SUGGESTED QUESTIONAIRE FOR B1 ORAL EXAM

I. Friends
Questions:
1. In your opinion, what makes your friendship to be forever?
2. What are some criteria/standards to keep your friendship stable?
3. Do you and your friend have a lot of things in common?
4. What is special about your friend?
5. Is your friend sociable, humorous or reserved?
II. Media
Questions:
1. What are the popular kinds of media in Vietnam nowadays?
2. How does media (TV/Internet/…) affect on Vietnamese children?
3. What are disadvantages does media bring to our lives?
4. How much time is reasonable for teenagers to spend on media per day?
5. Can you give me some suggestions to reduce “side effect” (bad effect)
of media?
III. Places of cultural interest
Questions:
1. Cultural places in Vietnam like museum or art gallery are not many.
They are also not interesting. Can you give me some suggestions to
attract people to museums?
2. How often do you go to museum (or places like this)? What do you
learn from going there?
3. What are your other cultural interests?
4. How to make cultural places more interesting?
IV. Happiness
Questions:
1. What do you think about happiness?
2. What makes you happy in life?
3. How to bring happiness to people you love?
4. Is happiness more important than money or health? Why? Why not?
5. Do you need to create happiness to your family?
V. The News/Current affairs
Questions:
1. Where did you have your story?
2. Describe the main purpose of a newspaper?
3. How to get the latest news nowadays?
4. How do you react when you get incorrect news from kinds of media?
VI. Family
Questions:
1. What is the role of family in our society?
2. Are you happy with your family? Why? Why not?
3. Do you prefer living in a traditional family or a nuclear family? Why?
4. What are the advantages when living in a nuclear family?
5. Disadvantages in a traditional family?
VII. Women
Questions:
1. Who is do you love more? Your mother or your wife?
2. How do you solve the conflicts between your mother and your
wife? Or who do you support when they have argument?
3. How to show your love or care to the one you love (I meant your
mother /your wife?)
4. What do you have to do to keep harmony in your family?
5. Do you think your wife plays her role in your own family?
VIII. Consumerism/Materialism (Chủ nghĩa duy vật)
Questions:
1. How do you understand the term “Consumerism” (or “Materialism”)
2. What products do Vietnamese people produce for exported market?
3. Vietnamese people don’t have much trust on quality of local products.
Can you tell me some reason why?
4. Are you for or against qualities of our products?
5. How to persuade Vietnamese people to buy high quality Vietnamese
products?
IX. Tourism
Questions:
1. What is the role of tourism industry in Vietnam individually and in the
world generally?
2. How to attract tourists to Vietnam?
3. What are difficulties has tourism in Vietnam faced with?
4. What are advantages of tourism in our country?
5. Can you tell us some famous places we can visit in Vietnam?