What’s the difference between letters and emails?
What kind of letter is hard to write?
Holiday
How do you spend your holiday?
Do you think people need holidays?
When did you spend your last holiday?
What did you do during your last holiday?
What do you like to do during the holidays?
What do you dislike to do during the holidays?
Do you think that you have enough holidays?
Color
What’s your favorite color?
Do you like the same colors now as you did when you were younger?
What can you learn about a person from the colors they like?
Do any colors have a special meaning in your culture?
What color would you choose if you had time to decorate your home?
Flower
What do different flowers mean?
On what occasions do Chinese people send flowers to each other?
When did you last send flowers?
Friends
Do you want to go out alone or in a group?
How often do you meet your friends?
What do you do when you are with friends?
Sea
Do you like to live close to sea?
Why do people go to the sea?
Travelling
Do you like travelling?
How often do you go travelling?
Collections
What do Chinese like to collect?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of collections?
What did you like to collect when you were young?
Living place
Do you live in a flat or a house?
What is there on the wall of your home?
What can be seen outside the windows of your place?
Do you like your living environment?
Is it good or bad for children?
Is there anything for improvement?
Photography
Do you like taking photos?
On what kind of situations do you take photos?
Could you tell me one of your happy experiences of taking photos?
Meal
What kind of food do you like?
Which is most important to you, breakfast, lunch or supper?
Do you think we should have more meals or have much at one meal?
What did you like to eat when you were young?
Do you still eat it now?
What would you give to your children in the future?
Do you like cooking?
Who does the cooking in your family?
What does he or she like to cook?
Would you cook more in the future?
Weather
What weather do you like?
What is the weather like today?
Do you think that weather may affect people’s mood?
Dancing
How do Chinese people learn dancing?
Children will go to dancing class to learn it. Some old people will go to the park to learn it from others.
On what occasions do Chinese dance?
Chinese go dancing as an exercise, and some do it every morning. Others will dance during festivals, but there is no such a tradition in my family.
At the wedding ceremony
At parties, festivals
How much do you know about traditional dancing?
Just a little. I just watch TV to get a general idea. I know the dance of Tibet(西藏),Xinjiang. Chinese dance has a lot of arm movements, like this. (作个舞蹈手势)