Month: March 2019

THE DISCUSSION ON FOOD
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘food’?
(2) How often do you think about food?
(3) Can you eat anything?
(4) Can you go without food for a whole day?
(5) Do you have to watch what you eat?
(6) What is your favourite breakfast, lunch and dinner?
(7) Do you think your country’s food is the best?
(8) Do you think “you are what you eat”?
(9) What do you think about canned, frozen and processed food?
(10) What kinds of international cuisine do you like?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Are you fussy or particular about the food you eat?
(2) Have your favourite kinds of food changed over the years?
(3) Do you like fast food and slow food?
(4) What do you think about food additives?
(5) Do you care where the food you eat comes from?
(6) What national dishes from your country would you recommend to the world?
(7) Do you worry about the rising cost of food?
(8) Do you think the world’s food will ever run out?
(9) What do you think of genetically-modified (GM) food?
(10) Is your food bill big?

THE DISCUSSION ON TRAVEL
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) Do you like travelling?
(2) What is travel for you?
(3) What different kinds of travelling are there?
(4) What’s the best place you’ve ever been to?
(5) Would you like to go travelling for a few years non-stop?
(6) What are the good and bad things about travelling?
(7) Where do you want to travel to before you die?
(8) Is it better to travel or to arrive?
(9) Lin Yutang said: “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Do you agree?
(10) Elizabeth Drew said: “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” What does this mean? Do you agree?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘travel’?
(2) Are you a traveller?
(3) Is travel an education?
(4) Would you like to travel in space or to the moon?
(5) Would you like to work in the travel industry?
(6) What are the pros and cons of traveling first class and backpacking?
(7) Is travel helping the world?
(8) What would make you wiser – travelling around the world for ten years or reading 10,000 books?
(9) Mason Cooley said: “Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.” Do you agree?
(10) St. Augustine said: “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” What does this mean? Do you agree?

THE DISCUSSION ON COSMETICS
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What do you think of cosmetics?
(2) Is there anything strange about people using cosmetics?
(3) How much more beautiful do you / do people look with cosmetics?
(4) Do you think cosmetics are reasonably priced?
(5) What do you think of men wearing lipstick, mascara and foundation?
(6) Why is most lipstick red or pink? What’s wrong with black or green?
(7) Do you think people look better without make-up and cosmetics?
(8) Don’t you think cosmetics are a waste of money?
(9) Do people use cosmetics because they lack confidence?
(10) Do you think we’ll always use cosmetics?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) How important are cosmetics?
(2) Do you think cosmetics are good for the skin?
(3) From what age is it OK to start using cosmetics?
(4) Do you believe cosmetics companies’ ads that say their products erase wrinkles and slow down the aging process?
(5) Do you know anyone who uses too much make-up?
(6) Do people use cosmetics differently in different countries?
(7) Which cosmetics and cosmetics companies are best?
(8) Do you think cosmetics companies should advertise their products using ‘normal’ women, instead of supermodels?
(9) How long do you think people spend each day applying and removing cosmetics?
(10) What new type of cosmetics would you like to see on the market?

THE DISCUSSION ON AMUSEMENT PARKS
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘amusement park’?
(2) What is your experience of amusement parks?
(3) Why do people like amusement parks?
(4) What are the differences between amusement parks and theme parks?
(5) What’s the best amusement park in the world?
(6) What do you think of Disneyland?
(7) Is ‘amusement park’ the right word, or should it be ‘excitement park’?
(8) What kind of rides are best?
(9) Are amusement parks good value for money?
(10) Do amusement parks have to be based on cartoon characters?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Would you be a good amusement park designer? Why?
(2) What do you think of jet coasters?
(3) Are there any bad things about amusement parks?
(4) What kind of new amusement park would you like to see built?
(5) How dangerous are the rides at amusement parks?
(6) Who enjoys theme parks more, children or adults?
(7) What is the best job at a theme park?
(8) What do you think of the price of food and merchandise at amusement parks?
(9) What three adjectives best describe amusement parks and why?
(10) What will amusement parks be like in the future?

THE DISCUSSION ON BREAKFAST
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What did you have for breakfast this morning?
(2) Has what you eat for breakfast changed over the years?
(3) What do you do while having breakfast?
(4) Do you prefer to eat breakfast alone or with other people?
(5) Do you ever eat breakfast in a restaurant or canteen etc.?
(6) What do you think of breakfasts in other countries?
(7) Is the breakfast you usually eat very healthy?
(8) How often do you skip breakfast or have it on the go?
(9) Can you eat “lunch-style food” or “dinner-style food” for breakfast?
(10) What do you think of breakfasts at hotels?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Do you always have time to eat what you want for breakfast?
(2) How important is having breakfast?
(3) Do you watch breakfast television?
(4) Do you make your own breakfast?
(5) What is a traditional breakfast in your country?
(6) Must breakfast be eaten in the morning?
(7) Do you ever eat breakfast at fast food restaurants?
(8) Do you like having breakfast in bed?
(9) What is the origin of the word “breakfast”?
(10) Do you prefer a cooked breakfast?