COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Part 1

What is your name? Where do you come from? Do you have a large family or a small family? How many brothers and sisters do you have? How much time do you spend with your family members? What sort of things do you like to do together? Do you get on well with your family? What do you do for a living? Do you go to school/work by bus or by car? What do you enjoy doing in your free time? Do you like travelling? What is your favorite place to go for holidays? Do you prefer to spend holidays alone or with friends and family? What is your favorite holiday activity? What is your favorite sport and when did you first become interested in it? How often do you participate in it? What equipment do you need to play this sport? Do you enjoy reading? What is your favorite book? Who is the author of this book? How did you come to know about this book? Do you like going to the beach? Would you like to live on an island? Do you like eating sea food? What kind of food do you like? Tell me about any typical kind of food in your country? Is cooking in your country a mans job or a womans job? How do you feel eating food from another country? Do you prefer going to the beach or the swimming pool? Have you ever hurt yourself? How did it happen? What did you do then? How did you feel? How long did it take to heal? Does it still hurt? What is the worst weather experience you have ever had? What effect does the weather have on your mood? Do you like taking photographs or do you like to paint/draw? Do you prefer photographs or paintings? Tell me about the most important festival in your country. What special food and activities are connected with this festival?

What do you enjoy about it? Do you think festivals are important for a country? (why?) What would you suggest a visitor should do and see in your country? Are there any traditional art or music you would recommend? Tell me about the kind of visitors who visit your country. In what ways has tourism changed in your country? What would you like to change in your daily routine? Are all your days same? Tell me about your typical weekday and your typical weekend. What is the balance of work/study and free time in your normal routine? What kind of music do you like? Do you like learning in groups or alone? Do you prefer to study in a library or at home? Would you prefer to get an email message or a letter? Does it matter what sort of clothes people wear? Do you judge people by their clothes? Tell me about the night life of your city? How is the environment of your city? Do you prefer to live in a house or in an apartment?

Part 2
1. Describe a place you have lived and you liked When did you live there? Who lived with? What was memorable about the place? 2. Describe a job that you would like to do in the future Why you are attracted to this job? How much training if any would be necessary? What kind of personal qualities it would require? 3. Describe your ideal study room Where it would be? What equipment and furniture it would contain? How it would be decorated? 4. Describe a childrens story that you know well When you first heard or read it? What you particularly like about it? Why you think it became popular? 5. Describe a family celebration that you once attended Where it took place? Why it was held? How you felt about it? 6. Describe a teacher who has influenced you in your education Where you met? What subject was taught? What was special and why were you influenced so much? 7. Describe a film or a TV program which made a strong impression on you What kind of film or TV program was it (comedy/fiction/romance)? When you saw it? What it was about and why it made such an impression on you? 8. Describe a memorable event in your life When the event took place? Where the event took place? What happened exactly and why it is memorable for you?

9. Describe a swimming pool where you usually go Where is it? How long have you been going there? What is special about it? 10. Describe something that you bought and it stopped working in few days When did you buy? Where did you buy it from? What did you do to correct the problem? 11. Describe someone who influenced you When did you meet? Where did you meet? Why were you influenced so much? 12. Describe something which helped you learn another language When was it? Where was it? How did it help in learning another language? 13. Describe someone with some special skill

Who that person is? How did you meet this person? What is special about the skill? 14. Describe some furniture that you bought When did you buy it? Where did you buy it from? What was special about it?

Part 3
Explain the value of teaching art in primary or secondary school? What is the role of traditional arts and crafts in your country? Are technology and the video camera changing our appreciation of photography? What is the value of encouraging children to read stories or novels? Do you think film is the medium of telling a story? What kind of home do most people in your country live in? What are the advantages of living in an apartment? How important is it to celebrate anniversaries or special days? What is the benefit of having national or public holidays? Is the concept of a 5day work and 2day weekend becoming out of date? How important is the role of the newspaper in daily life? Do you think newspapers are more or less reliable than television as a source of information? What is the reasoning behind censorship? Do you feel that what is reported in the media should be more strictly controlled or do you think that there is too much censoring? What personal qualities do you think make a good journalist? To what extent do journalists have the power to change lives or situations? How has education changed in your country in the last 10 years? What changes do you foresee in the next 10 years? How do the expectations of todays school leavers compare with those of the previous generation? What role do you think extracurricular activities play in education? What method of learning works best for you? How beneficial do you think it is to group students according to their level of ability? Do you think the cinema has increased or decreased in popularity in recent years? In your opinion, will this trend continue in the future? What are the advantages of making films of real life events? How important do you think it is for a film maker to remain true to the original story?

Should films and television be censored or should we be free to choose what we want to see? How do you think censorship laws change in the next 10 years? In what ways do men and women feel differently about marriage in your opinion? What sort of national events make news or headlines in your country? What kind of possessions shows status in your country? Do you think it was different for your grandparents? Modern society is often called materialistic. Why do you think this is so? What is the role of advertising? How do you think the internet will affect buying patterns in the future? What are the benefits of keeping animals in a zoo?