话题一: Personality
1. Which three words would you say best describe your personality? Give examples for each word you choose.
2. Do you think a person’s person results more from nature (they were born with that personality) or from nurture (their family/society/culture formed their personality)? Why? Are there certain personality traits you think result from nature and others that you think result from nurture?
3. Do you think people can change their personality through effort? (For example, can a person who is shy change his personality to be outgoing?) Can society or culture change a person’s personality?
4. If you could significantly change your personality, would you choose to? Why?
话题二：Annoying
1. What annoys you most about living with other people? Do you think you have any habits that annoy the people you live with? If you are annoyed by your family’s living habits, do you try not to be annoyed or do you talk to them about it?
2. What new pet peeves do you have as a result of recent technology (texting, , mp3)? When do you think it’s not appropriate to text? Why?
3. What are some things that annoy you that don’t annoy your best friend and vice versa? Why do you think these things are different for different people?
If there is someone in your class or work that really annoys you but you must be around that person, how do you deal with that situation? Do you think there’s a way to make that person seem less annoying to you?
话题三：Acceptance
1. How much do you care about what other people think of you? Do you feel like are you are confident or insecure? Do you feel self-conscious most of the time?
2. If you want to gain other people’s acceptance, what do you think is the best way to do that? Should you try to be similar to them? Should you be yourself? What should you do if the people around you don’t accept you?
3. Do you care most about people accepting you according to physical standards, mental standards, emotional standards, personality? If your classmates don’t like your personality, do you think you should try to change it?
4 .Do you pay attention to fads and trends? Do you care about fashion or technology fads? If you don’t care about these things, why?
话题四：Health
1. On a scale of one to ten (1 being the most healthy, 10 being the least healthy) how healthy do you think you are? In what areas of health do you think you are the healthiest? Least healthy?
2. What do you think are your ‘healthy habits’? Do you drink enough water? What are some of your unhealthy habits? Do you ever smoke or drink alcohol?
3. How often do you exercise? What kinds of exercise do you like? What kinds do you not like?
4. How is your diet? What thing do you think are important to a healthy, balanced diet? What is one thing you think you could do to improve your diet?
话题五：Generations
1. What characterizes the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s generations? How are these generations similar? How are they different?
2. What generation are you a part of? How has being a part of that generation shaped your character? Do you think you would be a different person if you had been born 50 years ago?
3. How is your generation different from your parents’ generation? What kinds of generational conflicts do you have with your parents? How different is your grandparents’ generation from your parents’?
4. Is there a particular generation of the last 100 years that you feel has particularly good character? Particularly bad character? Why?
话题六：Expectations
1. What kinds of expectations do your parents and grandparents have of you? Do you feel like you are fulfilling their expectations? What happens if you fail to meet their expectations?
2. What kinds of expectations do your friends have of you? Do you ever feel like your friends have unrealistic expectations of you? If so, how do you deal with that situation?
3. Do you think it’s better for your boss/teacher to have very high expectations of you or low expectations of you? Why? What kinds of expectations do you have for your teacher/boss?
4. What is expected of you culturally? If, culturally, you do something that is unacceptable, how do other people express their disapproval? How does their disapproval affect you?
话题七：Dreams
1. Do you often remember your dreams? What’s the most recent dream you can remember? Did you dream it in color or in black and white?
2. Do you ever have recurring dreams? What are they about? Why do you think you dream about that specific thing? Are your recurring dreams usually good dreams or nightmares?
3. If you see a certain image in a dream, do you think it has a specific meaning? For example, if you saw the following things in a dream, what do you think they would mean: a road, your middle school, your mom, a bird, sand, an open door, darkness, teeth?
4. Have you ever dreamed something that came true in real life? Do you think it’s possible to know something in a dream before it happens in real life? Do you think you dream about that thing because you fear it or is there another explanation?
话题八：Dreams
1. Do you often remember your dreams? What’s the most recent dream you can remember? Did you dream it in color or in black and white?
2. Do you ever have recurring dreams? What are they about? Why do you think you dream about that specific thing? Are your recurring dreams usually good dreams or nightmares?
3. If you see a certain image in a dream, do you think it has a specific meaning? For example, if you saw the following things in a dream, what do you think they would mean: a road, your middle school, your mom, a bird, sand, an open door, darkness, teeth?
4. Have you ever dreamed something that came true in real life? Do you think it’s possible to know something in a dream before it happens in real life? Do you think you dream about that thing because you fear it or is there another explanation?
话题九：Holidays
1. What is your favorite Chinese holiday? Which Western holiday most interests you?
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?
3. What is the history of your favorite Chinese holiday? (For example, what’s the history of Dragon Boat Festival?)
4. What did you think of the National Day celebration?
5. Describe your ideal holiday.
话题十：Happiness
1. Define happiness. Is it a feeling, a state of being, a decision? Is happiness something that comes and goes with changing circumstances or something you can always have?
2. What things in life and the world make you happy? Why do those things make you happy? What things take away your happiness?
3. Complete the sentence: “I would be completely happy if…”
4. Are you the kind of person who actively tries to achieve or obtain the things you think will make you happy or are you more the kind of person who tries to accept your situation as it is and learn to be happy in it? Do you think it’s better to be resigned to your fate or try to change it? 下载本文
