7. What are the main places of interest in your hometown? What places should foreigners visit in
8. Do you like your hometown? Why or why not?
9. What is the difference between your hometown and Beijing?
10. What are the people like in your hometown?
11. If you could change one thing about your hometown, what would it be?
12. What attractive pieces of architecture are there in your hometown?
13. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live?
Concentration
1. Is it important to focus on one thing you should deal with?
2. When do people need to focus on something?
3. When do people become the most focused?
4. Is it easy to be with concentration?
5. Can people deal with two different things at the same time?
Music
1. Do you like music, and what type of music do you like?
2. Have you learned to play any musical instrument?
3. What kind of music is popular now in China?
4. How does music affect people’s lives?
5. What kind of music do young people like, and what kind of music do old people like?
6. Do you want to be a singer?
7. Has the music you like changed over the years?
8. Do you think music help you study?
9. Do your parents have a different musical taste with you?
10. Who is your favorite singer or band?
11. Do you prefer live music or recorded music?
12. Have you even been to a concert before?
13. Do you think music should be a required course for middle school students, why or why not?
Internet
1. Do you often use the internet?
2. How do you go onto the internet?
3. Where do you go onto the internet?
4. What do you do on the internet?
5. Is the internet very popular in China?
6. How can people learn things on the internet?
Leisure time
1. What do you do in your spare time?
2. How do you usually spend your evenings?
3. Do you prefer to staying at home in the evenings or do you prefer to going out?
Mobile Phones
1. Do you use a cell phone?
2. What do you use it for?
3. How often do you use it?
4. Do you like to send short message?
5. When did you get your first mobile phone?
6. How did you feel when you got your first mobile phone?
7. What feature or function of your cell phone do you like the best?
8. Is there anything you dislike about using cell phones?
Museum
1. Are there any famous museums in your hometown/country?
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?
Name
1. What’s your name?
2. Does your name have any special meaning or significance?
3. Have you ever changed your name, why or why not?
4. Do Chinese people like changing their names, why or why not?
5. What kind of people like changing their names?
6. What’s their purpose in changing their names?
7. In your culture, do women change their names when they get married?
Photography
1. Do you like photography and why?
2. When did you start to like photography?
3. Do you keep your old photos?
4. Do you often see those old photos?
5. What’s the meaning of keeping old photos?
6. What is your most impressive photo?
Time management
1. How do you organize your time?
2. Do you think young people and older people organize their time in the same way?
3. Would you say you manage your time well?
4. Where did you learn how to organize your time?
5. How do you think you could better your time?
6. Do you think it’s useful to plan your time?
7. Have you ever been late for anything?
8. If you had more time, what would you do with the extra time?
Weekends
1. What do you do in your spare time?
2. How 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 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?
Art
1. Are you very interested in art?
2. Did you create any art such as painting or sculpture when you were a child?
3. Have you ever been to an art gallery or an art exhibition?
4. How often do you visit art galleries?
Bags
1. What types of bags do you use in your everyday life?
2. What do you put in these bags?
3. Do you usually carry a bag when you go out?
4. What sorts of bags do women like to buy?
5. When you are buying a bag, what factors do you consider?
6. Do you think the style of a bag is very important, why or why not?
7. Do you have a bag for special occasions?
Cards
1. Do you ever receive letters or cards?
2. Which do you think is better, to send a postcard or a letter?
3. Do you think it is important to send postcard to each other, why or why not?
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?
