Lesson 3: Life in the city

The city The countryside

Criteria
Advantage Disadvantage Advantage Disadvantage

Environment

Food

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 The city The countryside
Criteria
Advantage Disadvantage Advantage Disadvantage

Traffic

Convenience

Work & study

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Lesson 4, 5: Foods & diet
1. What is your favorite snack?
2. What unhealthy food do you love?
3. What food can also be a medicine?
4. What kinds of food did you eat when you were a child? Do you eat the same things now?
5. What is the best food to eat when you are sick?
6. How often do you eat out?
7. If you could have any food right now, what would it be?
8. How would you describe your country’s food?
9. What is your favorite food? What is in it?
10. Do you eat a healthy diet? Why or why not?
11. Describe your favorite food. What ingredients are in it? Why is it your favorite?
12. Do you eat different foods depending on the season or weather? Give some examples.

Additional: Restaurants
13. What is your favorite restaurant near where you live?
14. What is the best restaurant you have ever eaten at?
15. What types of foreign food restaurants have you eaten at?
16. What (besides good food) makes a restaurant great?
17. Do you prefer to eat at your parents’ house or a restaurant?
18. What is the worst restaurant you have eaten at?

Lesson 6, 7: Books
19. Do you read many books?
20. How often do you read books?
21. Did your parents read to you when you were a child?
22. What are some of the advantages of books vs. movies? How about the disadvantages of
books vs. movies?
23. What was the last book you read about?
24. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction books?
25. Do you think people don’t read enough books these days?
26. If you could only read one more book for your entire life, what would it be?
27. Who is an author that you like? Why do you like their books?
28. What is one example of traditional literature in your country? Did you have to read it in
school? Do you like reading the traditional literature of your country?

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Lesson 8: Family
29. Introduce your family.
30. What is one (or more) thing about your family that you do not like?
31. What is the best thing about your family?
32. What is the biggest lie you have ever told your parents?
33. Who is the most powerful person in your family?
34. What do you think of people who marry and decide not to have children?
35. Is spanking or hitting a good way to discipline children? Why or why not?
36. How do you think western families and eastern families differ?
37. What do you think about single parents (people who do not get married and raise the
children by his/ her own)?
38. Do you prefer to live with your parents-in-law after getting married?

Lesson 12: Travel

39. Where do you like to go on vacation?
40. When was the last time you travel and how was it?
41. What do you need to bring on a trip? Do you often forget anything?
42. Do you prefer package tours or making your own trip?
43. Where did you spend your last vacation? What did you do?
44. What are some of the benefits of traveling alone and traveling with a group?
45. What is the longest journey you have ever made?
46. What’s the best way to travel? (by plane, ship, train, car, etc.)
47. Where is the most amazing place you have been?
48. Where are the best places for: Adventure vacations? Historical vacations? Shopping
vacations? Party vacations? Relaxing vacations?
49. What do you like to do while you are traveling? (Relax, shop, sight see, experience local
culture…)
50. What souvenirs have you brought back from traveling?
51. What is the most interesting tourist attraction you’ve traveled to in your own country?
52. What do you pay most attention to when you go on a trip?

Lesson 13: Traditions & Customs

53. What do you like about your culture?
54. What don’t you like about your culture?
55. Do you follow all of your country’s traditional customs?

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 56. Have you ever traveled abroad?
If yes, where and what was it like? What customs were different from your country’s customs?
If no, would you like to go to abroad? Where and what do you think it will be like?
57. What are some of the most important customs of your country? How about Japan or China?
How about America or Australia?
58. What are some strange foreign customs that you have heard of?
59. Are there any customs in your country that visitors might find strange?
60. How do people greet each other in your country? Has it changed from the past?
61. What are some customs in your country that people should follow when they are eating? Do
you think other countries have the same custom?
62. What are some strange wedding customs in your country?
63. Is there any essential difference between your culture and the others?
64. Could you marry someone from a completely different culture? Why? Why not?
65. What may surprise foreigners in your culture?
66. Have you ever experienced any cultural differences among people?
67. How important is it to know the culture of the country that you are going to visit?
68. What is considered polite in your country?
69. What is considered impolite in your country?
70. Do you know people from other cultures?
71. How do you feel when you are in a completely new culture?
72. What does the proverb “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” mean?
73. Do you think it is important to follow a country’s customs when you visit there?

Lesson 14, 15: The weather and environment

Part 1: The weather:

74. What is the weather like in your country? What is the symbol of each season?
75. What places and activities people usually choose for each season?
76. What is your favorite time of the year?
77. What are some festivals or celebration in each season?

Part 2: Environment

78. What are some of the most serious environmental problems?

79. What are ten things individuals can do to help the environment?
80. Which countries cause the most pollution?
81. How will our children be affected by climate change?
82. What kinds of technologies do you know of that might help stop environmental problems?

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 83. What are some local environmental problems you have noticed?
84. Do you think houses will be more environmentally friendly in the future?
85. What will happen if we keep polluting the environment?

Part 3: Natural disasters

86. How many types of natural disaster can you name? Which is the worst?
87. What natural disasters are common in your country?
88. Have you ever been through a natural disaster? Tell your group about your experience.
89. Think of three natural disasters. What can you do to stay safe during and after those natural
disasters?
90. How can technology lessen the damage caused by natural disasters?

Lesson 16: Holidays

91. What is your favorite holiday? Has your favorite holiday changed since you were small?
92. On what holiday do people in your country eat a lot of food?
93. Do you give gifts on any holidays?
94. What foreign holidays do you know about?
95. What is the strangest holiday or festival you have heard of?
96. Do you think that all countries have similar holidays?
97. Talk about your best memory from a holiday.
98. Are there any holidays that you really don’t like?
99. Do you think your country should have more, or less, holidays? Why?
100. Does your country have parades during holidays? Have you ever been to a parade?
101. What is the most important holiday?

Lesson 17: Natural wonders

102. What natural wonder you love to visit the most?
103. What are the three most famous natural wonders in your country?
104. What natural wonders are damaged during war/ natural disasters?
105. Why should humans try to protect natural wonders?
106. Have you ever been to a natural wonder?
107. What are three natural wonders you would like to see before you die?
108. What bad things have visitors done to the natural wonders?
109. How many countries with natural wonders can you name? Which country do you think has
the most natural wonders?
110. Would you rather visit natural wonders or man-made wonders?

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