Australia Training: April 13

Morning

1. Introduction, class introduction

2. Conversation

At what age do most people in your country get married?

At what age do you want to get married?

Do women usually work after getting married in your country?

Are any of your siblings married? Do you get along with your in-laws?

Do you know anyone who has had an arranged marriage?

Do you think arranged marriages are a good idea? Why or why not?

Do you know someone who has gotten a divorce?

Do you know the difference between love and like?

Can you still love your partner and not like him/her?

Do you think a boy should pay for everything on a date?

Do you think getting married means giving up freedom?

Do you think if you get married that you will change?

Do you think it is better to be single or to be married?

Do you think it is okay for a couple to live together before getting married? Why or Why not?

Do you think it is okay to marry someone of a different race?

Do you think it is okay to marry someone with a different religion?

Do you think it's OK for a man to have two wives?

Do you think it's OK for a wife to have two husbands?

Do you think it's okay for a man to have a mistress?

Do you think it's okay for a man to hit his wife?

Do you think love is necessary to have a good marriage?

Do you think marriage is necessary?

Do you think marriages based on love are more successful than arranged marriages?

Do you think marriage is very stressful for women? How about for men?

Do you think people change after getting married?

Do you think religion influences marriage? If so, in what ways?

Do you think that all adults should be married?

Do you think that you can you find eternal love through the Internet?

Do you want a husband or wife who is older, younger or the same age as you?

Do you want to have children? If so, how many?

How long do you think couples should know each other before they get married?

If your husband or wife has an affair what would you do?

If your parents did not approve of a person you loved and wanted to marry, would that be a difficult situation for you? Why/Why not?

If you had to marry either a poor man/woman whom you really loved, or a rich woman/man whom you did not love, which would you choose?

What advice would you give to someone whose partner hates their best friend?

What are some of the main reasons people get divorced?

What are some qualities that you think are important in a spouse or partner?

Would you ever consider getting divorced?

What do you think of people who get divorced?

What do you think of same-sex marriages?

What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?

What would you do if your soon to be mother-in-law seems to hate you?

What would your parents think if you don't get married?

Would you ever marry someone who has been divorced twice?

Would you live with your parents after you get married?

Would you marry someone from another country?

Would you marry someone that your parents didn't like?

Would you marry someone who couldn't speak the same language as you speak?

Do you know a happily married couple?

In your opinion is marriage for life?

Do you think it is OK if married people go out alone?

If you were married would you like to have an open relationship?

Is it better to marry someone who loves you rather than someone whom you love?

Would you marry someone of another nationality?

What are some advantages of an international marriage?

What are some disadvantages?

Do you know anyone who married someone from a different country? If yes, what is their experience like?

How would your parents feel if you married someone from a different country?

Do you think that it is good for children to have parents from two different countries? Why or why not?

3. Dialogue practice: Have the guts
following, memorizing, vocabulary


4. Listening: Aussie accent
https://youtu.be/ZnioDeQNlxQ

Fifty Slang Terms
https://youtu.be/Ei7230KxvCg


5. Learning Australia -- Northern Territories
By threes!


6. Talking about Taiwan

Lunch break

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AFTERNOON

1. Conversation

• Are you a member of a health spa or gym?
• Are you afraid of needles?
• Are you healthy?
• Are your parents healthy?
• Do think that you need to lose weight?
• Do you always eat healthy food?
• Do you bruise easily?
• Do you catch a cold more than once a year?
• Do you consider alcohol a drug?
• Do you drink a lot?
• Do you eat a lot of vegetables?
• Do you eat lots of fruit?
• Do you eat vegetables every day?
• Do you ever get headaches?
  • Do you know anyone who suffers from migraine headaches?
• Do you ever read magazines or news articles about health? If yes, what subject(s) do you find the most interesting?
• Do you exercise?
  • What kind of exercise do you do?
  • How often do you exercise?
• Do you go for regular medical check-ups?
• Do you go to the dentist's twice a year?
• Do you have a lot of stress?
• Do you normally go one doctor in particular or any available doctor?
• Do you have any allergies?
• Do you have any scars?
  • Where are they?
• Do you know anyone who suffers from backaches?
• Do you know anyone with false teeth?
• Do you smoke?
• • If so, do you smoke more than two cigarettes a day?
  • Do you think smoking is not bad for your health?
• Do you take medicine when you are sick?
• Do you take vitamins or mineral supplements?
• Do you take vitamins?
• Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home?
• Do you think nuclear power is safe?
• Do you think pets are good for a person's health
• Do you think that the tobacco companies should be held responsible for a person's addiction to nicotine?
• Do you think you are overweight?
• Do you think you will live until a very old age? Why or why not?
• Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
• Do you usually get enough sleep?
• Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy?
• Have you ever been hospitalized?
• Have you ever been to an acupuncturist? What do you think of acupuncture?
• Have you ever broken a bone?
• Have you ever burned yourself with hot water?
• Have you ever donated blood?
• Have you ever gotten a black eye?
• Have you ever had braces on your teeth?
• Have you ever had stitches?
• Have you ever sprained your ankle?
• Have you ever taken a sleeping pill to get to sleep?
• How can you reduce stress in your life?
• How have you been feeling lately?
• How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
• How many hours of sleep do you usually get?
• How often do you eat junk food?
  • What kinds of junk food do you eat?
• How often do you exercise?
• How often do you get a cold?
  • (How often do you catch a cold?)
• How often do you get sick in one year?
• How often do you go to the doctor's?
• How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?
• How would you recommend treating a cold?
• If you were President of Taiwan, what would you do to improve Taiwan's health?
• Should smoking in restaurants be banned?
• What are some things people can do to keep healthy?
• What are some things that cause stress?
• What are some ways to deal with stress?
• What disease frightens you the most? Why?
• What do you do to stay healthy?
  • (What are some things you do to keep healthy?)
• What do you do, if you can't get to sleep?
• What do you think is the most serious health problem in Taiwan?
• What do you think of cosmetic surgery? Do you know anyone who has had cosmetic surgery? Would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?
• What kind of pollution is the most risky?
• What time did you go to bed when you were a child?
• What's the best way to stop smoking?
• What's the highest temperature you've ever had?
• What's your blood type?
• When was the last time you were sick?
• When you were in high school, how many days of school did you miss each year because of sickness?
• Who is the healthiest person in your family? Who is the least healthy?
• Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
• What do you think of the health service in this country?
• How can the health service be improved?
• What do you know about AIDS?
• What do you know about the common cold?
• What is alternative medicine?
  • Have you ever practiced alternative medicine?
• What treatments or remedies do you follow when you have a cold?
• Do you clean as often as your parent cleaned when you were a child?
• Which parent did/does most of the cleaning in your household?
• How often do people in your country shower?
• Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner cleaned too much or too little?
• Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner had bad hygiene?
• Do you enjoy cleaning? Which kind of cleaning do you enjoy most?
• How often do you brush your teeth?
• Do you think traditional medicine is a good alternative to modern medicine?
• In what circumstances should traditional or alternative medicine be used?

3. Dialogue practice

A. review morning dialogue
B. New dialogue: Class time


4. Activity -- describing images


5. Listening -- Aussie accent 
https://youtu.be/TafO43sy88E


6. Learning Australia -- New South Wales


7. Stress and You