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موضوع: اسئلة محادثة الإثنين 16 مايو 2011, 10:34 pm

Conversation Questions
Accidents at Home

What is the most dangerous thing in your home? How can it be made less dangerous?
What is the most dangerous thing in your home for a child? How can it be made less dangerous?
What is the most dangerous thing in your home for an elderly person? How can it be made less dangerous?
What dangers can be found in the kitchen that can cause accidents?
What can be done to prevent kitchen accidents?
What can a parent do to childproof a kitchen?
What dangers can be found in bathrooms that can cause accidents?
What can be done to prevent bathroom accidents?
What can a parent do to childproof a bathroom?
What dangers can be found outside the home in the yard that can cause accidents?
What can be done to prevent yard accidents?
What can a parent do to childproof the yard?
What other dangers can be found in a home in bedrooms, laundry rooms, garages, and living areas?
What can be done throughout the house to prevent accidents?
What can a parent do to childproof the different rooms of the home?
Where are these items found in a house, why could they be dangerous, to whom could they be dangerous, and what could someone do to lessen the danger they present?
- no pan/pot
- no curling iron
- knife
- window
- iron
- medicines
- gasoline
- pool
- insecticides
- natural gas
- balcony
- toilets
- staircase
- stove/oven
- stool/ladder
- yard tools
- fireplace
- cellar /attic
- bathtub
- bad dog
- tall pieces of furniture
- swing set / playground
- very clean glno sliding door
- electronic equipment
- cleaning supplies
- lake/retention pond
- loose carpet on slippery tile floor
- glno table or sharp edged table
- hairdryer
- bric-a-brac
What do you need to do if...
- you cut your finger preparing food?
- you fall down and can not move a limb?
- your child drinks a poisonous liquid? (discuss syrup of ipecac)
- the toilet is flooding the bathroom?
- a pan on the stove is on fire?
- a neighbor neighbor's dog is growling at you?
- our child falls off a chair and is bleeding?

Adoption

What is adoption?
Do you know anyone who was adopted as a child?
Do you know anyone who has adopted a child?
What are some of the reasons people choose to adopt?
What is the difference between domestic and international adoption?
What are the views of adoption in your country?
How would someone interested in adopting a child go about doing so?
Where do children available for adoption come from?
What happens to children that are not adopted?
How do you go about adopting a child?
Would you want to adopt a boy or a girl? Why?
Do you think brothers and sisters should be separated in adoptions?
Are adoptions common in your country?
What are some organizations that help with adoptions?
Should you tell the child that he or she was adopted? If so at what age? Or when?
Should adopted children have the right to know their biological parents?
Should families with birth children also adopt?
Is the real parent the birth parent or the adoptive parent?
Should adoptions be between children and families of the same race and or culture?
How or should the adoptive parents maintain the adopted child's cultural identify?
In your country are the legal rights of an adoptive child different from that of a birth child?
Why don't more people adopt a child?
What makes a family, genetics or environment?
Do you support an open adoption policy where the birth parents can choose to be involved in the child's life?
Do you believe there is discrimination within the adoption organizations?
Do you think a person should be able to adopt a child of a different race?
Should a gay or lesbian couple be allowed to adopt a child?
Should there be an age restriction for the adoptive parents?
Should a single man or woman be able to adopt a child?
If you were to find out that you were adopted and not really from the country where you are a citizen, which nationality would you hope would be your true mother country? Why?
When is the right time for a child to be told that he/she was adopted?

After a Vacation

Did you encounter any problems during your vacation? How did you resolve them?
Did you have a part-time job during the holidays?
Did you have any bad experiences?
Did you meet any interesting people? Tell me about them.
Did you notice any cross-cultural differences during your vacation?
Did you study during the vacation? If so, what did you study?
Did you enjoy your last vacation?
How do you feel after a long vacation?
How many days was your vacation?
How much money did you spend on your last vacation?
How was your trip?
- Why did you visit the place(s) you went to?
- How did you get there?
- Why did you choose the means of transportation that you chose?
- How much luggage did you take?
- Would you take the same or different equipment next time?
How was your vacation?
In what ways did you obtain real satisfaction when you were on vacation?
Was the place you went to very different from where you live?
- What were the women like?
- What were the men like?
- Were people friendly?
- Did you stay in a noel?
- What was the daily rate?
What historical sites did you visit and what did you learn?
What interesting people did you meet? Tell me about them.
What souvenir did you buy?
What was the best food you ate during your vacation?
What was the most enjoyable thing that you did during your vacation?
What was the most interesting thing that you did during the vacation?
What was the most interesting thing you did during the holiday?
Where did you go for your last vacation?
- Did people speak English there?
- Did you have any problems?
- Did you use a lot of English?
- How did you get there?
- How long did it take to get there?
- How long were you there?
- How much money did you spend?
- What did you do there?
- What did you see in each place?
- What kind of food did you eat?
- What souvenirs did you buy?
- What was the activity you enjoyed the most, and why?
- What was the weather/food/scenery like?
- What were the people/restaurants/scenic spots like?
- Where did you stay?
- Where did you visit?
- Where would you like to go next?
- Who did you travel with?
- Would you recommend your friends visit there, why or why not?
Where did you go? How long did you stay? How did you get there?
Where is your favorite place to go on vacation?
Where in the world would you most like to go for your next vacation?
How do you get to sleep when you are traveling on a plane?
How far was it to the beaches, to the nearest town, village etc.?
How long did it take you to get there?
What sort of condition was the noel in?
Did the room overlook the sea?
Did you have a nice view from your room?
Have you ever run out of money when you are on holidays?
Who is the most remarkable person you have ever met on holiday?
How would you feel if there weren't any holidays?
Have you ever been mugged while on vacation?
What is the most exotic or strangest thing you ate on holiday?
Have you ever thought of giving up your holiday due to unavoidable reasons?

Age: Youth & Old Age

Are young people generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents? Does age make you more aware of and caring for others?
Should adults try to teach young people lessons, such as the dangers of drinking too much, taking drugs or catch the AIDS virus, or should they leave them alone to find out about these things themselves? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches?
What do you think is the best age to be? Explain your opinion.
Most countries give young people rights as they reach a certain age. For example, British people can legally make love or fight for their country at the age of 16; they can drink, vote and drive a car when they are 18. Does China have similar laws? Do you think that any of the age limits need changing?
Some people think you should give something to society before you have the right to join it. Should young people have to do some form of military or community service by law?
Should people of between 50 and 55 be forced to retire from their jobs in order to make way for younger workers?
If people are still able to (and want to) work, should they have to retire when the reach a certain age? Explain your opinion.
In most countries the legal retirement age for men is 5 years older than for women, even though women live longer than men on average. Why do you think this is? Is this fair, or should it be changed?
Are there many things that the old can teach the young or are they hopelessly out of touch by the time they reach a certain age? What things were you taught by your older family members? How have they been useful to you in your life?
In most countries, compulsory education is targeted at 5 - 16 year olds. Would it be better to offer it to pensioners who want to learn rather than young people who prefer not to be in school? Explain your opinion.
In Russia, China and many other countries, there is a tradition of choosing leaders who are quite advanced in years. Do you think that older people make better leaders? Explain your opinion.
One of Britain's best-ever leaders was William Pitt the younger, who became Prime Minister when he was 24 and remained in power for 18 years. Could this ever happen in China? Why/why not?
Many elderly people have disabilities which limit their mobility. Do buses, shops and public buildings in your country provide easy access for the disabled or are your towns and cities designed mainly for the young and able-bodied? Why is this?
Should the elderly be expected to pay for residential care out of their own savings or should appropriate accommodation and nursing be provided by the tax payer? Explain your opinion.
Some people say that men age better than women, and remain attractive longer – do you agree? Explain your opinion.
Some people say that men never grow up, they just get bigger – do you agree? Explain your opinion.
Some people say that young women are usually 2 to 3 years more mature than young men – do you agree? Explain your opinion.
In most countries women live an average of 5 to 6 years longer than men. Why do you think this is?
In some countries having children is considered a way of "investing in the future", and young people are expected to give money to their parents when they get a job, and then to care for them when they retire. What are the good points and what are the bad points about this system?
Many countries are facing the problem of an "aging population", i.e. there will soon be more old people than young people. What problems will this cause? What can be done to prepare for them?
What do you think is the ideal age for each of these stages of your life: (Explain your opinion.)
- Starting School
- Starting Dating
- Leaving School/starting work
- Leaving your parents' home
- Getting Married
- Having a Child
- Retiring
Are you afraid of getting old?
What is your ideal old age to live to?
Do you prefer to live in the retirement home or live with young people?
Should parents continue to finance their children after the children are 18?
Airplanes
- How old were you when you went on your first flight? Where did you go?
- Do you like to travel by airplane?
- What was the longest flight you have ever taken?
- What seat do you prefer: window, center or aisle?
- What are three things you're supposed to do before the flight takes off?
- What do you like to do during the flight? Does the plane provide anything to do to pno the time?
- What are some movies you remember seeing on the plane?
- What do you do when you experience turbulence?
- Have you ever met anyone or established any relationships during a flight?
- What should be done with obese people who practically take up two seats?
- Can you sleep during the flight?
- Have you ever seen a female pilot? Why do you think that most pilots are men?
- Would you like to be a flight attendant? What are the benefits and /or downfalls?
- Are most flight attendants female? Is being a flight attendant considered a good job in your country? What do you think are the qualifications?
- Are planes really safer than cars? ( A British study shows that flying is 176 times safer than walking, 15 times safer than driving and 300 times safer than a motorbike.)

Animals & Pets

Are there animal rights groups where you live?
What kind of animals do humans ride?
Are you afraid of snakes?
Are you frightened of spiders?
Are your pet(s) healthy?
Can you name some endangered species?
Can you ride a horse?
Do you consider yourself an animal lover?
Do you ever go bird watching?
Do you ever talk to your pet? If so, what do you say?
Do you have a cat?
Do you have a dog? If so, what's your dog's name?
Do you have any pets?
- If not, would you like to have a pet?
- Have you ever had a pet?
Do you know anyone who has a horse?
Do you know anyone who keeps their dog in their house?
Do you know someone who owns an unusual pet?
Do you love your pet?
Do you prefer dogs or cats?
Do you talk to your pet sometimes?
Do you think it is acceptable to test cosmetics on animals?
- How do you feel about the use of animals for medical research?
Do you think it is okay to eat meat?
- Is there any kind of meat you would not eat?
Do you think it is right to keep wild animals in a zoo?
Do you think it's okay to free animals that have been in captivity all their lives? Why or why not?
Do you think people should buy and wear fur coats?
Do you think that animals dream?
Do your pets have special behavior problems?
- How do you deal with those problems?
Have you ever been bitten by a dog?
Have you ever been bitten by a dog? (... by a snake)
Have you ever been to a farm?
Have you ever been to a farm? What animals did you see there?
Have you ever been to a horse race?
Have you ever been to a zoo? What animals did you see there?
Have you ever eaten rabbit meat?
Have you ever gambled on a horse race?
Have you ever given your pet a bath?
Have you ever had a pet? / Have you ever had any pets?
Have you ever ridden a horse? How about a camel?
Have you ever seen a bullfight?
Have you ever seen a dog race?
Have you ever seen a dog that helps people, such as one to help a blind person?
- If so, what did you notice about the dog?
- How do you think that dog was trained?
- Have you ever seen a "therapy dog?"
How long do you think a dog can live without food?
How many birds do you know that can't fly?
How many legs does a spider have? How about a squid?
How many national animal preserves do you have in your country?
- Are there any animal preserves around here?
How many pets have you had?
How many pets have you raised and what are they?
How many zoos have you been to?
How much does it cost to keep your pet?
If you could be an animal, what would you (choose to) be? Why?
If you don't keep pets, please explain why?
Is is right to keep animals in a zoo?
Is it harmful for a dog to travel in cabin on a airline under the seat where your carry-on bags go?
Pets are considered to be a burden to most of the city dwellers. To what extent do you agree?
Some people think that people shouldn't wear animal furs. Do you agree? Why or why not?
Think of some people you know. Which animals do they resemble?
What animal do you think is the funniest?
What animal do you think is the strangest-looking?
What animal do you think makes the best pet? Why?
What animal would you like to be? (Which animal....?)
What animals are symbols of your country?
What animals are you afraid of? (...scared of?)
What animals do you think are no?
- What animal do you think is the nost?
What animals do you think are scary?
What animals do you think are ugly?
What animals do you think is the most dangerous?
What are some popular pets?
What are the most popular pets in your country?
What are the pros and cons of keeping a pet?
- (Why are there so many people who are willing to sacrifice their time and money to raise a pet?)
What can children learn by having a pet?

What are some things a child can learn by having a pet?

What do you think of animals being raised in captivity?
What is one of your favorite animals?
- Why do you like it?
- Do you have one for a pet?
What is the difference between a pet and a wild animal?
What is the largest animal you have ever seen?
What is the most unusual pet you have ever seen?
What is your favorite animal?
What is your favorite animal?
- Why is it your favorite animal?
- Would you like keep it as your pet, why or why not?
What joy does your pet bring you?
- Are you the one who takes care of it every day?
- How do you take care of it? If you don't take care of it, who does?
What kind of animal would you like to be?
Do bats make good pets?
What animals like to be petted?
What kind of dog do you have?
What kind of master would you like to have if you were a pet?
What kind of meats have you eaten?
What kind of pet would you like to have in the future?
What particular animals have become famous in your country for some special skill or accomplishment?
What wild animals can you see around here?
When was the last time you went to a zoo?
Where is the nearest zoo to your house?
- How often do you visit that zoo?
- When was the last time you went there?
- How much does it cost to get in?
Why do people have pets? / Why do people keep pets?
Why do some people not like pets?
Would you recommend that others keep pets similar to yours?
Do you think animals have souls?
Should we feed our pets unhealthy but tasty treats?
- What's more important, their health or their happiness?
In your opinion, why do some people like to have unusual pets?
Do you think dogs should be banned or muzzled?
Would you want to see aggressive dogs muzzled or banned?
In your country, what kind of dog laws are there? If dogs are man's best friend, as the saying goes, is banning dogs a friendly act?
What is a safari?
- Would you go on a safari?
Have you ever hurt an animal?
- Was it intentional or unintentional?
Do you know of any websites for people that want to keep animals as pets?
- How about websites for people who are against animal rights?
- Do you think keeping an animal as a pet is a violation of that animal's rights?
Do you know any animals that you think are being treated badly or unfairly?
- If so, how do you think you can help?

Annoying Things

What annoys you about living where you live now?
What annoys you about taking trains to work?
What annoys you about driving a car?
What annoys you most about living at home with your family?
Do you think you have habits that annoy other people?
Does it annoy you when people kiss in public?
Do you get annoyed when someone cuts in front of you when you are waiting in line?
What are some new pet peeves you have as a result of recent technology (i.e. cell phone use)?
What annoying habits does your best friend have?
Does smoking bother you?
Do you get annoyed when other people display bad manners? Give some examples.
What is the most annoying thing for you?
Do you annoy people with some of your habits?
What is something that your parents do that annoy you?
Can annoying someone be a good thing?
If something is annoying you, what do you usually do?
What are some things that annoy you that don't annoy your best friend?
How do you change annoying habits
What are some things that car drivers do that annoy you?
Can you think of some things children do that annoy adults around them?
What does pet peeve mean?
- What is your pet peeve?
Does it annoy you when people don't use the right punctuation?
What kind of people annoy you?
Who is the most annoying person you know? Why?
How do you inform someone they are being annoying
Do you think other people find you annoying? Why?
Who is the most annoying celebrity? Why?
April Fool's Day
- What are some tricks people play on April Fool's Day?
- What is the background of this day?
- Do you have the same tradition in your country?
- Do you play tricks on April 1st?
- What sort of tricks do you play?
- Have you ever tried fooling your family on April Fool's Day?
- Do you always look forward to April Fool's Day?
- Art
  - Are you a good painter?
  - Can you draw pictures well?
  - Do you believe what art critics say?
  - Do you consider yourself a good artist?
  - Do you enjoy your art clno at school?
  - Do you like modern art?
  - Do you like paintings?
  - Do you like sketching?
  - Do you like to visit art museums?
  - Do you like wood carving?
  - Do you prefer using water colors or oil paint?
  - Do you think it is proper to call no paintings art?
  - Do you think music and dancing are forms of art?
  - Do you think of cartoons and comics as art?
  - Do you visit museums when you go to another city?
  - Have you ever been to any famous art museums?
  - Have you ever visited an art museum?
  - What art form do you like best?
  - What art museums have you visited?
    
    Which did you like the best? Why?
    Which did you like the least? Why?
  - What famous painters do you know? What are they famous for?
  - What is art?
  - What is the longest time that you have spend on a painting?
  - What is your favorite art web site?
  - What would life be like without art?
  - When was the last time you went to an art museum?
  - Who are some famous artists in your country?
  - Who is a famous potter in your country?
  - Who is the most famous artist in your country? What kind of art does he do?
  - Who is your favorite painter?
  - Do you enjoy taking pnoographs?
  - What things do you like to pnoograph?
  - Do you consider pnoography an art form?
  - Why do artist like to draw women's figures?
  - Why do you enjoy art?
  - Why is art important?
  - Why do people become professional artists?
  - Have you ever participated in any art competitions?
  - Have you ever been jealous of someone else's artwork?
  - Do you find Picnoo's work astonishing or weird?
  - Do you have a favorite painting?
    
    If so, what is it?
    Why do you like it?
  - Do other people ever compliment your artwork?
  - Do you have a sketchbook?
    
    If so, how often do you use it?
    What kind of sketches do you make?
  - Do you feel proud after finishing a work of art?
  - Do you think graffiti is art?
  Do you agree with this statement? Graffitti is a form of art; a form of expressing one's mind.
  - Do you like to doodle?
    
    What kinds of doodles do you make?
    Where and when do you doodle?

Baseball

Have you ever played baseball?
Do you know the rules of baseball?
Do you like baseball?
Are you interested in baseball?
How many players are on a baseball team?
What position do you think is the most difficult?
Who is your favorite baseball player? Why do you like him?
Does baseball look like a fun game to you?
What qualities do you think of baseball player needs to be good?
Do they have professional baseball teams in your country?
How much does it cost to watch a professional baseball game?
Would you rather watch baseball at a stadium or on television?
What is your favorite baseball team? Why?
Do you follow professional baseball?
Are there any baseball players from your country playing in the USA?

Basketball

Are you interested in basketball?
How many players are on a basketball team?
What are the positions on a basketball team?
How long is a basketball game?
Who is your favorite basketball player?
Why are basketball player usually tall?
Can short people be good basketball players?
Have you ever played basketball? How was it?
Do you follow professional basketball?
Have you ever been to a professional basketball game?
Are there any basketball players from your country in the NBA?

Beauty and Physical Attractiveness

Who do you think is the most beautiful person in your country?
Who do you think is the most beautiful person alive today?
Who was the most beautiful person in history?
Who is the most attractive in your family?
Does beauty affect one's success in life?
Is it better to be physically attractive or intelligent?
Is it better to be physically attractive or wealthy?
Is beauty related to power?
- Can you think of anyone who is in a position of power that is not physically attractive?
Do people spend too much time and money on beauty?
How much time should be spent on making yourself look better each day?
Who would you say is beautiful that others maybe wouldn't?
Do you think people should have cosmetic surgery to enhance their looks?
- If so what is the minimum age when someone should have plastic surgery?
- How popular is plastic surgery in your country?
- What is the most popular feature for cosmetic alteration?
- Do you think self-esteem affects beauty?
- Do you think beauty affects self-esteem?
How important is beauty in your daily life?
Have you ever noticed anyone ever feeling pressured to be more beautiful?
What do you think of the proverb, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder?"
- Do you have any proverbs or idioms from your country that relate to beauty?
What are some beauty tips that you could share?
Do you think people with many tattoos can be beautiful?
- How many tattoos is too many?
- Would you ever get a tattoo?
- Do you have a tattoo?
Do you think people with many piercings can be beautiful?
- What kind of body piercing, if any, do you feel are acceptable?
- What kind of piercing, if any, do you feel are unacceptable?
What personality trait is the most important for inner beauty?
How do you define beauty, using your own words?
Would you ever date someone who was not conventionally attractive?
What makes one person more attractive than another?
Do you think people from different countries than you see attractive the same way?
Is there someone famous that is considered beautiful, that you think is not?
Are beauty pageants good or bad?
Should children be entered into beauty pageants?
Do you think one gender or group worries more about beauty than another?
Would you want your children to be beautiful or talented?
What are some of the negatives about being beautiful?
What are some examples of social pressures to improve on natural beauty?
- For example, lipstick, haircutting, shaving, ...
What do you think about plastic surgery?
- Would you ever have plastic surgery?
- If so, what would you change?

Cars and Driving

How old were you when you first learned to drive?
- Was there anything difficult about learning to drive?
Can you drive a car?
- Can you drive a manual shift car?
- Do you have a car?
- If so, what kind of car do you have?
  - Is it a standard (manual shift) or automatic shift?
  - Which do you like best, a standard or automatic shift car?
- What are the advantages of owning a car?
- What are the disadvantages of owning a car?
- Are you a good driver?
- Have you ever been in a car accident?
- Have you ever been pulled over by the police?
  - What happened?
- Have you ever driven a car in a foreign country?
  - If yes, which side of the road did they drive on?
  - Were the road signs different?
- Are the drivers in your area where you live good drivers?
- Do you know anything about repairing or maintaining a car?
  - What do you know how to do?
  - Where did you learn how to do this?
  - Do you enjoy repairing cars?
  - What are some things you do to maintain your car?
- Do you prefer driving or riding public transportation?
- What kind of car do you prefer?
- Do you like drive at night?
- Do you think cars should be banned from city centers?
- What side of the road do you drive in your country?
- Is drunk driving a problem in your country?
- What kind of laws does your country have about drunk driving?
- What is the penalty for drunk driving in your country?
- Have you ever been (or) do you know anyone who has been in an accident related to drunk driving?
- Is jaywalking legal in your country?
- Do people often jaywalk in your country?

Celebrities

Have you ever seen a celebrity in person? What did you do?
Which celebrity would you like to meet? What would you do if you could spend a day with this person?
Do you think famous people have the right to have a private life?
Do you think it's moral to sell your private life to the media?
Do you approve of people who become famous as a consequence of appearing again and again in the media and not because of having an artistic career?
What do you think of the papparazzi?
Why do you think there is such a high demand for gossip magazines and gossip TV programs?
What are the pros and cons of being a celebrity?
What do you think of fans and fan-clubs ?
Did you have any heroes when you were a teenager?
Why do you think adolescents need to have heroes?

Charity

Do you give money to registered charities? (e.g. Red Cross, World Wildlife Fund, Green Peace)
- Can you name some other registered charities?
Do you think having large charity organizations is a good idea? Why or why not?
- What are some of the good points?
- What are some of the bad points?
Do you think that locally run charity organizations are more effective?
Are there any charities in (your town/city)?
- How about in (your country)?
- What are they?
Do you give money to beggars or homeless people? Why or why not?
- If you give money to beggars or homeless people, about how much do you give?
How do you know if a beggar is a real beggar?
Do you think beggars should work in gangs or on their own? Would you offer a beggar any job you had to be done at home?Would you offer a beggar a job to help yo around you house?
Would you rather give money to beggars or buskers? (Buskers are people who entertain you on the street for money, e.g. musicians)
Would you rather give money to beggars who have a disability, older beggars, beggars with babies or child beggars? Why?
Do you think it's acceptable for children to work late at night selling flowers and singing?
- Do you think these children need to be out doing this, or are they just earning extra money?
- What do you think will happen to these children in the future? Do they have a future?
Do you think there should be more help for beggars, homeless and poor people in (your town/city)? How about in (your country)?
Do you think (your town/city) should make a place for beggars and homeless people to go, like a homeless shelter?
- Do you think it would reduce the amount of beggars and homeless people on the street?
- Do you think it would encourage people to be lazy?
- What are some reasons that these people would not want to use such a shelter?
If (your town/city) was to have a homeless shelter, who should run this place?
- Who should pay for this place?
- Should anybody be allowed to go to this place?
Do you think the government should give money to homeless people?
- How about jobless people?
- If you think the government should give money, about how much money do you think should be given?

Children

Were there many children in your family?
How many children do you have. How many would you like to have.
Do you enjoy being around children?
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
What are the positive or negative things about being a child?
Do you think that children are different today from the time when you were child? Or from 50 years ago? 100 years ago?
What is most annoying or amazing thing about children?
What is the most important thing that we need to teach children?
Do you think that children are naturally good? Why or why not?
What were some important experiences that you had when you were child which shaped you as a person?
Why do you think children commit violent crimes?
Do you think children are more violent today than they used to be? Why?

Christmas

Did it snow last year at Christmas?
Did you believe in Santa Claus when you were a child?
Did you enjoy last Christmas?
Do people behave differently during Christmas?
- Do they try to be better?
- Do you donate something (money, clothes...) to charities?
- Do you give something to homeless people?
Do you attend any special religious ceremonies during the Christmas season?
Do you celebrate Christmas in your country?
Do you celebrate Christmas in a special way?
Do you celebrate Christmas in a traditional way?
- Do you have a traditional Christmas?
Do you decorate the outside of your house for Christmas?
Do you eat a turkey dinner for your Christmas dinner?
Do you enjoy Christmas time?
Do you enjoy singing Christmas songs?
Do you exchange presents with your friends at school?
Do you go to church on Christmas day?
Do you hang up a stocking?
Do you have a Christmas party at school?
Do you have a Christmas tree?
- If so, how do you decorate it?
- When do you put it up?
- When do you take it down?
- Is it real or artificial?
Do you have a part-time job during Christmas vacation?
Do you have any plans to go to a Christmas party?
Do you know why Christmas is celebrated around the world?
Do you know the history of Christmas?
Do you remember when you found out that Santa Claus wasn't real/ or when your children found out? What was your/their reaction like?
Do you see your relatives at Christmas time?
Do you think Christmas is depressing? (There is a high suicide rate at this time of year.)
Do you think we will have a white Christmas this year?
Do you usually put up Christmas decorations in your house? (Do you usually decorate your home?)
- How about at your school of the place where you work?< your decorate you do>
- Does you school have a Christmas play?
- Does your family have any special Christmas traditions?
- Does your town get decorated at Christmas?
  - What kind of decorations?
- Have you already finished your Christmas shopping?
- Have you ever celebrated Christmas in a foreign country?
- Have you ever made your own Christmas cards?
  - If so, how did you make them?
- How do you usually spend New Year's Eve? How about New Year's Day?
- How long do you keep your Christmas tree up after Christmas?
- How long is your Christmas vacation?
- How many Christmas cards did you receive last year?
- How many Christmas cards do you send?
- How many presents do you usually give?
- If you are not a Christian, does the intense focus on Christmas in the U.S. make you feel bad in any way (e.g., ignored, dismissed, angry, etc.)?
- If you could go anywhere during Christmas vacation, where would you go?
- In how many languages did you write Christmas cards?
- Is there a holiday similar to Christmas in your home country?
- Is your Christmas tree a real tree or an artificial tree?
- What are some popular foods for the Christmas season?
- What are you going to buy your boyfriend/girlfriend for their Christmas present?
- What did you do last year on Christmas Day?
- How did you celebrate Christmas last year?
- What do you eat on Christmas Day?
- What do you usually do for Christmas?
- What do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?
- What does your family eat for Christmas dinner?
- What is Christmas like in your hometown?
  - What is Christmas like in your country?
- What is the best Christmas present you have ever gotten?
- What is the most expensive Christmas present you plan to buy?
- What is the typical menu for a Christmas meal in your family? (... in your country?)
- What is the weather like in your country around Christmas time?
- What is your attitude toward the commercialization of the Christmas season?
  - Is Christmas becoming too commercialized?
- What is your favorite Christmas carol?
- What is your favorite Christmas song?
  - Are there any special songs in your country that you don't hear here?
- What kind of interesting things do you do for Christmas in your home country?
- What kind of presents do you expect to get this Christmas?
- What time do you wake up on Christmas day?
- What time does your family open the presents?
- What traditions do you have during the Christmas season?
- What was the best present your received last Christmas?
- What will you buy your parents?
- What will you do on Christmas day?
- What will you eat on Christmas Day?
- What would you like to get for your Christmas present?
- What's your favorite Christmas song?
- When do you do your Christmas shopping?

What kind of presents do you buy?

Who do you buy them for?
About how much do you spend per person?

When do you give Christmas presents? (On what day? At what time?)
When do you open Christmas presents? (On what day? At what time?)
When do you put up a Christmas tree?
- If you don't put up a Christmas tree, do you put up other decorations?
When does your family decorate the Christmas tree?
Where are you going for Christmas vacation?
Where do you think Santa Claus is from?
Where will you go on Christmas Day?
Who do you expect to receive presents from?
Who is Santa Claus?
- Do you know the history of Santa Claus?
- At what age did you begin not believing in Santa Claus?
Who was at your house last Christmas?
Who will you give presents to this year?
Who would you like to be with on Christmas?
Will you go skiing during the Christmas vacation?
Will you have a Christmas party at your home?
Will you spend Christmas vacation with your family or your friends?
Will you travel abroad during the Christmas vacation?
Would you like to go skating during Christmas vacation?
Why do people give out Christmas cards with gifts and presents at Christmas time?
Why some people do not like Christmas?
Do people behave differently during Christmas? Do they try to be better?
Do you donate something (money, clothes...) to charities?
Do you give something to homeless people?
How long do Christmas trees last?
- Do you use an artificial tree?
What do you usually do on Christmas day?
What people usually do on Christmas day?
Why do people sometimes write "Christmas" with an "X"? (Xmas
Do you have a big and delicious dinner on Christmas day?
Trivia: In what 1942 movie was the song 'White Christmas" first sung?
Do you ever think about the real meaning of Christmas?
Do you go skiing at Christmas time?
Whose birthday is celebrated on Christmas?
Which comes first, Christmas or New Year's Day?
What is the significance of a Christmas tree?
- What does it represent for you?

End of the Year

How was this year?
Was this year better or worse than last year? How come?
What was the happiest thing for you this year?
What was the saddest thing for you this year?
What was the toughest thing for you this year?
What was the best movie for you this year?
What was the best music for you this year?
What was the best TV show for you this year?
What was the best place you visited this year?
What was the best food you had this year?
What was the best restaurant you went to this year?
What was the most useful thing you bought this year?
What was the most expensive thing you bought this year?
What was the best item of clothing you bought this year?
What was the biggest waste of money this year?
What was something you lost this year?
Do you have any regrets about this year?
Did you make a New Year's Resolution this year?
Do people in your country usually make New Year's Resolutions?

Cities

Why do you like living in the city?
What are some of the advantages of living in a city?
What are some of the disadvantages of living in a city?
Do you know the neighbors who live near you?
What's your favorite city? Why?
What city do you live in?
- What part of this city do you like the best?
- Can you describe the city?
What aspects of life in the city would you complain about?
What do you think should be done to improve living condition in cities?
What are some differences between living in the city and living in the country?
What size city is best to live in? Why?

Clnorooms

What do you like about your clnoroom?
Do you think the teacher should noign seats to students?
What kind of clnoroom setting is the best for you?
What are five things you like about your clnoroom?
What are five things you don't like about your clnoroom?
What are five things you would like to change in your clnoroom?
Do you enjoy changing classrooms for different clnoes?
What is the ideal seating plan or arrangement in a clnoroom?
Is there any air-conditioning in your clnoroom?
Is your clnoroom a nice place to study?
Do you like the location of your desk in your clnoroom?

Clothes & Fashion

About how much money do you spend on clothes a year?
Do you like shopping for new clothes?
Do you often buy new clothes?
Do you prefer to go shopping or just browse? Why?
Do you think men should be allowed to wear skirts?
What piece of clothing do you spend your money on the most? Why?
Do you read fashion magazines?
Do you sometimes wear a hat?
Do you think it is important to wear fashionable clothes?
- (Do you think it is important to be in fashion?)
Do you wear jewelry?
- If so, what kind of jewelry do you wear?
- How often do you wear jewelry?
Do you wear the same color clothes now that you wore ten years ago?
Do you wear the same size clothes this year as you wore last year?
Do you think people feel different when they wear different clothes?
Have you ever made your own clothes?
- If so, what did you make?
- Do you often make your own clothes?
How many pairs of gloves do you have?
What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
What colors do you think look good on you?
What colors do you think look good on your mother?
What did you wear yesterday?
What do you think of body piercing?
- Do you have pierced ears?
- Do you know anyone with a pierced nose?
- Would you ever pierce your tongue?
What do you think of people who dye their hair green?
What do you think of women who wear high heel shoes?
- Do you think high heel shoes are bad for a person's health?
What fashions that you see today do you think will be out of fashion within two years?
What is your shoe size?
What kind of clothes are in fashion now?
What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
What's the most expensive piece of clothing you have ever bought?
What's your favorite color for shoes?
When was the last time you got dressed up?
- Why?
- How often do you get dressed up?
- Do you like to get dressed up?
Where are some good stores to buy clothes in this area?
Where do you usually buy clothes?
Would you like to be a fashion model?
Questions on Styles, Clothing and Fashion-based Stereotypes
- What would you think of a women who cut off all her hair and went around bald as a fashion statement?
- What do you think of a man who is bald for fashion's sake?
- What do you think of women who wear short mini-skirts?
- Do you think that the clothes we wear reflect what is inside us ?
- What do you think of people who always and only wear black?
- What do you think of people with tattoos?
  - Do you have a tattoo?
  - Do you know someone with a tattoo?
- What do you think of people with body piercing?
  - Do you have pierced ears?
  - Would you pierce other parts of your body?
- What would you think of a high school student who always wore very conservative clothes?
- What type of clothing do you wear when you are angry and you want to express yourself?
- What colors do you choose to wear when you are happy?
- Would you dress the same as you do in your country if you went to America for a visit?
- Do you dress the same when you are depressed as you do when you are very happy?
  - In what ways do you dress differently?
- If you went out with a group of high school friends, would you dress differently then if you went out with your grandmother and her friends?
- In what ways does your Grandmother dress differently then you?
- When you get old do you think you will dress like your grandmother or grandfather?
- Would you ever wear dreadlocks?
  - What do you think of the people who wear them?
- Have you ever worn your hair braided in small braids.
  - Did anyone look at you differently because of it?
- Would you ever wear contacts to change your eye color?
- What is the difference in the people who choose to wear contacts and the people who choose to were glnoes?
- What do you think about women who don't wear earrings?
- What do you think about men who wear earrings?
  - What do you think of women who do?
- Is it possible for women to wear too much make-up?
  - When is a person wearing to much make-up?
  - What do you think of men who wear make-up?
- Is it possible to be beautiful without wearing any make-up, earrings or other accessories?
- Do fashionable clothes really change the way a person looks?
- What differences have you noticed in the fashions here and in your country?
- What do you think of men who where tights?
- What do you think about secondhand clothes?
  - Why do you think people buy secondhand clothes?
  - Have you ever been to a store that sells secondhand clothes?
  - Have you ever bought secondhand clothes?
  - Would you buy secondhand clothes?
- When and where did you buy an article of clothing you're wearing right now? Why did you choose it?
- What would you think if the mother of the groom wore black at a wedding?
  - What would you think if a bride wore red?
  - Should a bride's dress be long or do you think it could be the length of a regular skirt?
- What items of clothing do you consider provocative?
  - (It would be interesting to see if foreigners perceive their own clothing to be provocative or not, but to get them to admit that, the question should be phrased - would it be so in American or Canada, etc.)
  - What do you think of men wearing high heels?
    - What do you think of women wearing high heels?
  - Why is it acceptable for women to wear men's clothing, but not for men to dress in women's clothing?
  - Is there a stigma attached to people who buy no-name (no brand) clothing?
  - Are some people more fashion conscious than others? What types/groups of people?
  - Have you ever bought imitation brand clothing?
  - What traditional costumes do people from your country wear?
    - When do you wear them?
    - Are they comfortable?

Colors

What's your favorite color?
- Has your favorite color changed as you've grown older?
Do you have a color that you hate?
- If so, what is it?
- Why do you hate it?
Do you think colors affect your mood?
- How does red make you feel?
- How does green make you feel?
- How does blue make you feel?
- How does purple make you feel?
- How does black make you feel?
- How does white make you feel?
- How does yellow make you feel?
- How does brown make you feel?
- How does grey make you feel?
- What do you think of orange?
Do you think different cultures have different meanings for colors?
- What do the different colors mean in your culture?
Do you associate any colors with specific items, numbers, or letters not usually noociated with color?
Can you think of different idioms or expressions involving color?
- What's a "black and white" matter.
- What does it mean to "see red"?
- What does it mean to "feel blue"?
- What does it mean to "be yellow"?
- What's a "black tie affair"?
- What does it mean to be "blacklisted"?
- What does it mean to be "the black sheep in the family"?
How many colors are in the rainbow? What are they?
What colors are on your national flag?
What's the best color for a car?
- What's the best color for a house?
- What do you think is the best color for lens in sunglnoes?
What's the color for pnoion?
- What's the color for hatred?
- What's the color for happiness?
- What's the color for sadness?
- What's the color for anger?
- What's the color for death?
- What's the color for jealousy?
- What is the color of envy ?
- What's the color for cowardice?
What color is money in your country?
Do you know anyone who is color blind?
- What colors do most color blind people not see?
Do you think animals can see color?
What does black-sheep of the family mean?
Do you dream in color?
How would you compare the feeling you get watching a movie in black and white to watching it in color?
What color clothes do you like to wear?
- What colors do you think look good on you?
- What color shoes do you like to wear?
What do you think is the strangest color for a car?
- How about a house?
- How about clothing?
- How about hair color?
Do you know anyone who has dyed their hair a strange color? (... an unnatural hair color such as blue or multiple shades?)
Have you ever seen a pet dog or cat with dyed fur?
Do you think different colors have different meanings? If so, what do different colors mean?
Do the color blind dream in color?
- Do you think people who are color blind can dream in color?
What color ink do you like using the most?
- What is the meaning of writing with black ink?
- What is the meaning of writing with green ink?
- What is the meaning of writing with red ink?
- What is the meaning of writing with blue ink?
What color of paper you like most if you want to write a letter to your friends or loved ones?
What is the color of the bedspread on your bed?
What is your least favorite color?
What color toothbrush do you have?
- Does everyone in your family use a different color toothbrush?
What color towels do you use?
What color are the curtains in your bedroom?
What does it mean when someone says he's feeling blue?
What does it means when someone says they are green with envy?
w\What does it means when someone says "you look green at the gills"?
What does it mean when someone says "I was so mad I was seeing red"?
What does it mean when someone says "he was black as an ace of spades"?
What is pink eye?
We are not sure what this means, but it was submitted.
- What does it mean when you see the color of a rainbow in your eyes?
What would you think of life without colors?
- What do you think life would be like without colors?
- How would life change?
- What things wouldn't change?
- Are color blind people completely blind to all colors?
Do you think a person's favorite color will always be his/her favorite color?
- Do favorite colors change throughout life?
Have you ever tried to invent a new color?
- Try it right now: try to think of a color that doesn't exist, one you'd like to see.
- What does it look like?
- (Note: It is physically impossible to conceive of a color that isn't a shade of a color that already exists, but students will enjoy trying for a few minutes and the impossibility of it makes for good conversation.)

Comic Books

Do you like comics?
- Do you like American comic books?
- Do you like comics from other countries?
- Do you like fantasy comics?
- Do you like funny comics?
- Do you like realistic comics?
- What do you like about comics?
- What comics do you like?
- What comics do you love?
- What comics do you hate?
Do you play any video games based on comic books?
Have you read any anime?
- Have you read any Japanese manga?
Have you read any comics in English?
How are comics different from one country to another?
- How are comic books different in this country from those in your country?
How have comics changed over time?
How many comics do you read a week?
- How much time do you spend reading comics?
How often do you read comics?
- How often do you read comics in English?
Should comics have a rating system like the movies (G, PG, R)?
What comics have you read in English?
What can you learn from comics?
What is more important to you, the story or the pictures?
What is the best comic book you've ever read?
What type of comic appeals to girls?
- What types appeal to boys?
- What types appeal to adults?
What was the last comic book you read?
Can you remember the first comic book you read?
Where do you usually read comic books?
Who do you think reads comic books?
Do you think boys read more comic books than girls?
- Why do you think more ___ (boys) read comics than ___ (girls)?
Do you think people in this country read more comic books than in your country?
Who has better comics DC or Marvel? (Or ask about two other comic book publishers.)
Why are comics so popular?
Why do people like to read comics?
Why do you think Hollywood makes so many movies from comic books?
Why don't more people read comic books?
Are comic books better than (regular) books?
At what age is a person too old to read comics?
Do violent comics make people think more about violence?
Cost
- About how much do you spend on comics in a month?
- How much do you spend on comic books?
- How much should a comic book cost?
- Is collecting comics a good investment?
Who is the worst comic book character?
When you read comics, who is more interesting the hero or the villain?
Who is your favorite villain?
Who would your arch enemy be?
Super-heroes
- Who would win a fight Batman or Superman?
- Which super-hero is most like you?
- What qualities do you need to be a super-hero?
- Who is the the most popular super-hero in your country?
- What super-hero should have a movie made about him/her?
- Who is the most popular comic book hero in your country?
- What real life person could be a super-hero?
- If you could make your own super-hero what would his or her name be?
  - What would his superpower be?
- Do we need more super-heroes?
If you could have one superpower what would it be?
What is the best superpower to have?
What are some complaints that some parents have about comic books?
Why do people like to read comic books?

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