Writing
Item |
Topic |
Questions |
|
|
Which do you like? Which
are impossible, disliked? How do you go about doing
your class assignments? What |
B |
Background Baseball |
What is your background
(home country, family, academic experience, work experience, special skills Do you like
baseball? Do you follow any baseball
teams? |
C |
Career Creativity |
What career are you
working towards? What is creativity? |
D |
Dreams Daydreams |
Do you believe dreams
reveal something about you? What are your dreams for
the future? What are daydreams? What do you daydream about? |
E |
Energy Environment |
What do you think about
the energy crisis? What options are
there? Which is best? How can we protect our
environment? |
F |
Favorite Fashion Father |
What is your favorite
(food, movie, activity, color .....)?
Why? What is in fashion/ out
of fashion? How would you describe
your father? What makes a good
father? |
G |
Grammar Games |
What grammar problems do
you think you have? What have you done
to improve your English grammar What games did you play
as a child? What games do you find fun
now? |
H |
Holidays Happiness |
What is your favorite
holiday? What holidays are special to
your home country? What does it take to make
you happy? Do you think money is a
major factor in being happy? |
I |
Imagination Image |
Do you have a good
imagination? Do you think imagination
is important? Has image become too important
in politics? What do you think
contributes to a good image? |
J |
Jokes Jack-of-all-trades |
Do you like jokes? Do you think a sense of humor is
important? Why? |
K |
Karate Karma |
Do you know karate? What are the advantages/disadvantages of
learning karate? Do you believe in a
personal karma (used informally to mean fate or destiny)? If so, what do you
think is your karma? |
L |
Life Love |
What is your greatest
ambition in life? What is needed for a
happy life? What is love? Who/what do you love? Why? |
M |
Mother Music |
How would you describe
your mother? What makes a good mother? What is your favorite
music? What music do you find
unbearable? |
N |
Nostalgia Neighbors |
Do you know your
neighbors? If so, how would you
describe them? |
O |
Optimism Opinion |
Whose opinion do you
value most? Why? |
P |
Pessimism Peace |
Do you think world peace
is possible? What can we do |
Q |
Questions Quirk |
What is the biggest
question you have about your future?
What are you doing to answer the question? Do you (or does someone you know) have a quirk
(peculiarity of behavior or idiosyncrasy)?
If so, what? How do you deal with it? |
R |
Recreation Reason |
What is your favorite
form of recreation? What benefits do
you derive from it? Do you base your actions
on reason, on emotion or on both reason and emotion? Why? |
S |
Seasons Solitude |
What is your favorite
season (summer, winter, spring, fall/ rainy, dry)? Why? Do you prefer solitude to
being in company? If so, why? If not, why not? |
T |
Travel Truth |
Do you like to
travel? What was your favorite place
to visit? What was your least
favorite? Is it always better to
tell the truth or is it sometimes best to lie? |
U |
UFO Unforgettable... |
Do you think UFO’s from
other worlds exist? What would you do
if you saw a UFO? What is you most
unforgettable moment? Why? |
V |
Vacation Victory |
What was your favorite
vacation? What do you think is the
perfect vacation? What is your greatest
victory? Explain |
W |
Writing Wisdom |
What do you like to write
about? What kind of writing do you
prefer to read? What wisdom have you
discovered? Explain |
X |
Xenophobia Xerox Copy |
Do you know anyone who is
xenophobic (exceedingly fearful of strangers)? Why do you think a person would become a
xenophobe? What is the best (worst)
thing about Xerox copy machines? Why
do you think there is a need for 24-hour a day Xerox copy places? Explain. |
Y |
Youth Yesterday |
What is the best thing
about youth? What is the worst thing? If you had one yesterday
to live again, which day would that be?
Why? |
Z |
Zen Zombie |
What are some of the
major tenets of Zen Buddhism? What do
you think of them? What do you think about
the zombie theme in literature?
Explain. |