PART 1[b][b] JOB Are you working or studying?[b]Can you describe your daily work?[b]Are you satisfied with your current job?[b]Do you want to change your job?[b]What do you think of your future job?[b] SHOPPING What places do you often go shopping?[b]What things do you often buy?[b] HOUSEWORK Who do major housework in your family?[b]Do you do housework in your home? What housework do you like to do?[b]What are the changes of status of family members in Chinese families?[b]What kind of housework do you think it is the most important?[b]What benefits can we get from the improvement of technology?[b] FOOD[b] What foods do you like or dislike?[b]What food can you cook?[b]What are the differences betweenshavingsmeals at home and going to restaurant?[b]What is your favorite restaurant? Why?[b] INDUSTRY Can you outline the industries in China?[b]What is major industry of China?[b]What technologies is China lack of?[b] ANIMAL Do Chinese like or dislike animal? Why?[b]How to preserve the animals?[b]What animals can people see in China?[b]What is the most famous animal in China?[b]What is the role of animal in China? What should animal be use as? [b] SPARE TIME What do people do in their spare time? What do you like to do?[b]Do you think spare time is important to you? Why?[b] MOVIE Do you like watching films?[b]What kind of movies do like?[b]What are the difference between watching films on TV and going to cinema?[b]Do you like to see a film alone or with your friends? Why?[b]How do think of the future of movie?[b] TRANSPORT What's your favorite transport?[b]>>What are advantages and disadvantages of the different transports?[b]>>Do transports cause pollution?[b]>>How to improve the traffic of cities?[b] CHILDHOOD Can you describe your childhood briefly?[b]Where do you play? Play what?[b]What is the most memorable thing in your childhood?[b]What is your favorite story in your childhood?[b] HOMETOWN* Where is your hometown? What do you like/dislike your hometown?[b] HOBBY* What's your hobby? Why?[b] HOLIDAY* What kinds of legal holidays are there in China?[b]How do you arrange your holidays?[b]What activities do you do to relax in your spare time?[b] FESTIVAL* Which festival is important for the Chinese people?[b]How do Chinese celebrate the festivals?[b] FAMILY** What do you think of the increase of divorce rate and single-parent household?[b] PART 2 & PART 3 TV PROGRAM Describe your favorite TV program[b].What is it? Which channel?[b].When andswheresdo you watch it?[b].What kind of it? What's it talk about?[b].And explain why you like it?[b] What are the differences between day programs and evening programs?[b]What are the TV program's effect on the children and the elderly?[b]What are the differences of TV programs between now and past?[b]What are the improvements on TV program in China?[b]What is the situation of cinemas in China?[b]How do you think that many people buy DVD and watch at home instead of going to the cinema?[b] SPORTS STAR Describe a sports star[b].Who she/he is [b].What sports he/she play [b].Why you like this star [b] Do your friends like him?[b]What are the benefits from sports?[b]Do people around you like sports?[b]What sport do they like?[b]Do you think it is rational that sportsmen get high salary?[b]Can sports star earn money through commercial advertising?[b]What are differences of view on sport between men and women?[b]Can you have a talk about the advantages and disadvantages of Beijing's holding 2008 Olympic Games?[b] SUCCESS Describe an important/recent success in your life[b].When /where/what about it [b].How do you make it [b].Why it is important for you [b] How can you get to success?[b]What are the essential conditions /qualifications of success?[b]Why people must have a future goal?[b]What is the effect of goal?[b]What is people's goal nowadays?[b]What is your aim of life?[b] CHILD Describe a child you are familiar with [b].His or her name[b].Age, appearance[b].Hobby and explain why you like him/her[b] Which are happier, children nowadays or the ones 20 years ago?[b]What do you think of adolescent education in China?[b]What are the effects of pressures exerted by teachers and parents?[b]How do think of educational mode of elementary school in China? Are there any problems?[b]What is the proper educational mode?[b]What are the improvements in educational mode in China?[b]What do you like to play when you were young, for example, when you were 10?[b]What are the differences between Chinese children and foreign children?[b]What are the differences between children nowadays and the ones in the past?[b]What do you think of the problem the problem the parents overindulge their children?[b] FRIEND Describe your best friend.[b].how you knew each other [b].How you became friends [b].How you spend time together [b].Explain why he/she is your best friend [b] What is the difference in requirements for making friends between now and in your childhood?[b]What's the most important thing between friends? [b]Is it more difficult to make a bosom friend when one is grown up than before?[b] FAVORITE SONG Describe your favorite music/song [b].Name [b].What it is about [b].Why you like it [b] How about the music's development of China？[b]What is the difference between native music and foreign music?[b] TOY Describe a toy for children[b].What it is [b].Who gave you?[b].Why you like it [b] What are the differences in toys between now and past?[b]What are the differences of toys between boys like and girls like?[b]What role do toys play in the process of children's growth?[b]What are the factors that influence adolescent?[b]What are parent's attitudes toward too early love affairs of their child?[b]What are the differences between children nowadays and the ones in the past?[b]Is there any relation between toy and education? [b] PARK Describe your favorite park or garden [b].Where [b].How often [b].What kind of people like it [b].Why you like it [b][b] What are the effect of parks on people's life?[b]What are advantages and disadvantages of private garden?[b]To what the purpose people want to possess a private garden?[b]Do you think we need much more parks?[b]Is it convenient to go outing?[b] HOUSE Describe your ideal house or department [b].Where it is [b].Outside/inside? surrounding? [b].Why you like it [b][b] Where do you live?swheresdo you want to live?[b]Do you live in city or countryside? Tell about advantages and disadvantages from both areas.[b]Do private space become smaller? How to solve/settle it?[b]Are there many people live in high buildings and large mansions?[b]What is the difference between old house and modern house? Which one do you prefer? Why? What is the advantage of the one that you exclude?[b]How do government settle the problem of houses in danger? What's your opinion?[b]What kind of house is popular? [b]What are the good houses that majority believe?[b]Why people like big house?[b]Why should we preserve the old building?[b] EXCITING PERIOD Describe an exciting period in your life [b].When is it [b].What did you do during that time [b].Who are the friends you made in that time [b].Why it is exciting [b] What is the legal age of Chinese people? [b]What is the purpose of legal age? Why?[b]May the legal age change?[b]What can people do when they reach legal age?[b]What do you do when you were at university?[b]What do old people concern about?[b]Who would look after them when people get old?[b]When does the early education usually begin in your country? What is the advantage and disadvantage of beginning education at this age? Why?[b] FOUR SEASONS Describe the features of four seasons in you country [b].What the seasons are[b].Features [b].What people do in each season?[b].Which season you like best?[b] With the alternation of seasons, are there any changes in wearing clothes?[b]What differences are there in architectural style between north and south considering the differences in season and climate?[b]What differences are there in life style between people from south and the ones from north, For instance, Beijing and Nanjing?[b]Is there any change of climate in the past 20 years?[b]What do you think of the environment in the future?[b]What is the cause of disasters? What are effects of disasters? Can we solve it?[b]What should government do to prevent disasters? Such as flood.[b]What do you think of the climate of China?[b]Can you describe the bad weather you met?[b]What is your favorite season? Why?[b]Which season do Chinese like best?[b]What is green house effect?[b] EQUIPMENT Describe a piece of equipment you think it is useful [b].What it is [b].How it is used [b].Advantages and disadvantages [b][b] Will today's technology/electric apparatus still be in use (popular) 50 years later?[b]What differences in purposes of use are there between the young and the old?[b]Are there any differences in attitudes about technology between men and women? What are those?[b]Do the young people nowadays rely/depend too much on technology?[b]How does technology influence people? Does it make life better? [b]Do you think the development of science and technology would bring people much more convenience? In what aspects does it show? Can you imagine what aspect it is?[b]What are the advantages and disadvantages of new technologiy?[b]Are there any people around you who don't accept new technology?[b] TRIP Describe a exciting trip you made [b].When did you take it?[b].How did you get there? By what transport?[b].Introduce that trip. What did you see there?[b].Who do you with?[b].Explain why you liked it.[b] What transports are available for Chinese people's trip?[b]What is the difference between traveling by single and traveling in a group?[b]What are defects of tourism?[b]Why many people come to China? Are there any advantages and disadvantages? [b]Why many people go abroad for a trip? What are advantages and disadvantages?[b]What your opinion about the prospect of tourism in China? [b]What kind of people go to China for trips? Why?[b] BOOK / STORY Describe a book/story you read before [b].Name [b].When [b].What influence it brings to you [b][b] What kind of libraries do you often go to?[b]What facilities are there in the library?[b]What improvement do you think that we should make?[b]Where do you like to read, in the library or at home?[b]Do every village and city have libraries[b]Do majority of people read for study or entertainment?[b]Do you like reading novels?[b]Some writings can be handed down as classics. What requirements do they must fulfill to make these achievements? / What are the preconditions to be classic?[b]What is your ideal library?[b] NORMAL COMMODITY Describe a normal commodity in Chinese family? [b].What it is [b].How it is used [b].Advantages and disadvantages[b]Note: This topic is similar to the “EQUIPMENT” topic[b][b] What are advantages and disadvantages of high technology?[b] HOLIDAY Note: For this topic, you can combine the “HOLIDAY” of PART 1 and the “TRIP” topic to answer it.[b] OTHER Note: There are some questions about international relations in PART 3.[b]With competition between countries, how to reinforce the cooperation between countries?[b]Can you describe one of your country's success? What are the native effects and international effects of your country's success?[b]What is your goal of life?[b]What country do you want to go to?