Television

Meals

1. Have you ever been on a diet?

2. Do you avoid food which has additives?

3. Do you have a lot of salt with your food?

4. Do you take vitamin supplements?

5. Do you or your parents spend a lot on food?

6. Do you ever eat between meals?

7. Do you “live to eat”?

8. Do you eat frozen and ready-prepared meals?

9. Do you agree with the statement “It’s natural for humans to eat meat”?

10. Do you feel guilty after eating meat? Are you a vegetarian? Why?

11. Can you cook? What dishes can you cook?

12. How did you learn to cook? (By watching someone? By studying with someone? By buying a cooking book?) Which is the easiest/ most difficult way to learn to cook? Why?

13. What types of food do you prefer? What cuisine do you prefer?

14. What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

15. Have you ever tasted ethnic food, e.g. Chinese, Indian, etc.? Did you enjoy it?

16. How often do eat out? What do you usually order?

17. What kind of restaurants do you like to go? What do you look for: food, service, atmosphere? Which is most important to you?

18. What is junk food? Why do people eat so much junk food nowadays?

19. What are the dangers of eating junk food?

20. What are possible effects of eating healthy food?

Television

1. Do you like television? Why?

2. How many hours a day do you spend watching TV?

3. What is your favourite programme? Describe it. Could it be better?

4. What programmes do you never watch? Why?

5. Have you ever been on TV? Have you ever taken part in phone-ins, phoned a music station for a request?

6. What types of programmes involve viewers?

7. Does TV:

· teach people anything?

· have too many boring programmes?

· have enough programmes for children?

· have too many soap operas?

· have too many foreign programmes?

· make young people violent?

· keep us informed?

· help us relax?

· show us what other countries like?

· make us think?

· force us to sit down and do nothing else?

· prevent us from thinking for ourselves?

· prevents people from communicating?

8. Is TV very/ too entertaining?

9. Is there too much advertisement on TV? Does it annoy you? In your opinion what things cannot be advertised on TV?

10. Do you think there should be censorship of TV programmes?

1. Are you going to watch TV tonight? If so, what are going to watch?
2. What did you watch on TV yesterday?
3. Do you like ___? (Insert the name of a TV show.)
4. Do you prefer listening to the radio or watching TV?
5. Do you think it is good for children to watch TV?
6. If you could design a new television show to boost ratings, what kind of show would it be?
7. What are the advantages of watching TV?
8. What are the disadvantages of watching TV?
9. When do you usually watch TV?
10. Do you think too much time is spent watching TV?
11. What do you think of TV shows that are designed to "discover new talent?"
12. If you couldn't watch TV at home but had to stay there, what would you do?
13. Could you live without TV for a week?