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Sports..................................................................................................................
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Social
Issues..................................................................................................................
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Personal...............................................................................................................
...........................2 Ethics/
Morality.................................................................................................................
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Health...................................................................................................................
..........................3 Social
trends...................................................................................................................
.................4 Animal
rights....................................................................................................................
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The Mass
Media...............................................................................................................................5
Education..............................................................................................................................
Punishment.....................................................................................................................6
Prejudice &
Discrimination................................................................................................................6
Society..............................................................................6 Teen
Issues...................................................................................................................................
Leisure.................................................................................................................................
Culture..................................................................................................................................
general).........................................................................................................................7
Language..............................................................................................................................
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Literature...............................................................................................................................
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Population.............................................................................................................................
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Poverty..................................................................................................................................
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Nationalism...........................................................................................................................
Terrorism..........................................................................................................................10
History...................................................................................................................................
Internationalism......................................................................................................10
Politics..................................................................................................................................
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Economics............................................................................................................................
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Environment..........................................................................................................................
Technology....................................................................................................................13
S’pore
Questions............................................................................................................................1
Others...................................................................................................................................
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Sports
1. What effects has commercialisation had upon sport? (1989)
2. Does sport always contribute to international harmony and understanding? (1993)
3. ‘Sports which contain the risk of serious physical injury or death should be banned.’
How far do you agree with this view? (1996)
4. ‘What is important is not winning, but taking part.’ How realistic is this
attitude in the world of sport
today? (1997)
5. Is sport too closely linked to money these days? (2001)
Social Issues
Personal
Ethics/ Morality
33. Which is the more important, to cure disease or to prevent it? (1985)
34. Should tobacco-smoking be discouraged or even banned? (1986)
35. What diseases are most prevalent in your part of the world and how can they be
combated? (1987)
36. How can we as individuals become healthier? (1988)
37. Discuss the ways in which attitudes to health have changed in your society and the
effects which have
resulted. (1994)
38. ‘A preoccupation with physical fitness is the curse of modern life.’ Do you agree?
(1999)
39. How far do you agree that health is the responsibility of the State, not of the
individual? (2000)
40. ‘If people become ill it is largely their own fault.’ How far do you agree? (2002)
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Social trends
41. In what ways is the life style in your country changing today? (1987)
42. Loneliness is becoming an increasing social problem. Discuss the possible
causes and suggest some
remedies. (1991)
43. What changes would you like to see in today’s society? (1992)
44. ‘Modern methods of transport have transformed our world into a village.’
Is this a blessing or a curse? (1992)
45. Should human beings look forward to the next century more with
optimism than pessimism? (1997)
46. ‘I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.’ To what extent has the pursuit of
wealth become the modern goal?
(2000)
47. Is it true that the old must now learn from the young? (2000)
48. ‘In the modern world, image is everything.’ Discuss. (2000)
49. Do you think that life today offers us too many choices? (2001)
50. Do you agree that city life is becoming increasingly unattractive? (2002)
51. To what extent are the young in Singapore favoured at the expense of the elderly?
(2004)
52. Discuss the importance of religion in society today. (2004)
Animal rights