AIRPORT QUESTIONS

1.Q. Can I bring liquids in my carry-ons?
2.Q. Can I bring a laptop, CD player or electronic hand-held game in my carry-on?
3.Q. What are the weight/size restrictions on checked and carry-on luggage?
4.Q. Does the Airport have storage lockers?
5.Q. Do I need to go through security to travel from one terminal to another?
6.Q. Do I need to go through security to reach my connecting flight after leaving the Customs area?
7.Q. What is the easiest way to travel between Terminal F and Terminals A-West, B and C?
8.Q. Does the Airport offer "Fear of Flying" classes?
9.Q. Are there facilities for passengers with disabilities?
10.Q. What are my parking options at the Airport?
11.Q. What eating facilities and gift shops are available in the Airport?
12.Q. What other services are available to the traveling public?
13.Q. How can I page someone?
14.Q. Where are the car rental agencies?
15.Q. Are there facilities for passengers with disabilities?
16.Q. Does the Airport have an observation deck?
17.Q. Does the Airport have publications available to the general public?
18.Q. How can I apply for a job at the Airport?
19.Q. Does the Airport have a Lost and Found?
20.Q. What is the Airport’s mailing address?
21.Q. What address can I use to get driving directions to the Airport on the Internet?
22.Q. Is it still possible to drop off and pick up someone in front of a terminal?
23.Q. Is there an area where I can wait in my car to pick up someone at the Airport?
24.Q. How early should I arrive before my flight?
25.Q. Can I meet someone or escort them to the gate?
26.Q. How can I find information on ground transportation options?
27.Q. Does the Airport have smoking areas?
28.Q. Does the Airport offer business services to travelers
29.Q. Does the Airport offer tours?
30.Q. Is public transportation available from the Airport to downtown Philadelphia?
31.Q. Does the Airport offer wireless Internet access?
32.Q. Is there assistance for minors traveling alone?
33.Q. What is the contact information for Northeast Philadelphia Airport?
34.Q. Does the Airport have Pet Relief Areas?

AIRPLANES

1. How old were you when you went on your first flight? Where did you go?
2. Do you like to travel by airplane?
3. What was the longest flight you have ever taken?
4. What seat do you prefer: window, center or aisle?
5. What are three things you're supposed to do before the flight takes off?
6. What do you like to do during the flight? Does the plane provide anything to do to pass the time?
7. What are some movies you remember seeing on the plane?
8. What do you do when you experience turbulence?
9. Have you ever met anyone or established any relationships during a flight?
10. What should be done with obese people who practically take up two seats?
11. Can you sleep during the flight?
12. Have you ever seen a female pilot? Why do you think that most pilots are men?
13. Would you like to be a flight attendant? What are the benefits and /or downfalls?
14. Are most flight attendants female? Is being a flight attendant considered a good job in your country? What do you think are the qualifications?
15. Are planes really safer than cars? ( A British study shows that flying is 176 times safer than walking, 15 times safer than driving and 300 times safer than a motorbike.)
16. Would you rather have a younger, more beautiful/handsome flight attendant or an older, more experienced one?
17. What are the advantages of traveling by airplane? What are the disadvantages?
18. Do you know someone who is afraid of flying in an airplane?
19. What questions should you ask when buying airplane tickets?
20. What is a group rate?
21. What is a charter flight?
22. What arrangements should you make for pick-up at the airport?
23. What things can you see in an airport?
24. What questions do they ask you when you check-in at the airport?
25. What questions do they ask you when going through immigration and customs at the airport?

PASSPORTS

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PILOTS- 20 QUESTIONS

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FLYING 20 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

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FLIGHT ATTENDANT- FAQ

1.Do I need to attend a school or complete an online program before I can apply?
2.How can I determine if I am right for the Flight Attendant Career, and get a head start on interviewing?
3.I want to be a flight attendant! Where do I start?
4.What are the requirements to be a flight attendant?
5.How do I get started?
6.I saw a site that offers a training program for flight attendants, do I need it
7.Why do some sites charge for airline hiring information and you don't?
8.What will the interview for the flight attendant position be like?
9.What kinds of questions will they ask me at my interview?
10.Why do you want to be a flight attendant?
11. Am I too young to apply for a flight attendant job?
12.What are the Height and Weight requirements for Flight Attendants?
13.Which airlines are hiring?
14.What is an "open session, or open house" interview?
15.Will I need a passport in order to begin applying?
16.Do Flight Attendants and their families really get to fly for free?
17.Do airlines look more favorably on single applicants as opposed to those with families?
18.Do airlines hire more women than men for the flight attendant position?
19.My credit history isn't the best, will this disqualify me?
20.I wear contacts and sometimes glasses, will this disqualify me?
21.All airlines require an applicant to be a high school graduate?
22.What kind of education do I need to apply for the Flight Attendant position?
23.I have a conditional illness that I take medication for, can I still be a flight attendant?
24.There is a flight attendant seminar coming to my city. It is expensive, so I wonder if it is an investment I should make?
25.Do you have to be really attractive and thin to be a flight attendant?
26.Will I have to relocate?
27.How do I know if my past work history is good enough to get a flight attendant job?
28.The airline that I applied to requires a ten year work history, I can't remember the exact dates and employers for ten years, where can I get help?
29.I have insurance at my current employer, do airlines offer insurance plans?
30.Do you have to be speak another language to be hired as a flight attendant?
31.What is the schedule of a flight attendant like?
32.Are flight attendants ever allowed to work overtime?
33.Does the airline pay for the hotel accommodations on layovers?
34.What kind of salary do flight attendants make?
35.I have a tattoo, will this disqualify me?
36.What is your best advice for an airline interview?

QUESTIONS FOR PILOTS ONLY

1. Q. How many lessons do I have to take before I solo?
2. Q. Is flying safe?
3. Q. If engine failure occurs, what will happen?
4. Q. When do I need a student pilot’s certificate?
5. Q. Am I eligible for a student pilot’s certificate?
6. Q. How do I get a student pilot’s certificate?
7. Q. How long are my student pilot’s certificate and my medical certificate valid?
8. Q. Can I renew my student certificate and medical certificate?
9. Q. If my original Student Pilot Certificate has been endorsed for solo flying, do I lose this endorsement on my new certificate?
10. Q. Should my flight instructor endorse my student pilot’s certificate before or after my first solo flight?
11. Q. If I solo in more than one make or model of aircraft, must I have an endorsement for each on my student pilot’s certificate? If so, who should endorse the certificate?
12. Q. Does the endorsement to solo allow me to make solo cross-country flights?
13. Q. Must I carry my student pilot’s certificate with me when I am piloting an aircraft in solo flight?
14. Q. Is there a charge for the student pilot’s certificate?
15. Q. When do I need a medical certificate?
16. Q. If required, how do I get a medical certificate?
17. Q. Where do I get my medical certificate?
18. Q. Where can I get a list of FAA-authorized aviation medical examiners?
19. Q. When required, what class of medical certificate must a student pilot have?
20. Q. If I have a physical disability, can I get a medical certificate?
21. Q. Must I carry my medical certificate when I am flying solo?
22. Q. Where can I get flying lessons?
23. Q. Does my pilot training include a written test?
24. Q. When do I have to get the endorsement?
25. Q. After I’ve soloed, can I fly cross-country alone?
26. Q. As a student pilot, can I carry passengers with me before getting my recreational or private pilot’s certificate?
27. Q. Must I have an FCC radiotelephone operator's permit to operate an aircraft radio transmitter?
28. Q. What is the difference between a recreational pilot’s certificate and a private pilot’s certificate?
29. Q. How old do I have to be to get a recreational pilot’s certificate or a private pilot’s certificate?
30. Q. What tests do I have to pass to get a recreational pilot’s certificate or private pilot’s certificate?
31. Q. How old do I have to be to take the recreational pilot or private pilot written test?
32. Q. How should I prepare for the knowledge test?
33. Q. What document or documents must I present before taking a knowledge test?
34. Q. If I fail the knowledge test, is there any way to determine the areas in which I need additional work so I can study for a retest?
35. Q. If I pass the knowledge test, will I receive the same information concerning weak areas as I would if I failed the test?
36. Q. How long is a satisfactorily completed knowledge test valid?
37. Q. Will my instructor review the areas in which the test report showed I was deficient?
38. Q. Must I provide the aircraft for my practical test?
39. Q. What papers and documents must I present to the FAA inspector or FAA-designated pilot examiner prior to my practical test?
40. Q. What does the practical test consist of, and how will my performance be evaluated?
41. Q. When can I take the recreational pilot or private pilot practical test?
42. Q. Where can I take the practical test?
43. Q. Is there any charge for taking the practical test?
44. Q. May I exercise the privileges of my pilot’s certificate immediately after passing my practical test or must I wait until I receive the actual pilot’s certificate?
45. Q. Is there a charge for issuing the pilot’s certificate?
46. Q. As the holder of a recreational pilot’s certificate, how do I ensure that I don’t inadvertently enter airspace where I am required to contact air traffic control?
47. Q. I already have a recreational pilot’s certificate, and I want to get an additional certificate or rating. For training purposes, can I fly beyond the 50-nautical-mile limit, after dark, or in airspace where I have to contact air traffic control?

AVIATION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Tell us about yourself.

2. What can you bring to this company?

3. Have you ever had an Emergency?

4. How did you deal with it?

5. How did you get started in Aviation?

6. Who have been your role model's, or who has had the most influence on you?

7. What goal's do you have?

8. What are some goal's that you had that were never achieved, and how did you deal with it?

9. Where do you see yourself in 10 year's?

10. What is your greatest accomplishment?

11. How would you fly this SID?

12. We see, your flying various type's of aircraft for different companies, how will you feel about coming to work here and just flying one type of aircraft. Will it become monotonous, boring?

13. We have a 5:30am show every morning, how do you feel about that?

14. The Capt. continues an approach beyond minimum's, he tell's you that he's shot this approach a 1,000 times, know's the area, and everything's fine. What will you do?

15. You find your Capt. drinking before a flight, how will you handle this?

16. You are talking to the Capt., and you smell alcohol. Although you didn't see him drinking, what would you do?

17. You smell smoke in the cockpit, what initial action should you take?

18. Then what do you do?

19. The Capt. tell's you the smoke is normal and it will clear itself, 15 minutes later the condition is growing worse. The Capt. gives you the same response.. now, what would you do?

20. The aircraft is loaded way beyond gross wt., the Capt. tell's you that he does this all the time, and the aircraft will fly. What do you do?

21. You have been cleared for take-off, upon getting airborne with the gear in the well's, what kind of conversation are you going to have with the Capt?

22. Can you brief this approach?

23. What is V one?

24. I see your flying various twin's, do they all have a critical engine?

25. Which one's do not, and why?

26. Can you define Balanced Field Length?

27. You find yourself flying with an arrogant Capt., and you have a real personality clash, how do you deal with this?

28. Your the PIC on one of our Lear's, your taking off on a 13,000' runway with clear skies and unlimited visibility, upon getting airborne you have an emergency and the co-pilot call's out that there's a problem. With 11,000 feet of runway still in front of you, and the gear still down, what would you do?

29. You have the Pres., the V.P., and the board of Director's in the back, and they are ADAMANT about getting to a shareholder meeting on time. You get 30 mile's from your destination, and the arrival airport is covered under a LVL 6 cell. The Cell has very little movement, what would you do?

30. We see your flying a _________. Tell us about this aircraft. ( the question's are endless here with engine's and system's, etc.)

31. We fly Part 91, and you taxi out to the runway at an uncontrolled field. The vis. is so low that you can only see 100ft in front of you, can you take-off?

32. What is the most difficult decision that you have had to make? Aviation or non-aviation related? What did you learn from it?

33. If you were a professional pilot and had an early morning trip; how would you prepare yourself for this trip?

34. Discuss a bad situation which you managed to turn around?

35. If you could no longer fly due to medical reasons; what would you do?

36. Besides good pay why do you want to be a professional pilot?

37. What makes a great pilot?

38. What makes a bad pilot?

39. Most people have a person in their lives that influenced their career. Who was your mentor?

40. Discuss a typical briefing of an instrument approach to minimums?

41. Based on your aircraft discuss a flight in IFR as well as icing-conditions?

42. Your aviation career although progressing nicely is happening very slowly. How do you feel about this situation?

43. What event in your life caused you to feel the way you do about aviation and flying?

44. What are some of the limitations of your aircraft and yourself?

45. How would you rate yourself in relation to communication skills, dependability, and integrity? 1-10

46. If you attain all your goals as a professional pilot what do you intend to give back to aviation?

TEACHING METHOD

LEVELS:
1- translate questions and read them
2- answer them mechanically with help
3- answer them without looking
4- use questions as talk starters-part 1
5- use the questions as talk starters- part 2
6- talk freely about aviation based on past events

ACTIVITIES

1. Are you good at climbing trees?
2. Do you enjoy  singing?
3. When do you speak English?
4. How often do you play  computer games?
5. Have you ever tried playing the piano?
6. When do you listen to the radio loud?
7. Are you able to play basketball?
8. Are you good at playing volleyball?
9. When do you hear people speaking English?
10. Are you good or bad at cooking pasta?
11. Do you understand the  game of  Tennis?
12. Is cooking noodles easy or hard?
13. Are you good  or bad at math?
14. Do you like to hear people telling jokes?
15. Are you good at making people smile?
16. Are you good at writing in your first language?
17. How often do you solve work problems?
18. Have you ever had guitar lessons?
19. What is your favorite free time activity?
20. Is it expensive or cheap to do this activity?

DRIVING

1. Do you prefer driving or riding public transportation?
2. What kind of car do you prefer?
3. Do you like drive at night?
4. Do you think cars should be banned from city centers?
5. What side of the road do you drive in your country?
6. Is drunk driving a problem in your country?
7. What kind of laws does your country have about drunk driving?
8. What is the penalty for drunk driving in your country?
9. Is jaywalking legal in your country?
10. Do people often jaywalk in your country?
11. Who taught you to drive?
12. How long did it take you to learn to drive?
13. What is the longest trip you have ever taken by car?
14. How do American drivers compare to drivers in your country?
15. What are the speed limits in your country?

NEW YEAR'S

1. How was this year?
2. Was this year better or worse than last year? How come?
3. What was the happiest thing for you this year?
4. What was the saddest thing for you this year?
5. What was the toughest thing for you this year?
6. What was the best movie for you this year?
7. What was the best trip for you this year?
8. What was the best TV show for you this year?
9. What was a  nice place you visited this year?
10. Did you make more money this year than last?
11. What was the best restaurant you went to this year?
12. What was the most useful thing you bought this year?
13. What was the most expensive thing you bought this year?
14. What was the best item of clothing you bought this year?
15. What was the biggest waste of money this year?

COMPARING STUFF

1.What is better, reading a book or listening to music?
2.What is better, studying alone or studying with a teacher?
3.What is nicer, driving a car or riding a bike?
4.What do you prefer, working or cleaning the house?
5.What is worse, paying bills online or going to the bank?
6.What is cooler, traveling or going to a spa?
7.What is the best, going to a friend's house or going to the movies?
8.What do you enjoy more, seeing a movie or reading a book?
9.What do you prefer, cooking only for you or cooking for many people?
10.What is cheaper, taking a taxi or taking the bus?
11.What is more expensive, buying a cake or making a cake at home?
12.What is more romantic, buying a present or buying flowers?
13.What do you like more, buying clothes or going for a drink with friends?
14.What is more difficult, speaking English or Writing in English?
15.What is more difficult, Listening or Speaking in English?
16.What is easier, playing video-game or playing the guitar?
17.What do you prefer, drinking coffee or drinking milk?
18.What is harder, ice skating or swimming in the sea?
19.Do you prefer going to a nightclub or going to a party?
20.Do you prefer making a barbecue or going to a barbecue?

GONNA

1.what are you gonna do after the class?
2.What are you gonna do tomorrow?
3.What are you gonna eat today?
4.What are you gonna do on sunday morning?
5.What are you gonna do on sunday afternoon?
6.What are you gonna do on sunday night?
7.What are you gonna do on saturday morning?
8.What are you gonna do on saturday afternoon?
9.What are you gonna do on saturday night?
10.What are you gonna do on Friday night?
11.When are you gonna travel?
12.When are you gonna work again?
13.Where are you gonna sleep tonight?
14.When are you gonna speak English at work?
15.What are you gonna have for breakfast tomorrow?

WANNA

1.What do you wanna buy one day?
2.What do you wanna learn one day?
3.Where do you wanna go today?
4.Where do you wanna go in your vacation?
5.What do you wanna eat now?
6.What do you wanna drink now?
7.Who do you wanna see ?
8.Who do you wanna help one day?
9.How many children do you wanna have?
10.Do you wanna learn Spanish?
11.Do you wanna buy a new car?
12.When do you wanna travel again?
13.What job do you wanna have one day?
14.Who do you wanna meet from TV?
15.How many houses do you wanna have?
16.How many languages do you wanna speak?
17.How many cars do you wanna have?
18.How many friends do you wanna see this weekend?
19.What do you wanna see in the zoo?
20.What do you wanna watch on the movies?

MIXED VERBS

1.What do you love to do?
2.What do you enjoy cooking?
3.what do you hate to buy?
4.What do you need to study?
5.What do you have to pay?
6.Where do you want to go one day?
7.Who do wish to help?
8.When do you love to study?
9.Where do you enjoy going to?
10.What do you hate to do?
11.What do you want to study one day?
12.Where do you need to be tonight?
13.What number do you like to use for games?
14.What don't you enjoy doing on Mondays?
15.What do you have to do on the weekends?
16.What do you wish to learn?
17.What do you have to do today after the class?
18.When will you study English again?
19.What will you do tomorrow morning?
20.What are you doing right now?

VERBS IN THE PAST

1. When did you go to the beach
2. When did you go to church?
3. When did you eat a lot?
4. When did you have a job interview?
5. When did you buy a car?
6. When did you drink coke?
7. When did you drink some coffee?
8. When did you see your best friend?
9. When did you see a car accident?
10. When did you write an e-mail?
11. When did you go to a party?
12. When did you arrive home after midnight?
13. When did you see your doctor?
14. When did you clean your home?
15. When did you buy a present?
16. When did you run fast?
17. When did you study English alone?
18. When did you make a call?
19. When did you make some coffee?
20. When did you miss an English class?

ADJECTIVES

1.are you happy or sad now?
2.Are you thin or fat?
3.Are you tall or short?
4.Are you smart or regular?
5.Are you a good or a bad driver?
6.Are you hardworking or lazy?
7.Are you funny or dull?
8.Are you romantic or not romantic?
9.Are you beautiful, ugly or normal?
10.Are you clean or dirty now?
11.Do you have straight, curly or wavy hair?
12.Are you more interested in sports or books?
13.What do you love, comedy or horror?
14.Are you a money spender or a money saver?
15.Are you responsible or irresponsible?
16.Are you a positive or negative person?
17.Do you have many or few friends?
18.Do you have a huge, tiny or big house?
19.Is your computer really modern, ok or very old?
20.Are you casual or formal?

AT THE DOCTOR'S

1- what do you feel?
2- how old are you?
3- do you take any pills?
4- when was your last time in the doctor?
5- when did the sympton start?
6- are you allergic to anything?
7- do you prefer injections or pills?
8- would you like to stay in hospital?
9- do you have someone to help you?
10- what is your full name?
11- How often do you get sick?
12- what is your blood type?
13- do you have heart problmes?
14- do you have history of cancer in the family?
15- do you have diabetes?
16- do you have any allergies?
17- how often do you eat fruits?
18- do you drink a lot of milk?
19- have you ever stayed in hospital?
20- do you enjoy drinking tea?

NEWS

1. Do you think people need to know all of the news?
2. What do people not need to know?
3. What do you think is the most important thing the news should report?
4. What was a memory piece of news you have read?
5. Do you read the newspaper everyday?
6. How often do you read the newspaper?
7. What newspaper do you read?
8. How much does the newspaper cost?
9. What kind of magazines do you like to read?
10. What is your favorite newspaper?
11. What is your favorite magazine?
12. Are magazines expensive in your country?
13. Do you enjoy reading a newspaper?
14. What sections of a newspaper do you like to read?
15. Tell me 3 sections of a newspaper.

LAST VACATION

1. What historical sites did you visit and what did you learn?
2. What interesting people did you meet? Tell me about them.
3. What souvenir did you buy?
4. What was the best food you ate during your vacation?
5. What was the most enjoyable thing that you did during your vacation?
6. What was the most interesting thing that you did during the vacation?
7. What was the most interesting thing you did during the holiday?
8. Where did you go for your last vacation?
9. Did people speak English there?
10. Did you have any problems?
11. Did you use a lot of English?
12. How did you get there?
13. How long did it take to get there?
14. How long were you there?
15. How much money did you spend?

DAYS AND DATES

1. What day is it today?
2. What day was it yesterday?
3. What day is tomorrow?
4. What day is the day after tomorrow?
5. What day was it yesterday?
6. What day was the day before yesterday?
7. Which days of the week do you have an English class?
8. What is your last working day of the week?
9. What is your first working day of the week?
10. On which day do you start work again?
11. What day of the week is the hardest for you to spell?
12. What days of the week are the weekend?
13. What is the date today?
14. What was the date yesterday?
15. What will be the date tommorrow?
16. What year were you born?
17. What year was Brazil discovered?
18. What year was the world trade center attacked?
19. What year is it now?
20. When is your birthday?

POLITICS

1. Did you vote in the last election?
2. How old were you when you first voted?
3. What is the minimum voting age in your country?
4. Is your country communist or capitalist??
5. What does a mayor do?
6. Who appoints a mayor?
7. Why is it important to have reliable presidents?
8. What characteristis should a good president have?
9. Who is your mayor?
10. What are the main political parties in your country?
11. How do you decide how you will vote?
12. How long is the term of elected officials in your country?
13. Which party is now in power in your country?
14. When were they elected?
15. Who is the leader of this party?

POLICE

1. Do you have any friends who are policemen?
2. How do the police help you?
3. Are you afraid of the police?
4. What are some situations when you would call the police?
5. Can you think of some situations when you wouldn't want to call the police?
6. Can you describe the police uniform of the policemen in your country?
7. What do you think about police in your country?
8. Are they effective?
9. Do you trust them?
10. Would you like to be a police officer?
11. Do you think that it is a very dangerous job?
12. Do you have any friends that are police officers?
13. Have you ever been stopped by the police?
14. Have the police ever helped you? How?
15. Do policemen in your country ask for bribes?

MOTIVATION

1. Have you ever tried to lose weight?
2. What motivated you to start a diet?
3. Is it important to motivate children?
4. How do you motivate children?
5. Can some people destroy your motivation?
6. What is something a boss can do to motivate his workers?
7. How are you best motivated?
8. How do you motivate your friends?
9. Have you ever tried to quit smoking?
10. How do you define motivation?
11. What are three things that motivate you?
12. Do you feel motivated when you are at school?
13. Do you feel motivated when learning something new?
14. How would you describe motivation?
15. Does motivation affect learning?

TIME

1. Are you good at getting things done on time?
2. Do you think time moves slowly or quickly?
3. What would you do if you had a few extra hours in a day?
4. Would you rather have more time or more money?
5. In your culture, is it polite to always show up on time, or to show up a little late?
6. How important is time in your culture?
7. Do you think people in America are too concerned with time?
8. What time do you get up in the morning?
9. What time do you go to bed?
10. What time does school start?
11. What time do you take a bath in the evening?
12. When do you do your homework?
13. What time do you like to go to bed at night?
14. What time do you think high school students should go to bed?
15. What is the best time to get married?

WAR AND ARMY

1. Do you want to become a soldier?
2. Is being a soldier mandatory in your country?
3. Would you volunteer to become a soldier?
4. Why does your country have an army?
5. Which army would you join if you had to?
6. Is having an army a waste of money in your country?
7. Which jobs do soldiers do?
8. Would you fight for another country other than your own?
9. Do you think women should be soldiers?
10. Is there a special day to honor veterans in your country?
11. Have you been in the army?
12. Have you ever lived in a country at war?
13. Do many young people in your country join the army? Why/why not?
14. What do you think of people whose job is in the army?
15. Do you think soldiers are well paid?

CLIMATE

1. Tell me 3 types of weather?
2. What is the weather like in your country ?
3. What are the different kinds of seasons?
4. What is the weather like in your country for each season?
5. How does weather affect your attitude?
6. How does weather affect your lifestyle?
7. How does TV secure weather reports?
8. Why is it important to know future weather conditions in advanced?
9. Have you ever changed plans on account of the weather?
10. Have you ever checked the weather for your city on the Internet? How?
11. What time of year is the best weather where you live?
12. Have you ever seen snow?
13. What is the most common natural disaster in your coutry?
14. Where do you get your weather information?
15. What is your favorite winter activity?

FAMILY CULTURE

1. What is the perfect number of children to have?
2. What's the best thing about your grandparents?
3. Should parents give their children an allowance?
4. How often does your family eat dinner together?
5. How should parents discipline their children?
6. What's the best thing about your dad?
7. Who is the breadwinner in your family?
8. Do you look more like your mother or your father?
9. Do you often argue with your mother or father? What about?
10. Do you often visit your grandparents?
11. Were you parents strict? In what things?
12. Do you have to clean your own room?
13. Do your parents get along with each other?
14. Do your parents trust you?
15. What would you like to change about your mom?

AMERICAN CELEBRATIONS

1. What day of the month is halloween?
2. Why is halloween celebrated?
3. Can you explain the history of halloween?
4. How is halloween celebrated in your country?
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
6. What makes you afraid of ghosts?
7. What are some of the symbols of halloween?
8. What kind of costume are you going to wear to the halloween party?
9. Do you hand out Halloween candy?
10. Why do you like about Halloween?
11. Have you seen the movie Halloween? what did you think?
12. What are some tricks people play on April Fool's Day?
13. What is the bad thing about this day?
14. Do you have the same tradition in your country?
15. Do you play tricks on April 1st?

HOMETOWNS

1. Where is your hometown?
2. What is the population of your hometown?
3. What is the population of your country?
4. What are some things in your hometown that are part of history?
5. What does your hometown produce? What does it grow?
6. What is the best season in your hometown?
7. What is the best thing about your hometown?
8. What is the worst thing about your hometown?
9. What's there to do in your hometown?
10. What's your hometown like?
11. When is the best time to come to your hometown?
12. Where are you from?
13. What is the geography of your hometown? (i.e. beach, mountains, etc.)
14. What are the main attractions in your hometown?
15. What are the main economical resources in your hometown?

HEALTH

1. Do you take medicine when you are sick?
2. Do you take vitamins or mineral supplements?
3. Do you take vitamins?
4. Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home?
5. Do you think nuclear power is safe?
6. Do you think pets are good for a person's health
7. Do you think you are overweight?
8. Do you think you will live until a ripe old age? Why or why not?
9. Do you think you would be a good surgeon? Why or why not?
10. Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
11. Do you usually get enough sleep?
12. Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy?
13. Have you ever been hospitalized?
14. Have you ever broken a bone?
15. Have you ever burned yourself with hot water?

LIFE EXPERIENCES

1. Have you ever seen a car accident?
2. Have you ever called your school's principal?
3. Have you ever received more than 10 cards on Valentines day?
4. Have you ever been on the radio or television?
5. Have you ever ridden on an ostrich? A camel? A cow?
6. Have you ever shaken hands with a monkey?
7. Have you ever received a love letter?
8. Have you ever seen a tornado?
9. Have you ever had an electricity blackout while taking a shower?
10. Have you ever picked you're nose in public?
11. Have you ever seen a car accident?
12. Have you ever called your school's principal?
13. Have you ever been on the radio? T.V?
14. Have you ever ridden on an ostrich?
15. Have you ever shaken hands with a monkey?

HABITS

1. Do you have any bad habits?
2. Do you bite your nails?
3. Do you over sleep? Do you sleep on the sofa?
4. Do you sleep in your clothes?
5. Do you eat late at night?
6. What are some good habits to have?
7. What are healthy eating habits?
8. What are bad eating habits?
9. What are good study habits?
10. What are bad study habits?
11. Where do we learn our habits?
12. What are some of your bad habits?
13. Do children learn bad habits at school or at home?
14. Do you smoke?
15. Do you drink alcohol?

GOSSIP

1. Do you like to gossip?
2. Do your friends often gossip about you?
3. Why do you think people like to listen to gossip ?
4. Why do people like to gossip about the rich and famous?
5. What are the most common themes for gossip?
6. What are some of the things you like to gossip about?
7. What are some ways which gossip can be harmful?
8. Do you think gossip can be used for something good?
9. Why is it considered that women gossip more then men?
10. Where are some places where people like to gossip?
11. Which newspapers can be called gossip newspapers?
12. Do you like to read gossip newspapers?
13. What is your attitude to gossip newspapers?
14. Have you ever told a rumor that got someone in trouble?
15. Has someone ever spread a rumor about you?

GOALS

1. What is your biggest goal in life?
2. How do you plan to achieve that goal?
3. What are your "short term" goals?
4. What are your "long term" goals?
5. Should parents help their children set goals?
6. What are your educational goals?
7. What are your career goals?
8. What are your financial goals?
9. Why are goals important?
10. Is having a goal in life effective in becoming successful?
11. Is having a goal helpful in motivating a person?
12. Do you think people have fewer goals as they get older?
13. Do you have any goals that you feel are unrealistic?
14. How do people's goals change from country to country?
15. What are your goals in your current job?

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FRUITS AND VEGGIES

1. Do you like to eat fruits? What's your favorite one?
2. How often do you eat fresh fruit?
3. In your opinion, what's the most delicious fruit?
4. Do you like vegetables? What's your favorite one?
5. Do you think that fruits and vegetables are good for your health? Why or why not?
6. Are you or would you like to be vegetarian?
7. How often do you drink fruit juice? What kind of fruit juice do you drink?
8. Do you like to eat fruit salad?
9. What kind of vegetables and fruits do you buy at the supermarket?
10. What the means the saying: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away?"
11. What are the most common fruits and vegetables in your country?
12. Can fruits and vegetables help you cure diseases?
13. Can fruits and vegetables help you lose weight if you are on a diet?
14. Do you cultivate fruits or vegetables in your garden?
15. Do you like to use things that have a fruit smell? ( E.g: Perfumes, erasers, etc)

FOOD

1. Do you like peas and carrots? How about spinach?
2. Do you like to cook? Why or why not?
3. Do you like to eat a lot of food every day?
4. Do you like to eat American foods?
5. Do you like to eat at fast food restaurants?
6. Do you like to eat cakes?
7. Do you like to eat junk food?
8. Do you like to eat some desserts after dinner?
9. Do you like to eat? Why or why not?
10. Do you like to have breakfast each morning? Why or why not?
11. Do you like to try new food and drinks?
12. Do you often eat out?
13. Do you prefer fish or meat?
14. Do you prefer to eat at a restaurant or at home?
15. Do you prefer your own country's food or other kinds of food?

FEARS

1. Are you afraid of going to the dentist?
2. Are you afraid of heights?
3. Are you afraid of scary movies?
4. Are you afraid of the dark?
5. Are you afraid to die? Why?
6. Are you afraid of getting old? Why?
7. Are there any numbers that people are afraid of in your culture?
8. Do you fear certain insects/animals? Why?
9. Do you know anyone with a phobia?
10. Do you like horror movies?
11. Do you think young children should be allowed to watch horror movies?
12. How do you react when you see something frightening?
13. Is there any person you are afraid of?
14. Were you afraid of the dark as a child?
15. What animal do you think is the most scary?

ENTERTAINMENT

1. What do you do in your spare time?
2. What do you like to do on a night out?
3. What do you think of soccer? (baseball, hang gliding, ...)
4. What games are popular in your country? Why are they popular?
5. What is your favorite game? Why?
6. What is your favorite holiday? Why?
7. What kind of music do you like?
8. What kind of things do you like to read?
9. What singer would you most like to meet?
10. What was the last book you read?
11. What's the most popular holiday in your country?
12. When is it?
13. How is it celebrated?
14. What's your favorite magazine? (What are some of your favorite magazines?)
15. When do you usually listen to the radio?

BOOKS AND LITERATURE

1. How many English authors can you name?
2. How many of Shakespeare's plays can you name?
3. Have you read a translation of any English books in your language?
4. Have you ever read an English translation of a book originally written in your language?
5. What sort of books do you enjoy reading?
6. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
7. What is your favorite book?
8. Who is your favorite writer?
9. Have you ever read a book and then seen a film of that book?
10. Did you read books when you were a child?
11. Do you like science-fiction books?
12. Do you like love stories?
13. Do you like historical stories?
14. Has seeing a film ever made you read the book it was based on?
15. Do you know any American writers?

EDUCATION

1. Do you have difficulty with school work?
2. Do you know anyone who does not know how to read or write?
3. Do you think teachers are paid enough?
4. Do you think your school is a good one? Why/why not?
5. Do you think your teachers give too much homework?
6. Do you think it is easier to learn as a child or as an adult?
7. Do you think public speaking can improve your english?
8. How can we improve our classroom?
9. Why English is hard to learn at university level?
10. How do you travel to school?
11. How long must you go to college to get a degree?
12. What are the qualities of a good student?
13. What are the qualities of a good teacher?
14. What classes would you take?
15. What do you study? What's your major?

DRUGS

1. Do you think alcohol is a drug?
2. What is alcoholism?
3. Do you know of any alcoholics?
4. How do you stop being an alcoholic?
5. Do you know how much alcohol is in beer?
6. Do you know how much alcohol is in whiskey?
7. What do people do when they are drunk?
8. Is alcohol addictive? What about tea, coffee, and chocolate? 
9. Should marijuana be legal?why?
10. Tell me a food or a drink you are "addicted to".
11. Why do you think marijuana is illegal?
12. What is the most dangerous drug?
13. Tell me 4 kinds of  serious drugs?
14. Why do you think that tobacco is a legal drug?
15. Are any of your friends addicted to tobacco? How often do they smoke?

DIETS

1. Have you ever been on a diet?
2. How do you know if you are fat?
3. What is the best way to diet?
4. Do you think dieting can be dangerous?
5. Do you think fiber is important in your diet?
6. What kind of fiber is the best when you are trying to loose weight?
7. Do you think protein is important in a balanced diet?
8. What is a good source of protein?
9. Do you think people who are fat can be happy?
10. Do you think people are in general are gaining weight or loosing weight?
11. Have you ever been on a diet?
12. What kind of diet would you recommend to your friend?
13. What kind of diet would recommended for an older person(40's) and a younger person(teens)?
14. What is the difference between diet and a healthy diet?
15. Have you ever heard of the atkins diet?

DATING

1. Is going out on dates important for you?
2. Is there a such thing as a perfect relationship for you?
3. If you could go out with anyone, who would it be?
4. If you are a man, and a woman asks you for a date, do you feel you should pay, or that the woman should pay?
5. What are some popular places to go on a date?
6. What characteristics do you look for in a girlfriend or boyfriend?
7. What do you consider cheating in a dating relationship?
8. What do you like to talk about when on a date?
9. What do you look for in a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
10. What do you think most people talk about when dating?
11. What kind of clothes do you wear on a date?
12. What qualities are important to you in a boyfriend or girlfriend?
13. What was the most boring date you've ever been on?
14. What was the most interesting date you've ever been on?
15. What would you consider "the perfect date" for you?

DANGERS

1. What is dangerous to do at night?
2. What do you do in your life that is dangerous?
3. Have you ever in a dangerous situation? when?
4. What insects do you consider very dangerous?
5. Why are drugs dangerous?
6. What is the safest form of transportation?
7. What are some fears you have?
8. Do you enjoy practicing radical sports?
9. What do you think of amusement parks?  Are they safe?
10. What time is the most dangerous time to go out?
11. Do you think there are dangers in your house?
12. What do you do when you see someone in danger?
13. What would you do if someone was following you?
14. Why are there people who love radical sports?
15. How much danger is there in your life right now?

TOMORROW

1- What time will you get up tomorrow?

2- Are you going to work tomorrow?

3- How will you go to work?

4- Will you go to the gym?

5- What time will you get to work?

6- What time do you think you will have breakfast?

7- What will you do at lunchtime?

8- Will you cook or buy food?

9- What do you think you will eat?

10- What will the weather be like tomorrow?

11- Will you watch TV tomorrow?

12- Are you going to buy anything tomorrow?

13- What will you be doing at 7 am?

14- What will you have done after 5pm?

15- What are you going to do after your English class tomorrow?

COUNTRIES

1. What country would you like to visit?
2. What country would you like to live in and why?
3. What country would you like to work in?
4. What country has the most interesting customs?
5. What country would be fun to work in?
6. Would you like to work in a tropical country?
7. Would you like to work in Antartica?
8. Would you like to live where there is always snow?
9. Would you like to live where there is desert and hot weather?
10. What countries in Europe have you visited?
11. What countries would you not like to visit and why?
12. What country in Asia would be a great place to live?
13. Is your country the best place for you to live?
14. What is special about your country?
15. What festivals and feasts does your country have?

MORE ABOUT COMPUTERS

1. Are you good at using a computer?
2. Are you still using your first computer?
3. Did you learn to use a computer in high school?
4. Do you know how to type well?
5. How often do you use a computer?
6. What are some of your favorite computer games?
7. What do you use a computer for?
8. What operating system do you use?
9. What software do you use the most often?
10. When did you first start using a computer?
11. Who taught you to use a computer?
12. Do you want a more powerful computer? If so, what computer do you want?
13. Does your family have a computer?
14. How fast can you type?
15. Have you ever taken a course at school where you used a computer?

COLORS

1. How does red make you feel?
2. How does green make you feel?
3. what comes to your mind when you think of blue?
4. What looks good in purple?
5. When do you wear black clothes?
6. How does white make you feel?
7. What does yellow symbolize?
8. Is brown a summer or winter color?
9. How does grey make you feel?
10. What do you think orange is good for?
11. What do you think is the strangest color for a car?
12. How many colors are in the rainbow? What are they?
13. What are the colors of the Brazilian flag?
14. What is your natural hair color?
15. Have you ever dyed your hair? what color?

AVIATION ENGLISH 2-ROUTINE

1.How often is a flight delayed when you are working?
2.Why do flights get delayed?
3.Do you prefer to land or to take off?
4.What is more dangerous, to take off or to land?
5.How long does the landing take?
6.How long does the taking off take?
7.What are headphones?
8.Do you have to hand out headphones?
9.What do we do with headphones?
10.Do you serve peanuts?
11.What kind of snacks do you serve on the airplane?
12.What is the most common airplane snack?
13.Have you ever missed a connection flight?
14.How many terminals are there in Guarulhos?
15.How many terminals are there in congonhas?
16.What terminal do you work the most in?
17.What time is your next flight?
18.When was your last flight?
19.What do you tell passengers when you are about to arrive?
20. Do you serve ice and lemon with the drinks to passsengers?
21.What do you say when a passenger says that the call light is not working?
22.How often do passengers ring the call light?
23.When do passengers have to fill out form?
24.Why do passengers have to fill out forms?
25.What kind of forms do you fill out about your job?
26.Do you fill out routine forms?
27.What is free of charge in the flight?
28.What is usually free of charge for first class passengers?
29.How many lavatories are there in a plane?
30.Are the lavatories separate for the flight class?
31.Do you have to tidy the lavatories up?
32.What is offered to first class passengers only?
33.Do you give out blankets?
34.Can the passengers take the blankets home?
35.Do passengers usually ask to switch seats?
36.Why do people require seat switching?
37.What do you say when there is no other seat available?
38.Do you have to negotiate seat switching among passengers?
39.Who turns off the seatbelt sign?
40.Why does the seatbelt sign come on and go off?
41.What can't you do when the seatbelt sign is on?
42.What do you have to do when the seatbelt sign is on?
43. What belongings are allowed inside the airplane?
44.What belongings is not allowed inside the airplane?
45.What is the overhead compartment?
46. How long before the landing should the speech be done?
47.What is said in the landing speech?
48.What is said in the taking off speech?
49.What can passengers do during a long flight?
50.What kind of entertainment do air companies offer to passengers?
51.Why do people have to remain seated?
52.When must passengers remain seated?
53.What what times can passengers walk around?
54.Can passengers request a special meal?
55.What are the air bag for?
56.What can passengers find in the seat pocket?
57.Is turbulence common?
58.Why is ther turbulence?
59.Can turbulence crash a plane?
60.What is an in-movie?
61.What movie category is common for planes?
62.Can passengers purchase things during the flight?
63.What things are sold during a flight?
64.What is the meal tray used for?
65.When must the meal tray be up?
66.What kind of devices is it ok to keep on during the flight?
67.When must devices be off?
68.What can happen if a device is not off?
69.What are customs forms?
70.When should customs forms be filled in?
71.Who is allowed in the cockpit?
72.What information can one find on the boarding pass?
73.Is alcohol served during the flight?
74.How much alcohol can be served to a passenger?
75.What are passengers allowed to order?
76. What is recommmeded in case of motion sickness?
77.What is jet lag?
78.What are the symptons of jet lag?
79.Have you ever had jet lag?
80. When should the oxygen mask be used?
81.What is a runway?
82.Who works at the runway?
83.What happens at the gate?
84. What happens if a passenger is very late for the check in?
85. What happens if a minor is traveling alone?

LINKS

http://www.esldiscussions.com/  mais de 13.000 perguntas sobre temas variados
http://www.elllo.org/ mais de 1000 temas para você ouvir, em velocidade natural
http://iteslj.org/questions/ vários temas(perguntas)
http://www.eslpod.com/ vários podcasts onde professores explicam todo o vocabulário
http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html gramática e vocabulário para business
http://www.carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/ expressões idiomáticas
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/- jogos de vocabulário
http://www.simpleenglishnews.com/ notícias simples em inglês-ótimo material para leitura
http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html exercícios de gramática
http://a4esl.org/a/v.html exercícios de vocabulário

BUSINESS MODULE 2

1. safety
2. science
3. security
4. shopping
5. social issues
6. social networking
7. socialism
8. software
9. solar energy
10. statistics
11. stress
12. studying
13. success
14. sustainable development
15. tax
16. technology
17. transportation
18. twitter
19. university
20. voting
21. websites
22. jobs, occupation,work part A *
23. jobs, occupation, work part B *
24. creativity
25. self employment
26. motivation
27. work life balance part A *
28. work life balance part B *
29. problems at work part A *
30. problems at work part B *
31. getting a job part A *
32. getting a job part B *
33. job interview 1 *
34. job interview 2 * 
35. job interview 3 *
36. job interview 4 *
37. quality control
38. quality management
39. postal service
40. philosophy
41. college
42. discrimination
43. gambling
44. environment
45. goals
46. news
47. internet
48. presenting your company
49. talking and writing a resume
50. perform the teacher a job interview for your position

* see intermediate questionnaires

http://www.esldiscussions.com/ - for other themes

BUSINESS MODULE 1

1. advertisement
2. ambition
3. banks
4. business
5. companies
6. capitalism
7. corporate responsability
8. current events
9. digital revolution
10. economics
11. education
12. e-mail
13. employement
14. equal rights
15. excel(the program)
16. factories
17. farming
18. freedom of speech
19. frequently asked questions(fun)
20. genetic engineering
21. globalization
22. google
23. government
24. hacking
25. human rights
26. information
27. intelligence
28. investments
29. inflation
30. junk mail
31. knowledge
32. management
33. magazine
34. marketing
35. mathematics
36. media
37. microsoft
38. money
39. nobel prize
40. nuclear energy
41. overpopulation
42. personality
43. physics
44. politics
45. pollution
46. power
47. public relations
48. qualifications
49. retirement
50. reclycling

GETTING TO KNOW YOU EVEN MORE

Where were you born?
Who do you live with?
Who do you respect the most?
Why did you decide to take this course?
Why do you want to learn English?
What will be doing in five years?
Where will you be living in five years?
What is your goal in life?
Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
When do you feel best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?
How many jobs have you had?
Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
Who is your next door neighbor ?
What is he or she like?
What kind of relationship do you have?

HOLIDAYS

1. Who is your favorite holiday Why?
2. What are three holidays that you like to spend with your family?
3. What is the worst holiday?
4. If you had a long holiday, what would you do?
5. Do you like to sleep late on holidays?
6. Who do you usually spend the holidays with?
7. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, should you get another day off?
8. What is best present you ever received?
9. What is your favorite holiday food?
10. What holiday is the next one?
11. Do you go to church on holidays?
12. How do you celebrate Christmas?
13. What is your favorite holiday festival in your country?
14. Do you light off fireworks on New Years Eve in your country?
15. If you could visit any other country during Christmas, where would you go?

MONEY

1. What's your favorite place to shop?
2. What's your favorite shopping area or store?
3. When did you go the supermarket?
4. Tell me 5 things you bought
5. What was the last gift you bought?
6. Where do you keep your money?
7. Where do you usually buy food?
8. What is a savings account?
9. Which costs more, a hamburger in America or a hamburger in your country?
10. Which costs more, your telephone bill or your electric bill?
11. Which do you prefer, large stores or small stores?
12. Which do you think is more important, love or money?
13. Which store do you go to the most often?
14. Where is it?
15. Why do you like to go there?
16. Who do you often go shopping with?
17. Who do you spend money on?
18. Do you use checks to pay?
19. Do you have a credit card? If so, do you have more than one?
20. Do you have more than one bank account?

TOUGH QUESTIONS

1. Give me an example of a time when you took the time to share a co-worker's or supervisor's achievements with others?
2. Tell me about a time that you didn't work well with a supervisor. What was the outcome and how would you have changed the outcome?
3. Have you worked with someone you didn't like? If so, how did you handle it?
4. Tell me about a time that you helped someone.
5. Tell me about a time that you misjudged a person.
6. How do you get along with older (younger) co-workers?
7. Describe a decision you made that was a failure. What happened and why?
8. Tell me about a time that you worked conveying technical information to a nontechnical audience.
9. Tell me about a time that you worked with data, interpreting data, and presenting data.
10. Why do you think you will be successful at this job?
11. Tell me about a time that you participated in a team, what was your role?
12. Tell me about a time when you were faced with conflicting priorities. How did you determine the top priority?
13. Tell me about a time when you failed.
14. What would you do differently if you could start your working life over?
15. How do you balance life and work?
16. What is your preferred way to communication - instant message, phone, or email?
17. Do you check voicemail and email when on vacation?
18. What is your favorite book? How about your favorite movie?
19. What historical figure do you admire and why?
20. If you could choose anyone (alive or deceased) to have lunch with, who would it be?
21. If you could be any animal on a carousel what would you pick and why?
22. What did you do during this six month gap in employment?
23. What do you love?
24. What led you to this point in your life?
25. Do you consider yourself successful?
26. What inspires you in a job?
27. Start with your graduation from college and explanation the rationale behind each of your career moves.
28. Also explain the thinking process that went into making each if those decisions.
29. How many hours a day/week do you need to work to get the job done?
30. If you stayed with your current company, what would be your next move?
31. How do you measure success?
32. Describe your dream job.
33. Describe a job that would be your worst nightmare.
34. If you were the CEO of this company what would be the top two things that you would do?

ABOUT THE NEW JOB AND THE COMPANY

1. What interests you about this job? 
2. Why do you want this job? 
3. What applicable attributes / experience do you have? 
4. Are you overqualified for this job? 
5. What can you do for this company?
6. Why should we hire you?
7. Why are you the best person for the job? 
8. What do you know about this company? 
9. Why do you want to work here? - Best Answers
10. What can you contribute to this company? 
11. Are you willing to travel? 
12. Is there anything I haven't told you about the job or company that you would like to know? 

JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU

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2. What is your greatest weakness?
3. What is your greatest strength?
4. Describe a typical work week.
5. Do you take work home with you?
6. How many hours do you normally work?
7. How would you describe the pace at which you work?
8. How do you handle stress and pressure?
9. What motivates you?
10. What are your salary expectations?
11. What do you find are the most difficult decisions to make?
12. Tell me about yourself.
13. What has been the greatest disappointment in your life?
14. What are you passionate about?
15. What are your pet peeves?
16. What do people most often criticize about you?
17. When was the last time you were angry? What happened?
18. If you could relive the last 10 years of your life, what would you do differently?
19. If the people who know you were asked why you should be hired, what would they say?
20. Do you prefer to work independently or on a team?
21. Give some examples of teamwork.
22. What type of work environment do you prefer?
23. How do you evaluate success?
24. If you know your boss is 100% wrong about something how would you handle it?
25. Describe a difficult work situation / project and how you overcame it.
26. Describe a time when your workload was heavy and how you handled it.
27. More job interview questions about your abilities.
28. More job interview questions about you.

WORK HISTORY

Name of company, position title and description, dates of employment.
What were your expectations for the job and to what extent were they met?
What were your starting and final levels of compensation?
What were your responsibilities?
What major challenges and problems did you face? How did you handle them?
What did you like or dislike about your previous job?
Which was most / least rewarding?
What was the biggest accomplishment / failure in this position?
Questions about your supervisors and co-workers.
What was it like working for your supervisor?
What do you expect from a supervisor?
Who was your best boss and who was the worst?
Why are you leaving your job?
What have you been doing since your last job?
Why were you fired?

QUESTION BY FUNCTION

Consulting

1.  What background do you have that would be helpful in consulting?
2.  Why consulting?
3.  How do you think the consulting industry is structured?
4.  What are some differences among the consulting firms that are important to you?
5.  What were the sales of your last employer? What was its profitability?
6.  Are you a generalist or specialist? Where do you see yourself specializing?
7.  Are you competitive?
8.  How are you going to make your decision if you get more than one offer?

Health Care

1.  Why are you interested in the health care industry?
2.  Why are you pursuing an MBA vs. Master in Health Administration?
3.  What strengths do you have for the health care industry?
4.  Prioritize the most important issues facing health care management.
5.  Provide your recommendations to address these issues.
6.  What is the current administration’s goal towards health care?
7.  Why have some HMOs been successful and others have not? Elaborate.

Investment Banking

1.  What would you do if you weren’t going into investment banking?
2.  What was your quantitative GMAT score?
3.  Some technical finance/accounting questions:
4.    - How do you value a firm?
5.    - What is an interest rate swap?
6.    - What is DCF? How do you calculate the discount rate?
7.    - How do you determine if a stock is undervalued?
8.    - How would you price the stock for an IPO?
9.    - What is the yield on a zero coupon bond trading at par with 10 years to maturity?
10.    - What is working capital? Quick ratio? Free cash flow?
11.  Tell me what you know about [the firm].
12.  Tell me about the cultures of the different firms.
13.  How are you going to make your decision if you get more than one offer?
14.  What do you want to do and why- M&A, capital markets, or corporate finance?
15.  The bond market is going down; what is the stock market going to do?
16.  Where is the industry going? What is the market doing?
17.  What are the headlines in today’s Wall Street Journal?
18.  What do you read regularly on the industry?
19.  Why choose investment banking? Why pick this bank?
20.  Tell me what an investment banker does.
21.  Tell me the difference between commercial and investment banks.
22.  Why pick corporate finance as opposed to sales and trading?
23.  What are your outside activities? Why would you be willing to give them up for such a demanding job?
24.  What role do you play in group situations?
25.  What would you do if offered drugs as part of the deal? (or other ethically-oriented questions)
26.  Sell us on your quantitative skills.
27.  How smart are you? How do we know how smart you are?
28.  If we made you an offer today, would you take it?
29.  What did the Dow, S&P, or NASDAQ close at yesterday?
30.  What stocks do you follow and why? (Be prepared to discuss the stock’s performance.)

Marketing

1.  Give me the attributes of a good brand manager.
2.  Now take me through your background and demonstrate how you have each attribute.
3.  Rate Yale’s marketing program.
4.  How would you sell more [Tide]?
5.  Talk about an ad—what makes it effective? interesting? etc.
6.  What are some examples of bad advertising? Why?
7.  How do you sell your ideas?
8.  What are you looking for in a consumer products company?
9.  What do you think are the most important traits in a marketing person?
10.  Describe your leadership style.
11.  Provide an example of your problem solving approach.

Sales and Trading

1.  What other firms have you talked to?
2.  What makes you think you can sell?
3.  Would you like to do sales or trading? Why?
4.  Tell me what you think a trader (salesperson) does.
5.  Why choose selling debt vs. selling equity?
6.  Why didn’t you choose corporate finance?
7.  What do you think having an MBA does for you in this field?
8.  What particular markets or instruments are you interested in? Why?
9.  Will your personality make you a good trader? Why?
10.  How will you motivate yourself to make the calls you hate to make?
11.  What are your grades? (Yes, they know about the Yale SOM grading process.)

Strategic Planning and Corporate Finance

1.  What do you hope to gain by working for our firm?
2.  Where do you see yourself five years from now?
3.  How do you see your career progressing in our firm?
4.  What do you know about our industry?
5.  How would you describe our competitive position?
6.  Our ____ division is thinking of introducing a (such and such) new product. How would you go about determining if this is a good idea?
7.  We are having trouble managing our ____ division. What do you think are the key performance metrics? How would you improve them?
8.  How would you value our _____ for a potential sale, spin-off, or liquidation?
9.  How does M&A activity in banking affect our industry?

Venture Capital

1.  What is venture capital?
2.  What strengths do you have for venture capital?
3.  Tell me when you have worked with all management levels--from CEO to analyst.
4.  Describe your analytical and interpersonal skills.
5.  What operations exposure have you had?
6.  What managerial exposure have you had?
7.  What do you look for in a venture?
8.  Do you think more effort should be put into human capital or raising funds and investing them?