1. Cities and Countries

  • Which part of your country do most people live in?
  • Can you tell me about the main industries in your country?
  • Is it easy to travel around your country?
  • Do you think your country has changed a lot since you were a child?
  • Do you know something about the history of your home town?
  • Are there any interesting places I can visit?
  • What do you like the most about living in your home town?
  • Can you compare your home town with big modern cities like Beijing? 
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in your home town? 
  • Can you describe the city where you live now?
  • Are there any things you dislike about the city?
  • How would you improve the city where you live?

2. Jobs

  • What do you do?
  • Why did you choose this job?
  • What is your routine work?
  • Tell me about a typical working day.
  • What do you like or dislike about your job?
  • Do you like your job? If you don’t, what kind of job would you prefer?
  • Do you have any plans to change your job in the future?

3. Studies

  • What subject do you study?
  • Why did you choose this subject?
  • What do you like most about your studies?
  • Are there any things you dislike about your studies?
  • What do you find most difficult in your studies?
  • W hat kind of qualifications or certificates do you hope to get?
  • What do you hope to do after graduation?

4. Childhood

  • Where did you grow up?
  • What is a good place for children to grow up?
  • Where did you usually play?
  • Who is the most important person in your childhood?
  • Is childhood now different from the time when you were a child?

5. Films

  • Do you enjoy watching films?
  • How often do you watch films?
  • What kind of films do you like to watch?
  • Do people generally prefer watching films at home or in the cinema? 
  • Would you like to be in a film?

6. Public Transport

  • What kind of public transport is available where you live? 
  • What kind of public transport do you use most often?
  • What problems are there with public transport where you live? 
  • How would you improve public transport where you live?
  • Do you prefer to use public or private transport?

7. Animals

  • Tell me about some of the animals in your country.
  • Which animals do you like?
  • Tell me some of the ways animals are used in your country (e.g. agriculture). 
  • How do people in your country usually feel about animals?

8. Shopping

  • Who does the main food and household shopping in your family? 
  • What kind of shopping do you usually do?
  • What kinds of shops do you prefer?
  • What time of day do you prefer to go shopping?
  • What is the worst thing about shopping?

9. Housework

  • Who usually does the housework, e.g. cooking and cleaning, where you live?
  • How is the housework shared in your family?
  • What do you think is the most important household task?
  • Do you have any ideas about how housework has changed in recent years in your country?
  • Do you enjoy housework and what kind of housework do you like?

10. Food and Restaurants

  • What kinds of food do you like?
  • Is there any food you don’t like?
  • Do you usually cook at home?
  • Are there any special occasions when people in your country go to a restaurant? 
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating in restaurants?

11. Free Time

  • When do you have free time?
  • What do you like doing in your free time?
  • What activities are most popular in the place where you live?
  • Do you think that free time is important in people’s lives?
  • Would you like to spend your free time with friends or with family?

12. Schools

  • Which middle school did you study in?
  • Is it close to your home? How did you get to school every day?
  • What did you like the best about that school?
  • Is there anything you didn’t like about your school?
  • If you were the president of the school, what changes would you like to make? 
  • What did you think of the teachers there?

13. Hobbies/Entertainment

  • Do you have any hobbies?
  • How did you become interested in that?
  • How much time do you spend on that?
  • Do you prefer relaxing at home or going out in the evening? 
  • When you go out for the evening, what would you like to do? 
  • Is there any kind of entertainment you dislike?
  • Why do you think that people have hobbies?

14. Travels

  • Do you like travelling?
  • How often do you travel and why?
  • What kinds of places are you most interested in and why?
  • What places have you enjoyed visiting and why?
  • What do you normally do when you are in a new place?
  • Which do you prefer: travelling by yourself or with friends, and why? 
  • What does travelling mean to you?

15. Festivals'

  • What are the special days celebrated in your country?
  • What do you think is the most important festival in your country? 
  • In what way do people celebrate the festival?
  • Do people prepare any special food for the occasion?
  • Which do people prefer, to spend it with family or with friends?
  • How did people celebrate the festival in the past?
  • How has the way been changed and why?
  • Do you think that it is important to have festivals?

16. Friends

  • What kind of people can be your friends?
  • How do you make friends?
  • How much time do you spend with friends?
  • What do you normally do with your friends?
  • Do you prefer to spend more time with friends or with family? 
  • Would you rather have one close friend or many common friends? 
  • How important is friendship to you?
  • When you have trouble, do you turn to friends or family?

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