Entertainment

　　1. What do you do for entertainment?

　　2. What did you do for entertainment when you were a child?

　　3. What do other people do for entertainment around where you live?

　　4. What choices for entertainment are there for young people around where you live?

　　5. Are there any entertainment places near your school?

　　6. Have you recently been to any place for entertainment?

　　7. Do you think modern lifestyles give people enough time for entertainment?

　　Friends and Family

　　1. Do you have many close friends?

　　2. What qualities make them good friends?

　　3. Do you live with your family?

　　4. Do your family and friends still live in your hometown?

　　5. Do you think family members should live together, why or why not?

　　6. When do you spend time with your family?

　　7. What do you do together?

　　8. Do you often go out with your friends?

　　9. Is your family very important to you?

　　10. Do you prefer to spend time with your family or your friends?

　　11. What do you do in your free time with your friends?

　　12. Are there any times when you prefer to be alone?

　　Healthy Lifestyle

　　1. What do you do to keep healthy?

　　2. How can people maintain good health?

　　3. What is a healthy lifestyle in your mind?

　　4. Is there any sport that you would like to try in the future?

　　Transport

　　1. Which kind of transport do you usually use?

　　2. What is the public transport like in your city?

　　3. When are these forms of transport most crowded?

　　4. Do you want to have a car, why or why not?

　　5. Do you think there are too many cars on the road?

　　6. How do you think we can control the traffic condition?

　　7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of planes?

　　8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of trains

　　9. Are there any traffic problems in your city?

　　Schools

　　1. What was the first school you attended?

　　2. Where was it?

　　3. Was it far from your home?

　　4. How did you go to school?

　　5. Did you like your school?

　　6. What were the good things about that school?

　　7. Would you say it was a good school?

　　8. Would you send your child to that school?

　　9. What different types of schools have you been to?

　　10. Which school did you like the most, why?

　　11. Did your parents choose your university for you?

　　Weather and Climate

　　1. What type of weather do you like?

　　2. What type of weather do Chinese people usually like?

　　3. Which is your favorite season?

　　4. Do you do different things in summer and in winter?

　　5. What do you often do on sunny and rainy days?

　　6. What is the weather like in your city?

　　7. Do you have some ways to control the global warming?

　　House and Apartment

　　1. Do you live in a house or an apartment?

　　2. How do you like it? And why?

　　3. What part of your home do you like best?

　　4. Can you describe your room?

　　5. Do you want to change your room?

　　6. What would it be if you could change something about your room?

　　7. Where do you live now? And how long have you been there?

　　8. Who do you live with?

　　Housework

　　1. Do people do a lot of housework in your country?

　　2. Do Chinese people like spending time doing housework?

　　3. Did you do a lot of housework when you were a child?

　　4. Is it important for a child to do housework?

　　5. What kind of housework do you have to do in China?

　　6. What different kinds of housework do man and woman do?

　　Boat

　　1. Have you ever ridden in a boat?

　　2. Do boats have any significant meaning in Chinese history?

　　3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of riding boats?

　　4. When did you ride in a boat for the first time?

　　5. What was your feeling when riding in a boat?

　　6. Do you feel sick after long hours of travelling in a boat?

　　Newspapers

　　1. Do you often read newspapers?

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

　　3. What kinds 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 or 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 local, domestic or international news, and 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?

　　Parks and gardens

　　1. Are there many parks or gardens where you live or in your hometown?

　　2. Do you often go to a park or a garden?

　　3. How often do you go there?

　　4. What do you like to do when you go to a park or garden?

　　5. What do other people do in these places?

　　6. When do other people go there?

　　7. Do you think parks and gardens are important to a city, why or why not?

　　Plans and goals

　　1. Please summarize your plans for the near future.

　　2. When do you plan to start that?

　　3. How do you intend to achieve that?

　　4. When you go abroad, do you plan to live in the countryside or a big city, and why?

　　5. Do you plan to spend many years overseas?

　　6. After you go abroad, do you plan to join any clubs?

　　Sleeping

　　1. How many hours do you sleep every day?

　　2. Is it necessary to take a nap at noon?

　　3. Do old people sleep a lot, why or why not?

　　4. Do you think younger people sleep more than old people?

　　5. What are the effects of sleeping too little on people?

　　6. Do you sometimes find difficult to fall asleep?

　　7. Are there any methods to help us fall asleep more easily?

　　Writing

　　1. Do you often write things?

　　2. Do you write every day?

　　3. What do you usually write about?

　　4. Do you like writing to people?

　　5. How often do you send e-mails?

　　6. What are your main reasons for using e-mails?

　　7. Do you like to send e-mails?

　　8. Do you usually write by hand or write using a computer?

　　9. Nowadays, how do most people write things?

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

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

　　12. How did you learn to write?

　　13. Do you think handwriting is very important nowadays?

　　14. How can children today improve or practice their handwriting?

　　15. What impression does a person’s handwriting have on other people?

　　Building

　　1. What kinds of buildings are popular in China now?

　　2. Compare old buildings and modern buildings. Which do people prefer to live in?

　　3. How do people in China feel about old buildings?

　　4. Do old people and young people in China have the same attitudes towards old buildings?

　　5. Is it important to preserve old buildings, and why?

　　6. What aspect of culture do old buildings reflect?

　　7. Do you think it’s worth the money to preserve old buildings?

　　8. How have buildings changed in the past few years?

　　Countryside

　　1. Have you ever lived in countryside for a long time?

　　2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in the countryside?

　　3. Compare the availability of services such as education, health services and transportation in cities and the countryside.

　　4. What are some of the differences between city people and country people?

　　5. Which place is more beautiful, a city or the countryside?

　　6. Do you think a city could ever be more beautiful than the countryside?

　　7. Which do you think is the more relaxing place to live, the city or the countryside?