英语口语话题及范例.doc

1.A person I love
The person I love is my mother. She is kind and caring. The mother’s love is warm and great. She gave birth to me and brought me up. She is always standing behind me in all that I do.
I grew up lean on my mother, she is my first teacher, she taught how to read, how to write, how to get along with other people, how to be a positive and honest person.
She does everything she can to make me happy and never asks for anything in return. Mother is a best friend as well. When we stay together, we just like my sister. If I have some problems, I’ll ask her for help. And she will give me many advices. She is always there to encourage me to do the things I want to do. She is a good listener. She taught me the meaning of love. She will comfort when I’m sad, love me when I’m mad, pick me up when I’m down, encourage me when I need a shove.
2.The differences between motherly love and fatherly love if there are any?
According to my personal experiences, mother loves the newborn infant. Both their love are unconditional and unselfish. But I can feel motherly love is direct, she may talk about some trifle again and again. Most is about the weather the food. And she always nag at me. In the mother's eyes, we are always is a group of children. Let us feel warm
Fatherly love is deep but indirect. Father may not good at showing their loves or cares. They are annoyed, angry and disappointed because they are too worried about our life and future. Let us feel safe, at ease. I think it maybe because female are perceptual while male are rational.
3.What do you think makes a good heart?
To be kind thoughtful forgiving caring and generous honest
Control one’s temper esay to get get along with other and be a good listener
Keep a calm attitude
A person with a good heart should be able to treat others equally no matter what she or he is, how she or he looks or what they are doing. And always be brave to face the difficult in life and love life.
4.The different attitudes of people towards disabled people. what’s your attitude?
Some people look down upon disabled people, thinking they bring many troubles.
Some people they are poor, felt much sympathy for them
The social attitudes towards disabled people are often too protection, thinking they are granted unconditionally protection. My attitude is that we can’t look down upon disabled people, just treat them with the attitude towards ordinary people. we also need to fight for our right when conflict with them. We must face the problem
5.What are the benefits of keeping pets? And what are the troubles? P23
Good: in your lonely time it will accompany you. It will always be with you. It will always stay by your side (except dead). It is a good listener.
bad: if pets are not often bathed, they may become dirty and smelled. Pets can be infected easily. Pets’ mess is another trouble. Sometimes it is too noisy to keep a dog.
6.Make a short summary of the article Speaking Different Languages. P45
Man and women languages had the same words but different meaning depending on the way they were used. Woman would tend to exaggerate the factors and men react in an unsupportive manner, because they mistakenly take these expressions literally. It is important to rethink or translate what people have heard.
7.Find as many differences as you can between men and women. Give some examples.
Man and women seldom mean the same thing even when they use the same words.
Gender difference(性别差异)
Man and women languages had the same words but different meaning depending on the way they were used. There expressions were similar, but they had different connotations(含义) or emotional emphasis.
Example: “I feel like you never listen.” Using the word “never” is just a way of expressing the frustration.
Woman would tend to exaggerate the factor, men mistakenly take these expressions literally, react in an unsupportive manner. Men use speech as a means of conveying only facts and information.
Example: woman:“ we never go out.” Men respond” we went out last week.”
8.What are the causes of misunderstandings in human communication? Give some examples.
Reasons: pronunciation
Cultural difference
Character(outgoing introvert)性格差异
Gender difference
Emotion (nervous excited)
Communication Skill (gesture)
Situation1
英国人对家人的帮忙会说谢谢；而中国人认为帮助家里人是一种义务，所以无需言谢。Interactions: help between family members
Conventions: politeness
Chinese Conventions: one's own obligation, no need to thank or be thanked
British and American Conventions: Expect polite expressions like 'please', 'thank you', etc. 
Situation2
外国人觉得中国人对待他们是十分友好的，但是有时候会问出一些令他们感到尴尬的问题，比如问他们的年龄和工资。Interactions: conversation between people meeting for the first time
Conventions: conversational topics, privacy, taboo, openness, directness
Chinese Conventions: Many Chinese people tend to ask about age, marital status, and even salary when first meeting one another. To them, these are open conversational topics. Knowing a person's age helps them use appropriate terms of address, such as 'Lao Wang', 'Xiao Li', or kin terms such as 'uncle' or 'aunt', etc. And Chinese people pay a lot of attention to family life, so naturally talk of family members features as a common topic. As to salary, since there is a national system of salaries, people usually don't consider it a secret and they talk about it openly.
British and American Conventions: In Britain, weather and sports are common topics. Some taboo questions: age, marriage and salary. These are considered too private or too personal to talk about when first meeting someone.
 Situation3
中国人结伴出游的时候，如果买什么东西，去买的人一般都会按照人头购买，即便有人客气地说不要；和外国人结伴出游，如果你客气地推说不需要某样东西，那么对方真的就不会给你买。
Interactions: offering refreshments or drinks
Conventions: politeness, individual decision
Chinese Conventions: When a Chinese offers refreshments or drinks to his colleague, his colleague often declines the offer politely, because he doesn't want to trouble the person who offers and it also shows his politeness. Normally the person who offers still prepares or buys refreshments or drinks, and this will be expected by his colleague. Sharing food and drink when going out together is common among colleagues and friends.
British and American Conventions: Respect one's own decision, 'yes' means one wants it, 'no' means one doesn't, politeness is usually shown by the expression 'thank you' or 'please'.
9.What are the important factors for successful communications?
Speak clearly
Be confident
Organize well and put more focus on main idea
Pay attention to the different speaking habit of different sex, education, and cultural background.
10.What are the ways to avoid misunderstandings? P66
do not use words with different meanings.
Express and pronounce clearly.
Put focus on main point of your view
Do not pretend to understand
Ask when not sure about something.
Understand the sex, education and cultural background difference during communication.
It is important to rethink or translate what people have heard.
11.How do people define winning？What does winning mean to you?
The wealthy man
Got the achievement
Make big contribution
Achieve one’s goals in life
Overcome some problems or weakness
Career, wealth, fame or post, and power
Enjoy oneself
Enjoy my life, live happily and to realize my dream
12.Who do you think is a winner in your eye? Why?
Some one can overcome his weakness and restart after
e.g: Disabled athletes张海迪
Cruel fate has challenge in front, he did not depressed and destruction, but the life is full of confidence, with great tenacity and perseverance combating disease, suffered severe tests. Self-study university English and Japanese and German, many English translation
13.Do you regard yourself as a winner or loser? Why?
It's hard to say, I think we are all on the way to be a winner.
we are not prefect in our quality, but we are attempting
14.What characteristics of winners or losers have?
Preparedness, promptness及时，perseverance锲而不舍，politeness
Squash: gossip, criticism, indifference
Love one another, be faithful, be loyal, be unselfish, be truthful
Turn up a new idea, turn up with the determination to do a better job
Sb is intelligence, independent, have good capability to do sth
Sb is flexibility
15.Say something about Sir Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.p91
16. The psychology in our daily life by giving examples
Psychology plays an important role in our daily life. If we master some basic rules of it, we can more deeply understand and better our life. For instance,
1.the psychology of money. some guys would rather spend than save, while some tend to parsimony
2.the psychology in ads. Companies use psychology to increase business.
3.The psychology of shopping. As long as the prices of some goods come down, an increasing number of people will buy it.
4.The psychology in hospital. A patient will feel better after taking placebo.
17.should we tall the truth to a cancer patient? Give your reasons.
An optimistic attitude may have something to do with one’s health.
A sound mind in a sound body. The truth may break down the patient.
As the psychology of patient, think less of his disease may leave longer.
18.mak a summary of the text the psychology of money
Our individual money habits not only show our beliefs and values, but also stem from past problems. For many people, money is an important symbol of strength and influence. Thus some people can be addicted to money. These people can be divided into two groups, that is compulsive spenders and compulsive bargain hunters. To solve these problems, psychologists often use a method called “behavior therapy”.
19.John often gets angry with his son who does poorly in school even though he works hard. Give John some advice.
Maybe John’s son is not a learning material, but he had worked hard.
1. encourage him to keep on studying in stead of getting angry.
2. praise him for every little progress
3. tell him his father is always proud of him, and no matter what happen, father may stand behind him.
4. develop his other interest.
20.what can dream tell according to what you have learned in this unit? Which do you agree with?
①predict the future ②warn you of health dangers ③provide an answer to a problem④stimulate powerful physical response in the body ⑤present a work of art to a creative mind ⑥make you feel good ⑦make you feel bad ⑧point out personality flaws ⑨show you real feeling of something
I side with the last one. If you meet something scared you or exciting you, you may dream about it at night.
21.why do people dream according to the text
a simple physical cause
inner fears that are instantly recognized
22.share with your classmates any of your dreams which is happy, sad, horrible, weird, or funny
Once I went travelling with my parents, we settled down in a hotel. That night I have a horrible dream that when we crossed a narrow bridge I tripped over a stone and fell into the lake. I woke up and broke out in a sweat. The next day, we went to the park. I was so exciting that I forgot what happened last night. I didn’t remember the dream until I really fell into a lake. Luckily, the water was only to my waist. But it’s so weird that I still remember today.
23.What do you like/dislike to eat and drink? Give your reasons.
Vegetable: I like potato, onion, cucumber, pumpkin, celery, I don’t like carrot, though I know it’s healthy. And I don’t like parsley because I can’t bear the smell. I even hate eating broccoli because when I was a little child, I was forced to drink the soup made of the broccoli.
Fruit: I like almost every kind of fruit (get a lot of vitamins from it)
Meat: pork, beef, chicken, especially the sea-food because I lived near the sea.(help to build our body)
Cereal: rice and noodles(give us a lot of energy rapidly)
Drink: when I was a child, I like coke, juice, sprite. Gradually I grew up, I’ve learn about that these soft drinks is disadvantageous. So I change to drink mineral water, milk, yoghourt.
24.What (are the factors that) help to develop one’s eating habit? Give some examples.
The taste (many people don’t like eating vegetables)
The differences of region (students from north like noodles and dumplings while south people like rice; people brought up near the sea enjoy seafood, while people from the west like beef and lamb)
The figure (some girl are on a diet to keep a slim figure)
The conception of health (some foods are bad to eat, the nutrition, )
The family(poor rich)
The culture (the taboo, different religions)
25.What are your reactions when you see somebody eat things that you don’t like? Give some example?
People from one culture often think the food s that people from another culture eat are disgusting or nauseating.
It seems stranger to me
I may become sick when I see somebody eat things that you don’t like, for example the insects, spider, mouse, the brain of monkey.
26.Where do you prefer to eat to celebrate your birthday? In a campus cafeteria, a fast-food restaurant, an expensive restaurant, or at home? Why?
At home. It is the place where I live many years. My mom and dad are also there. I think it is the most comfortable and sweet place. I will invite my grandparents and my best friends to come to my home.
27.Make a summary of Cooking and cuisine
P211
28.Explain the (Italian) proverb “When in Rome, do as Romans do”? Talk about the importance of knowing different cultural by give some examples.
（引文"When in Rome, do as the Romans do" means that when you are visiting a new place, you should try to do as the people do who are from the place. It is a very good advice to tourists and visitors.
People from different places have different ways of acting, so it is important to try to do things the way local people do. Because this will make the local people feel more comfortable with you around, also you will feel closer to their culture. So, imitating the local ways, you will learn more about their culture and tradition, also, you will be able to make many new friends. Also, it could be fun. The traditions of the place you are visiting might be different and interesting at the same time. If you "do as the Romans do", you will do a lot of things that you wouldn't normally do. Who knows? Maybe you will discover some new talents in you.）
29.What characteristics come to mind when you think about Chinese, American and British people?
British is traditional, introverted, cautious, British people is not easy for a personal relationship with each other not easily trusting, depend on others, once established friendship with the British, they will cherish what, long-term trust you. Business is also very harmonious.

Chinese conservative, introverted, modesty, tolerate, Lack of creativity
Americans treat the enthusiasm, optimistic and easy, easy to approach, when you first make an American, he will be to you, and make you even ta