Topic #9 Sports or Library?

Questions for Discussion:

1. Should the universities invest more money on sports or on their libraries?

2. How about in your university, which of the two was given more importance?

3. Has your university produced a successful or famous athlete?

4. Where do you think students should concentrate more? on their studies or on sports?

5. What kind of sports equipment or facilities does your university have?

6. Describe the library in your university.

7. Where did you spend most of your time when you were a student? At the gym or at the library?

Topic #8 Luck vs. Hard Work

Questions for Discussion:

1. How would you define "luck"?

2. How would you define "hard work"?

3. Is it luck or hard work that brings success?

4. Do you believe in your fate?

5. Has there been a time that you felt lucky?

6. When was the time when you worked so hard and it paid off?

7. Was there ever a time that you have worked so hard but you did not get what you have expected?

8. What do you say to people who believes in luck?

9. Do you ever buy a lottery ticket?

10. How do you plan to achieve success in your life?

Topic #7 City VS. Country

Questions for Discussion:

1. Why do you like living in the city?

2. Would you like to live in the country?

3. What are some of the advantages of living in a city?

4. What are the advantages of living in the country?

5. What are some of the disadvantages of living in a city?

6. What are the disadvantages of living in the country?

7. Do you know the neighbors who live near you?

8. What's your favorite city? Why?

9. What city do you live in?

10. What part of this city do you like the best?

11. Can you describe the city?

12. What aspects of life in the city would you complain about?

13. What do you think should be done to improve living condition in cities?

14. What are some differences between living in the city and living in the country?

15. What size city is best to live in? Why?

Topic #6 How Do Movies and TV Affect People's Lives?

Question for Discussion: TV

1. Are you going to watch TV tonight?

2. If so, what will you watch?

3. What did you watch on TV yesterday?

4. What is one of your favorite TV shows?

5. Why do you like it?

6. When is it on?

7. Does you father like it, too?

8. Do you prefer listening to the radio or watching TV?

9. Do you think it is good for children to watch TV?

10. Do you think TV is educational?

11. Do you think that there is too much violence on TV?

12. Do you think that TV is a good thing?

13. If you could design a new television show to boost ratings, what kind of show would it be?

14. How often do you watch TV.

15. What are the advantages of watching TV?

16. What are the disadvantages of watching TV?

17. What do you usually watch on TV?

18. What kind of TV shows do you not like? Why?

19. What TV commercials do you like? Which ones do you hate?

20. Do you think that TV makes people lazy?

21. Does TV make a person passive? Does TV take away a person's ability to think for himself or herself?

22. Do you think that TV prevents people from communicating?

Topic #6 How Do Movies and TV Affect People's Lives?

Question for Discussion: Movies

1. What is your all-time favorite movie?

2. Are there any kinds of movies you dislike? If so, what kinds? Why do you dislike them?

3. Do you like to watch horror movies?

4. Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction books? How about movies?

5. Do you usually watch movies at home or at a movie theater?

6. Have you ever seen the same movie more than once? If yes, name it (or them).

7. How often do you go to movies?

8. How often do you rent videos?

9. If a book has been made into a movie, which do you prefer to do first, see the movie or read the book? Why?

10. What do you think of people who talk during movies at a movie theater?

11. What is the best movie you have ever seen?

12. Who was in it?

13. Why did you like it?

14. Who was the director?

15. What is the scariest movies you have ever seen?

16. What's the funniest?

17. What's the most romantic?

18. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?

19. What was the last movie you saw?

20. Was it good?

21. Who did you see it with?

22. Which do you like better, action movies or comedy movies?

23. Which movie star would you most like to meet?

24. Who is your favorite actor or actress?

25. What do you think of reality shows?

26. Do you think that films can be educational?

27. Is there a movie you could watch over and over again?

28. Who's your favorite director?

29. How much does it cost to see a movie in your country?

30. Do you usually rent DVD's or videos when you rent movies?

Topic # 5 Should a factory be built in your community?

Questions for Discussion:

1. Are there any factories or industrial areas where you live?

2. Is there a lot of pollution?

3. How has the world changed since you were a child? (technology, values, environment, health)

4. What is the most important issue facing the environment today?

5. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.

6. What kind of factories are there in your city?

7. What are the benefits of having a factory in your community?

8. What are the disadvantages of building a factory in your community?

9. If you are in favor of having a factory built in your community, what kind of factory is safe?

10. If you are opposed to this, what kind of factory is dangerous?

11. What kind of jobs do people in your community have?

12. What other improvements can you recommend for your community to have?

13. Is your local government doing its best to improve your area?

14. Have you ever been inside a factory?

15. How do you think factories can improve their technology more?

Topic # 4 Are books more important than experience?

Questions for Discussion:

1. Which is more important, the essential skills in life you've learned to develop on your own or the artificial structure in college about the "real" life?

2. What kind of world do you think this would be if people never went to school?

3. Does education guarantee a good job?

4. Do you know anyone who does not know how to read or write?

5. Does your country provide a good public school system?

6. Do parents home-school their children in your country?

7. What do you think of home-schooling?

8. Do you know anyone who was home-schooled?

9. Once you graduate from a university should you stop learning?

10. What are some ways a person can continue to learn?

11. How many books do you read per year?

12. What sort of books do you enjoy reading?

13. Which book have you read recently?

14. Some people don't read books or read very rarely, Why?

15. Do you know any famous person who didn't have a university degree?