托福今年口语材料： 1. Friendship
1) Come up with a definition for what friendship means.
2) What are 3 qualities you want in a good friend? What are 3 qualities you don’t want in a friend? Why?
3) How and where do people in China make their closest friendships? 4) If you move to a new place, what is a good way to make new friends? 5) What advice would you give a foreigner about how to develop good friendships with Chinese people?
6) If there is a foreign volunteer in your group, ask him/her what advice he/she has about being friends with westerners. 2. Work
1) What is your ideal job? (Including: How many hours per week? What kind of benefits? Located in which city?)
2) What does it mean to be successful in your work？
3) How can you maintain good relationships with your co-workers? What qualities do you want in a co-worker?
4) If you have a problem with your boss, how can you solve it? Should you talk to him directly about your problem?
5) If a person has a good job opportunity in a city far away from his/her spouse and child, do you think he or she should take the job?
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3. Education
1) Tell your group about your most enjoyable learning experience of the past. What made it good?
2) Describe what qualities you think the ideal teacher must have. What are some aspects you don’t want in a teacher?
3) In Chinese society, do teachers have a high status or a low status? Do you think being a teacher is a good job? Why or why not?
4) Is it the teacher/school’s or the parents’ responsibility to teach a child good morals and behavior?
5) In your opinion, do men or women make better teachers?
4. Holidays
1) What is your favorite Chinese holiday? Which Western holiday most interests you?
2) Do you think holidays are very significant? What meanings are expressed by such holidays as National Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, Spring Festival and Thanksgiving?
3) What is the history of your favorite Chinese holiday? (For example, what’s the history of Dragon Boat Festival?) 4) How did you think of the National Day holiday? 5) Describe your ideal holiday.
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5. Life Stories
1) Briefly share the life story of someone you admire. Why do you admire that person? What made his/her life special?
2) Tell the highlights of your own life story. What major events in your life made you the person you are today?
3) If you could change one circumstance or event in your life, what would it be? Why?
4) Create an ‘ending’ to your life story. What are some things you want to do/accomplish before you die? How can you do/accomplish those things?
6. Rich and Poor
1) Rank the following in order of importance to you: a) health b) family c) money d) a good reputation e) education. Why did you range in that way? 2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of being rich? Do you advantages outweigh the disadvantages or vice versa?
3) Can a person be poor and happy? What do you think the hardest part about being poor would be for you if you were poor? What do think would be the hardest part about being rich?
4) Whose responsibility do you think is it to take care of the poor: their family, the government, their neighbors, everyone? 5) Has the economic crisis affected your life at all?
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7. Family
1) Describe your family, and tell your group a story about your family from your childhood.
2) Who do you think should have the highest authority in the home---the husband, the wife, or both equally share authority? If you think both should have equal authority, how should they make decisions on where to work or live if they don’t agree with each other?
3) What do you expect to do to take care of your parents when they grow old? What do you expect your child to do for you when you get old? 4) Do you think the Chinese tradition of children taking care of elderly parents will change in the future because of the One Child Policy? How can only children cope with the pressure of taking care of their parents when they are old? 8. Cities
1) Describe your hometown, and tell your group three things you like about your hometown and three things you don’t like about it.
2) If you were the mayor of your hometown, what problems would you try to solve? And how? What things would you not want to change? 3) How do you feel about Beijing? What challenges do you think Beijing will face in the next 2 years? 10 years?
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4) In your mind, which city is the ideal city? Is there a place where you’d like to live for the rest of your life?
9. Happiness
1) Define happiness. Is it a feeling, a state of being, a decision? Is happiness something that comes and goes with changing circumstances or something you can always have?
2) What things in life and the world make you happy? Why do those things make you happy? What things take away your happiness? 3) Complete the sentence: “I would be completely happy if…”