发信人:   ghostterry(黄泉)

Stage 1
Street
1. Can you tell me something about the street you live in?
2. What is the name of the street you live in?
3. What do you like most about your hometown?
4. What building is considered the most famous symbol of your hometown?
Clothes
5. Do you like fashion clothes?
6. What kind of clothes do you like?
7. Where do you get fashion information?
8. Do you think it important for people to wear clothes?
9. What are the differences between the clothes today and those about ten years ago?
10. What role do clothes play in people’s life?
11. What kind of clothes don’t you like?
Sports
12. What sport do you like?
13. What sport do you think Chinese people like most?
14. What are the differences between men and women when choosing their favorite sports?
15. Do you think it important to give prize to sportsmen and game players?
16. What kind of prize is more appropriate?
Cooking
17. How do Chinese people learn cooking from TV or from cook books?
18. Can you tell me the changes of Chinese eating habits in the past decade?
19. Do you like cooking?
20. What do you usually cook?
21. How do you make your favorite dish?
22. Why is fast food popular?
Museum
23. Do you like to go to the museum? Why or why not?
24. Do people in your hometown like to go to the museum?
25. How much do people pay to visit the museum?
26. What kinds of museum are popular in China?
Color
27. What color do Chinese people like?
28. What is the difference of color preference in the past and at the present?
29. What color do you like? What does it stand for?
30. What is the relationship between colors and personalities?
Collecting
31. Do you like collecting things, CDs or stamps? Why?
32. What are the benefits of collecting?
33. What do people often collect?
Learning
34. Do Chinese people like to learn new things?
35. What is the proper age to learn new things?
36. Do you like to learn new things?
37. What new things have you learnt recently?
Stage 2 & Stage 3
Category 1: Describing things
1.  Describe a happy event in your life. You should say:
When and where you were.
Who you were with.
What happened.
and explain why you felt happy.
Discussion:
What makes people happy?
What is the difference between the past and the present in terms of getting happy?
Is there anything special in China that can make people happy?
Can you tell me how you organize your study time?
What do you think is important in achieving happiness?
How do Chinese celebrate the happy events?
What role do cameras and video players play in celebration?
What role do celebrities play in community?

2. Describe your favorite photo. You should say:
What it is about.
When and where you took it.
Who took it for you.
and explain why it is important to you.
Discussion
What role do photos play in your life?
What do you think of the role of photos in mass media？
Why do people take photos？
Where do people often take photos?
When do people often take photos?

3. Describe an invention before the age of computer. You should say:
What it is.
What it is used for.
How it influences people’s life.
and explain its advantages and disadvantages.
Discussion:
What impacts have electrical equipments brought on human’s life in the past ten years?
What are the differences of life in the past and at the present?
What role does technological development play in people’s life?
How will technology develop in the future?
Do you have a mobile phone? What are its advantages?
Why do many foreign countries develop faster than China?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of computer and Internet?
In what way does the invention benefit people?
Do you think people can manage without it?
How should the government help the inventors?
What characters should the inventors have?
Which industry do you think will be most promising and will have more inventions?
What are the old people and the young people’s attitudes towards new invention?

4.  Describe something you like to own in the future. You should say:
What it is.
When you would like to own it.
What you use it for.
and explain how it will influence your life.
Discussion:
Is wealth still the only criteria to judge success? If not, what is it?
What is happiness?
Do you think that the concept of happiness would change with time passing?
What is most important, love, wealth or authority?
Do you think that happiness is related to money?
How could people know your financial status?
Why have Chinese people’s living standards been greatly improved?

Category 2: Describing people
5. Describe one of your neighbors. You should say:
Where he/she lives.
How you get to know him/her.
Whether you often see him/her.
and explain whether he/she is a good neighbor.
Discussion:
What is the difference between friends and neighbors?
How do people communicate with others?
Do you think it important to get along well with your neighbors?
Is it possible to become a friend of your neighbors?
Do you think people increasingly keep to themselves?
Is communication in rural areas better than in cities?

Category 3: Describing places

6. Talk about a foreign country that you have not been to, but you want to visit in the future. You should say:
What the country is.
What you know about the country.
When you will go there.
and explain why you like the country.
Discussion:
What is your feeling on the experience of traveling to a foreign country?
What can people benefit from traveling abroad?
What are the benefits of traveling abroad?
How should the government do to attract more tourists?
What is relationship between traveling and pollution?

7. Describe your favorite shopping center. You should say:
What it is
Where it is located.
What you can buy there.
and explain why you like it.
Discussion:
Why are there a lot of big stores?
What is the difference between small stores and big stores when you do shopping?
Do you think small stores will disappear in the future?
How do stores make advertisements?
Which do you think is the best way to advertise?
What are the differences between men and women when they do shopping?
What do you think of on-line shopping?

8. Describe a historic place. You should say:
What the place is.
Where it is located.
What you can see there.
and explain why you think it has historic meaning.
Discussion:
Do many people visit the place?
What should the government do to protect the historic buildings?
What are the important reasons to protect old buildings?
Do you think it necessary for young people to learn history? Why?
How to teach young people history?
Why should we learn history?
How does history influence the social development?

Category 3: Describing mass media and communication
9. Describe your favorite magazine or newspaper. You should say:
What it is.
What it contains.
How often you read it.
and explain why you like it.
Discussion:
What are the two main newspapers or magazines in your city?
What are the two most popular newspapers and magazines?
Where do people read newspapers and magazines?
Can Internet replace newspapers and magazines in the future?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Internet, newspapers and magazines?
Do you prefer reading news from Internet or from newspapers?
What is the role of newspapers and magazines?
What do you think of electronic media?

10. Describe a kind of film you like. You should say:
What it is.
How often watch it.
What features it has.