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Self-introduction and personal information
What’s your name? What does it mean to you?
What names are popular in your culture?
What name would you like to give to your own child in future?
Are you a student or worker? Do you like your student life?
What’s your major? Why did you choose this major? What can you learn from it? What is the most important in your study? What kind of job would you like to do in future? (student)
What’s your job? Do you like your job? What are you responsible for? What can you get from your current job? Do you want to recommend your job to other people? (worker)Are you for or against extra work on weekends? Should workers who work on weekends get extra salaries?
What is your prospect for the future?
School
What subjects did you like when you were in primary school?
Have you ever gone back to your primary school since after graduation?
Do you often go back to your school to visit your teachers?
Do you still keep in touch with your classmates in primary school?
What do you like best about your middle school?
Relatives/friends/ family members
Whom did you use to be close to among your relatives?
Whom do you spend the longest time with?
Who is the most important relative in your life? What influence does she/he give you?
Did you spend more time with your relatives or friends?
Do you think the time you spend with your relatives will get longer or shorter in future?
What activities did you often do in your childhood?
What skills did you learn in your childhood?
What are willing to do with your family members?
Hometown:
Where are you from? / Which part of China are you from?
Do you like your hometown?
What do you like best about your hometown?
Do you think your hometown is a good place for children to grow up?
Can you tell me a good thing in the place that you grew up?
Are there many places of interest in your hometown?
What are the changes of your hometown? What makes them happen?
What was it like when you were younger?
What kind of city would you like to live in?
Entertainment(Relax):
Do you like watching TV?
Do parents allow children to watch TV?
Do Chinese people like taking pictures?
How do you reserve your photographs?
What kinds of activities do you often do in your spare time?
How do you often relax yourself on weekends?
How do your surrounding friends relax?
What is your favorite way to relax yourself?
Do you like reading?
What kind of book do you like best?
Do you like sports? What is your favorite sport?
What kind of sport is popular in China?
What kind of sport do elderly people like doing in China?
House/Apartment
Where do you live, a house/ an apartment?
What pleasant thing you will do with your family in your house/ flat?
Which part of your home do you like best?
If you have a chance to redesign your house, what will you do?
What’s on the wall of your house/ flat?
Do you prefer to invite your friends to your home or be invited to your friend’s home?
What makes your house/flat look pleasant?
Clothes and fashion
What type of clothes do you often like? Do you like casual clothes?
Have you ever shopped online before?
Do you like shopping online?
What kind of bags do you like? What kinds of bags do you choose on different occasions? What are the factors that affect your choices?
Do you like fashion?
What do you think about fashion?
Weather
Do you like hot or cold weather?
What is the weather like in China?
What is the influence of weather on people?
Does the weather ever affect what people do?
Color
What is your favorite color? Did you use to like it in your childhood?
Which color do you dislike?
In which color would you like your room to be?
Are there special colors that mean different in your country?
Postcard
Do you use postcards?
Why do people send postcards?
When do you send postcards?
Birthday
How do you often celebrate your birthday? With whom?
Which is your most unforgettable birthday party? What happened on that day?
How would you like to celebrate your birthday when you get old?
How did you celebrate your last birthday?
What do Chinese people celebrate birthdays?
Art
What kind of art forms do you like?
Did you learn any subjects related to art when you were a little girl/boy?
How do teenagers get the art education?
Do you like drawing? How often do you draw?
When did you learn it?
What do you think about painting?
What do you think about traditional and western paintings?
Do you often go to the gallery?
Do you often visit the museum?
What is the most fashionable dance?
Do young people like traditional dance?
What type of music do you like?
Flowers
Do you like flowers?
Which kind of flowers do you like best?
Do people in your country like sending flowers
Do you often send flowers? Are they important to you?
Do you prefer plastic flowers or the real ones?
Would you like to keep flowers in you home or plant them in the open air?
Toys
Do you like toys?
What kind of toy did you like in your childhood?
Do you prefer to play with the toy alone or together with others?
What can you learn from playing with toys?
Do you often send toys to kids as gifts? What type of toys do people normally send to children?
Electronic products/Internet
Do you often use the internet/computer?
When do you often use the computer? Do you often send e-mails?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the computer?
How important is the compute/internet to you?
What time did you use the internet for the first time?
Do your family members use it too?
Do you use the cell phone? When did you start using it?
How important is it to you? How do you often use it?
Do you prefer to send messages or emails? Why?
Do you prefer to make phone calls or send messages?
What are the disadvantages of the cell phone?
Food and health
What kind of food is healthy?
In comparison with the food in last 20 years, is the food healthier now or not? Which is healthier?
Do you have a healthy diet?
What kind of food do you like?
How to keep healthy in your opinion?
Transport
How is the transport in your country?
Is there lots of traffic jam?
Do you like cars? What kind of cars do you like?
Do people in your country like driving?
What patterns of cars are popular in your country?
Would the car be more used in the future?
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