming in the sea?

5.   Do you like to watch sports on TV?

6.   Do you play any sports?

7.   Do you have a favorite sports star?

8.   What’s the most popular sports in China?

9.    What kinds of sports would you like to try in the future?

10.Have you ever tried any dangerous sports?

Clothes

1.   What clothes do you usually like to wear?

2.   Do / did you wear the same clothes at school and at home?

3.   Will you change your clothes when you go home today?

4.   Did you have any special clothes to wear when you were a child?

5.   Did you like them?

Reading books

1.    What kinds of books did you like to read when you were young?

2.    Do you still keep these books?

3.    Have you ever given others books as gifts?

4.    What’s your favorite kind of books?

Music

1.    Do you often (like to) listen to music?

2.    When do you listen to music?

3.    How much time do you spend listening to music every day?

4.    What kinds of music do you like to listen to?

5.    What's your favorite kind of music?

6.    Have you ever been to a concert before?

7.    Do you like to listen to live music?

8.    When did you start listening to this type of music?

9.    Where do you listen to it?

10.How do you feel when you listen to this music?

11.Do you like listening to songs?

12.Have you ever been to a musical performance?

13.Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument?

14.Is music an important subject at school in China?

15.Did you often listen to music when you were a child? (If yes, give details.) What kinds of music are (most) popular in China?

Museums

1.    Are there many (or, any) museums in your hometown?

2.    Do you think museums are useful for visitors to your hometown/country?

3.    Do you often visit a museum?

4.    Did you go to any museums when you were a child?

5.    When was the last time you visited a museum?

6.    Do you think museums are important?

7.    Do you think it's suitable for museums to sell things to visitors?

Photography

1.    Do you like to take photographs? (Why?)

2.    Do you prefer to take photos yourself or to have other people take photos? (Why?)

3.    How long have you liked taking photographs?

4.    How (why) did you become interested in photography?

5.    How often do you take photographs?

6.    In what situations do you take photographs?

7.    What kind of photos do you like to take? (Why?)

8.    Do you prefer to take pictures of people or of scenery?

9.    Who do you take photos of?

10.How do you keep your photos?

11.Do you keep your photographs on your computer?

12.Are there any photos on the walls of your home?

13.Do you frame (or have you framed) any of your photos? (If yes, which? & why?)

14.Do you prefer to send postcards to people or to send photos that you took yourself? (Why?)

 

 

生活休闲

Weekends

1.      What do you do in your spare time?

2.      When do you spend time with your family?

3.      What do you usually do on weekends?

4.      What did you do last weekend?

5.      What do other people in your hometown (or, in your country) usually do on weekends?

6.      What are you going to do next weekend?

7.      Do you think it is important to make the most of your weekend?

8.      Do you feel that weekends now are more important to you than when you were a child?

Public holidays

1.  What public holidays do you have in your country?

2.   Do people in your country celebrate foreign festivals?

3.   What do you usually do during public holidays?

4.   What did you do during the last public holiday?

5.   Do you think public holidays are important?

6.   Why do we need public holidays?

Transportation

1.      What’s the most popular means of transportation in your hometown?

2.      How often do you take buses?

3.      Can you compare the advantages of planes and trains?

4.      Is driving to work popular in your country?

5.      Do you think people will drive more in the future?

6.      Would you ride bikes to work in the future?

7.      What will become the most popular means of transportation in China?

8.      Do you prefer public transportation or private transportation?

Newspapers／News

1.    Do you often read newspapers?

2.    Which do you prefer reading, magazines or newspapers?

3.    What kinds of (types of) newspapers (or magazines) do you usually read?

4.    How old were you when you first started to read newspapers?

5.    Do you think it’s important to read newspapers? (Why?/Why not?)

6.    Why do (you think) people read newspapers?

7.    What different types of newspaper are there in China?

8.    Do you care about the news?

9.    Is the news important (to you)?

10.What kinds of news do Chinese people read in newspapers?

11.Do you prefer to read about domestic (or local) news or international news? (Why?)

12.What are some methods that newspapers use to attract readers?

13.What influence do you think newspapers have on society?

14.Do you think the Internet is a good way to get news?

 

 

抽象话题

Text messages/phone calls （New）

1.   Do you text someone if he doesn’t answer your phone?

2.   Is there any chance when texting someone is better than calling him?

3.   Have you ever had difficulty replying?

4.   How often do you send text messages?

5.   How often do you make phone calls?

6.  Do you like to call your parents or send text messages to them?

Social network （New）

1.  What kinds of social networking websites do you like to use?

2.  Are you a social person?

3.  What kinds of people do you like to be friends with on those websites?

4.  Is it easy to find real friends on a social networking website?

5.    What kinds of chatting app or software do Chinese like to use?

Time management

1.  Are you good at organizing time?

2.  How do you usually organize time?

3.  Do you think planning is important for time management?

4.  Why do some people find it hard to follow their plans?

5.  How would you teach your children time management?

Teamwork（New）

1.    When was the last time you worked with a team?

2.    Do you like to work or study with others or just by yourself?

3.    What’s the most important thing for teamwork?

4.    Do you like to be a leader?

Sleeping

1.    How many hours are you asleep for every day?

2.    Is it necessary to take a nap every day?

3.    Do old people sleep a lot? Why?

4.    What time do you usually go to bed?

5.    Do you always have a good sleep?

Sky

1.    Do you like to watch the sky?

2.    What is the sky like at night in your hometown?

3.    Do you like to watch stars?

4.    Have you ever taken a course about stars?

5.    What's your favorite star?

Being in a hurry （New）

1.  When was the last time you did something in a hurry?

2.  Do you like to finish things quickly?

3.  What kinds of things will you never do in a hurry?

4.  Why do people make mistakes more easily when they are in a hurry?

Being alone

1.  Do you like to be alone?

2.  What do you like to do when you are alone?

3.  Do you like to spend time with your friends or just stay at home on your own?

4.  When was the last time you were being alone?

Mathematics

1.   When did you start learning math?

2.   Do you like math?

3.   Who taught you math?

4.   Who’s your favorite teacher so far?

5.   Is math difficult for you to learn?

6.   Do you like to use a calculator?

History (New)

1.    Do you like (to learn about) history?

2.    What historical event do you find most interesting?

3.    Do you think history is important?

4.    Do you like to watch programs on TV about history?

5.    Do you think you (= one) can (really) learn history from films and/or TV programs?

6.    Do you think the Internet is a good place to learn about history?

7.    Can you name a person from history whom you would like to learn more about?

8. Why would you like to learn more about him/her?

Forget about things/memory (New)

1.    What do you remember to do every day?

2.    What helps people to remember things?

3.    Why do old people forget about things easily?

4.    Have you ever forgotten something important?

Helping others (New)

1.    When was the last time you helped others?

2.    Do you like to help strangers?

3.    Did your parents teach you the importance of helping others when you were young?

4.    Have you ever refused to help others?

5.    Would you keep helping people in the future?

6.    Hanging out with friends

7.    How often do you like to hang out with friends?

8.    Who do you usually like to hang out with?

9.    Where do you like to go when you hang out with your friends?

10.Do you like to go out with a big group or just few friends?

Handwriting

1.    Do you usually write by hand or write using a computer(typewriter or word-processor)?

2.    Nowadays, how do most people write things?

3.    Do you think computers might one day replace handwriting?

4.    When do children begin to write in your country?

5.    How did you learn to write?

6.    Do you think handwriting is very important (nowadays)?

7.    How can children today improve (or, practice) their handwriting?

8.    What impression does a person's handwriting have on other people?

Emails and Letters

1.  Do you write many letters or emails?

2.  Do you prefer to write letters by hand or to use a computer?

3.Which do you more often write, emails or letters?

4.  How often do you write an email or a letter?

5.What are the differences between emails and letters?

6.What do you usually write about?

7.Who do you usually write to?

8.  Is it hard to think of what to write?

9.  What kind(s) of letter/email do you think is (are) the hardest to write?

10.How do you feel when you receive a letter or email?

11.What kinds of emails (or letters) do you receive that make you feel happy?

12.Do you think people will still write letters in the future?

Colors （New）

1.    What colors do you like?

2.    What’s the most popular color in China?

3.    Do you like to wear clothes or bright colors?

4.    What’s the different between men and women’s preference on colors?

5.    Do colors affect your mood?

Countryside （New）

1.  Would you like to live in the countryside in the future?

2.  What do people living in the countryside like to do?

3.  What are the benefits of living in rural areas?

4.  What’s the different between living in the city and living the countryside?

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