1 Some people think cultural traditions may be destroyed when they are used to attract tourists. Others believe that is the only way for cultural traditions to remain in the world. What is your opinion?
2 Many languages are dying out every year. Some people think that our lives will be simpler with fewer languages. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
3 Some people think students should study in groups while others think students should be allowed to study alone. Discuss both views and give y our own opinion.
4 People should learn history in order to solve present problems. Do you agree or disagree?
5 The exterior of a building is more important than its function. To what extent do you agree?
6 The production and transportation of food has been heavily influenced by modern technology. To what extent do you think this is a positive development?
7 Some governments spend vast sums of money on self-defense. Some people think they should spend the money on reducing poverty and other disadvantages rather than on weapons. To what extent do you agree?
8 The media should not report details of crime to the public. To what extent do you agree?
9 Some people think zoos should be closed because they are cruel to animals. To what extent do you agree?
10 We have developed into a “throw-away” society and fill our environment with plastic bags and rubbish that we can not fully dispose of. To what
extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion and what measures do you think should be taken to solve this problem?
第二篇：慎小嶷预测
这个月的亚太区预测里增加了有限的几个新题。请一定放心不是因为Pat故意要偷懒。我倒真的很希望能多告诉大家些新题，但再新再怪的题如果不考又有什么用呢？
口语Part 1:(Part 1 的固定开场白问题在《十天口语》第三版Day 2，答题思路请看Day 7的具体分析，不需要背，熟悉即可，加进自己的内容效果最佳不要怕) ☆ Do you wear a watch? What can your watch do for you? (Well,it helps me keep track of time./ Punctuality is a quality most people appreciate so my wrist watch
really helps me be punctual…) (Whenever I need to know what time it is, I just check my laptop or mobile phone… And I tend to believe I’m not alone in doing this. Not so many people wear a watch today…)
☆ What’s your favorite color? Are there any special meanings to colors?
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☆ What’s your favorite type of clothing? Will you still wear this kind of clothing when you get older? ()
☆ Have your neighbors help you with anything? Do you prefer to have old people or young people as your neighbors?
☆Do you like traveling? Where did you travel to in your latest trip? How long was the longest trip you took?
☆ How many hours do you spend on watching TV every day? What’re your favorite shows?
☆ What do you collect? Why do you collect them?
☆ What did you do on your first day at this school?
☆ What’s your favorite kind of weather? Do you like places with four seasons or has the same weather all year round?
☆ What're your favorite flowers? Do you think flowers are important to Chinese? Do Chinese give friends flowers on festivals? Do you prefer to have flowers or vegetables in gardens or at home?
☆ Do you live in a flat or a house? Is the rent expensive? If you have enough money, will you buy a house?
☆ What’s your favorite magazine? Is it an English magazine?
☆ Do you think fashions are important?
☆ What’s your favorite subject at school? Can you tell me something about it? ☆ Do you think people who major in your field can find a job easily when they graduate?
☆ What do you do on the Internet?
☆ Are traffic jams bad in your city?
☆ What did you do on last weekend?
☆ Do you prefer to watch movies at home or in a cinema? Why? (Day 7)
☆ Is your city good for young people? Is it good for elderly people?
☆ What're your favorite kinds of fruit and vegetables? (stuff like oranges and tomatoes, coz they're pretty juicy and ...they look cute, ... mouthwatering!)
☆What’re your favorite kinds of music? ☆Do you think children should learn how
to play musical instruments?(p96)☆ What sports do you play at school? What’re your favorite sports? / What do you do to improve your fitness?
☆Is swimming popular in China? Why? Do you have swimming classes at school? (p178)
☆Do you prefer to use emails or letters?
☆Who do you send emails to?
☆ Do you think telephones are important to our lives?
☆ How do you communicate with friends? How do young people communicate with elderly people?
☆ Do you think gardens and parks are important to a city?
☆Do you live in a house or an apartment/flat? Which room do you like best? Is there anything hanging on the wall? How do you decorate your house / flat? How many people live in your house/apartment?
☆What type of transportation do you usually take?
☆ Do you like watching TV?
☆ How was your child routine different from your daily routine now?
☆ Do you like advertisements? (Day 8: D：favorite ad)Why do we need ads? What are the differences between ads in different countries?
☆ Do you often go out with your friends or just invite them over to your place? What do you do together?
☆ Did you like reading books when you were little? What’s your favorite kind of books?
☆ What’s your favorite food? ☆Do you prefer to have meals at home or eat out? ☆How often do you eat out?
☆ Who does the cooking in your family? Have you ever learned how to cook? Do you like cooking?
☆Do you like home-cooked food?
☆ Do you think all family members should learn how to cook? (I guess so.
Otherwise when parents are away the kids can only rely on junk food like burgers or French fries. Cooking abilities give them more self-sufficiency…)
☆Do you think holidays are important to our lives? (Absolutely! Holidays are like … when we can get away from our daily grind and have some “time out”, you know… when we check out fun spots, hang out with friends and play sports without having to constantly worry about getting our work done. They are just so cool…)
☆Do you have a driver’s license? ( Yup, I got one quite a whole ago coz these days a driver’s license is really essential for getting a job. / Nope, coz the traffic in my city is so heavy and messy. I’m afraid of driving.)
☆ Do you think biking is safe? ( Basically, it is because most Chinese are pretty skilled bikers, you know. But… these days there’re more cars in cities so yes sometimes biking can be risky, especially at night...)
☆ Do you like shopping? ☆ Do you prefer big stores or small ones? ☆ Is there anything that you dislike about shopping?
☆Do you like watching TV? How long do you spent on that each day?
☆Do you prefer to study alone or to study with other students? / Do you prefer team
work or working alone? (Team work is more efficient and can really be more
effective as well. But when I work alone it seems like I tend to be more focused. So I guess it just depends on what kind of work it is and what kind of people I work with :D)
☆ How do people in your country celebrate birthday?
☆Do you like painting and drawing? ☆Do you think painting skills are important to kids?
☆ Do you like parties / partying? Do you like family parties or parties thrown by friends?
☆ What do you usually do during holidays? And what you don't do during holidays? ☆ What's your favorite leisure activity?
Do you prefer to type things or to write things on paper? (Well, most of the time I just type things, that’s for sure. Coz it’s much faster and I can save what I type and edit it later on. And most importantly, I can just cut and paste everything…)
What’s your favorite time of a day? ( Well, I feel great in the morning coz after a good night’s sleep I feel refreshed and invigorated and definitely do things better.) What kinds of tools or instruments you use at school? (things like PCs, test tubes, projectors and digital recorders…)
Are there any sports facilities on your campus? (There are tons of them. Like stadiums, gyms, soccer fields, tennis courts and swimming pools.)
What kinds of facilities are there in your community? (We’ve got a wide variety of facilities, like parking lots ,you know, places where you park your car, gyms, clinics, gardens, kids’ playgrounds, convenience stores…)
Why do we play music on festivals?
Which country do you plan to go to?
Do you often go to museums?
What kinds of gifts do you give your friends?
How do you get news?
Do you like visiting art galleries?
How should children improve their handwriting? (They can imitate nice examples of handwriting before developing their own style. And of course they should practice more and try not to type everything...)
Part 2 ： 9月可能出现的卡片题，积极合并答案
自然
☆ Describe a place that has a lot of water / a like or a river (Day 8:C)
Describe a tourist spot.(natural or man-made)
Describe a place that has been polluted / a trip that was not as good as you
planned.(Day 8:C)
☆ Describe your favorite wild animal. (Day 8: C)
☆ Describe a walk with a friend. (Day 8: C)
☆Describe your favorite season.
城市与建筑
☆ Describe a modern building. (可以和下面三个题中的一个合并在一起准备) ☆Describe a library. (Day 8:A)
☆ Describe a shopping mall. (Day 8:A)
☆Describe a museum or an art gallery （《十天口语》Day 10）
☆ Describe a long-distance trip.
☆ Describe a school you studied at before. (Day 7)
☆ Describe an architect. (这个网站是建筑师大全)
☆Describe a historical place in your hometown.
☆ Describe what you did on last weekend.
☆ Describe your favorite part of your city/hometown.(Day 8: A)/ a popular part of your hometown.
Describe a long journey.
(第三部分可能问到：What are the differences between traveling alone and traveling with others?）
Describe a good way to improve your health.（第三部分可能问到：
What should schools do to help children improve their health? P.E. class, gyms, less homework, more leisure time…
Do you think ads play important roles in improving public health? Not really coz there’s soooooooo much fast-food advertising in the media these days…)
☆ Describe a place that has a lot of water. ( Day 8 :swimming pool / lake )
☆Describe a picnic or a meal in a park. (综合Day 8 park 和 Day 10 a special meal) ☆Describe a trip that was not as good as you planned. (Day 8 ：C的 a place that has been polluted.说这个很合适)
Describe a store you like.
Describe a concert hall.
Describe a flat / house / home.
Describe your favorite place in your city.
☆Describe your favorite season(Day1).
组织与个人
☆Describe a family that is NOT yours. (《十天口语》Day 8:人物与组织)
☆Describe an old person.(Day 8:双语感悟)
☆ Describe a TV show host (《十天口语》第三版Day 10加上）
☆ Describe a person who lives with you.(同上）
☆ Describe a wealthy / rich person. (Day 8 B)
☆ Describe a famous person in a foreign country = an international celebrity. (Day 8
B)
Describe an organization.
Describe a workplace. ( 最简单的是说在某个organization 的part-time job或者您在上面一类话题已经准备好的某个store)
☆Describe a friend.（第三部分可能问到：Who are more important to you, family
members or friends?）
☆Describe a job you wish to do in the future./ Describe an ideal job.
☆ Describe a person who won a competition. (p139)
☆ Describe an intelligent person.
☆Describe a family member who you spend the most time with.
（第三部分可能问到：Who plays more important roles in raising children, the father or the mother? How many generations live together in a typical family in China?） ☆Describe a family picture.(p190 and p204)
☆ Describe a family friend when you were a child.(和上面的几个题完全可以共用一个答案)
Describe a good teacher.
Describe a famous person.
☆Describe a person you admire or still remember after many years.
☆Describe a person you helped before.
休闲娱乐
☆ Describe a TV program you don’t like. / Describe an interesting TV program that you can talk about with your family. （第三部分可能问到：Do you think TV programs play educational roles?）
☆ Describe a well-known traditional / children’s story (这里有很多)
☆ Describe a book you enjoyed as a child (儿童故事书。。。)
☆ Describe an exciting /extreme sport. (十天口语第三版Day 8)
Describe your favorite leisure activity.
Describe something you do to improve your health.
☆ Describe your favorite/ a healthy lifestyle
☆Describe an ad that helped you buy something.
☆Describe a vehicle you wish to own.(Day8 p185)
☆ Describe your favorite book. (just a biography of a famous person. Day
p138-p145) :p)
Describe your favorite song/piece of music.
（第三部分可能问到：Why do stores play background music?）
☆ Describe your favorite movie / film.
☆Describe a song you heard when you were a child.(有个很逗的网站是专门讲这个的/?t=es&p=1744&c=11）
☆ Describe a course you took when you were a child. (音乐课呗。。。)
☆Describe a piece of interesting news you learned from a magazine./ ☆Describe an article in a magazine.
（第三部分可能问到：Are writing skills important to journalists? How do the journalists influence the public views?）
☆ Describe a foreign country you wish to live in or a foreign culture you wish to experience (Day 8 Britain)
Describe a habit. (watching that TV program)
☆Describe a game you played when you were a child ( but not a sport).(Day 8:D)
☆ Describe an activity / happy event in your childhood.(同上)(第三部分可能问到：What are the differences between the games now and the games in the past?） Describe a creative activity you did when you were a child.
Describe an interesting story.
Describe a performance.
☆Describe a party you prepared for others. (Day 8: wedding后面的附加话题） Describe a photo.
事件
☆ Describe something you did with your computer(
☆ Describe an exciting message/ Describe a happy event that happened recently (Day 8 F)
☆Describe a change in your life. (p208)
☆ Describe a piece of work that was done quickly.
☆Describe a piece of good news you heard on the phone.
Describe something you did when you studied a foreign language.（第三部分可能问：What are the advantages of learning a foreign language?
What are the difficulties you met in learning a foreign language?)
Describe a success.
☆Describe an interesting speech.
（这题最大的误区就是以为单词speech非要是Obama那一级的人做的演讲。如果Obama的演讲大家都背那就是等着拿低分。为什么不说个轻松的speech呢？比如十天口语里分析的一次课堂对于学生来说要真实说得多。第三部分可能问到：Why is public speaking difficult for children? Why are people nervous when they give a public speech?)
☆Describe something when you cooperated with others. (同上)
Describe an important letter you wrote to another person. (这个可以共享上文或者下文的任何一个事件的描述)
☆Describe a skill you wish to learn.(Day 10: Cooking)
☆Describe a science class（十天口语新版Day 10或者，页面左侧全都是不同的science class） ☆ Describe an enjoyable visit.（同上）
Describe an important stage in life.
☆ Describe some advice your received before.(有很多可能性，不过最容易准备的应该是决定出国的过程中你的父母和朋友给你的建议，请参考“十大弱智话题”3) ☆ Describe a conversation. (同上）
☆ Describe a public event. (Day 8 F)
☆ Describe an important plan for the future.
☆ Describe a situation when you needed help. (同上)
☆ Describe a letter you received.
Describe a sports event.
Describe a great achievement your country has made.
☆Describe a course you hope to take if you have time.
Describe a lecture.
物品
☆ Describe an old/antique thing in your family. (参考 “十大弱智话题”第八个) ☆ Describe something you bought but you didn’t use often. (Day 8: E)
☆ Describe a piece of jewellery. (http://www.clogau.co.uk/这个网站每个链接点开之后都有详细介绍…)
☆Describe a toy.(Day 8: kite)
☆ Describe something that was made by yourself. (The same idea or check out this link: ) Describe something that you want to buy in the future.
☆Describe a piece of electronic equipment/ an electronic device you wish to
buy.(Day 8:E)
Describe something that helps you learn English.(这个有很多人会说MP3,但是如果你说iPhone可以帮你学英语就肯定没有人跟你一样,Day 8)
☆ Describe your favorite clothes for special occasions.(Day 8:traditional clothing) （第三部分可能问到：Why do employees wear uniforms in some companies? ) Describe a gift you gave another person.
Describe a painting.
Describe a sculpture.
弱智卡片（Day 10)
☆Describe a traffic jam.(十大弱智话题的第1个)
（第三部分可能问到：
What do you think of children driving? Well, it would be reaaaaaaaally risky for
average kids to drive alone. Maybe it's fun if their parents are with them.But anyway, the risk is soooooo real...What are the causes of traffic jams?
Will traffic jams be even more important in the future?)
Describe something that made you wait for a long time.(同上)
☆Describe a good law.
☆Describe a person who’s good at cooking.(Day 10)
（第三部分可能问到：Do you think it’s important for kids to learn cooking skills? Yup. They will be more independent if they do. And it would definitely be more economical than going to restaurants if they could cook meals for themselves... Do you like home-cooked food? )
☆ Describe a shop.
☆ Describe an unhappy shopping experience.
☆ Describe the food you ever had that had the worst taste.
☆ Describe a restaurant (见Day 10（下）的第3题餐馆)
Describe a plan you made. (第三部分可能问到：Why do people have goals?）
1 With international trade increasing, many goods, including goods for daily use such as dairy products, are transported to other countries. To what extent
do you think the benefits of the international shipping outweigh its
drawbacks?
2 Memorisation of information by frequent repetition (rote learning) plays a role in most education systems. Do the disadvantages of this method
outweigh its disadvantages?
3 Governments should not invest in national defense. They should put the money in helping the poor instead. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
4 Environmental problems are so big today that they cannot be solved by individual countries or individual people. We have reached the stage that environmental problems must be solved for international effort. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
5 Some people think modern games do not help children develop a wide range of skills while traditional games can do much better for developing such skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
6 All the new buildings in cities and towns should be built in the traditional style. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
7 Students at schools and in universities can learn more from lessons with teachers than from other sources (such as the Internet and TV). To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
8 Today the news media can have an enormous influence on people's ideas and opinions. What are the causes of this phenomenon and to what extent do you think this is positive or negative?
9 Many people are afraid to leave their homes because of crime. Some believe that more action should be taken to prevent crime while others feel little can be done to stop crime. What is your opinion?
10 Some people believe that the range of modern technology available to
individuals is increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. What is your view?