Question List for Part 3 (5)

TOPIC 26: SPORT

Winning and losing:

1. Which is more important in sport: winning or taking part?
2. What makes some sports people take drugs to improve their performance?
3. Why are some countries more successful than others in events such as the Olympics?

TOPIC 27: FAMILY

Family similarities

1. In what ways can people in a family be similar to each other?
2. Do you think that daughters are always similar to mothers than to male relatives?
3. What about sons and fathers?
4. In terms of personality, are people are more influenced by their family or by their friends? In what ways?

TOPIC 28: FRIEND

Qualities of friends:

1. What do you think are the most important qualities for friends to have?
2. Which are more important to people, their family or their friends? Why?
3. What do you think causes friendships to break up?

TOPIC 29: RELATIONSHIP

1. What other types of relationship, apart from friends or family, are important in people's lives today?
2. Have relationships with neighbors where you live changed in recent years? How?
3. How important do you think it is for a person to spend some time alone? Why/Why not?

TOPIC 30: PLACES

1. Why do many people leave home when they still quite young?
2. What personal qualities do you feel are required for a young person to live on their own?
3. In many countries there has been large-scale migration from the countryside to the cities. Do you think this is positive or negative?
4. Do you think that the possibility of working from home via the Internet will lead to many people going back to the countryside?
5. In what ways do the new mega cities of Asia, Africa and South America differ from older ones such as London or New York?
6. Should there be a limit on the size of cities?

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