Part1
Your Work
1. What job (or, what work) do you do? 2. What does your company do?
3. What do you do in a typical day at work?
4. Do you need to work with (= co-operate with) other people at work? (teamwork question)
5. Do you like working with them? 6. Do you like your job (or, your work)? 7. What's the most difficult part of your job? 8. Would you recommend this job to other people?
9. Do you think your (school or) university education prepared you well for the work you are doing now?
10. Do you prefer your life now, as a working person, to the life you had as a student?
11. Why are you taking the IELTS test?
Your Studies
1. What subject are you studying? 2. Why did you choose to study that?
3. Do you like your subject? (= your major = your subjects if a high school student)
4. Where do you study (= what school/university do you attend)?
5. Why did you choose that (particular) school/university?
6. When did you start this course and when will you finish it? Do you like university life?
7. What do you think of your school/university?
8. (Similar to above) What do you think of the place where you are studying?
9. What is the best thing about your university/school? 10. Why are you taking the IELTS test? 11. What are your future study plans?
12. What are your future work plans? (after you graduate)
13. When you start working, do you think you will prefer that to being a student?
Your Home (Your Accommodation) 1. Do you live in a house or a flat?
2. Please describe the place where you live.
3. How have you decorated your home (or, your room)?
4. Do you have anything (hanging) on the wall of your home (or your room)? (e.g., decorations)
5. What can you see when you look out the window of your room? 6. What is the environment like in your neighbourhood? 7. Do you like your neighbours?
8. What kind of people are your neighbours?
3. Your Hometown
1. Where is your hometown? (Or, what part of China do you come from?)
2. Do you think you'll always live there? 3. Where do you live at the moment?
4. Do you like your hometown? (Why?/Why not?) 5. What sorts of buildings are there in your hometown? 6. What would you say is the best part of your hometown? 7. What's the most famous thing about your hometown? 8. Is there anything worth visiting in your hometown?
9. Has your hometown changed much in the past few years? (e.g. 20 years)
10. Would you say your hometown is suitable for children to grow up in? 11. What parts of your hometown are most suitable for families and children?
12. What's the weather usually like in your hometown?
13. Has the weather in your hometown changed much in recent years? Your Neighbours
1. Do you know your neighbours?
2. Do you think it's necessary to know your neighbours? 3. What do you think of your neighbours?
4. How do you get along with your neighbours? 5. How often do you talk to (or, see) your neighbours?
6. Do you prefer to have young people as your neighbours, or old people?
7. Do you think it's important to have a good relationship with your neighbours?
8. What sorts of problems (conflicts) can people have with their neighbours?
9. In what ways can neighbours help each other? Computers
1. Do you use computers very much? 2. When did you start using computers?
3. What was your impression (or feeling) when you used a computer the first time?
4. What do you use computers for?
5. What do you think are the benefits of (using) a computer? 6. How has using computers changed people? 7. How has using computers changed people's lives?
8. Do you think a computer can give you better access to knowledge? 9. Do you play computer games?
10. What do you do when your computer has problems? Travelling
1. Do you often travel (go travelling)? 2. Do you like travelling? 3. Why do you travel? (purposes)
4. What are some places that you have traveled to? 5. What was the last place you traveled to?
6. What was the most interesting place you have traveled to?
7. How often do you return to your hometown? (If not living at home now)
8. Which city (or place) that you have been to did you like the most? (Why?)
9. What kind of place would you like to travel to in the future? 10. Which country would you like to travel to (in the future)? 11. What makes a place attractive for visitors (or, tourists)?
12. What places in China are (or, would be) attractive for foreigners to travel to?
13. Why do you think traveling is so popular nowadays? Magazines and Newspapers
1. Do you like reading magazines and newspapers? 2. What kinds of (types of) magazines do you like to read? 3. Which do you prefer reading, magazines or newspapers? 4. What parts of a newspaper do you prefer to read? 5. What kinds of articles do you like to read?