2014年大学英语口语考试辩论主题(15个)

Topic 1: Is it good for middle school students to go online?

Yes: It is good for middle school students to go online.

Useful expressions:enrich their knowledge, make them board-minded, get much information, make friends, shop online, bring some advantages No: It is bad for middle school students to go online.

Useful expressions: have some disadvantages, can’t use it correctly, be harmful to, be crazy about, playing games, study becomes worse, be cheated

Topic 2:Do examinations do more harm than good?

Side A: Examinations do more good than harm.

Useful expressions: a good way to evaluate students’effort, encourage students to work hard, bring some benefits, get high scores

Side B: Examinations do more harm than good.

Useful expressions: exam performance, be limited, can’t evaluate the students’ achievement, bad influences to students

Topic 3: Will internet make people more familiar?

Yes: Internet will make people more familiar.

Useful expressions:development of society, become more convenient, popular, make friends, communicate with each other

No: Internet will not make people more familiar.

Useful expressions: become more unfamiliar, far away from, can’t trust

each other, long distance, bring some bad influences

Topic 4: Should campus love be encouraged?

Yes: Campus love should be encouraged.

Useful expressions:seek for love, avoid boredom, many benefits for lovers, raise interpersonal communication skills, be more sensible

No: Campus love shouldn’t be encouraged.

Useful expressions: rare true love, losing a loved one, in low spirit and have no willingness to learn, bring some bad influences, students’ duty, students’ development

Topic 5: Is working experience more important than study for college students?

Yes: Working experience is more important than study for college students.

Useful expressions: the purpose of application, get part-time job, prefer…to…, prepare you for real challenge, high scores in paper exams No: Study is more important than Working experience for college students.

Useful expressions: education is the basic of every work, developing of society, promote personal quality, certification, give more advantages in job-hunting

Topic 6: Studying in China or abroad

Side A: Studying abroad is better.

Useful expressions:enrich our knowledge, make us board-minded, knowing cultures and traditions of foreign countries, work in multinational corporations, know cultural differences

Side B: Studying in China is better.

Useful expressions:be suit for our national situation, many good universities at home, a huge finical burden, many middle-income families, educational development

Topic 7: Is it good for college students to have a part-time job?

Yes: It is good for college students to have a part-time job.

Useful expressions:gain working experience, make students more confident, realize their own value, adopt themselves into the society early, make progress to their study

Side B: It is bad for college students to have a part-time job.

Useful expressions: fall behind others, spend too much time and energy on part-time job, inevitably lessen his time and energy for academic learning, corrupt the students' motivation for academic success, interfere with their studies

Topic 8: Is too much homework good for learning English?

Yes: Too much homework is good for learning English.

Useful expressions: practice makes perfect, take up, be interest in…, get good habits of, input method, broaden your vocabulary

No: Too much homework is bad for learning English.