NAMES

Does your Chinese name have any special meaning?

What special habits do Chinese have when giving names?

What special meaning does your Chinese name have?

How did you get your name?

How do Chinese have their names?

Is your surname popular in China?

JOB

Are you studying or are you working?

Which part of the work attracts you most?

Which part in your job do you enjoy most?

What is your ideal job?

STUDIES

Are you a student or are you at work?

What is your major?

Why do you choose this major?

Is it a useful major?

What is your favorite part of your major?

Which part of your major attracts you most?

Do you like most of your teachers back in high school?

Were teachers strict with the students at that time?

Do you want to become a teacher in the future?

LIVING CITY

Can you say something about the city you are from?

What are the changes of your living city in the past ten years?

MEAL

Which do you prefer lunch or dinner?

WEEKEND

How do you spend your weekends?

What do Chinese usually do at weekends?

What do you think of the jobs such as mining and research where people cannot spend their weekends at home?

Do you think people should be paid more if they work at weekends?

For people who are working for the mining industry are not able to go back home at the weekends what do you think of?

Should people working at weekends be paid? Why?

What do people in your hometown usually do at weekends?

What do often do at weekends?

Do you like weekends?

Should people work at weekends?

Do you think people should be paid more for working at weekends?

Are weekends important to you?

What different things do the young and the old do at weekends?

HOUSEWORK

What is the role of unpaid housework in the society?

What housework do you often do at home?

TRANSPORTATION

What is your favorite means of transportation?

Is the price acceptable for you?

What do you think of the means of transportation?

What kinds of transportation do you often use?

Is the traffic fare of your transportation reasonable?

What’s your most favorite transportation?

Is it necessary to develop the public transportation? Why?

How should the citizens do to improve the use of public transportation?

What means of transportation do you usually use?

How can public transportation be improved in your living city?

What is your favorite means of transportation?

Is it important to encourage people to use more public transportation?

Is the fare high in your city?

What do you think of the transport nowadays?

How can transportation problems be solved?

WEATHER 

What kind of weather do you like?

What is the weather like in your city?

How do the different kinds of weather influence people?

What is the weather like in your living city?

What influence does this kind of weather have on people’s feelings?

What kind of weather do you like?

How is the weather in China?

What influence does the weather have on the local life in your hometown?

HOUSE/ FLAT/ APARTMENT

Where are you living in now?

Say something about your community.

What is the surrounding like?

Is the surrounding favorable for children?

Are you living in a house or a flat?

Can you describe your flat to me? 

What is important in your house?

Which part of your flat needs improvement?

Do you know your neighbors?

What is the good point of your living place and which part needs to be improved?

ART

Is art important in people’s life?

What is your favorite form of art? Why?

What form of art did you learnt when you were a child?

What role does art play in life?

What do you think of art?

Do you like art?

What is your favorite form of art?

What form of art did you learn in your childhood?

Have you ever been to the concert or art gallery?

Do you often go to the art exhibition?

Did you learn any form of art when you were a child?

How do Chinese appreciate art from other countries?

Is it necessary to play music for children when they are very young?

What is the influence of art on children?

Is class teaching handicrafts important at school?

How can school have a better environment?

Do you like art?

How do Chinese appreciate art from other countries?

Have you ever been to any concerts?

What form of art do you like?

Did you lean any form of art when you were a child?

Have you ever been to any museum or art gallery?

Do you think it necessary to teach art at school?

What is creativity?

HOMETOWN

Where are you from?

What do people in your hometown usually do at weekends?

What is your impression of your hometown?

Are there any historic buildings in your hometown?

NAMES

Does your Chinese name have any special meaning?

What special habits do Chinese have when giving names?

What factors people often take into account when they give the name to the newborn baby?

JOB

Are you studying or are you working?

Which part of the work attracts you most?

Which part in your job do you enjoy most?

What is your ideal job?

LIVING CITY

Can you say something about the city you are from?

What are the changes of your living city in the past ten years?

MEAL

Which do you prefer lunch or dinner?

What do you usually do after lunch?

WEEKEND

How do you spend your weekends?

What do Chinese usually do at weekends?

What do you think of the jobs such as mining and research where people cannot spend their weekends at home?

Do you think people should be paid more if they work at weekends?

How do people in China relax themselves at weekends?

What do you usually do at weekends?

How do Chinese spend weekends?

Are weekends important to you?

Do you think it is reasonable to make employees work during weekend?

What do people like on weekends in your country?

Do you think people should work on weekends?

Should people be paid more if they work at weekends? Why?

HOUSEWORK

What is the role of unpaid housework in the society?

What is the importance of homework?

Should children do homework?

Is it necessary for middle school students to do homework?

Do you do housework at home?

What housework do you do at home?

What housework do you like to do at home?

What housework don’t you like to do at home?

Did you do any housework in your childhood?

Should children do housework?

TRANSPORTATION

What is your favorite means of transportation?

Is the price acceptable for you?

What do you think of the means of transportation?

PAINTING

Do you often draw?

What do you think of the benefit of drawing?

What is the benefit of drawing for us adults?

How often are you drawing ?

Is drawing important to the adult life?

GIFTS

When people normally send the gifts to each other?

Have you ever received any gifts?

What gifts do people send during spring festivals?

Why and when do people send gifts?

WHAT TV PROGRAMS DO YOU LIKE BEST?

How can you learn English from TV?

CLOTHES

What clothes do you like?

Can we learn something from the clothes a person wears?

CLOTHES 

What clothes do you like?

What do you usually wear?

What do you think of formal clothes?

Can we learn something from the clothes someone wears?

Do you like formal clothes or informal clothes why? 

What colors do you choose with clothes?

How do people think about fashion and clothes styles?

What kind of clothes do you like to wear? Why?

WEATHER

What kind of weather do you like?

AGE

Which age is the most important and which is the least important to you? Why?

What is Chinese people’s attitude towards age?

Which age do you think is special to Chinese people?

Which age is the most difficult?

Which age is the most important in people’s life?

PARK / GARDEN

Is the park important to the city?

What kinds of people often go to the park ?

How often do you go to park? 

What do people do there?

What do you do there? 

Do you think it necessary to have a park in city?

HOMEWORK 

Did you do homework when you were a child or kid ?

Is it important for the children to do some homework?

READING

what’s your favorite reading?

what’s your relaxing method?

Do you like reading books? Why?

What kind of books do you like to read?

How much time do you spend on reading every day?

Did you read books when you were a child?

Do you think Chinese children nowadays like reading books? Why?

What influence does reading have on children?

Did you send somebody books as gift?

What kind of books do you read in your work ?

Do you like reading?

Why don’t you like reading?

Do you think children like reading now?

What kinds of books do you like to read?

Have you ever given one of your friends a book as a gift?

How much time did you spend on reading when you were a child?

How often did you read books as a child?

Do you like reading books? Do children like reading books? 

What are the problems of Childrens reading?

FRIEND

Are the university friends important to you ?

Which way do you often use for making friends?

UNFORGETTABLE 

What events make you impressive or make you feel unforgetable?

What people do you think unforgetable ?exception of the celebrity

MUSIC 

What kinds of music should the children listen? Why?

When should the kids begin to listen the music?

How does the modern technology influence or affect the music?  free download

what kinds of music do you like listening to ?

TEACHER

What are the important qualities for being a good teacher?

Are teachers normally strict for the students? Why?

Which one has more impacts on you high school teachers or junior teachers?

Do you like to become teachers? Why?

LIFE

Why do some people like the life in the past?

What is the most important stage in peoples life?

NEWS

what newspaper do you like to read?

Do you care more about the domestic news or international news?

SHOPPING

What kinds of shop do you often for go for shopping?

What kinds of shops do you like to go?

Which shop will you recommend to your foreign friends?

Which way of shopping do you like most online or in the real shops?

What do you think of the fact that some people spend a lot of money and time on shopping?

MEALS

Do you prefer lunch or dinner?

FLOWER

What is your favorite flower?

TV PROGRAM

What kinds of TV program do you like?

What kinds of TV program do children like?

What TV program did you watch when you were a child?

Should you watch TV program in English?

What kinds of TV program Children like to watch?

LIVING CITY

How is the place where you are living?

Is it suitable for children to live? Why?

Say something about the place you are living. 

MOBILE PHONES

Do you use mobile phones often?

When do you usually use mobile phones?

Do people in China use more phones or mobile phones? Why?

What is the difference between phones and mobile phones?

NEWSPAPER 

Which is your favorite newspaper in China?

What kinds of newspaper are there in your hometown?

Do you like reading newspaper?

When did you first read newspaper?

Do you like international news or local news?

RELAXATION

How do you spend your spare time?

How do you relax yourself?

Why do Chinese relax in this way?

Is relaxation important?

Do Chinese have much time for relaxation?

What kinds of relaxation do you like most?

Are people in the modern city enjoying a more relaxing life?

Is it beneficial for the employees to have proper relaxation?

SPORTS

Do you like sports?

What sports do you like?

What sports do Chinese like in their daily life?

LETTER / EMAIL

Do you often send the email to your friends? Do you think email is useful? Why?

Do you like writing letters or emails?

Do you think emails are important? Why?

What is the difference between emails and handwritten letters?

How often do you receive an email?

Do you like receiving emails? Why?

Have received any emails from your friends recently?

What was the letter about?

Why do you like writing emails?

Which do you prefer writing letters or making phone calls? Why?

TRAVELING 

What special service do you think a five-star hotel should provide?

Where do you want to go for your holiday?

Which place will you recommend to a foreign friend?

HOTEL

What special service do you expect the Five stars hotel provide?