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Part 3 Topic

 Questions

• How has the (news) media changed in China in the past few years? (e.g., 10, 20 or even 60 years)
• (As above) Compare the media today with traditional media in China.

• Are young people and older people interested in the same news content?
• Are women and men interested in the same news content?

• Are there any differences between shopping in rural areas and shopping in urban areas?
• (As above) Are there any differences between the way people in rural areas and people in urban areas spend money? (Compare the income and consumption levels of urban and rural people.)
• In China, how have people's shopping habits changed, compared to years ago?

• Is saving money in the city and in rural areas the same or different?
• How is the way people save today different to the way people used to save, years ago?

• How do people communicate with those who are living in other countries? 
• How has this situation changed, compared to years ago? 

• Compare office equipment today with office equipment of years ago.

• Do people in China prefer to read in a library or at home?
• (As above) Compare reading at home with reading in a library.
• Compare looking up material in a library with using the internet for this purpose.

• Compare the importance of domesticated animals today in China to the situation of many years ago.

• Do you think people should wait for a special occasion to give gifts or should they give gifts whenever they feel like it? (Compare the value of each.)
• Do people give the same kinds of gifts to both boys and girls?
• (As above) Compare the kinds of gifts that boys like with those that girls like.
• Compare the kinds of gifts that well-educated people like with those that less educated people like.
• How are gifts that people give each other today different to gifts when you were a child?
• Do men and women have the same attitudes towards gift giving? (Or: Do men and women usually give the same kinds of gift?)

• How are toys today different to toys of the past? (How have toys changed?)

• How has family life (or, families) changed in China in the recent past, for example, in the past 20 or 50 years?
• Have these been changes for the better or for the worse?
• (Similar to above) Has the influence of family on people changed, compared to many years ago?

• Compare outdoor sports and indoor sports. 
• Do boys and girls like to do the same kinds of things outdoors?
• Do old people and young people like doing the same kinds of things outdoors?

• What do you think are some of the differences between (advantages and disadvantages of) working outdoors, compared to say, working in an office?

• Compare the advice that you could get from a professional who doesn't know you, and the advice from family or friends.

• Compare studying English in China to studying English in an English-speaking country.

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of going to see a live sports event, such as a football match, compared to watching the event at home on TV?
• Compare TV sports broadcasts with TV news programs or other TV programs.
• Do people have the same feeling when they see a sports match on TV and when they see it live?

• Compare the sports that were popular to watch before to the sports that people like watching today.
• Compare playing a sport (e.g., a game of badminton) just for fun with playing a sport in a serious competition.
• Do males (boys) and females (girls) both play the same kind of sports?
• Do you think that everybody has the same opportunities to participate in sport?
• Do young people and old people participate in the same sports or the same kinds of physical exercise?

• Do young people and old people have the same attitudes towards advertisements?

• How have hotels changed (improved) in recent years (or, compared to the past)?

• Compare the materials and fashions of today's clothing with those of the past.
• Do men and women have the same buying habits when they buy clothes?

• (Similar to above) Do men and women have the same attitudes towards clothes? (Compare the differences)

• Compare brand-name clothes and non-brand-name clothes. Besides the price, is there much difference between the two?
• How much do overseas fashion trends influence fashion styles in China? 
• (Similar to above) Compare traditional Chinese clothing with modern (western) clothes.

• Do people in China and western people wear different kinds of (styles of) clothes?

• Do people prefer to buy electronic items such as cell-phones in a street market or in a shop?　
• Compare open-air markets and shops (especially modern shopping malls and supermarkets).
• Is the customer service in street-markets and open-air markets the same as in (big) shops such as supermarkets?

• Is it better to have many small market stalls all together in one place selling the same things or to have them in separate locations?

• Compare young people's and older people's spending habits.  [The question probably is not just about 'old people' e.g., over 60 years old, but more a contrast between young people (15 to 25) and 'older people' (over 35 or 40).]
• Compare the spending habits of people today and people many years ago. (E.g., 10 to 50 years ago.)

• Do old people relate to others the same way that young people do?

• Compare the good and bad points of (very) tall buildings.

• Compare residential and commercial buildings.

• Compare modern and old buildings. 

• Besides textbooks, what other materials (or teaching media) are used in schools in China? 
• (Similar) Have you learned things from places other than books?
• (Similar) What's the best way to learn something: from a book, from TV or from the internet? (Compare these three)

• Compare books and (popular) movies as media for showing (teaching) history.

• People at different ages are suited to learning different things. Can you give some examples of this?

• Compare watching a sports event such as a basketball game on TV and watching it at the sports stadium.

• Compare celebrating an event in a public place such as the town square with celebrating an event at home.

• Do children and adults have the same memorization abilities? (I.e., Who can remember or learn new things better, children or adults?)

• Compare how children celebrate these events with how adults celebrate them?

• Do children today have the same sense of responsibility that kids had previously? (For example, helping with housework or even helping bring in income to the family.)

• Compare handmade and machine-made products.
• Compare the things that are handmade today with what used to be handmade many years ago.

• Compare travel and tourism today in China with the situation 20 or 30 years ago.

• Which do you prefer, small or big shops? (Why?)