4. Hobbies and sports
1. Tell me about your hobbies.
2. What are your hobbies?
3. Tell me something about your interests and hobbies.
4. What do you do in your spare / free time?
5. Do you like swimming / playing football / dancing?
6. When did you start your hobby?
7. How often do you do your hobby?
8. How often do you play the piano / the guitar / a musical instrument? Do you study your instrument at school? Can you play a musical instrument / the piano?
9. How often do you go dancing / horse riding/ etc.?
10. Do you like to draw?
11. Do you like gardening / playing chess / collecting stamps / etc.?
12. What activities do you have after school?
13. What is your favourite sport?
14. Do you play tennis / volleyball / football?
15. How often do you practice your sport? How often do you do it? How often do you pay sport?
16. How often do you play football / tennis / volleyball?
17. What sports do you play? What sport do you do?
18. When did you start playing football / volleyball?
19. Who do you play football with? Where do you play?
20. Do you play in a team?
21. What equipment do you need?
22. Why do you like it? How sporty are you?
23. Does your dad play football?
24. Do your parents do any sports?
25. What about your brothers and sisters?
26. Do you pay volleyball at school?
27. Do you enjoy P.E.? (Do you like Physical Education?)
28. Do you often go jogging?
29. Do you do it alone or with your friends?
30. Is rugby a popular sport in Italy?
31. Is football a popular sport in Italy?
32. Are you a football fan? Which team do you support?
33. Is there a sport you don’t like?
34. Can you ski? Can you swim?
35. When was the last time you went swimming?
36. Do you go swimming in winter?
37. How old were you when you learned to swim?
38. Can your parents swim?
39. Are you good at swimming? Are you a good swimmer?
40. When was the last time you played volleyball?
41. When are you going to play volleyball?
42. What sports do you play when you’re on holiday?
43. What’s your mum’s favouritesport? Is your mum sporty?
44. What do you do to keep fit?
45. Who taught you to swim? Who taught you to ride a bike?
46. What are the Pros and Cons of professional sports?
47. What is the most dangerous sport?
48. What is the most popular sport in your country?
49. What is the most boring sport in your opinion?
50. Do you watch football matches on TV? Do you watch sports programmes on TV?
5. Food
1. What is your favourite food? What are your favourite foods?
2. What food do you like? What food don’t you like?
3. Tell me what foods you don’t like.
4. What is your favourite dish?
5. What do you usually have for breakfast / lunch / dinner?
6. What did you have for breakfast / lunch / dinner yesterday? What did you have for lunch today?
7. What are you going to have for breakfast / lunch / dinner tomorrow?
8. What are you going to have for dinner this evening?
9. What is a typical dish of your country? What food is typical here in Rome?
10. Are you keen of vegetables?
11. What do you like better, sweets or meat?
12. Can you cook? Do you like eating out? What do you order when you go out to eat?
13. Do you like shopping for food?
14. What food would you like to try?
15. Do you like Chinese food better than Italian food?
16. Which do you think is tastier, Italian food or English food?
17. Can you tell me about some traditional food of your country?
18. Do you like sweets? Do you like spicy food?
19. Do you think pasta is tastier than fish?
6. Weekend and seasonal activities (At the weekend and through the year)
1. What do you like doing at the weekend?
2. What do you usually do at the weekend?
3. What do you usually do in summer / autumn / winter / spring?
4. Which is your favourite season and why?
5. Where do you go at the weekends?
6. Where were you last weekend?
7. What are you going to do this weekend? What are you going to do next weekend?
8. What did you do last weekend?
9. What do you like about summer / winter?
10. Do you go skiing in the winter?
11. Do you often go to the cinema at the weekend?
12. Do you sometimes go for a picnic with your family?
13. How do you usually spend your weekends?
14. Do you stay at home at the weekends or do you go out with your friends?
15. Do you like going to the cinema at the weekend? How often do you go to the cinema?
TOPIC AND EXTRA QUESTIONS
1. Hello, how are you? I’m fine, thank you. (Greetings)
2. Can I have your topic form, please? Yes, here you are.
3. What are you going to talk about? (What are you going to talk me about?) I’m going to talk about…
4. Have you got any pictures to show me?
5. Where do you live? Do you live in the centre / the outskirts of Rome?
6. Do you live in a residential area?
7. Tell me something about your city / town.
8. Do you often go to the centre?
9. Let’s look at this picture. What are these people going to do?
10. What are they doing? What is the man (he) / the woman (she) doing?
11. What is he going to do?
12. Tell me what you see in the picture.
13. Describe the picture. What are these people going to do?
14. Tell me about your city: what are some differences between Rome and London?
15. Tell me what you did last weekend.
16. Where were you last night?
17. What time did you get up this morning?
18. What did you have for breakfast?
19. Did you go to school today?
20. What did you do this morning?
21. What did you do this afternoon?
22. What did you do yesterday?
23. What did you have for dinner last night?
24. What time did you go to bed?
25. How long ago did you arrive here?
26. What are you going to do after this exam?
27. What are you going to do tonight?
28. What are you going to watch on TV tonight?
29. Are you going to have a shower tonight?
30. What are you going to do this weekend?
31. What do you like doing? What don’t you like doing?
32. What do you like doing in your spare time?
33. What are the differences between Rome and Ciampino?
34. Compare two people in the picture.
35. Compare two things in this room.
36. Compare your teachers.
37. Who is the tallest in your class? Who is the most intelligent in your class?
38. Which is the best subject at school? Which is the worst subject at school?
39. How often do you go out with your friends?
40. How often do you go to English class?
Remember to ask the examiner one question.