PART 1

1 Home/ accommodation
1. What kind of housing/accommodation do you live in?
2. Who do you live with?
3. How long have you lived there?
4. What’s the difference between where you are living now and where you lived in the past?
5. Do you plan to live there for a long time?
6. Which room does your family spend most of the time in?
7. Are the transport facilities to your home very good?
8. Do you prefer living in a house or a flat?
9. Please describe the room you live in.
10. What part of your home do you like the most?

2 Study
1. Describe your education
2. What kind of school did you go to as a child?
3. What was your favourite subject as a child?
4. Do you think your country has an effective education system?
5. Are you looking forward to working?

3 Sport
1. How much sport do you do when you are at school?
2. What is your favorite sport while you were at chool?
3. Do you think it’s important for children to do sport at school?
4. Are there any of your friends very good at sports?

4 The area/ city you live in

1. Do you like the area that you live in?
2. Where do you like to go in that area?
3. Do you know any famous people in your area?
4. What are some changes in your hometown recently?
5. Do you know any of your neighbors?
6. Is this city your permanent residence?

5 Bag
1. Do you like bags?
2. What type of bags do you like?
3. Do you have different bags for different occasions?
4. Do you usually carry a bag when you go out?
5. What do you put in your bag?
6. When you are buying a bag, what factors do you consider?

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6 Wild animals
1. What’s your favorite wild animal?
2. Have you ever seen wild animals?
3. Do you like watching animals in the zoo?
4. Dou you think wild animal should be protected?

7 Rain
1. Do you prefer rainy days or sunny days?
2. What do you do on rainy days?
3. What do you usually do when it starts to rain and you are outside?
4. Do you think rain is good?
5. How does rain affect life in your country?
6. Is there any part in your country where it doesn’t rain much?
7. Have you ever had to change your plans because of your rain?

8 Teacher
1. Would you like to be a teacher?
2. Do you think you could be a teacher?
3. Did you have a favorite teacher?
4. How did this teacher help you?

9 Concentration
1. Is it difficult for you to stay focused on something?
2. What do you do to improve concentration?
3. When is it hard to concentrate?
4. In what situations do you need to concentrate?
5. Is it easy for you to do two things simutaneously?

10 Friend
1. Are friends important to you?
2. What do you and your friends together?
3. Do you have many friends?
4. Do your prefer one friend or many friends?
5. What kind of people do you like to have as a friend?
6. What kind of friend do you want to meet in the future?
7. Do your friends think that you are a good friend?
8. Do you prefer to spending time with friends or alone?
9. Do you like spend time with friends?

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11 Language
1. What foreign languages have you studied?
2. Why did you choose to study that language?
3. How did you learn that language?
4. How long have you been learning that language?
5. Would you say it’s a difficult language to learn?

12 Repairing things (Fixing things)

1. Have you ever repaired anything?
2. What kinds of things would you repair at home?
3. What kinds of things yould you never repair?
4. Do you find it difficult to repair things
5. Do you prefer repairing things or buying new ones?
6. Do you think it’s good to know how to repair somethings?

13 Keeping Healthy
1. Do you do anything to keep healthy?
2. What food do you eat for good health?
3. How do people maintain good health?
4. What would you say a “healthy lifestyle”?
5. Is there any sport (or activities that promote good health) that you would like to try in the
future?
6. Do you do any exercise at school? Do you like it?
7. Do you think people do enough exercise nowadays?
8. Has you school taught anything about how to live a healthy life?
9. Do you think being overweight is an important health issue?

14 Dreams & Ambition

1. Do you remember your dream when you wake up?
2. Do you like hearing others’ dreams?
3. Have you told others about your dreams?
4. What are your career ambitions or goals?
5. Is it important to have ambitions?
6. What were your ambitions when you were a child?

15 Favorite Day/ Week

1. Which day is your favorite day? What is your least favorite day?
2. How do you usually spend your time?
3. What is the busiest day of the week for you?
4. What do you usually do on weekends?
5. Are weekdays and weekends the same to you?

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16 Days Off
1. What do you do on your day off?
2. Do you usually spend your days off with your parents or with your friends?
3. When was the last time you had a few days off?
4. What would you like to do if you had a day off tomorrow?

17 Ice-cream
1. Do you love ice cream?
2. Did you often eat ice cream when you were a child?
3. Are there shops selling ice cream near the place where you live?
4. Would you like to make your own ice cream?

18 Geography
1. Have you ever studied geography at school?
2. Do you like geography?
3. Are you good at reading a map?
4. Would you visit a country because of its geographical location?
5. What do you think about geography?
6. Do you think geography is useful?

19 Travelling on public transport

1. Do you often travel on public transports?
2. Did you use public transport when you were a child?
3. What kind of public transport do you usually take?
4. Will you use public transport more in the future?
5. Is there sufficient public transport in your city?
6. How do you think public transport could be improved?

20 Noise
1. Which do you think makes louder noise, in cities or in the countryside?
2. What kind of noise do cars make?
3. What noises / sounds do you generally hear around where you live?
4. Do you have a favourite sound, and a sound that you find the most annoying?
5. Do you think the amount of noise in modern life is increasing?
6. Is there much noise in your workplace / your university (or school)?
7. What is the effect of noise in our cities?
8. Do you think loud noise affects our hearing?

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21 Tea and coffee
1. Do people like tea and coffee nowadays?
2. Do you like to use tea or coffee to serve your guests?
3. When was the last time you drank tea or coffee?
4. Do you ever go out to drink tea or coffee?
5. Do most people in your country like to drink tea or coffee?

22 Vacation
1. What was the best vacation you ever had?
2. What do you usually do during your vacation?
3. Do you like to plan your vacations?
4. What are the most important things to think about when planning a vacation?

23 Fish
1. Do you like eating fish?
2. Where would you go to find fish?
3. If you do eat fish, what is your favourite?
4. Why do people go fishing?

24 Robots
1. Are you interested in robots?
2. Have you ever learnt anything about robots?
3. How would you feel travelling in a car driven by a robot?
4. Would robots affect people’s lives?

25 Gifts
1. Have you ever sent handmade gifts to others?
2. How to choose a gift?
3. Do you give expensive gifts?
4. What kinds of gifts are popular in your country?

26 Helping others
1. Do you usually help people around you?
2. How do you help people around you, such as neighbours, family and friends?
3. Do your parents teach you how to help others?
4. Did you parents help you a lot when you were young?

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27 Films
1. What’s your favourite films?
2. Did you often watch films when you were a child?
3. Are there any kinds of films that you don’t like?
4. Would you like to be a movie star?
5. What kinds of films do young people like?

28 Running
1. Do you go running a lot?
2. Where do you usually go running?
3. What do you think of running as a form of exercise?

29 Volunteer
1. Have you ever done any voluntary work?
2. Would you like to work as a volunteer?
3. Why do you think people volunteer?
4. Is volunteering worth the time it takes?

30 Musical instrument
1. Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument?
2. What musical instruments do you enjoy listening to?

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