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See also any similar Part 3 questions at the following topics: 319, 233, 138 & 44

Visiting Others in Your Country

• In your country, do people often visit others in their homes?

• What are some of the different occasions when people visit other people? FQ

• In the past 20 years or so, have there been any changes to how often people visit others?

• Do you think people are more isolated from others today than they were in the past?

• Do you think people nowadays are more casual when they visit others than they were in the past? (If yes, Why & How?)  FQ

• Are people usually formal or rather informal when they visit others?

• Which do you think is better, being formal or being informal when you visit others?

• Generally, how do people in your country show hospitality to and entertain visitors to their home?  FQx2

• Is hospitality very important in your culture?

• Do visitors usually bring a gift of some sort?

Hospitality and Service in Hotels and Restaurants

• In your culture, do you have a tradition of hotel or restaurant service?

• What is considered "good service"?

• Do you think these service people need to be trained?

• What skills and qualities do service people need to have? FQ

Hotels

• When people in your country visit a friend in another city or town, do they prefer to stay in a hotel or stay at the friend's home? FQ

• What qualities and facilities do you think the ideal hotel (or, hotel room) should have?

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Special Meals

• Do people in your country often eat together with others?

• On what occasions do people eat a "special meal" in your country? FQx2

• When people come together for a family reunion, do they usually eat a special meal?

• What are the differences between an ordinary meal and meals for special occasions? FQx2

• Is it easy to prepare one of these special meals?

Diet, Food Quality and Food Safety

    Diet

• What do people in your country usually eat (for dinner)? FQx2

• How is the food that people in your country eat different to the food that foreigners eat?

• Do young people (and children) usually eat the same types of food that older adults eat? FQx2

• (Possibly the question above is worded as this) Do children usually eat the same types of food that old people eat? FQx2

• Can you suggest why some (young) kids don't like eating vegetables?

• Would you say there's a greater choice of what to eat today, compared to the past? FQx2

• (Similar to above) Is there a greater variety of food available in the shops today than there was in the past? FQx2

• What are the reasons for this?

• Do you think this is a good trend?

• Do you think this trend will continue in the future? FQ

• What do you think is more important, the quality or the price of food? FQ

• (Similar to above) Do people in your country pay more attention to food quality or food price? FQ

• Which do you think is more important, the taste of food or the quality of the food?

• Please compare the traditional food of your country with (foreign-style) "fast food".

    Healthy Food (or, food quality)

• Would you say that the people in your country eat a good (= a healthy) diet?

• Do you think people today are eating better quality food that in the past, or not?

• (Similar to above) Do you think people today are eating healthier food that in the past, or not?

• Which do you think is healthier, a home-cooked meal or food that people eat when they eat out? FQ

• (Similar to above) Which do you think is generally better-quality, home cooked food or restaurant food?  FQ

• Do you think children and adults have the same ideas about healthy food?

• Do you think young people today generally have a healthy diet? (If no, why not?)

• In your opinion, what are the differences between healthy food and "junk food" (or "fast food")?

• Why do adults rarely eat "junk food"?

• Do you think parents should (try to) stop their children from eating "junk food"?

• How do you think people today could be encouraged to eat healthier food?

• Do you think the government has a responsibility to discourage children from eating junk food?

    Food Safety & Food Transportation

• What are the pros and cons of eating locally grown (or, produced) food, compared to food that comes from far away? FQx2

• Does importing food have any effect on the local food industry?

• Would you say that food today is safer to eat than it was in the past?

• What do you think the government should do to improve food safety? FQ

• Which do you think is better, as far as food safety is concerned, a large food-processing factory or a small one?

• Is there more food from abroad than there was in the past?

• Who prefers to eat imported food more, young people or older people?

• What are the pros and cons of transporting food over long distances? FQx2

• Do you think it's safe to transport food over long distances? FQ

• Do you think this imported food is the same quality as locally produced food?

• Should the government control food distribution?

• Do you think the globalization of the food supply is good for the environment? (I.e., the pollution that is produced by transportation)  (See Note)

• Do you think frozen food is healthy food?

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Part 3

See also any similar questions in the Part 3 of the following topics: 452, 356, 331, 330, 270, 186, 136, & 81.

Places for People to Listen to Music in Your Country

• Besides the place you just talked about, what other places are there in your country where people can listen to music?

• Do young people (e.g., aged 13 to 30) have many choices of places to go to listen to the music that they like?

• What about live music?

• Do you think people of different ages have different tastes in music?

• Do you think there are any types of music that might disappear in the future?

Children and Music

• What effect does music have on children?

• Which do you think can convey emotion better, written words or music? (Why?)

• Do you think children benefit from listening to music?

• Do you think it's beneficial for children to study music? FQx2

• How do they benefit?

• How important do you think it is for a child to learn a musical instrument?

• Do you think parents should force their children to learn music, or learn to play a musical instrument if the children don't want to?

• Who do you think can learn to play a musical instrument easier, children or adults? *

• Do you think music should be included in the (primary) school curriculum?

Music and Modern Technology  Frequent sub-topic

• Have there been in changes to technology in the past few years concerning how people listen to (recorded) music? FQ

• What are the advantages (and any possible disadvantages) of these changes in technology?

• In the past few decades, have there been any changes to the technology of recorded music? FQ

• (Similar to above) Has new technology changed music itself?

• How is electronic music different to older forms of music?

Downloading Music from the Internet

• Has the internet changed the way people listen to music nowadays?

• Many people download music for free from the internet but some people say that it should not be free. Can you suggest why they say that?

• How do you personally feel about this question - should we be able to download free music from the internet? FQx2

• What do you think are the pros and cons of downloading music for free? FQ

• Don't you think the musicians who produce this music deserve to receive some money for their work?

• What do you think of copyright laws?

• If people breaks this law, doesn't that make them criminals? *

• Can you suggest any ways that this problem could be solved? *

• In your estimation, how much would be a reasonable price to pay for downloading one song?

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Part 3

See also any similar questions in the Part 3 of the following topics: 425, 396, 321, 211 & 181.

Money and Happiness  Frequent topic

• How (or why) do people become happy? FQx2

• (Similar to above) What are some of the various sources of people's happiness? FQx2

• How important do you think money is in our lives? FQ

• Do you think it's good to be wealthy (or, rich)?

• How much does money, or the lack of money, affect how happy someone feels?

• (Similar to above) Do you think having money can bring happiness to a person?

• Do you think people feel differently about money that they get from working and money that they might get from other sources?

• Do you think poor people feel unhappy because they are poor?

• In general, who do you think is more happy, poor people or rich people?

• Can you suggest why some rich people are not happy?

• Does money have any effect on a person's relationships with others? FQ

• (Similar to above) Do you think how much money a person has effects their ability to make friends?

• Do you think the friends a rich person makes are genuine friends?

• What could a wealthy person do about that problem?

• Which do you think gives people more happiness, money or good relationships with others? FQx2

• (Similar to above) Do you think a person's happiness is based more on money, or more on that person's personal relationships? FQx2

• Can you give some examples of that?

Happiness and Work

• Do you think a person's work can affect their happiness?

• Do you think work can bring happiness to people?

• What kinds of work do you think make people feel happy? FQ

• Do you think how happy a person is ( = a person's mood) can affect their work performance?

• Which would you prefer to be, happy with your work but quite poor, or not happy with your work but very wealthy? *

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