第一节 考试第一阶段话题总结
第一阶段主要是关于个人情况的介绍，考官会问一些具体的问题，内容涉及考生的工作、学习情况，家乡，爱好，以及关于身边的衣食住行等问题。 About yourself
1.What’s your full name?
2.What’s your English name?
3.Does your Chinese name have any special meaning?
Literally:Lean on a sailing boat to see in the distance Make a good wish that Everything is going smoothly 4.Do you want to change your name?
Smoothly & succefully Hometown and cities
1.Where do you come from? / Where are you from? / Where is your hometown?
Wuhan, a large-sized city in the middle of china, and it is also a crucial city during revolution period in the history
2.Do you think your hometown is a good place for young people to live in?
3 aspects: @.local delicious food
snack street : hot dry noodles , fried bread stick ,stinky tofu shrimp balls ,spicy hot noodles, hot hot hot, hot pot, spring rolls @shopping malls & amusement parks 国广&欢乐谷
@university city, esp.Wc district relatively high education standard
3.What aspects do you like best in your hometown?
4.What aspects do you dislike in your hometown?
Larged-sized city large population crowded in the station competetion is fierce In the proce of contruction of infrustracture ==road traffic jam 5.What landscapes surround your hometown? In the middle of china it is located in the jianghan plain the long river flows through
croover point of han river—tributary river view
a place covered with lakes ―city with thousand lakes‖ ---the east lake
next to a basin named SICHUAN basin ---in the west of WH
south direction ---old forest SHEN NONGJIA –tourist spot 6.What are the differences between your hometown and Beijing?
Capital well-known boast of its long history political center More urbanized well-developed transportantion system\\ **On the contrary, le modern , infrustractures are not completed in the middle snacks of north and south abundant choice tedious le streed
7.What are the characters of local people in your hometown?
Friendly and warm-hearted
talkative esp.senor citizens Straightforward expre feeling loudly and directly Bad-tempered quarrel on the street Be fond of food and drinks Enjoy themselves entertainments MAJIANG POKER 8.What is the main food /special snack in your hometown?
9.Are there any changes in your hometown?
During city construction
transportation facilities
skyscapers dapartment stores environment greenbelt richer more cars on the road traffic congestion more sever
10.Do you prefer to live in a big city or a small one? Why?
Big city Convenient
shopping more options well-developed transportation more choices to have fun higher standard of edu, open-minded
11.What are the differences between living in a big city and in the countryside?
Le poplulation More quiet Good envirnment le population Le streed A good place for holiday
Work and study
1.Are you working or studying? 2.Where do you study?
3.Could you describe your college/university/school? 4.What’s your major?
5.Why did you choose the major?
Inspired by mother journalist cool job go to different places visit different people see lots of things interested in Psychology interested as well
read many books psychoanalysis Freud seminars programs rural areas to help children with mental iues
6.Do you think your college/university is a good place to study in?
Equipped with teaching facilities &Excellent teachers
Bautiful place lakeside ---the east lake
good environment
morning reading Olympics Champions training diligent surroundings Handsome guys good stre reducer by looking at them training 7.What aspects do you dislike in your college/university?
Library is too small dorm cannot find a seat late Bathroom in the dorm
public
inconvenient
Shower room is too far away esp.winter freezing cold on the way back 8.What’s your plan in the near future?
UK maters degree
translater english teaching institution
Lead my band do more performances make extra money
9.What’s your ideal job?
Spy
Translator or an english teacher
Cool job bridge the cultural gap
high payment
Psychologist
10.Which subject is your favorite?
11.What’s your opinion about changing jobs? \\ Good to change but not too often maybe it means what do you want 12.How many languages do you speak?
Two France 93%\\ 13.Do you think it important to learn a foreign language?
Yes bingual smarter sensitive Globalization more communication to foreignors
understand each other Bridge culture gap Study abroad
Competitive
busnie opportinuties 14.What do you think is the most difficult in learning a foreign language?
Gammar fixed patterns rules Technical terms
academic words 15.What do you think is the most interesting in learning a foreign language?
Progre
proce
Begin limited
words
gammar sentence patterns accent Talk for a short time Freer
Expre yourself better make people understand you better
Hobbies and leisure activities
1.What do you usually in your spare time? Just like many other
My band
get together discu rhythm guitarist 2.Do you think it important to have some hobbies?
Routine daily life colorful Eg: sining playing instruments Cannot imagine
stre reducer 3.What do you think of extreme sports?
Good & special
Adventurous&ambitious Paradise more options Dangerous safety 4.Do you think people nowadays have enough leisure time? Since the level of development
in china
developping country standard of living not high
busy with making money
work extra hours 5.What’s the importance of holidays?
The best stre reducer for people
Suffer from huge preure work on the weekends
extra money Holiday stop the works slow down the paces relax their bodies
ease minds 10.1
7.4
national day
holiday can trigger the tourism good for 6.What are the differences between people’s way to spend their leisure time nowadays and in the past?
Development of technology and internet& transportation system
Old games play che do some sports
visit old friends Stre
work extra hours
7.Do you think people will have more leisure time in the future?
Development of economy in our country
strandard of living
Pay the house and pay the car Extra hours more leisure
travel
golf go fish on the sea 8.How do young people around you spend their leisure time?
Go shopping
internet
movies
Church
play the band 9.How do your parents spend their leisure time?
Church movies yoga gym 10.How do you spend the weekends? 11.What do you usually do in evenings?
Finish homework Reading on couch Diary pray
12.Do you often spend your leisure time with your family?
Sometimes drive to suburbs to have trip&picnic Go shopping together Most I spend with friends and band 13.Do you collect anything? What’s that?
Perfumes I believe fragrance can refresh my memory
remind me of the past particular gragrance can wake up a particular memory that I have gone through Stand in front choose fragrance every day Exquisite bottles 14.What are the benefits of collecting?
Have more knowledge about the field Enjoy yourself by
fun by doing Make life colorful Trigger for hard work 15.Do your friends have the similar hobbies to you?
16.What do you usually do to relax yourself?
a 17.What do the people around you do to relax themselves?
18.What are the differences between the young and the old in relaxation method? Old: dance with folding fan taiji che
TV radio Young : internet movies shopping
yogo
gym Sports and exercises
1.What sports do you usually do?
Swimming good way to keep fit Temperatured pool
twice a wk Free shower handsomes street dance jazz hiphop cooler
2.What sports are popular in your city?
Swimming
table tennis
general
national 3.How do you keep fit?
Do physical exercises
Control my diet : more vegetable
le junk Traditional chinese medicine
clean intestines 4.Do you think it important to do physical exercises?
Keep fit
keep body in good shape
Improve the function of immunity system 5.What are the benefits of playing sports? Having fun+above 6.Why do some young people love extreme sports?
Adventurous ambitious personalities Normal sports too light
heavy flavor Not easy
challenage confident brave enough
differnence Stimutating
crazy enjoyment Air slide bungee rock climbing surfing drifting 7.Do you think the government should ban extreme sports?
No regulation to protect participators safty 8.Do you think it neceary for school teenagers to have P.E.cla?
Yes obesity junk food & lack of exercises good for health Movement skills
good for study
9.How do you think to develop children’s interest in sports?
Watch games
play with them participate Dig talent encourage experience of victory 10.What are the differences between men and women in playing sports?
More likely aggreive sports football boxing hocky Extreme sports Gentle sports yoga badminton
gymnastic 11.Do you like watching sport events?
12.Do you prefer to watch sport events on TV or on the spot?
On the spot, exciting ,circumstances
focus more on the game
cheer for the team sports stars in person signiture Lower patota chips coca
le attantion le stimulating
13.What are the differences between doing sports and watching sport events?
Pay full attention lose points Watching : concentrate
potato chips soda
make comments while watching the games
Travel and holiday 1.Do you like traveling?
Yes travel every year as long as I have extra money Have been to many places in china with my friends macao Meet people
local snacks
no idea what is going to happen
find out 2.When did last travel and where?
This summer
HK
3.What kind of place is it?
Tiny with dense population modern covered with all kinds of building Walking on the street is just like walking in the forest of skyscapers Transportation system
Shopping centre in china cheap and good 4.What impreed you the most?
Dense population
spacious like main contient crowded
bathroom is tiny 5.Do you prefer to travel alone or with others? With friends
talk to friends to kill the time on the way Unexpected situations solve together Take photos
split/ share the bill
cheaper 6.What type of tour do you like best?
Travel with friends without travel agency
no package tour Somewhere you don\'t want to go
buy sth
wait for others Friends free options
when to get up/go to bed/ where to eat /what to buy 7.What are the benefits of joining a package tour?
No bother with train/plane tickets visa Cheaper hotel motel Tourist guide learn more about
8.What are the benefits of solo travel?
9.Do you think it good to take children to travel? Good for children to travel to different places to see world &meet people Broaden horizon experience good for their studies Children are too small to understand what he/she is doing
inappropriate Noisy Take care mood
depends 10.What are the differences in the means of transportation before and nowadays? More efficient then before
more confortable and expensive Bike horses
train
ship bus more environmental friendly
safty guaranteed
Now: airplane high-speed railway cars
world villege accompanied with potential dangers 11.What’s the place you want to travel to the most?
If I have chance travel to Eroupe
Beautiful continent different cultures & landscapes Royal england romantic france italy with rich renaiance culture Ireland folk music
Transportation
1.What are the main forms of transportation in your city? Bus /bike/ cars/ subway/lightrailway (not available) 2.Which form do you use the most? Bus cars
cheaper
cars are convenient 3.Which form is your favorite?
4.What are the benefits of this form of transportation? 5.What are the disadvantages of this form?
6.What problems do you think lie in the traffic situation in your city? 7.What are the causes of the problems? Time money
richer 8.What do you think the government should do to solve the problems? Collect taxes from car-buyers
lower the bus fee encourage improve the bus condition comfortable Make a good city construction plan broaden the roads 9.What changes will happen in the form of transportation in the future? Well-developed system
Subway the number cars on the ground will decrease
10.What changes will happen in the traffic situation in your city?
Food
1.What’s your favorite type of food?
Junk food & seafood potato chips hot wings pizza clams 2.What’s healthy food?
3.Is your diet healthy? I am afraid not
4.Are there any changes in your eating habit?
5.What are the changes in Chinese eating habit?
6.What are the traditional foods in China?
7.What’s the staple food in China?
8.Do you often eat out?
9.What are the benefits of eating out?
10.What are the disadvantages of eating out?
11.What aspect do you think is the most eential to a good restaurant?
12.What aspect do you pay the most attention to when you choose a restaurant to eat at?
13.Do you enjoy cooking? Why or why not?
14.Who usually cooks in your home?
15.What are the differences between eating out and cooking at home?
16.What are the differences between ready-to-eat food at restaurant and home-cooked food?
Living place
1.Where do you live? In a house or a flat?
2.Could you describe your living place?
3.What are the differences between a house and a flat?
4.Do you want to change your living place?
5.What’s your favorite living place?
6.Do you like the arrangement and decoration in your home?
7.Do you prefer to live in the big city or in the countryside?
8.What do you think of the high-rise buildings?
9.Do you think it difficult for people in high-rise buildings to communicate?
10.Why do many people buy flats in high-rise buildings?
11.What are the differences between residential buildings and office buildings?
12.How do the building styles influence people?
13.What are the differences between building style in the north and in the south?
14.What do you think is the most important to a good building?
Fashion and clothing
1.What type of clothes do you like best? 2.Do you like fashionable clothes?
3.What type of clothes do young people like in your city?
4.Do you like name brand clothes?
5.Why do a lot of young people like name brands?
6.How do you get the information about fashion?
7.What are the differences between people’s clothing nowadays and before?
8.Do you think clothing is important to one?
9.Where do you often shop? And how often?
10.Do you enjoy shopping?
11.What do you usually buy when going shopping?
12.Are there any shopping places near your home?
13.Whom do you usually go shopping with?
14.What are the differences between men and women in shopping?
15.What do you pay the most attention to when you shop? 16.
Photo and photography
1.Do you like photography/picture -taking?
2.What type of pictures do you like taking/watching?
3.When do people take photos?
4.Do Chinese people like taking photos?
5.How do you keep old photos?
6.What are the values of old photos?
7.What are the differences between digital cameras and film cameras?
Weather and season
1.What’s the weather like in your hometown?
2.Do you like the weather in your hometown?
3.What are the differences between the weather in your hometown and in Beijing?
4.What’s your favorite season?
5.Can weather influence your mood?
6.What influences does the weather bring to your mood?
7.What changes have happened in climate in China recently?
8.What’s the difference between the south and north in rainfall?
9.What is the season in which it rains most?
10.What influence does rainy days have on people’s life?
11.What do people usually when it rains?
Media
1.Do you prefer to contact your friends by letters or e-mails?
2.What are the differences between letters and e-mails?
3.When do you send e-mails?
4.What do you think of e-communication?
5.Who use the telephone most in your home?
6.Do you prefer to watch TV or listen to radio?
7.What type of TV/radio program do you like best?
8.What changes do you hope to take place in TV/radio programs?
9.Do you prefer to watch DVD at home or go to the cinema?
10.What type of film do you like best?
11.What changes have happened in film-producing in China recently?
12.Where do you get information?
13.Do you often read newspapers? 14.Do you often surf the Internet?
15.When do you watch TV?
16.What are the differences between the news on line and on TV?
17.What do you usually on line?
18.Do you like writing?
19.What type of books do you like reading?
Music and dance 1.Which type of music do you like best?
2.Why do you like this type of music?
3.Which type of music is popular nowadays?
4.What influence does music have on people’s life?
5.Which type of music do elderly people like?
6.What instruments can you play?
7.Do you think it good for kids to learn playing an instrument?
8.Do you think it neceary for school children to have music cla?
9.Do you like dancing?
10.Do Chinese people like dancing?
11.Does dance play important role in people’s life?
12.When do people usually dance?
13.Which type of dance is popular?
14.What’s the difference between the young and the old in dancing?
Birds and flowers
1.What birds can be seen in your city?
2.What birds have special meaning in Chinese culture?
3.Do people like birds in your city?
4.Do you think it neceary to protect birds?
5.Do you often send flowers to your friends?
6.What flowers do you like?
7.What flowers have special meaning in Chinese culture?
8.Do Chinese people often send flowers? 9.
Noise
1.Is there any noise around you /near your living place?
2.How do you think the noise should be controlled?
3.What influence does noise have on people’s life?
4.What are the harms of noise?
5.Is there any park or garden in your neighborhood?
6.How often do you go to the park?
7.Do you think it important to have a garden in the neighborhood?
8.What do people do in the park?
9.Why do people like going to the park?
