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Personal information & Introduction
What’s your name?
Are you a student?
What is your major?
Do you think the major is useful?
Are you working?
Do you have driving license?
Will you teach your child to drive?
How was your first day at work?
Is the first day at work important? Why?
When do you usually get up?
Is it convenient for you to buy fresh vegetables and fruits?
Hometown
Where are you from?
Where’s your hometown?
Where do you live?
Do you live in a house or an apartment? Which one do you prefer?
What’s on your apartment’s wall?
How to improve your home?
Which room do you like most?
If you can redesign your home, what would you do?
What’s your flat like?
What’s on the wall?
What can you see from your window?
Are there any fitness facilities near your home?
How often do visitors visit your home?
Tell me about your city.
What historical places would you re#mend to see there?
What culture events would be interesting for tourists?
When should they start to teach culture history, history of art at schools?
How’s the traffic around your home?
What do you like most about your hometown?
Are bicycles popular in your hometown?
Do you like to live beside the seaside?
What are the facilities in your #munity?
Weather and Season
How’s the weather in China?
Does weather affect people’s work performance?
Jobs
Why did you choose this career?
Do many Chinese people shift jobs in a year?
Do people perform differently at work in summer and winter?
Would you like to change your job in the future? Why?
Do you think your job is easy? Why?
What are the facilities you usually use at work?
Is your job interesting?
Education
Which university are you in?
Why did you choose this university?
What’s your major?
Why did you choose it as your major?
Is your major difficult?
What do you want to do after graduation?
Do you need any special facilities in your school subjects?
What do you like most about your school?
Which language do you speak?
Do you want to learn another language?
Who can learn a foreign language better? The elderly or the young?
Do girls learn a foreign language more quickly than boys?
What’s your suggestion on language learning?
What’s the most difficult part of language learning?
Do you prefer individual learning or group learning?
Food & Cooking
Who usually cooks in your family?
What’s your favorite hometown dish?
Can you cook? Why don’t you learn?
Do you think it is important for children to learn how to cook?
Do you like to eat out or cook at home?
What are the benefits of eating at home?
Do you like fresh food or prepared food?
Leisure activities
Do you often hang out with friends?
Do you invite your friends to your home?
How often do you meet friends? What do you usually do?
What do you usually do at leisure?
How do you organize time?
What do you usually do in the evening?
How do you spend your vacation?
What do you like and hate to do during vacation?
What was the last vacation you took?
What do you do in your free time?
Do you like reading?
Did you read a lot in your childhood?
What do you like to read now?
Sports
What’s your favorite sport?
Do you like swimming?
Do you think people in your country like sports?
Culture
Do most people ride bicycles in Shanghai?
Why do children like to ride bikes?
Do you think bike riding is safe in Shanghai?
Why do people in China think bicycles are important?
Did you learn to ride a bicycle when you were a kid?
Do you think it is safe to ride bicycles in a city? Why?
Why do you think kids need to learn how to ride bicycles?
Travelling
Where do you want to visit most?
Do you like traveling?
When was the last time you go traveling?
What would you prepare before travelling?
Shopping
How often do you go shopping?
Talk about your last shopping experience.
Why do you like shopping?
Do you prefer to go shopping with friends or alone?
Do you like shopping?
What makes you interested in shopping?
Do you think shopping is a waste of time?
Letter
Is there any letter you do not want to reply?
Do you often write letters?
When is the last time you sent a letter?
What was the letter about?
Gift
When do you usually give a present?
When do Chinese people usually give a present?
Is it difficult to give a present?
Have you ever made a gift by yourself to somebody?
Do you think it is necessary to give expensive gifts?
Toy
Your favorite toy
Should adults play with toys?
How do adults entertain themselves in China?
Arts
Is beautiful handwriting important nowadays?
What kind of music do you like?
What kind of music do you like?
Should children learn to play musical instruments?
Do you like painting?
Health
How do you maintain health?
What’s your favorite sport?
What healthy food do you usually eat?
Family events
How do people celebrate their birthdays in your country?
Are birthdays more important for children than adults?
Do you think birthday is a special day for people?
How did you celebrate your last birthday?
Do birthdays have any special meanings for children?
Media
How do you get news?
Do you think it is important to get up-to-the-minute news?
What do you think of advertisements?
Do you like watching TV?
Place
Have you ever visited a museum?
Is the visit beneficial?
Law
Can you drive?
Are you allowed to drive a car in your senior high school?
What is a suitable age, do you think, for your kids to start driving?
Colors
What’s your favorite color?
Do you usually wear clothes in your favorite color?
Are there any colors that have a special meaning in your country?
What color would you choose to paint the walls of your room?
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