– Advertising
– Animal Rights: testing on animals, vegetarianism, zoos
– Cities: urbanisation, problems of city life
– Crime: police, punishments/prisons, rehabilitation, capital punishment
– Education: studying abroad, technology in education, education in developing countries, higher education, home-schooling, bad behaviour, corporal punishment, single sex education, streaming (grouping children according to ability)
– Environment: global warming, impact of humans on the environment, solutions to environment problems, waste/rubbish, litter, recycling, nuclear power
– Family: family size, working parents, negative effects on children, divorce, care for old people
– Gender: gender and education, gender and work, women’s and men’s role in the family
– Genetic Engineering: positives and negatives, genetically modified foods
– Global Issues: problems in developing countries, how to help developing countries, immigration, multi-cultural societies, globalisation
– Government and Society: what governments can do, public services, censorship, video cameras in public places
– Guns and Weapons: gun ownership and possession, police and guns, nuclear weapons, armed forces
– Health: diet, exercise, state health systems, private healthcare, alternative medicine, stress
– Housing and Architecture: state housing, old buildings, modern/green buildings
– International Language: English as an international language
– Money: money and society, consumerism
– Personal Development: happiness, success, nature or nurture
– Sport and Leisure: professional/competitive sport, sport salaries, sport and politics
– Tourism: positives, negative effects on environment, future of tourism
– Traditions and Modern Life: losing traditional skills, traditional customs
– Transport: traffic problems and solutions, public transport, road safety
– Television, Internet and Mobile Phones: positives and negatives, Internet compared to newspapers and books
– Water: importance of clean water, water supply, water should be free, bottled water
– Work: same job for life, self-employment, unemployment, work/life balance, technology and work, child labour
