雅思Part1-Topics.doc

1. Name
What is your name?/ How can I address you?
Is your given/family name a common one in your country?
Does your name mean anything or have a special significance?
Would you like to change your name?
In your culture, do women change their names when they get married?
2. From where/hometown
Where are you from?
Would you say it’s a good place to grow up?
Has your hometown changed greatly in recent years?
What’s special about your hometown?
What do you like most about your hometown?
Do you like to live in a big city or a small town?
Do you like to live with your parents/ grandparents?
3. Study/work 
Do you work or study?
What do you study?
Why did you choose it as your major?
Is your major difficult?
Which part of your major do you think is most interesting?
What do you learn from your major?
What job will you have in the future?
What do you want to do after graduation?
What’s your job?
Do you like English?
4. Clothing
What kind of clothes do you like?
Who buys clothes for you?
Do you like the brand-name clothes?
What is the most important thing you consider when you buy clothes?
Do you often wear the same kind of clothes with your friends?
Do you think the color of the clothes tells anything about people’s personality?
5. Food
Do you like cooking?
Did you learn cooking in your childhood?
Who cooks in your family?
Is it important for young people to know how to cook?
What do you like eating?
What kind of fruit/vegetables do you like? Why?
Is it easy (convenient to) buy fruit and vegetables where you live?
How often do you eat fruit and vegetables?
What are the benefits of eating fresh fruit (or fresh fruits and vegetables)?
How much fruit and vegetables do you think a person needs to eat (everyday) to stay healthy?
6. Accommodation
Do you live in a house or an apartment?
Which one do you like? Why?
How long have you lived there?
Do you like moving home?
Do you like living alone or with others?
What kind of community are you living in?
How is the traffic around your home?
Do you know your neighbor?
Do you think it is important to have good relationship with your neighbor?
What kind of conflicts people may have with their neighbors?
Do you prefer the neighbors in your age or older than you?
Do you like living in the city center or suburbs? Why?
Do you like living in the city or the country? Why?
7. Transportation
How do you go to school/ work every day?
Do you like the public buses or private cars?
Do you think people should use the public transportation?
Have you ever been caught in a traffic jam?
How can we solve the problem?
When you travel, do you like going by train or plane? Why?
8. Weather/season
What type of weather do you like?
What do you often do in sunny days? Or in cold days?
How does weather affect you?
Which is your favorite season?
What is the most common weather in your country?
Do you pay attention to the weather forecast?
Do you think people’s activities will change in different seasons?
9. Collection
Do you like collecting things?
Why do you have such a collection?
Did you like collecting things when you were a child?
What will you collect when you are rich in the future?
What can people learn from their collections?
10. Shopping
Do you like shopping?
How often do you go shopping?
What do you often buy when you go shopping?
Do you prefer to go shopping with friends or alone?
What makes you interested in shopping?
Do you think shopping is a waste of time?
What’s the difference between big shops and small shops?
Do you like TV shopping?
Do you like shopping online?
11. Sports
What sports do you like?
Is there any sports equipment near your home?
How often do you do exercise?
Do you think it is necessary for children to do exercise?
Do you think Chinese people have enough time to play sports?
12. Traveling
Do you like traveling?
What is the furthest place you’ve been to?
Do you prefer traveling alone or with friends?
Among the places you have traveled to, which place you like most?
In what ways has tourism changed in your country?
13. Book/reading
Do you often read books?
What kind of books do you usually read?
Did you like reading when you were a child?
Do you like reading?
Do you like reading books or reading online?
14. Film
What kind of films do you like?
Are these types of film popular in your country?
Do you prefer watching movies in cinema or at home?
What is the function of films in our life?
15. TV program
Which/what kind of television programs do you like?
Do you like watching TV?
Do you watch some foreign country programs? Why?
How much time do you spend watching television?
How do you feel about advertisements on TV?
What benefits can people get from watching TV programs?
Do you think watching TV can help students in their studies?
16. Music
Do you like music?
What kind of music do you like?
Do you prefer to listen to music alone or with a lot of people?
Is it helpful to learn music courses in high schools?
17. Festival
What is the favorite festival in China?
What do you do on this day?
What special food is connected with this festival in your country?
Do people in China celebrate foreign festivals?
18. Flowers
Do you like flowers?
Why do people like flower?
Do Chinese people grow flowers?
On what occasions do people give flowers to other people?
Do you like gardening?
19. Pets
Do you like pets?
What are the advantages of raising pets?
What about the disadvantages?
Do you like birds?
Is it popular to raise birds as pets?
20. Driving
Do you have a driving license?
When is the appropriate age for getting a driving license?
Is driving skills important?
21. Language
What languages can you speak?
Do you think learning English is difficult?
How do you improve your English?
Do you think learning languages is important?
22. Colors
Which color do you like best?
What does that mean in China?
What is the difference of color preference in the past and now?
TV Program
1. Do you watch TV often?
2. What programs do you like?
3. Do you like watching TV with your family or friends or by yourself?
23. Indoor games
1. Do you play any indoor games?
2. Do you prefer to play indoor games or outdoor games?
3. What indoor games did you play when you were a child?
4. What sorts of indoor games do children play now?
5. Did you play electronic games when you were a child. Why or why not?
6. Do you think electronic games are good for children?
7. What sorts of indoor games do you think children will be playing in the future?
8. Are there any indoor games you’d like to learn to play?
24. Drawing or painting
1. Do you like to draw or paint, why or why not?
2. Why do some people draw?
3. Why do children like to draw or paint?
4. Do you think it’s hard to draw or paint?
25. Relatives
1. Do you have many relatives?
2. When you were a child, which of your relatives do you see most often or spend the most time with?
3. When you were a child, did you play more with your friends or with your relatives?
4. In the future, do you think you will have more opportunities to see your relatives than you do now?
5. Who do you feel is the most important member of your family?
6. Who do you feel is the most important relative?
26. Toys
1. What toys did you like to play when you were a child?
2. Do you think you learned anything from playing with toys?
3. Did you prefer to play with those toys alone or with other children?
4. If you had children, what toys would you give them?
27. Housework
1. Do people do a lot of housework in your country?
2. Do Chinese people like spending time doing housework?
3. Did you do a lot of housework when you were a child?
4. Is it important for a child to do housework?
5. What kind of housework do you have to do in China?
6. What different kinds of housework do man and woman do?
28. Concert
1. Have you ever been to a live concert?
2. Do you ever go to live concerts?
3. Would you like to go to a concert in the future?
4. Would you prefer to watch a concert on TV or to attend a live concert?
29. Photography
1. Do you like photography and why?
2. When did you start to like photography?
3. Do you keep your old photos?
4. Do you often see those old photos?
5. What’s the meaning of keeping old photos?
6. What is your most impressive photo?
30. Time management
1. How do you organize your time?
2. Do you think young people and older people organize their time in the same way?
3. Would you say you manage your time well?
4. Where did you learn how to organize your time?
5. How do you think you could better your time?
6. Do you think it’s useful to plan your time?
7. Have you ever been late for anything?
8. If you had more time, what would you do with the extra time?
31. Leisure time
1. What do you do in your spare time?
2. How do you usually spend your evenings?
3. Do you prefer to staying at home in the evenings or do you prefer to going out?
32. Computers
1. Do you often use computers?
2. When did you start using computers?
3. What do you use computers for?
4. Would you say computers are important?
5. Do computers have much impact on your life?
6. What effect do computers have on children?
7. How do you think parents could minimize or avoid the negative effects of computers on their children?
8. What computer skills would you like to learn?
33. Birthdays
1. Do you like birthdays?
2. Do people in China celebrate birthdays?
3. Are any birthdays especially important in your country?
4. How do Chinese people celebrate birthdays?
5. How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
6. Do people in China have birthday parties, why or why not?
7. Do you prefer birthday parties with your friends or with your family?
8. Do you think it’s important for people to celebrate birthdays?
9. Do you think it’s important to give a special gift to someone on their birthday?
10. Are birthdays more important for children or for adults?
11. Do children and adults celebrate birthdays the same way?
12. What do children do when they have a birthday party?
34. Noise
1. Is it noisy around the area where you live?
2. What do you think can be done to control noise?
3. How does noise affect people’s life and work?
4. Do you prefer a quiet environment or an environment with some sounds?
5. Does your school have any places for studying?
6. What are some places where there is a lot noise?
7. What natural sound do you like the most, why?
8. What sounds do you dislike, why?
35. Schools
1. What was the first school you attended?
2. Where was it?
3. Was it far from your home?
4. How did you go to school?
5. Did you like your school?
6. What were the good things about that school?
7. Would you say it was a good school?
8. Would you send your child to that school?
9. What different types of schools have you been to?
10. Which school did you like the most, why?
11. Did your parents choose your university for you?