英语角话题汇总

Direct and Indirect Communication

二、 1. Do you feel that you are a direct communicator or an indirect communicator? Give an example.

三、2. Who do you feel you can communicate directly with and who do you feel you should communicate indirectly with?

四、 3. In the following situations, is direct communication or indirect communication more effective?

Why?

五、a) Asking a favor

六、b) Breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend

七、c) Telling your teacher you didn ' t do your homework

八、d) Firing an employee

九、 4. Have you ever had a bad experience in which someone said something to you too directly?

十、 5. If someone is communicating with you indirectly and you don ' t understand the message they are

trying to tell you, how do you deal with the situation?

十一、Friendship

十二、1) Come up with a definition for what friendship means in China.

十三、2) What are 3 qualities you want in a good friend? What are 3 qualities you don 't want in a friend? Why?

十四、3) How and where do people in China make their closest friendships?

十五、4) If you move to a new place, what is a good way to make new friends?

十六、5) What advice would you give a foreigner about how to develop good friendships with Chinese people?

十七、6) If there is a foreign volunteer in your group, ask him/her what advice he/she has about being friends with westerners.

十八、Education

十九、 1. Tell your group about your most enjoyable learning experience of the past. What made it good?

二十、 2. Describe what qualities you think the ideal teacher must have. What are some qualities you don 't want in a teacher?

二十一、 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?

二十二、 4. Is it the teacher/school 's or the parents ' responsibility to teach a child good morals and behavior?

二十三、 5. In your opinion, do men or women make better teachers?

二十四、Holidays

二十五、 1. What is your favorite Chinese holiday? Which Western holiday most interests you?

二十六、 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?

二十七、 3. What is the history of your favorite Chinese holiday? (For example, what 's the history of Dragon Boat Festival?)

二十八、 4. What did you think of the National Day celebration?

二十九、 5. Describe your ideal holiday.

三十、Rich and Poor

三十一、 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 choose that order?

三十二、 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being rich? Do you advantages outweigh the disadvantages or vice versa?

三十三、 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 you do you think would be the hardest part about being rich?

三十四、 4. Whose responsibility do you think is it to take care of the poor: their family, the government, their neighbors, everyone?

三十五、 5. Has the economic crisis affected your life at all?

三十六、Family

三十七、 1. Describe your family, and tell your group a story about your family from your childhood.

三十八、 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?

三十九、 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?

四十、 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?

四十一、Cities

四十二、 1. Describe your hometown, and tell your group 3 things you like about your hometown and three things you don 't like about it. 四十三、 2. If you were the mayor of your hometown, what problems would you try to fix? How would you go about fixing those problems?

What things would you not want to change?

四十四、 3. How do you feel about Changsha? What challenges do you think Changsha will face in the next 2 years? 10 years?

四十五、 4. In your mind, what city is the ideal city? Is there a place where you 'd like to live for the rest of your life?

四十六、What/lf…

四十七、 1. What would you do if someone accused you of a crime you didn 't commit?

四十八、 2. lf you could change a major historical event, what would it be?

四十九、 3. What would you do if a fierce animal was going to attack you?

五十、 4. lf you could be an employee of any company in the world, which company would you choose?

五十一、 5. What would you do if the person you loved didn 't love you back?

五十二、 6. If you could be a bird or a fish, which would you be?

五十三、7. What would you do if it was your best friend 's wedding, but you didn 't have any money to give him/her? 五十四、8. If you had to choose one of the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) to lose, which one would

you choose to lose?

五十五、9. What would you do if you got lost in an unfamiliar city?

五十六、10. If you were going to a foreign country and you could only take one thing with you, what would it be? 五十七、Gifts

五十八、 1. What 's the best gift you 've ever receiveWdh?at's the worst gift you 've ever gotten?