英语topic集锦1.What are the reasons for shyness and the ways to overcome shyness?A: There are many factors that contribute to shyness. Some are due to low self-respect, lack of self-confidence, limited social activities, and lack of education. so do you have any ways to overcome shyness?B: Recognize your personal strengths weaknesses. Everyone has both. As self-acceptance grows, shyness naturally diminishes. Don’t be afraid to speak up and give your point of view.C: Yes. We should know our strengths and place weight on our good aspects and try to live up to our full potential. Don’t always focus on our weaknesses, because we can improve and prefect ourselves.A : Study hard and read widely to enrich our knowledge, try to make more friends, and encourage ourselves to involved in more activities in school. There are all good ways to overcome shyness.2.What are the important factors in shaping one’s personality?A: Generally speaking, personality refers to all the person and more characteristics that determine the way a person thinks, feels and acts in his social and personal relations.B: Yes. Personality traits include a vast variety of attitudes and train such as shyness, patience, sadness, humor, selfishness, independence and aggressive and so on.C: our personality traits are not entirely inherited, your friends and companion may have a great influence upon you. We often say “if you want to know a person, you can know the company he keeps.”a: I think we can change our personality traits if we possesses the drive and puts forth the effort required to do so. Recognizing one’s strengths and weaknesses in personality traits is an important step in the process of personal development.3. Share your favorite myth or legend with the other members in your group.A: To day we’d like to share the Chinese legend about Pan GU with you.In the beginning, the heavens and earth were still one and all was in chaos. The universe was like a big egg, carrying Pan GU inside itself.B: After 18 thousand years Pan GU woke up from a long sleep. He feel suffocated, so he took up a broad axe and used it with all his might to crack open the egg.C: The light, clear part of it floated up and formed the heavens, and the cold, turbid matter stayed below to form the earth.D: The heavens and the earth began to grow at a rate of ten feet per day, and Pan GU grew along with them.E: After another 18 thousand years, the sky was higher, the earth was thicker, and Pan GU stood between them, so that they would never join again.A: When Pan GU died, his breath became the clouds, and his voice became the rolling thunder. One eye became the sun and the other the moon. His body and limbs turned to five big mountains and his blood formed the flowing water.B: His veins became far-stretching roads and his muscles fertile land. The countless stars in the sky came from his hair and beard, and flowers and trees from his skin and the fine hairs on his body.C: His marrow turned to jade and pearls. His sweat flowed like the good rain and sweet dew that nurtured all the things on the earth.D: According some versions, his tears flowed to make rivers and radiance of his eyes turned into thunder and lighting.E: One version of the legend has it that the fleas and lice on his body became the ancestors of mankind.4. Do you admire Tortoise for his cleverness or do you sympathize with all the birds, why?A: I don’t admire Tortoise’s cleverness. He was unwise to cheat all the birds. After his mischief, how could he have face to live together with them any longer? He could have no friends at all. I sympathize with the birds. They took Tortoise with them to the sky out of kindness, but after flying such a long distance, they had to fly back home with an empty stomach.B: Yes. He was clever, but at the same time he was also stupid. When all the birds became so angry, how could he have trusted Parrot to take his massage to his wife? He should have jumped into the sea to avoid being hurt. The birds were formally invited, but the food was enjoyed only by Tortoise, who hadn’t been invited. The distinguished guests suffered from hunger while the casual visitor had a good time. The birds were unlucky.C: I admire Tortoise’s Tortoise’s cleverness. He was a guy who knew where to look for a nice dinner during a time of famine. He knew very well how to get trust from others. The birds were stupid. They knew very well that Tortoise couldn’t be trusted as he was always mischievous. But they persuaded themselves that he was a changed man.5. What sort of social problems do you think exist in China? What are the possible causes of the most serious social problems?A: Overpopulation is one of our greatest social problems. Our natural resources are limited. If the population has been growing without a severe control, we’ll soon suffer from famine and poverty.B: I can’t agree more. China has the largest population in the world. And more and more people have been pouring into urban areas where housing problem and problems concerning social order and security occur.C: Pollution is one of our social problems. As the rapid production of consumer goods creates excessive waste products, the disposal of the waste becomes more difficult, and the result is pollution.A: Our country is still a developing country. Of course some social problems exist in our country. Let’s make joint efforts to solve the social problems and make greater contributions to our motherland.6. Dose the phenomenon of latchkey children has a good effect on children’s growth? Why?A: Nowadays mothers have been leaving the traditional role of full-time homemaker. Increasingly they have been taking salaried jobs outside the home.It is quite common for children to feel hurt and resentful because they are hopeless and isolated.B: I agree, but on the other hand, it has a good effect on children’s growth. Being on their own for a few hours each day fosters or stimulates a sense of independence and responsibility. They feelloved and trusted, and this feeling encourages them to be self-confident. Latchkey girls, by observing how their mothers cope with demands of a family and a job, learn the role model of a working mother.C: Right. Some latchkey children use their unsupervised free time to perfect their athletic skills, such as playing baseketball.Others read books or practice a music instrument. These children look upon their free time after school as an opportunity for personal development. It leads to positive, productive, and valuable experiences.7. Is it a must for college students to have a summer job? Why?A: I think it is a must for college students to have a summer job because doing a summer job can earn us much working experience. We have a long summer vacation that offers us a good opportunity to prepare for our future job.B: Yes. Working experience is very important. When we hunt for a job after graduating, most employers require that the candidate should have some working experience. We should make the most of time to prepare for our future career. Holidays offer us a good opportunity to get job experience.C: As a college student, my priority is working hard in my professional knowledge, and I’ll also learn as much knowledge in other fields as possible. Then in the future, I will be able to adapt to a variety of occupations besides professional occupation. Doing summer job is a waste of time.The most important thing is studying hard. Knowledge is power. Only when we are better educated, can we have a chance to get a good job. Studying to prepare for the future can help us to cope with changes that you undergo. I want to study and relax I holidays.8. How are you preparing for your future career in college?A: I like travel very much; I want to be a travel guide after graduation. In college I will read as many books on travel as possible to obtain enough knowledge of travel. In my spare time I will go on sports to keep fit for travel guide must be strong. During the holidays, I will use the leisure time to travel to some sites of interests or be a travel guide free of charge. I will try my best to get the working experience to be a travel guide.B: I want to be social work. To become a good social worker, I must make preparation in college. The most important thing is to study well, learn more knowledge about the poor, knowing how they are now and what they need most. To be a good social worker, I should know how to contract people and how to get along well with people. To help others is not easy and to do well is even harder, but I will try my best to know all kinds of people and go all out to gain success in my ideal job.C: To prepare myself well, I think I must gather more information about myself both in college and in society. It would be necessary for me to know my own strengths and weaknesses, to know what I am good at and what I’m not. The most important thing is that I must have my goal to my career and work harder for it. After all, being successful without preparation or efforts is just a daydream.9. What are the ways people use to communicate with each other?A: As we all know, there’re many ways people use to communicate with each other. A variety of language forms are widely used, such as body language, spoken language and written language. Eye contact is also a useful way.B: Yes, there are so many ways people could use to tell others what they think about. With the development of the tele-communications and technology, more and more communication toolsare invented. And people can use letters, phones, and even computers to exchange their ideas with others.C: Nowadays, internet becomes a new and popular way to communicate with others. By internet, not only we can send and receive e-mail mutually and have a chat with our friends who stay far away from us but also buy what we want. It is quite convenient and cheap for us to keep us well-informed. So it will be more and more important in our daily life.10. Should learners aim to speak English with a native-speaker pronunciation? Why?A: In my opinion, there is no point to speak English with a native-speaker pronunciation. For it is very difficult and sometimes impossible to gain a native speaker pronunciation however hard we work because we are not native speakers and English is our second language.B: Yes, language is only a tool for communication among human beings. If people we meet understand what we are saying, that is all that is necessary. We do not need to imitate native speaker pronunciation. In any case, there are many types of accents, so which one should we choose to imitate.C: I agree, but I think it is important to aim to speak English for native-speaker pronunciation. First of all, I think perfection is always a good goal in any aspect of language learning. We should aim for perfect grammar, so why not perfect pronunciation?11. Do you agree that human beings are more aggressive than animals? WhyA: I think aggression is the instinct of all living creatures. Both human beings and animals will defend themselves if they are confronted with attack or danger.B: Man must be the most aggressive of all living creature. We may say a violent man is behaving like a beast, but, in fact, no beast behaves as violently as man.C: I can’t agree more. When an animal intrudes on the territory of another creature of the same species, the latter will only perform some hostile gestures to warn off the intruder but not to kill them.A: But if an animal finds itself in abnormal conditions, it may show abnormal aggressiveness. A tiger injured by man will attack man fiercely. A caged lion will attack anyone if it is not well fed or cared of.。