Visiting

Why do people enjoy visiting others?
Do children and adults enjoy visits to other people in the same way?
9. Do you think it’s important to visit other people in their homes?
10. With guests, do you think it is better to eat at home or to go to a restaurant?
1. What gifts do people in your country give when they visit someone’s home?
How important is giving hospitality to friends/strangers in your culture?
How important is it to make foreign visitors feel welcome?
How do people make guests in their home feel welcome?
Why do people offer food and drink to visitors?
7. Are there any problems people may experience in receiving visitors to their homes?
3. Compare visits from relatives and visits from friends.
Do people behave differently when they have visitors they don’t know well, compared to when they have visitors they know well?
6. Have changes in lifestyle have made it easier or more difficult to visit people?
11. How important is the living room in a person’s house when guests visit?
13. In your country, what food and drink do people offer guests to their home?
14. Is today’s generation less formal than previous generations about guests?
15. Do you think there are any people who don’t like visitors coming to their home?
16. What could these people do instead of having visitors come to their home?
19. What are some typical ways of entertaining foreign visitors in your country?
21. How important is it to understand cultural differences when receiving foreign visitors?
22. What are the benefits to young people of studying in other countries?
24. How could greater co-operation between countries be encouraged?
25. Do you think people should change their behaviour when they visit a place that has a different culture?
26. How do you think a foreigner can get used to life in your country?
27. What kinds of things do foreigners need to pay attention to when they travel in your country?
28. Why do some people feel it is important to keep in touch but others do not?
29. What skills are important for maintaining relationships in the work context?
30. Is it wrong to use social connections to create opportunities in the workplace?
How do people in China welcome visitors to their homes?
In China, when someone is a guest in another person’s house, in what ways should he or she express their respect to the host?
Should the guest offer help to the host?
In China, when you have visitors, do you usually eat at home or outside the home (at a restaurant)?
How do people entertain guests at home?
In China, what do people generally do when they visit each other?
What do they talk about?
Do people in China treat different kinds of visitors in different ways?
Is there much difference between having relatives visit and having friends visit?
In your country, when people visit others, do they usually bring anything (as a gift) to give to their host?
How would you welcome a foreigner who was visiting your home (or, who was visiting China)?
And what do you think a foreign guest needs to pay attention to when visiting someone’s home in your country?
Do you often invite friends to visit you r home?
Do you like visitors coming to your home?
Do people often visit you at your home?
How often do visitors come to your home?
When do visitors come to your home?
Do you prefer to have friends visit you, or relatives?
What do you usually do together with your visitors?
When someone visits you, how do you usually show hospitality (or, entertain them)?
1. Do you often invite your friends over to your home?
2. How often do you invite friends to your apartment?
3. Do you like to be invited to other s house?
4. Describe an experience when a lot of people visited your home?
5. What do you prepare if a lot of people visit you?
When was the last time visitors came to your house?