E M A N U E L A T O C C A C E L I
English teacher
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Who are you? Describe your attitudes and personality. (favourites) Which are you positive and negative qualities?
TALK ABOUT YOUR FAMILY - BEST FRIEND
How many members are there in your family? Have you got brothers or sisters or are you an only child? Describe one of them (physically - personality - likes and dislikes - good at /bad at - be into) What do you argue about? Who is your best friend?
TELL SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE
Where do you live? Which are its main attractions? If a boy or girl comes from a foreign country to visit you what would you show in your town/city/village? where would you go and eat? what would you do together? Do you live in a house or in a flat? Describe it. Your friend wants to visit your city. What can you do together?
TALK ABOUT YOUR DAILY ROUTINE
What do you usually do in the morning , in the afternoon , in the evening, at night?
What's your favourite day?
ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL
What is your school like? How many students are there in your class? Are there special rooms, laboratories? What is your favourite subject? Why? and who is your best classmate? (Describe him/her) What do you usually do at school? How many lessons and subjects do you have each day? What are the positive and negative aspects of your school? What rules do you have to follow? What makes a good teacher? Do you do any extra activities after school? At school which rules do you have to follow?
TELL SOMETHING ABOUT THE WEEKEND and YOUR FREE TIME
What do you usually do at the weekend? Do you prefer staying at home or hanging around? How do you spend your free time?
WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT ADOLESCENCE AND FRIENDSHIP?
Is it easy to be a teen? Have you a lot of /a few friends? Who is your best friend? Who is a real friend? What do you think of friendship?
Where did you meet your best friend? / How old is s/he?
How often do you see him/her? do you have long distance friends? have you made friends over the internet? Do you make friends easily?What is your favourite activity together?
Why are you best friends? Which positive and negative qualities does s/he have? Which is the thing you admire the most?
There is a saying "to have a good friend you need to be a good friend"?
TALK ABOUT YOUR FUTURE PLANS
What are you going to do in the future, when you leave school? What would you like to do after "Scuola Media"?Are you going to high school and then to university or would you go to work? which high school will you choose? (Language Lyceum, Classic Lyceum, Scientific Lyceum, a Technical school) what will you study if you go to university?(law economics medicine business languages...)What do you want to be? If you have enough money, will you travel? Which country would you like to visit? What do you think, would you like to marry one day? and would you like to have children? What type of car would you like to have? Are you going to live in another country or in Italy?
TALK ABOUT YOUR PAST HOLIDAY. TALK ABOUT YOUR HOBBIES:
TECHNOLOGY-FILM –MUSIC-SPORT-SHOPPING
WHAT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY/COMPUTER/INTERNET
Are you for or against technology? Should technology enter the school lessons? Do you think it can help students? What do you use it for? What social networks do you use? What's your favourite computer game?Do you have computers at school? How many hours do you spend on a computer? What do you use internet for? What are your favourite websites?
WHAT IS CYBERBULLYING?
How does it work? What should you do if you are bullied? what shouldn't you do?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FILM? WHO ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS? How often do you go to the cinema? How many hours of TV do you watch everyday? What's your favourite programme? When is it on? Do you watch sport on TV?
Why is television important ? What are its dangerous effects?
What is your favorite book/novel?
MUSIC What is your favourite song?
WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LIKE? WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE SINGER? AND YOUR FAVOURITE BAND? DO YOU PLAY AN INSTRUMENT? DO YOU USUALLY LISTEN TO MUSIC IN YOUR FREE TIME? WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SONG? WHAT IS IT ABOUT? ARE YOU INTO MUSIC?
WHAT SPORT DO YOU LIKE? IS IT A TEAM OR INDIVIDUAL SPORT? DO YOU PLAY IT OUTDOOR OR INDOOR? DO YOU NEED A SPECIAL EQUIPMENT?
DO YOU LIKE SHOPPING? HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO SHOPPING? DO YOU SHOP ONLINE OR IN STORES? WHAT DO YOU USUALLY BUY ONLINE? ARE YOU ADDICTED TO SHOPPING? DO YOU SHOP ON YOUR OWN OR WITH FRIENDS? DO YOU ENJOY SHOPPING FOR OTHER PEOPLE? WHERE DO YOU USUALLY SHOP? IN A SHOPPING CENTRE OR YOU PREFER THE SMALL SHOPS IN THE CITY CENTRE? DO YOU FIND IT RELAXING? DO YOU HAVE A POCKET MONEY? DO YOU SHOP ON SALE? What do you usually buy? Where?
TALKABOUTFOOD
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FOOD?DO YOU USUALLY EAT HEALTHY OR UNHEALTHY/JUNK FOOD? DO YOU USUALLY GO SHOPPING FOR FOOD? HOW OFTEN DO YOU SHOP? DO YOU PREFER EATING AT HOME OR AT THE RESTAURANT?
HOUSECHORES
WHAT DO YOU DO TO HELP IN THE HOUSE? WHICH ARE YOUR FAVOURITE CHORES AND WHICH ONES YOU DO NOT LIKE? DO YOU USE A CHORE LIST AT HOME? WHO DOES THE WASHING UP? WHO WALKS THE DOG? ARE YOU PAID?
CULTURE
What is the Apartheid? Who was Mandela?
Who was Martin Luther King?
What is the name of his famous speech?Do you remember its words?
Who was Gandhi? And Rose Parks?
What was the American Constitution?Where and when was it written?Which words open the Constitution? How many articles are there?
What is an amendment?
Can it be changed?
How are the first 10 amendments called?
What about the Italian Constitution?
What is Global warming? What can you do to save the planet? Do you know any places at risk? Which are alternative energies? Which are the 3R's?What is the greenhouse effect?What do you do to save the planet? (ENVIRONMENT)
What do you know of the USA?
What do you know of Australia?
And about Canada?