51. Transportation
1. What’s the most popular means of transportation in your hometown?
The most popular means of transportation in my hometown is the bus. My hometown is on the national highway, and there is bus service to different places every two minutes.
2. How often do you take buses?
I take the bus pretty often, in fact three or four times a week.
3. Can you compare the advantages of planes and trains?
Trains are cheaper then planes, but planes are much faster than trains. In trains you can take as much luggage as you want to, but in planes there is a restriction. Railway stations are there in almost all towns and cities, where as airports are there in only a few places.
4. Is driving to work popular in your country?
Yes, driving to work is popular in big cities, and in places where transport facilities are not so good.
5. Do you think people will drive more in the future?
It is difficult to say about the future, but at the rate at which traffic congestion is increasing on the road, I think people will use public transport more.
6. Would you ride bikes to work in the future?
No, I don’t think I would ride bikes to work, as I think they are not very safe.
7. What will become the most popular means of transportation in India?
I think road transportation will remain the most popular means.
8. Do you prefer public transportation or private transportation?
I prefer private transportation for short distances and public transportation for long distances.
9. How did you come here(get here) today?
I came here/got here by bus/car/bike today.
10. Why did you choose that form of transport?
I chose it because I think it is very convenient and comfortable. (You can add 1-2 advantages of the mode of transport you used that day)
11. What form of transport do you usually use?
I usually prefer private transport to public transport. I feel that the public transport is not very comfortable and leads to wastage of time. OR I normally use public transport/bus. It is very convenient, comfortable and easy on the pocket.
12. Is it convenient to take a bus/taxi in your city?
Yes, it is very convenient to take a bus or a taxi in my city. It is a small city and the bus stand and taxi stands are very approachable
52. Watch
1. How often do you wear a watch?
I don’t wear a watch very often. I check the time on my cellphone. I wear watches occasionally. OR I wear a watch every day, to check the time.
2. What was your first watch like?
My first watch was a basic children’s watch. It was a gift from my parents on my 5th birthday. It was digital and was pink/black/blue in color.
3. What kinds of watches do you like to wear?
I like to wear watches that match my outfit and also on which, it is easy to check the time.
4. Do people still wear watches in your country?
Yes, people in my country still wear watches. There are many national and international brands available in my country.
53. Visitors
1. Do you often invite friends to visit your home?
Yes, I like to invite friends to visit my home. Sometimes we have get-togethers at home and sometimes when we have to study or make a project, I invite my friends over.
2. Do you like visitors coming to your home?
Yes, I like visitors coming to my home. Its good to have relatives and friends come over and we can spend quality time with each other.
3. Do people often visit you at your home?
Yes, people visit me at home quite often. We have an extended family system that we follow and a lot of my relatives live in the same city. Also, sometimes my friends and neighbors also visit us at home.
4. How often do visitors come to your home?
Visitors come to my home very often, in fact twice or thrice a week.
5. When do visitors come to your home?
When someone has to visit, they usually call ahead and come. There are no specific times when people visit us at home.
6. Do you prefer to have friends visit you, or relatives?
I like having both my friends and relatives visit me. These days everyone is busy on their routines and so, when anyone visits me, it’s a good way to spend quality time with them.
7. What do you usually do together with your visitors?
When we have visitors over, we usually sit and chat, discuss the day’s happenings or any social or national issues. Sometimes we share jokes and have a good laugh and all this happens usually over of a cup of tea or coffee and some snacks. Sometimes we also have visitors over for lunch or dinner.
8. When someone visits you, how do you usually show hospitality (or, entertain them)?
Hospitality towards visitors is in our culture. In India, guests are treated like God. We show our hospitality by making them feel comfortable and offering them drinks and snacks or food, depending on the time of the day.
54. Dream
1. Do you often have dreams at night?
Yes, I often have dreams at night. Sometimes I have very pleasant dreams, and sometimes I have bad dreams. But I’m not really superstitious about these dreams.
2. Have you had a bad dream before?
Yes, many times I have bad dreams. But I have never seen them turn into reality.
3. What was the strangest dream you have had?
The strangest dream I had was that I am going for my exam, and things are going wrong and I cant reach, and then I get up and feel so relieved that it was a dream.
4. What do you usually dream about?
I dream about weird things. Sometimes I am in Canada in my dreams and sometimes in America. My relatives have told me a lot about Canada and USA, and I keep picturing them in my dreams.
55. .Colours
1. What colours do you like?
I like all colors but red is my favorite color.
2. What is the most popular colour in India?
India is a vast country. It is difficult to generalize one color as the most popular color. I think all colors are equally popular, but the three colors off a national flag are the most popular. Green stands for prosperity, saffron stands for sacrifice and white stands for peace.
3. Do you like to wear dark or bright colours?
I like to dark or bright colors in winters, but in summers I like to wear light shades.
4. Do colours affect your mood?
Yes, colors affect my mood. When I see you bright colors I feel energetic, but light shades make me feel calm.
5. Did color matter to you when you were a child?
Yes, colour mattered to me when I was a child. My mother tells me I always wanted things in red colour. My school bag was always red and my clothes also had shades of red.
6. Does color matter when you buy things?
Yes, definitely. Colour is very important while shopping. I like my clothes in light pastel shades but household items like bed sheets and dinner sets in bright shades.
7. Which color you don’t like to have in your home?
I like all colours but I wouldn’t like grey on the walls of my house because I find grey to be a dull colour.
8. What is the difference between men’s and women’s preference on colours?
There are no gender differences nowadays. Both men and women wear on types of colors.
9. Have you ever seen a rainbow?
Yes, I have seen a rainbow many times. It looks very beautiful. Generally, it is seen in the rainy season. There are seven colors in the rainbow – violet, indigo, Blue, Green, yellow, Orange and red. I feel really happy when I see a rainbow. In Hindu mythology, it is called Indradhanush, or the bow of the Lord indra, the Lord of thunder and lightning.
56. Family
1. How often do you meet with your family?
I stay with my family. I meet my family members every day.
2. How do you spend the time with your family?
I spend time with family in many ways. We eat together, cook together, watch TV together and do many things together.
3. Do you want to live with your family in the future?
Yes, definitely. My family is my life Even though I go to some foreign country temporarily, I finally want to be with my family.
4. Are you close to all of your family members?
Yes, we are a very close-knit family.
5. How has your family influenced you?
My family has influenced me in many ways. We depend on each other for many things. We guide each other from time to time and we do many things together.
57. Friends
1. Do you have many friends?
Yes, I have many friends, but only a few close friends.
2. How often do you talk to your friends?
I talk to my friends every day. By best friend is also my neighbour. We are together most of the time.
3. How do you communicate with your friends?
I communicate face-to-face and also through cell phone and apps like Whatsapp.
4. What do you think makes people have a long friendship?
Mutual understanding makes people have a long friendship. If people can tolerate each other’s shortcomings and be simple and straight forward, then friendships can be for a long time.
5. Does it make things easier in a friendship if you have similar interests?
Yes, definitely. With similar interests friends can spend time together and not get bored. They will also have similar topics for discussion. In a lasting friendship it is very essential that your likes and dislikes are similar.
6. How do people make friends now?
Now a days, people make friends through internet by joining social networking sites like face book, twitter and whatsapp.
7. Do you think we meet new people differently now than in the past?
Yes, definitely. Nowadays, we meet new people through internet by joining social networking sites like face book, twitter and whatsapp. Earlier, people had lots of free time and they made friends by meeting personally.
8. Is friendship (= are friends) important to you? (Why?/Why not?)
Yes, friends are very important for me. I can share all my feelings with them, and they understand me very well because they are mostly my age.
9. Do you prefer to spend time with friends or spend time alone? (Why?)
I prefer to spend time with my friends. I love their company and I enjoy with them.
10. What kind of people do you like to have as friends?
I like my friends to be honest, trustworthy, helpful and intelligent. I also like friends with a good sense of humor.
11. Do you like to spend time with friends? (Why?)
Yes, I like to spend time with friends because I enjoy their company. I like to go out with them for movies, for shopping and for walks.
12. What do you and your friends do together?
We study together, go for walks together, watch movies together and sometimes eat out together.
13. What do your friends think of you? (Do your friends think that you are a good friend? Why?)
I think my friends like me. We spend a lot of time together and they never seem bored. I am honest and straightforward with them. So I think they like me.
14. Are friends more important than family? (Why?)
Friends and family both are important. But, I think Family is definitely more important than friends. Friends can turn out to be fair-weather friends but family is always with you in your good times and bad times. It has been rightly said that in prosperity your friends know you, but in adversity you know your friends.
15. How do Indian people make friends? (= where, in what situations, e.g. at school & at work.)
Indian people make friends in schools, colleges, while travelling, during family get-togethers, during outings and in many other ways. Now a days making online friends has also become very popular.
16. Do adults and children make friends in the same way?
Adults and children do not make friends and the same way. Children are very innocent and make friends from the heart. They don’t judge a person before making friends. Adults, on the other hand, are very calculative. They make friends after judging whether that person could be helpful to them or not
58. Advertisement
1. Are there many advertisements in your country
Yes, there are too many advertisements in our daily lives. In fact advertising has become an industry. It has become the backbone of many economies of the world. Ads are ubiquitous nowadays. We see ads on TV, newspapers, hoardings and flyers. We also get ads through the radio, cell phone and the Internet.
2. Why do you think there are so many advertisements now?
There are so many advertisements because there are many products, and the manufacturing companies are competing with each other. They have to advertise to stay in the race. So we have an advertisement for almost each and every product that is available.
3. What are the various places where we see advertisements?
Advertisements are all around us. We have advertisements in newspapers, magazines, on TV, on radio and on the Internet.
4. How do you feel about advertisements?
I feel that advertisements are a necessity. Apart from telling us about products they are also telling us about the working of these products. Ads also touch social issues. However, I also feel that ads are very disturbing at times.
5. Do you like advertisements?
Yes, I like advertisements. I think they are very informative and keep us updated about the latest products and offers.
6. What kind of advertisement do you like the most?
I like adverts that have a touch of humor. I also like advertisements that touch social issues.
59. Art
1. Do you like art?
Yes, I like art. Art gives meaning to life. Art is what differentiates us from animals. I like all sorts of art. I like drawing and painting. I also liked performing arts like music and dance.
2. Do you think art classes are necessary? {Why?)
Yes, I think art classes are very necessary. Art brings out peoples creativity. Art preserves our culture and tradition.
3. How do you think art classes affect children’s development?
Art classes affect children’s development in many ways. Art brings out the hidden creativity of children. Art is a form of communication. People can convay their feelings through their paintings and through their songs.
4. What kind of paintings do Indian people like?
Indian people like different kinds of paintings. It is a matter of personal choice. Some people like portraits, some like paintings of landscapes, some like the traditional forms of painting and some like the modern art forms.
5. What can you learn from western paintings?
We can learn many things from western paintings, in fact from any form of art from anywhere. Sometimes it is related to a culture, sometimes it maybe someone’s expression of their perspective, sometimes it’s a social message and we can also learn about the types of material (canvas, paints, etc.) used to create that work of art.
6. What benefits can you get from painting as a hobby?
Painting as a hobby can bring out your hidden talent. Painting can relax you. You can even sell your paintings and earn money. You can also gift your painting to someone you love.
60. Bags
1. Do you like bags?
Yes, I like bags. I have different bags for different occasions. I carry a backpack to my school/college/classes, as I can easily carry my books in it. I have special bags for formal occasions, shopping and everyday use.
2. What types of bags do you like?
I like bags that are easy to carry, like backpacks, sling bags and totes, and I can use such bags to easily accommodate the things I need. I also like bags that have a few compartments, so that I can keep my things organized.
3. Do you usually carry a bag (when you go out)?
Yes, I usually carry a bag when I go out, however, the type of bags I use for different occasions vary.
4. What types of bags do you use (in your everyday life)?
1. (Similar to above) Do you have different bags for different occasions (or, different purposes)?
Yes, I have different bags for different occasions. I use a backpack when I go for my classes, for formal occasions I have formal bags, for shopping I use totes and sometimes I use a sling bag when I don’t have to shop and the occasion is not formal.
5. What do you put in these bags?
For my classes or when I go to school/college I usually carry books and stationary in my bag. When going for shopping I carry my wallet, cellphone, and a bottle of water and when travelling I also put medicines and a book or a magazine in my bag. On formal occasions I carry only my wallet and my cellphone.
6. What sorts of bags do women like to buy?
I don’t think it can be generalized, as it depends on the individual choice of the women. Some women like big bags and some like smaller ones, some always use a sling bag and some like a particular color or material of bags. Some women also choose bags from a particular brand