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?