General English 1

SPEAKING TOPICS
Part 1: Greeting
- What’s your full name/first name/surname?
- Can you spell your first name/surname?
- How are you today?

Part 2: Social Interaction

1. What do you study?/ What’s your major? What year are you in?
2. Where do you come from?/ Where are you from?
3. Where’s your hometown?
4. How many people are there in your family? Who are they?
5. What’s your mother’s (or father’s) job?
6. Who’s your favourite family member? Why do you like him/ her?
7. Do you have any brothers or sisters? Talk about them. (If not, do you like
to have a brother or a sister?)
8. What’s your hobby?/ What do you like to do?
9. What’s your favourite food and drink?
10. What do you often do in the morning?
11. What do you usually do in the afternoon?
12. What do you often do in the evening?
13. What do you often do in your free time?
14. What do you like doing in your free time?
15. What do you often do on holidays?
16. What do you often do at weekends?
17. How often do you visit your parents?

Part 3: Description
1. Please describe your major.
- What is your major?
- Why did you choose your major?
 - What do you like about your major?
- Are you happy with your study now?
- What do you need to do to study well?
2. Describe your family
- How many people are there in your family?
- What do they do?
- What do you usually do with your family?
- Who is your favorite family member?
- What does he/she like?
3. Please describe your favorite family member
- Who is your favorite family member?
- What do you usually do with that person?
- What’s his/ her job?
- What are his/her hobbies?
- Why do you like him/her?
4. Please describe your favorite person
- Who is your favorite person?
- What does he/she do?
- What does he/ she like?
- How often do you see that person?
- Why do you like him/her?
5. Please describe your best friend
- Who is your best friend?
- Where does he/ she come from?
- What’s his/ her job?
- What are his/ her hobbies?
- Why do you like him/ her?
6. Please describe your favorite object
- What is your favorite object?
- What does it look like?
 - Did someone give it to you?
- What can you use it for?
- Why is it important to you?
7. Please describe a useful object for your life
- What is a useful object for your life?
- How does it look like?
- Who bought it for you?
- What can you use it for your life?
- Why is it useful for your life?
8. Please describe a useful object for your study
- What is a useful object for your study?
- How does it look like?
- Who bought it for you?
- What can you use it for?
- Why is it useful for your study?
9. Please describe your favorite place for traveling
- Where is your favorite place for traveling?
- How do you go there?
- What are some tourist attractions there?
- What activities are you able to do there?
- Why is it your favorite place for traveling?
10. Please describe your favorite place for eating out
- Where is your favorite place for eating out?
- What kind of food do you usually eat there?
- How far is it from your house?
- How often do you go there?
- Why do you like it the most?
11. Please describe your favorite place for relaxation
- Where is your favorite place for relaxation?
- What does it look like?
 - What do you usually do there to relax?
- Which one do you prefer, stay there alone or with another one?
- Why do you like it the most?
12. Please describe your favorite city in the world
- Which city in the world is your favorite one?
- Why do you like it?
- What can we do there?
- How can we travel there?
- What’s the weather like there?
13. Please describe your favorite place in ASEAN countries
- Where is your favorite place in ASEAN countries?
- Why do you like that place?
- How can we travel there?
- What can we do there?
- How are the people there?
14. Please describe your hometown
- Where are you from?
- How far is it from Can Tho city?
- Are there any tourist attractions in your hometown?
- What do people in your hometown often do on weekends?
- Do you love your hometown? Why?
15. Please describe your favorite place in Vietnam
- Where is your favorite place in Vietnam?
- How can we travel there?
- What can we do there?
- What is special about that place?
- Do you want to go there again? Why or why not?
16. Please describe your house
- Where is it located?
- What does it look like?
 - How many rooms are there in the house?
- What are there in your favorite room?
- What do you usually do in your favorite room?
17. Please describe your favorite room in your house
- Which is your favorite room in the house?
- Why do you like it the most?
- What is there in that room?
- What do you usually do there?
- Do you want to make any changes to it?
18. Please describe your classroom
- Where in the school is your classroom?
- What does it look like?
- What are there in it?
- Why or why not do you like it?
- What do you want to change the most in your classroom?
19. Please describe your free time activities
- What’s your favorite free time activity?
- Who do you usually do it with?
- Where do you usually do it?
- Why do you like doing it?
- How do you feel after doing it?
20. Please describe your daily activities.
- What do you usually do in the morning?
- What do you often do in the afternoon?
- What do you often do in the evening?
- What do you often do on
weekends? What do you often do
on holidays?
21. Describe your activities with your family
- What activities do you usually do with your family?
- When do you often do these activities with your family?
 - Where do you often do these activities?
- How often do you do these activities?
- How do you feel about these activities?
22. Please describe your activities on Tet holiday
- When does Tet holiday take place in Vietnam?
- What do you usually do on Tet holiday?
- Why is Tet holiday important to you?
- What do you like most about Tet holiday?
- How do you feel on Tet?
23. Please describe your activities on holidays
- What do you usually do on holidays?
- Where do you usually go on holidays?
- Who do you want to spend time with on holidays?
- How long do your holidays usually last?
- How do you feel on holidays?
24. Please describe your activities at weekends
- What do usually do at weekends?
- What time do you usually wake up at weekends?
- With whom do you want to spend time at weekends?
- Where do you usually go at weekends?
- How do you feel at weekends?
25. Please describe your favorite food and drink.
- What’s your favorite food and drink?
- When do you often have it?
- Where do you often have it?
- How often do you enjoy it?
- Why do you like it?
26. Please describe your eating habit
- How many meals a day do you have?
- What is your main meal?
 - With whom do you usually eat?
- What time do you usually have your meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner)?
- Do you like fast food?
27. Please describe a healthy diet
- Do you usually have a healthy diet?
- How many meals do you have a day?
- What kinds of food do you usually eat?
- What kinds of drink is healthy?
- Who prepares the healthy diet for you?
28. Please describe your activities last Tet holiday
- How was your last Tet holiday?
- Where did you go last Tet holiday?
- What did you do last Tet holiday?
- Did you do something with your family last Tet holiday?
- How did you feel?
29. Please describe your activities last summer
- How was your last summer?
- Where did you go last summer?
- What activities did you do last summer?
- With whom did you spend time last summer?
- How did you feel?
30. Please describe your activities last weekend
- What did you do last weekend?
- Where did you that activities/ those activities?
- With whom did you spend time last weekend?
- Did you cook any special dishes last weekend?
- How did you feel?

Part 4: Discussion
1. It is good to go shopping in the shopping centre. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
2. It is good to go shopping in the outdoor market. Do you agree or disagree?
Why?
3. Eating fast food is not good for people. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
4. Eating fast foods is good for people. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
5. Eating out is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
6. Cooking meals at home is good. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
7. Eating at home is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
8. Having a part-time job is not good for students. Do you agree or disagree?
Why?
9. Having a part-time job is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
10. Doing outdoor activities is good for people. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
11. Doing volunteer work is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
12. Watching TV is a good free time activity for people. Do you agree or disagree?
Why?
13. Travelling is a good free time activity for people. Do you agree or disagree?
Why?
14. Reading is a good free time activity for people. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
15. Shopping is good for people. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
16. Playing sports is good for people. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
17. Using Facebook is not good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
18. Using social networks is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
19. Using Facebook is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
20. Learning different foreign languages is useful for students. Do you agree or
disagree? Why?
21. Learning English is good for students. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
22. It is good to live in the countryside. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
23. It is good to live in a small town. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
24. It is good to live in a big city. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
25. It is good for students to live in the boarding house. Do you agree or disagree?
Why?
26. It is good for students to live in the dorm. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
27. It is good to live in a small house. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
28. It is good to live in a big house. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
29. It is good to live in a small family. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
30. It is good to live in a big family. Do you agree or disagree? Why?