ENGLISH

1) What are the main differences between American and British English’?
2) Why are you studying English?
3) What adjectives would you use to describe your feelings towards the
English language?
4) How much time and money do you spend on English?
5) How happy are you with your English level?
6) How has English improved your life?
7) Do you ever wish you didn’t have to know or study English?
8) What is your best piece of advice for anyone wanting to study English?
9) Have all of your English teachers been good?
10) How would your life be different if you spoke not a word of English?

DISCRIMINATION

1) What is discrimination?
2) What kind of discrimination exists in your country?
3) Do you ever have thoughts that are discriminatory?
4) Which countries around the world have shocking levels of
discrimination?
5) Are there strong laws in your country to prevent discrimination?
6) What kind of sexual discrimination exists in your country?
7) What do you do when you see discrimination?
8) Does ageism exist in your country?
9) Do you think there is religious discrimination in the war on terror?
10) Is there a class or caste system in your country?

DREAMS

1) Do you dream often?
2) Do you remember your dreams?
3) Do you dream in colour or in English?
4) Do you like having dreams?
5) Do you believe dreams have a special meaning?
6) Do you have the same dreams again and again?
7) Has something you’ve dreamt about ever come true?
8) Have you ever been woken up by a nightmare?
9) What kind of people do you meet in your dreams?
10) Do you tell other people about the dreams you have?

ENERGY

1) Does your country need a lot of energy?
2) How can you save the amount of energy you use every day?
3) Do you think scientists will solve the world’s energy problems?
4) What happens if we run out of energy?
5) Does your country use a lot of renewable energy?
6) What do you think of a future in which we totally rely on nuclear
energy?
7) What are biofuels and what harm do they cause the environment?
8) Have you started buying energy-efficient appliances for your house?
9) Do you think its possible to get our future energy from some source we
don’t yet know of?
10) What do you think when multinational energy and oil companies say
they care about the environment?

EVOLUTION

1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘evolution’?
2) Do you believe the story of evolution as told in religious books?
3) How do you think the world got here?
4) How do you think we got here?
5) What do you think we will look like millions of years from now?
6) Why have we evolved into different looks and colours?
7) How was the very first life form created and what did it do/look like?
8) Why is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution discarded by so many religions?
9) Many schools in the USA teach creationism – the idea that God put
humans on Earth as we are today. What do you think of this?
10) Do you think God created everything as it is outlined in the book of
Genesis?

FASHION

1) Do you like fashion?
2) What do you think of the fashion industry?
3) Are you a fashion victim / slave to fashion?
4) Would you like to be a fashion model?
5) How does fashion affect our lives?
6) How important is fashion today compared with in the past?
7) What do you think of the fact that what’s in fashion lasts just a short
time, then we have to spend more money on the next “in” things?
8) What are the bad things about fashion?
9) Is fashion only for beautiful people?
10) Do you have your own fashion or follow the crowds?
Hundreds

EUROPE

1) What makes Europe so European?
2) How are Europeans different from each other?
3) What do you know about the European Union?
4) What are your favourite European companies and why do you like
them?
5) Do you think Europe has the world’s most interesting history?
6) Do you think English should be the official language of Europe?
7) What are the differences between Europe and the USA?
8) Do you think Europe is a superpower, or has the potential to become
one?
9) What is the most important European country?
10) Movie producer Quentin Tarantino said the “funniest thing about
Europe…is the little differences”. What do you think he means?

FATHERS

1) What is the difference between father, dad and daddy?
2) Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word?
3) Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child?
4) Do you always buy your father a present on Father’s Day?
5) What are the differences between a father and a father-in-law?
6) In what ways do you take after your father?
7) What is your father’s biggest fault?
8) Is your father more like a father or a best friend?
9) What do/did your father and you argue about?
10) What do you think of Father’s Day? Is it necessary?

GOD

1) Do you believe in God?
2) Why do different religions have different gods?
3) What do you think God thinks of the way we live?
4) Is God the creator and ruler of the whole universe?
5) What does God look like?
6) Why are there so many people who do not believe in God?
7) Why is God always seen as a white man in paintings and drawings?
8) Is there a difference in how Christians, Muslims and Jews see God?
9) Why do people who believe in God fight in wars?
10) "I believe in God, only I spell it 'Nature'." What do you think of this
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright?

HOLIDAYS

1) Do you like holidays?
2) What holidays do you celebrate?
3) What holidays do you really look forward to?
4) Are there holidays in other countries or religions that you wish were
also celebrated in your country?
5) Are there enough holidays in your country for which workers get the
day or days off?
6) What do you think is the most overrated holiday?
7) Are there any special occasions or anniversaries you think deserve to
be a public holiday but are not?
8) Do you usually need a holiday after your holiday?
9) Is it better to stay at home on holidays or go somewhere?
10) Are holidays where the whole country is travelling stressful?

GOSSIP

1) What is gossip?
2) Have you ever been the victim of gossip?
3) Are you a gossip?
4) How often do you hear gossip?
5) Are you interested in celebrity gossip?
6) Do you like to know all the gossip about your friends and neighbours?
7) Who is the biggest gossip you know?
8) How quickly does gossip spread in your school / workplace?
9) What are the most common subjects of gossip?
10) Is there any gossip about your teacher?

GLOBAL WARMING

1) What’s the difference between global warming and climate change?
2) What do you do in your daily life that might increase global warming?
3) Have you made changes to your life to reduce global warming?
4) What do you know about the science behind global warming?
5) How do you think global warming will change the world over the next
century?
6) Do you know more about global warming than younger/older people?
7) Does your government provide enough education on the effects of
global warming?
8) Which country makes you angriest when you think about global
warming?
9) Do you think China and India should slow their growth down?
10) How did global warming happen without us noticing sooner?

HANGOVERS

1) What do you imagine when you hear the word ‘hangover’?
2) Do you get hangovers?
3) What is the best cure for a hangover?
4) Why do some people get worse hangovers than others?
5) Do you have any sympathy for people with a hangover?
6) Do you think having a bad hangover is a good excuse to take a day off
sick from work?
7) Why don’t people stop drinking forever after a bad hangover?
8) What are the symptoms of a hangover?
9) What do people usually do when they have a hangover?
10) Do you think scientists will ever produce a cure for hangovers?

HEARTS

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘heart’?
2) What do you know abut the human heart?
3) Do you ever think about your heart?
4) Do you worry about having heart problems?
5) Is there a history of heart disease in your country?
6) Do you know the names of the different parts of the heart?
7) What do you know about heart transplants?
8) What do you think of transplanting an animal heart into a human?
9) Does your heart ever miss a beat?
10) Where do you think the romantic heart shape comes from?
Hundreds more

HOSPITALS

1) Do you know any shows or series about hospitals?
2) What are your experiences of hospitals?
3) Would you like to work in a hospital?
4) Are the hospitals in your country good?
5) Is the standard of care in your country’s hospitals getting better?
6) Do you like watching TV programmes about hospitals?
7) Is it better to be born in hospital or at home?
8) Why is hospital food so bad?
9) Do you think hospitals are unhealthy places?
10) What do you think of a government that's lets its hospitals close down?

INVENTIONS

1) What is the greatest invention ever?
2) What invention would you like to invent?
3) What is Mother Nature’s greatest invention?
4) What does ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ mean? Do you agree
with it?
5) What is the world’s most useless invention?
6) How was the world different before the wheel was invented?
7) Do you think the person who invented the atomic bomb was happy with
his discovery?
8) Do new inventions always create new problems?
9) How do people invent things?
10) What question would you like to ask an inventor?

INDIA

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the country India?
2) What are the good things and bad things about India?
3) What is India famous for?
4) What do you know about Indian history?
5) What images of India do you have that are beautiful and romantic?
6) What do you think of Indian products and companies?
7) What has India given to the world?
8) Would you like to visit India, or live there?
9) Are Indian languages important languages?
10) Who are the most famous Indian people you know?

INVESTMENTS

1) What investment opportunities that you missed do you wish you’d
taken advantage of?
2) What investment advice have you heard recently?
3) Do you think you are/would be a cautious or risky investor?
4) What risks are there investing in the stock market?
5) What rates or return would you want/expect on money you invest?
6) Is there a history in your family of people making investments?
7) How far do you trust people with your money?
8) When should people start investing their money?
9) How confident are you / would you be with investing your money?
10) What question would you like to ask an investment expert?

JAPAN

1) How different is Japan from other Asian countries?
2) What do you know about Japanese culture?
3) Why isn’t Japan one of the top tourist destinations in the world?
4) What do you think Japan will be like 50 years from now?
5) Does your country have good relations with Japan?
6) What do you think about Japanese fashion, music, movies and manga?
7) What is your idea of a typical Japanese person?
8) What things about Japan do you think Japanese people are proud of?
9) What do you know about Japanese food?
10) What would you like to ask a Japanese person about Japan?

KNOWLEDGE

1) Is knowledge important?
2) What subject are you most knowledgeable about?
3) What subject would you like to be most knowledgeable about?
4) People say knowledge is power – is this true?
5) Is all knowledge useful?
6) How is your general knowledge? Are you good at quizzes?
7) What is the tree of knowledge and what would you like to take from it?
8) What’s the biggest threat to society, knowledge or ignorance?
9) What is more important, knowledge or common sense?
10) Are you angry when people do things without your knowledge?

LAW

1) Do you think all laws are good?
2) Would you like to be a lawmaker?
3) What would your country be like if there were no laws?
4) What’s the craziest law you know of?
5) What do you think of the idea of international laws that would replace
all national laws?
6) What new laws would you like your country to introduce?
7) Do you think laws are evenly applied to everyone in your society?
8) What new laws do you think we’ll have fifty years from now?
9) Have you ever been to see a lawyer?
10) What law would you like to make for your English class?

MAGIC

1) What is magic?
2) Do you believe people can do magic?
3) What do you know about black magic?
4) What would you do with a magic wand if you had one? Where would
you wave it?
5) What did you think of magic when you were a kid?
6) Which did you believe in first; love, faith or magic?
7) Does anyone you know have a magic touch with people / things?
8) Is there a magic formula to studying English?
9) What is the most magic moment in your life?
10) What magic powers would you like to have?

MANAGEMENT

1) What do you think of management?
2) How do you think management styles differ between countries?
3) Have you ever complained to the management of a company, store,
restaurant…?
4) What good management techniques do you think you have?
5) Do you think average workers have a better quality of life than those in
management?
6) Do you think working in environmental management would be
interesting?
7) What kind of lifestyle do you think a management consultant has?
8) When was the last time you heard about a management buyout?
9) What experiences have you had in management teams or dealing with
them?
10) How do you make the management of a company more effective and
productive?

NOISES

1) When do you make a lot of noise?
2) What noises do you like and dislike?
3) What do you think of noise pollution?
4) Do you worry about strange noises when you’re in bed?
5) Can you enter your house and sneak to your room without making a
noise?
6) What’s the most terrifying noise you know of?
7) What noises does your computer make?
8) Do animals in your language make the same noises as they do in
English?
9) Does anyone you know have a bad habit of making noises?
10) Where do you hear background noise and what do you think of it?

NEW YORK

1) What images spring to mind when you hear ‘New York’?
2) What are the good things and bad things about New York?
3) What is New York famous for?
4) What do you know about New York’s history?
5) What images of New York do you have that are exciting?
6) What do you think about New York?
7) Why is New York described as a world city?
8) Would you like to visit New York, or live there?
9) What do you think of New Yorkers?
10) What adjectives would you use to describe New York and why?

NEIGHBORS

1) Do you have good neighbours?
2) Who would you love to move next door to you?
3) Have you ever argued with your neighbors?
4) What would you do if you had really noisy neighbours?
5) Would you like to have your parents or parents-in-law as neighbors?
6) Would you like your current neighbours to move?
7) Have you ever had a “dog problem” with neighbors?
8) What’s your neighborhood like?
9) Do you know any secrets or gossip about your neighbours?
10) What would you really like to know about your neighbors?

OPINIONS

1) Are opinions important?
2) Do people usually agree or disagree with your opinions?
3) What do you have strong opinions on?
4) What’s your opinion of yourself?
5) In your opinion, what is an opinion?
6) Is there anyone whose opinions you strongly disagree with?
7) Do you always consider other people’s opinions before making
decisions?
8) Whose opinion do you value most?
9) What do you usually as people’s opinions on?
10) Do you have an opinion on everything?

OBESITY

1) Which is worse, obesity or anorexia?
2) Should schools ban junk food to fight obesity?
3) Do you think obesity will be more of a problem in the future?
4) Do you think there are any drugs that can reduce obesity?
5) Do you think children should be taken into care if their parents let them
become obese?
6) Do you see nay relationship between obesity and video games?
7) Should there be a “fat tax” on food that is very high in calories?
8) What do you think of the “big is beautiful” phenomena in the USA?
9) Is obesity a disease or a choice?
10) Do you think obese people should have special seats in airplanes and
pay more money?

PREGNANCY

1) What do you know about pregnancy?
2) Are teenage pregnancies a problem in your country?
3) What do you think of mothers who drink alcohol during their
pregnancy?
4) Why is pregnancy so dangerous in many countries in the world?
5) What duties and roles does the father have during a mother’s
pregnancy?
6) How scary is pregnancy compared with other events in life?
7) What complications can occur during pregnancy?
8) How does a woman’s diet change during pregnancy? Does she eat
strange food at midnight in your country
9) What are the different stages of the baby during pregnancy?
10) What would you like to know about pregnancy that you don’t know?

POVERTY

1) What is poverty?
2) Why do so many people live below the poverty line?
3) What kind of poverty exists in your country?
4) What do you think living below the poverty line is like?
5) Is it possible for the world to make poverty disappear?
6) What do you think of people who buy expensive brands when so much
poverty exists in the world?
7) Aristotle said: "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." What do
you think?
8) Why does poverty exist in rich countries like the USA?
9) Can we learn something useful from poverty?
10) How would the world be different if there was no poverty?

POLITICS

1) What do you think of politics?
2) What is the biggest political issue in your country right now?
3) What do you think of your country’s political system?
4) What do you think of your country’s politicians?
5) Is there a relationship between politics and lies?
6) At a guess, what percentage of politicians are corrupt?
7) What local political issues are important in your town?
8) Do you like talking about and having arguments about politics?
9) If you were a politician, what political issues would you focus on?
10) What qualities make a good political leader?

PSYCHOLOGY

1) What is psychology?
2) What’s the psychology behind addiction?
3) Which great psychologists do you know of and what did they say?
4) Would you ever buy a self-help psychology book?
5) What do you know about forensic psychology?
6) Do you think you can get a good job with a psychology degree?
7) Do you think scientists will ever be able to examine the brain and
rewrite what we know about psychology?
8) Who would you really like to understand the psychology of?
9) What good do you think colour psychology is in this world?
10) What would you like to know about psychology?

QUALIFICATIONS

1) What is your most important skill?

2) What do you think of qualifications?

3) What qualifications do you have?

4) What qualifications would you like to have?

5) Which qualifications do you think are best to have?

6) Do you think everybody needs qualifications?

7) Do all qualifications need to be recognized by employers?

8) Do you think some qualifications are a waste of time and money?

9) What are the minimum qualifications needed to do the job you have /

want?

10) What qualifications would you expect your English teacher to have?

QUESTIONS

1) What questions would you like answered?
2) What questions do you ask during the course of one day?
3) What is life’s biggest question?
4) Where do you go to get your questions answered?
5) What’s the most stupid questions anyone has ever asked you?
6) Do you have a favourite question that you like people asking you?
7) What’s the most common question you ask?
8) What do you think of the questions young children ask?
9) What do you think about exam questions?
10) What questions do you not like to answer?

RETIREMENT

1) In what ways do you think retirement might be stressful?
2) Would you move if you lived in a country where natural disasters were
common?
3) What do you think you’ll do more of in your retirement?
4) Does retirement scare you?
5) Do you think retirement might be the best years of your life?
6) What problems does a country have if too many of its citizens are in
retirement?
7) Are you putting money away for your retirement?
8) Is retirement the end of useful life or a new beginning?
9) Do you think retirement is when you stop living at work and begin
working at living?
10) “Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about
getting caught at it.” (Gene Perret) Do you agree?

RELIGION

1) Why do you practice your religion (or why don’t you have a religion)?
2) How does religion give hope to so many people?
3) Do you think people will eventually stop believing in religion?
4) What do you think of new religions?
5) Do people who follow a religion have a better time than those who
don’t?
6) Do you think religion always fits our modern-day world?
7) What would Jesus, Mohamed and Buddha think of our world today?
8) Do you think there’ll ever be a single world religion?
9) Money is more important than religion and shopping malls are more
popular than places of worship. What do you think about this?
10) How did religion start?

SAFETY

1) What is safety?
2) What is road safety like in your country?
3) Who is the most safety conscious person you know?
4) Do you ever fear for your safety at night in a bad part of town or on an
airplane?
5) What safety regulations are there in this school?
6) What safety features do you think should be in all cars?
7) What do you do to ensure the safety of your valuables?
8) If you had to create a memorable safety slogan, what would it be?
9) What safety issues will we worry about in the future?
10) Are safety pins and safety matches really so safe?

SEXIM

1) What exactly is sexism?
2) Does sexism exist in your family?
3) How would the world be different without sexism?
4) Have you ever done anything that is sexist or made any sexist
comments?
5) Do you think sexism will always be a part of our society?
6) Should the problems surrounding sexism be addressed at an early age
in schools?
7) Is it possible for sexism to completely disappear?
8) What examples of sexism do you see on TV or on the Internet?
9) How did it come to be that men discriminated against women?
10) Do you know any examples of sexism in your language?

SOFTWARES

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘software’?
2) How often do you buy new software?
3) How much do you know about computer software?
4) What is your favourite piece of software?
5) Do you ever have software problems?
6) Do you keep up to date with the latest software?
7) Are you surprised that a lot of software is free?
8) Have you ever bought pirated software? Would you?
9)Do you think it’d be cool to work for a software company?
10) If you could have your own software developped, what would it be like?

TAXES

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘tax’?

2) Do you think paying tax is a good or bad thing?

3) What would happen in your country if everyone stopped paying tax?

4) Do you know what taxes are spent on in your country?

5) Would you like to move to a country where there are no taxes?

6) Is tax an important issue at election time?

7) What do you think of sales / consumption tax put on the things you

buy?

8) Would you like to be able to choose how your taxes are spent?

9) Would you look for ways to avoid paying tax?

10) How do the tax rates in your country compare with those in

neighbouring countries?

TOYS

1) Are toys good or bad?
2) What percentage of toys a child has should be educational toys?
3) Would you buy a child a toy or a book?
4) What’s the best toy shop you know of?
5) Would you like a job making, designing and testing toys?
6) Why do kids like toys?
7) If you could be a toy, what would you be?
8) What toys are there for adults?
9) Bill Gates said about the Internet: "Nice toy, but what a waste of time."
What do you think he meant? Do you agree?
10) Desmond Morris said "Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between
birth and death." Do you agree?

UNIVERSITIES

1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘university’?
2) What are the good and bad things about universities?
3) Are all of the universities in your country very good?
4) What would you like to study at university?
5) Is it important to go to university?
6) What would happen if all universities closed down?
7) Are universities the best system of educating people?
8) Is university life more about studying or having fun?
9) is university only for very intelligent people?
10) Camus said: "The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Do you agree?

VEGETARIANISM

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘vegetarianism’?
2) Would the world be a better place if everyone was a vegetarian?
3) Why do people become vegetarians?
4) Do you think vegetarians lead better lives than non-vegetarians?
5) Is there anything unhealthy about a vegetarian diet?
6) What three adjectives would you use to describe vegetarianism?
7) What would happen to the cow population if we stopped eating them?

8) What are the arguments against vegetarianism?
9) What do you think vegetarians think of meat eaters?
10) Would we help save the planet if we were all vegetarian?

VIOLENCE

1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘violence’?
2) How often do you see violence in your country?
3) What makes people violent?
4) Is there a cure for violence?
5) Do you think there’s too much violence on TV and in video games?
6) Do you think humans will ever be nonviolent?
7) Do you think men or women like violence more? Why do you think so?
8) Why are the words ‘sex’ and ‘violence’ so often used together in the
phrase ‘sex and violence’?

9) Is violent crime on the increase in your countries?
10) Do people learn to be violent?

WEALTH

1) Are you wealthy?
2) What would a wealthy person do if (s)he suddenly lost all his/her
wealth?
3) What are the best and worst things about being wealthy?
4) Why would you like to be wealthy?
5) Do you think your personality would change if you had great wealth?
6) Is it better to pursue wealth or happiness?
7) What questions would you like to ask a wealthy person?
8) Are you jealous of people with great wealth?
9) A. J. Reb Materi said: "So many people spend their health gaining
wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health."
What do you think of this quote?
10) Benjamin Franklin said: "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise" What do you think of this quote?

WEBSITES

1) What do you think makes a good website?
2) Can you think of a website you use (and like) that needs to better
designed?
3) If you started your own website, what would you call it?
4) Do you think there are websites that are dangerous?
5) From what age do you think children should be allowed to look at
websites?
6) Do you think your government should be able to censor websites?
7) What’s the most useful website for you?
8) What do you think of websites that have pop-up music and ads?
9) Do you think all websites should follow the same rules?
10) What do you think websites will be like in the future?

WRITING

1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘writing’?
2) Do you prefer writing or typing?
3) How is your writing in English?
4) Is writing in your language different from writing in English?
5) What are your biggest problems with writing?
6) How important is writing to you?
7) Do/Did you enjoy your writing classes?
8) When do you need to write in your everyday life?
9) Novelist James Michener said: "I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an
excellent rewriter." Is this the same as you?
10) What is the hardest thing about writing?

YEARS

1) What can you get done in a year?
2) What things do you do every year?
3) Can you remember what you did each year on your birthday?
4) How do you feel when a new year arrives?
5) What do you think life will be like in the year 2100 and the year 3000?
6) If you could take a year out from studying or work, what would you do?
7) How long is 'donkey’s years'?
8) What does it mean to put years on someone or take years off someone?
9) Does getting on in years mean getting older or doing well in life?
10) Would a book titled “A year in the life of [your name] be a good book?

YOUTH

1) What three adjectives would you use to describe today’s youth?
2) What’s the biggest problem with today’s youth?
3) What aspects of today’s youth make you hopeful about the future?
4) Do you have any wild and crazy stories from your youth?
5) What’s the thing you hated most about your youth?
6) Do old people understand today’s youth?
7) What kind of youth were you?
8) What things about the world do you think youths are angry about?
9) Herbert Asquith said: "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little
later in life." What did he mean? Do you agree?
10) George Bernard Shaw said: "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime
to waste it on children." What did he mean? Do you agree?

ZOOS

1) Do you like zoos?
2) What was the last news story you heard about a zoo?
3) What would happen if all the zoo animals escaped into the town?
4) Do you feel sorry for the animals in zoos?
5) Have you ever felt like you were in a zoo?
6) Which is better - a zoo or an aquarium?
7) What happens to the animals that die in zoos?
8) Why do you think kids love zoos so much?
9) What’s the best thing to buy from the zoo gift shop?
10) Are zoos morally wrong?

PRAYER

1) How often do you pray?
2) What’s your favourite prayer?
3) Where is the best place to pray?
4) Can you take lessons on how to pray better?
5) What do you think all people should pray for?
6) How can you prove to someone who doesn’t believe in prayer that it
works?
7) Do you think people who pray have better lives?
8) What do you think of prayer groups?
9) If you could have one prayer answered, what would it be?
10) Do you think the prayers you make up are better than the prayers
found in holy books?

WHAT IF ...

1) If you told me all of your secrets, would I be shocked?
2) If you changed your name, what name would you choose?
3) If you could speak three other languages. What would they be?
4) If you could decide what happens in your life tomorrow, what would you
want to happen?
5) Where would you live if you could live anywhere in the world?
6) If a natural disaster hit your town, what would you do?
7) If you became a rock star, what kind of songs would you sing and what
image would you have?
8) If the world was going to end at 3.37 tomorrow afternoon, what would
you do up until that time?
9) If you were the world’s best at something, what would you like to be
best at?
10) If you were a colour, what colour would you be and why?

PRICES

1) Are you price concious?
2) Do you care about prices?
3) What are prices like in your country?
4) How do prices compare now to ten years ago?
5) What prices do you care about most?
6) Do you understand why oil prices go up and down?
7) How are prices in your country compared with those in other countries?
8) Is there a big variety in prices in the different food stores in your town?
9) Are low prices always good?
10) What can governments do to stop prices rising?

OLD AGE

1) What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘old age’?
2) Do you worry about your old age?
3) What do you think old age is like?
4) How will your life be different when you reach your old age?
5) When does old age start?
6) Is it important to prepare financially for old age?
7) How and why do people die of old age?
8) How many people do you know who are enjoying their old age?
9) What new hobbies will you take up in your old age?
10) How is old age different from being middle aged?

LIES

1) Why do people lie?
2) Is it OK to tell lies?
3) How often do you lie?
4) What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told?
5) Children who are good liars often grow up to be very intelligent. Were
you a good liar when you were a child?
6) Have you ever lied in a job interview?
7) Have you told any lies today?
8) Who lies more, men or women?
9) Has a lie someone told you ever hurt you?
10) What do you think of liars?

DOCTORS

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘doctor’?
2) How often do you go to the doctor?
3) Do you always feel better after you’ve visited the doctor?
4) How do you find a good doctor?
5) What do you think about the costs of visits to the doctor in your
country?
6) Do you always think you’ve received top treatment from your doctor?
7) Do you always believe what your doctor says or do you sometimes
doubt him/her?
8) Would you like to be a doctor?
9) What do you think are the worst aspects of being a doctor?
10) If you were a doctor, which area would you like to specialize in?

COMPLAINING

1) What kinds of things do you complain about?
2) When was the last time you complained about something?
3) Have you ever written a letter or e-mail of complaint?
4) Do you like complaining?
5) What is your complaining style – polite or aggressive?
6) How often do you complain to yourself in public?
7) Do you think complaining relieves stress?
8) Do you like to watch when other people complain?
9) Have you ever got a better service after you’ve complained?
10) Why might people complain about you?

VOCABULARY

1) What’s more important, grammar or vocabulary?
2) Do you like studying vocabulary?
3) Do you have an impressive knowledge of vocabulary in your own
language?
4) What’s the hardest thing about learning English vocabulary?
5) Are there words in English you still keep forgetting?
6) Do you separate your vocabulary lists into words, idioms, phrasal verbs,
etc?
7) What do you know about the ‘bad’ words in the English vocabulary?
8) What do you think of English words becoming part of the vocabulary of
your own language?
9) What’s the best website for learning vocabulary?
10) Are vocabulary games a good way to remember vocabulary?

LIFE

1) Do you think life has a meaning?Which?
2) What’s your biggest goal in life right now?
3) Is life complicated or do people make it hard?
4) What is the hardest thing about life?
5) Do you have a good quality of life?
6) Do you think rich people have a happier life?
7) Who has been your biggest influence in life?
8) What will life be like fifty years from now?
9) What kinds of things make your life good and bad?
10) If you could live someone else’s life, what kind of life would you like it to be?

MEN

1) Do real men cry?
2) What are the differences between men and gentlemen?
3) What are man best at and worst at?
4) Why do men like gambling, drinking, smoking and chasing women?
5) What three changes would you like to make to (other) men?
6) Are men getting better or worse?
7) Is it a man’s world?
8) Why do men take control of the barbecue but not the kitchen oven?
9) What is inside a man’s heart and brain?
10) Will men be different 100 years from now?

GLOBALIZATION

1) What is globalization?
2) Could globalization have happened without the Internet?
3) How would your life be different if globalization hadn’t happened?
4) What do you think of the concept of a global village?
5) Has globalization improved people’s lives?
6) Do you think globalization could end in a world with just one giant
country?
7) What do you think indigenous tribes think about globalization?
8) Can you measure globalization?
9) Do you think globalization will reduce or increase the poverty gap?
10) How has popular culture added to globalization?

EMPLOYMENT

1) Do you have good employment prospects?

2) What is your employment track record?

3) Have you ever visited an online employment agency?

4) Do you ever look at the employment pages in newspapers?

5) Do you think companies should offer employees lifetime employment?

6) Have you ever worked somewhere that had bad employment

conditions?

7) Do you always study the terms of employment carefully before you

accept a job offer?

8) Have you ever had your employment terminated?

9) Are there any conditions of employment you insist on?

10) Are working conditions in your country better than those in other

countries?

MOTHERS

1) What are the biggest differences between mothers and fathers?
2) Why and how did your father fall in love with your mother?
3) Are you happy with the way your mother raised you?
4) Should mothers stay at home and look after the kids?
5) What’s the best piece of advice your mother has given you?
6) Do you think mothers are the same all around the world?
7) How are mothers and grandmothers different?
8) What do you think is the hardest thing about being a mother?
9) What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told your mother?
10) What do you talk to your mother about on the phone?

THEATERS

1) Do you think theatre tickets are reasonably priced?
2) Have you ever been to the theatre in another country?

3) How often do you go to the theatre?
4) Is the theatre only for rich people?
5) What do you like and dislike about the theatre?
6) What’s the best thing you’ve ever seen at the theatre?
7) Would you like to work as a theatre critic?
8) Are theatre tickets easy to get in your country?
9) How do you feel when you sit in a theatre before the performance
begins?
10) What’s the nicest theatre you’ve ever been to?

SUMMER

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the season “summer’?

2) How do you feel when summer arrives?

3) What things about summer do you like most and least?

4) What happens in summer in your country?

5) In what ways is summer the best season?

6) Do you always wear summery clothes?

7) What are your plans for the summer?

8) Is summer the same in all parts of the world?

9) Are there any special events that take place in summer in your country?

10) William Carlos Williams said: "In summer, the song sings itself." What

do you think of this quote?

COSMETIC SURGERY

1) What do you think of cosmetic surgery?
2) Do you think there’s a difference between cosmetic and plastic surgery?
3) Would you consider having cosmetic surgery?
4) Do you think cosmetic surgery is more popular with women or men?
5) What do you think are the dangers of cosmetic surgery?
6) What parts of your face / body would you like to change?
7) Would you like to be a cosmetic surgeon?
8) Why is cosmetic surgery so popular in some countries but not at all in
others?
9) What do you think of people who have cosmetic surgery?
10) Do you think there should be an age limit for people to have cosmetic
surgery?

COMPANY

1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘company’?
2) What are your favourite companies to shop from?
3) Which company would you love to work for and why?
4) Which companies do you dislike most?
5) Have you ever written a letter of complaint to a company?) How could companies in your country be more successful?
6) Which company makes the best adverts and commercials?
7) Do you think most companies look after their staff?
8)How will companies be different in the future?
9)If you had a company, what would it be like?
10)What company is bad in customer service?

CHINA

1) How do you feel about China?
2) What do you think China is most famous for?
3) Would you like to go to China?
4) What do you think of products with the “Made in China” label?
5) Do you think China will become the strongest country in the world?
6) Does the power of China make you worried in any way?
7) What do you most admire about China?
8) What do you consider to be China’s biggest problems?
9) Do you think that one day the world will be learning Chinese rather
than English?
10) What are relations like between China and your country?

BUSINESS

1) Are you interested in the world of business?
2) Do you think you have a good head for business?
3) What kind of business would you like to start?
4) Do you think anyone can start their own business?
5) What are the dangers of having your own business?
6) Would you include your own name in your business name?
7) Do you read any business magazines?
8) Do men or women make more successful business people?
9) Do you think you’d be a tough person to work for?
10) What advice would you give to people starting in business?

BRAZIL

1) What do you know about Brazil?
2) What are your impressions of Brazil?
3) How important is Brazil compared with other nations?
4) What is Brazil most commonly in the news for?
5) Why is Brazil so good at football (soccer) and motor racing?
6) Is Brazil a convenient and safe country in which to live?
7) Would you like to go to the Rio carnival?
8) What do you know of Brazilian politics?
9) Who is the most famous Brazilian?
10) How do you think Brazilians would describe their country?

BANKS

1) Are banks the best place to keep your money?
2) What makes you angry about banks?
3) Have you ever met your bank manager?
4) What banking services do you like most?
5) Do you ever have to wait a long time in the bank to get served?
6) What changes would you like to see in the way banks operate?
7) Are interest rates too high or too low in your country?
8) What are the differences between commercial, investment and
merchant banks?
9) Do you use Internet banking services?
10) How often have you used a piggy bank?

ANIMALS

1) What natural animal ability or talent would you like to have?
2) What is the most useful animal in the world?
3) What animal best represents your character?
4) Do you think it is necessary to experiment on animals to test cosmetics
and drugs
5) What animals have the best life?
6) Should animals be kept in zoos?
7) What are the biggest differences between animals and humans?
8) If animals could speak, what do you think they would say to humans?
9) What animal are you most fascinated by?
10) What animal do you least like?

DRINKING

1) When did you start drinking?
2) What should be the legal age to drink alcohol?
3) Can bars serve alcohol 24 hours a day in your country?
4) In the USA, you cannot drink alcohol on the street. What are the laws
regarding drinking in public in your country?
5) What kinds of social problems does alcohol cause in your country?
6) What do you think of very drunk people?
7) Alcohol is forbidden in Islam. Is this good?
8) Do you think people from different countries act differently when
drunk?
9) Have you ever said or done something under the influence of alcohol
that you later regretted?
10) What is the best cure for a hangover?

500 mixed questions

PART 1 
1.What is your favorite make of car? Why?
2.What kind of car do you have?
3.What kind of things don't you like about driving?
4.What kind of transportation do you use most often?
5.What's the most  common form of transportation where you live?
6.What's your favorite color for a car?
7.What's your favorite form of transportation?
8.When was the last time you rode a bus?
9.Where is a good place to go for a drive?
10.Would you like to go on a cruise? Why or why not?
11.What time do you get up in the morning?
12.What time do you go to bed?
13.What time does school start?
14.What time is it?
15.What time do you go to work?
16.What time does you work begin?
17.What time does you work end?
18.What time do you take a shower  in the evening?
19.When do you do your homework?
20.What time do you like to get up?
21.What time do you like to go to bed at night?
22.Do you have a driver's license?
23.Do you like to travel with children? Why or why not?
24.Do you like to travel with your mother? Why or why not?
25.Do you prefer summer vacations or winter vacations?
26.Do you prefer to travel alone or in a group? Why?
27.Do you prefer to travel by train, bus, plane or ship?
28.Do you prefer traveling by car or by plane?
29.Have you ever been in a difficult situation while traveling?
30.Have you ever been on an airplane?
31.Tell me about something you love to eat.
32.Tell me about something you hate to do.
33.Tell me about something you really care about about TV.
34.Tell me about someone you work with.
35.Tell me about a dream you have for your future.
36.Tell me about a goal you have for this year.
37.Tell me 3 things about your personalty.
38.Tell me 2 things about your childhood.
39.Tell me about something you believe in.
40.Tell me about a place you visited recently.
41.Tell me about an accident you've seen.
42.Tell me what makes you feel happy.
43.Tell me 3 things you like to do in your free time.
44.Tell me what you did for your last birthday.
45.Did your high school have good or bad teachers?
46.Do you ever listen to baseball games on the radio?
47.Do you jog more than once a week?
48.Do you know how to play golf?would you like to?
49.Do you like to exercise?
50.Are you able to skii?
51.Do you find playing tennis hard?
52.Do you find snowboarding fun?
53.Do you like to watch sports on TV?
54.Do you like watching car races?
55.Do you find traveling fun or boring?
56.Have you ever played soccer?
57.Have you ever been to watch a professional game?
58.Have you ever played games with your mother?
59.Have you ever tried snow-boarding?
60.How often do you exercise?
61.How often do you go swimming?
62.Do you read the newspaper everyday?
63.How often do you read the newspaper?
64.What newspaper do you read?
65.How much does the newspaper cost?
66.What kind of magazines do you like to read?
67.What is your favorite newspaper?
68.What is your favorite magazine?
69.Are magazines expensive in your country?
70.Do you enjoy reading a newspaper?
71.What sections of a newspaper do you like to read?
72.What kind of music do you listen to to cheer you up?
73.What kind of music do you usually listen to?
74.What kind of music do your parents listen to?
75.What kind of music you like the most?
76.What kind of songs do you like to sing?
77.What kinds of music do people listen to in your country?
78.What kinds of music do you dislike?
79.What radio station do you usually listen to?
80.What was the last CD you bought?
81.What was the last concert you went to?
82.What was your favorite music five years ago?
83.When was the last time you went dancing?
84.When was the last time you went to a concert?
85.Where do you usually listen to music?
86.Which do you prefer, songs in English or songs in your own language?
87.Who is your favorite singer or group?
88.Who is your favorite singer?
89.What's the best movie you've ever seen?
90.Which do you like better, action movies or comedy movies?
91.What movie star would you most like to meet?
92.Who is your favorite actor or actress?
93.What do you think of reality shows?
94.Do you think that films can be educational?
95.Is there a movie you could watch over and over again?
96.Who's your favorite director?
97.Have you seen any good movies lately?
98.How much does it cost to see a movie in your country?
99.Do you usually rent DVD's or videos when you rent movies?
100.What's one of your favorite movies?
101.Are you good at saving money?
102.What do you like spending money on? What don't you like spending on?
103.What would you love to buy but you can't afford?
104.What is the next "big" thing you are going to buy?
105.Have you ever given money to people on the streets?
106.Do you have a credit card? How many?
107.Is it better to pay cash or by credit card?
108.What things do you pay with cash?
109.What things do you pay by credit card?
110.Do you pay your credit card on time?
111.Have you ever paid late your credit card? What happened?
112.Are credits cards a good thing?
113.How long do you plan to continue working where you are?
114.How long have you been working at your present job?
115.How many days a week do you work?
116.How many days a week do you work?
117.How many hours a week do you work?
118.How many times have you been promoted?
119.What job would you most like to do?
120.What is a very well paid job in Brazil?
121.Do you personally know any doctors?
122.How long do you plan to keep your job?
123.When do plan to retire?
124.Do you often use the Internet?
125.When did you first use the Internet?
126.About how many hours a day do you use the Internet?
127.About how many hours a week do you use the Internet?
128.Who uses the Internet the most in your family?
129.What computer do you use to access the Internet?
130.What is the population of your hometown?
131.What is the population of your country?
132.What are some things in your hometown that are part of history?
133.What does your hometown produce? What does it grow?
134.What is the best season in your hometown?
135.What is the best thing about your hometown?
136.What is the population of your hometown?
137.What is the worst thing about your hometown?
138.What's there to do in your hometown?
139.What's your hometown like?
140.Do you eat a turkey dinner for your Christmas dinner?
141.Do you enjoy Christmas time?
142.Do you enjoy singing Christmas songs?
143.Do you exchange presents with your friends at school?
144.Do you go to church on Christmas day?
145.What holiday don't you like?
146.Do you have a Christmas party at school?
147.Do you have a Christmas tree?
148.Do you exercise?
149.What kind of exercise do you do?
150.How often do you exercise?
151.Do you go for regular medical check-ups?
152.Do you go to the dentist's twice a year?
153.Do you have a lot of stress?
154.Do you normally go to the same doctor?
155.Do you have any allergies?
156.Do you have any scars?
157.Do you know anyone who has backaches?
158.Do you know anyone with false teeth?
159.Do you often eat fast food?
160.Do you smoke?
161.Have you ever kissed in public?
162.Have you ever seen a car accident?
163.Have you ever called your boss at his home?
164.Have you ever been on the radio? T.V?
165.Have you ever ridden on a horse?
166.Have you ever seen a monkey face to face?
167.Have you ever received a love letter?
168.Have you ever seen a tornado?
169.Have you ever milked a cow?
170.Have you ever built a sand castle?
171.Have you ever tried any extreme sports?
172.Have you ever shot a gun ?
173.Do you have any pets?
174.What was the last book you read?
175.Do you like to cook?
176.What's your favorite food?
177.Are you good at cooking/swimming/etc?
178.Are you married or single?
179.Do you have brothers and sisters?
180.Are they older or younger than you?
181.Do you like baseball?
182.Do you live alone?
183.Do you live in a house or an apartment?
184.Have you ever lived in another country?
185.Have you ever met a famous person?
186.How do you spend your free time?
187.How long have you been studying English?
188.How old are you?
189.How tall are you?
190.Tell me about a favorite event of your adulthood.
191.Tell me about a favorite event of your childhood.
192.What are your hobbies?
193.What two things could you not do when you were a kid?
194.What countries have you visited?
195.What country are you from?
196.What do you do on Sundays?
197.What do you do? What's your job?
198.What do you like to do in your free time?
199.What hobbies do you have?
200.What is the nearest bank to your house?
201.What is your religion or philosophy of life?
202.What kind of food do you like?
203.What kind of people do you like?
204.What kind of people do you not like?
205.What languages do you speak?
206.What's something you do well?
207.What's your address?
208.What's your father like?
209.What's your mother like?
210.What's your boss's name?
211.What's your phone number?
212.What's your e-mail?
213.When did you start to study English?
214.Where are you from?
215.Where do you work at?
216.Where do you live? How long have you lived there?
217.Where were you born?
218.Which sports do you like?
219.Who do you live with?
220.Who do you respect the most in your life?
221.Who has had the most influence in your life?
222.Why did you decide to take this course?
223.Why do you want to learn English?
224.Would you like to be famous?
225.Tell me 3 goals in life?
226.Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
227.When do you feel best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?
228.How many cities have you lived in?
229.How many jobs have you had?
230.Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
231.What did you enjoy doing as a child?
232.Who is your next door neighbor?
233.What is he or she like?
234.Do you get along with your neighbors?
235.What is your favorite thing abour Brazil?
236.How many times did you move as a child?
237.Can you cook well?
238.Did you drink coffee this morning?
239.Did you eat lunch today?
240.Do you always eat dinner with your family?
241.Do you always eat vegetables?
242.Do you cook? If yes, what food do you cook the most often?
243.Do you drink milk every day?
244.Do you drink tea every day?
245.Do you eat beef?
246.Do you eat bread every day?
247.Do you eat breakfast every day?
248.Do you eat fruit every day?
249.Do you eat lunch at school every day?
250.How much does a coffee cost?
251.Do you eat rice every day?
252.Do you ever skip breakfast? If so, how often and why?
253.Do you have a favorite bar or cafe? If so, where is it? Why do you like it?
254.Do you have coffee for breakfast?
255.Do you know someone who is a chef?
256.Do you like British food?
257.Do you like Chinese food? Why or why not?
258.Do you like deep-fried food?
259.Do you like food from other countries? If yes, which do you like the most?
260.Do you like Japanese food?
261.What kind of Japanese food do you like?
262.Do you like peas and carrots? How about spinach?
263.Do you like to cook? Why or why not?
264.Do you like to eat a lot of food every day?
265.Do you like to eat American foods?
266.Do you like to eat at fast food restaurants?
267.Do you like to eat cakes?
268.Do you like to eat junk food?
269.Do you like to eat some desserts after dinner?
270.Do you like to eat fruits? Why or why not?
271.Do you like to have breakfast each morning? Why or why not?
272.Do you like to try new food and drinks?
273.Do you often eat out?
274.Do you prefer fish or meat?
275.Do you prefer to eat at a restaurant or at home?
276.Do you prefer your own country's food or other kinds of food?
277.Do you read the nutritional information on the foods you buy?
278.Do you take vitamin pills?
279.Do you think a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat?
280.Do you think fast food, soda and sweets are bad or ok for kids?
281.Do you usually want to eat dessert after dinner?
282.Have you ever been a diet? how long for?
283.Have you ever eaten sushi?
284.Have you ever eaten raw fish?
285 Have you ever had French food?
286 Have you ever eaten Chinese food?
287.Have you ever had Japanese food?
288.How long do you take to eat lunch?
289.How many calories do most people need every day?
290.How many meals do you usually eat every day?
291.How much do you eat when you are sad or happy?
292.How much does it cost to eat dinner at a hotel in your country?
293.How much rice do you eat?
294.How often do you eat at a fast-food restaurant?
295.How often do you eat bread?
296.How often do you eat fresh fruit?
297.How often do you eat in a restaurant? (How often do you eat out?)
298.Where do you usually go?
299.Who do you usually go with?
300.About how much do you spend?
301.Do you ever go to an Indian restaurant?
302.How often do you eat steak?
303.How often do you go drinking? What's your favorite drink?
304.How often do you go shopping for food?
305.If you are living abroad, what is the food that you miss most from home?
306.Is there any food that you really dislike to eat?
307.What are some foods that are considered unhealthy?
308.What are some foods that you know are healthy for your body?
309.What country's food do you like the most?
310.What did you eat for lunch yesterday?
311.What did you eat the last time you ate at a restaurant?
312.What did you have for breakfast this morning?
313.What did you have for supper last night?
314.What do you eat for breakfast every day?
315.What do you eat when you feel sad?
316.What do you like to drink?
317.What do you like to eat for your dinner?
318.What do you think of Thai food? Chinese food? English food?
319.What do you usually eat for lunch?
320.What do you usually like to drink when you go out?
321.What food can you cook the best?
322.What food do you hate? Why do you hate it?
323.What foods are expensive?
324.What foods do you love?
325.What foods have you tasted which you will never forget for the rest of your life?
326.What fruit do you eat the most often?
327.What have you eaten so far today?
328.What is a typical meal from your country?
329.What is one of your favorite foods?
330.What is the cheapest place to eat that you know?
331.About how much is a meal?
332.Where is it?
333.How often do you go there?
334.What is the food you like about your country.
335.What is the last meal you cooked for someone else?
336.What is the most expensive meal you have ever eaten?
337.What is the most expensive restaurant that you have ever been to?
338.What did you eat there?
339.When did you go?
340.Who did you go with?
341.What is the most unusual thing you've ever eaten. Did it taste good or bad?
342.What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
343.What is your favorite food?
344.Please describe your favorite food.
345.What is your favorite Chinese food?
346.What is your favorite dessert?
347.What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
348.What is your opinion of Chinese food? American food? British food?
349.What kind of beverages do you usually drink?
350.What kind of desserts do you like to eat?
351.What kind of junk food do like to eat when you go out?
352.What kind of food do you eat between meals?
353.What kind of food do you like the most?
354.What kind of snacks do you like to eat?
355.What kind of chocolate do you like?
356.What kind of food does your mother make?
357.What kind of food that you think is the least healthy?
358.What kind of food that you think is the most healthy?
359.What kind of vegetables you usually eat?
360.What kind of drink do you like the best?
361.What kind of restaurants you like?
362.What kind of cereals do you like?
363.What kinds of ice cream is your favorite?
364.What Italian food do you like?
365.Do you prefer Brazilian, Italian or Chinese food?
366.What restaurant in this city do you recommend?
367.Why is it a good place?
368.About how much does a meal cost?
369.What special foods do you eat on Christmas?
370.What time do you usually eat breakfast on Saturdays?
71.What vegetable do you like best?
372.What's the best restaurant you've ever been to?
373.What's the most restaurant you've ever been to?
374.What's the strangest food you've ever eaten?
375.What's your favorite dessert?
376.What's your favorite drink in the summer?
377.Have you ever eaten in a different country?
378.How often do you eat seafood?
379.What do you enjoy eating at the beach?
380.What's your favorite food from Minas?
381.What's your favorite kind of ethnic food?
382.Is there a food that you really do not like?
383.What's your preference, fish, chicken or beef?
384.What can you cook quickly?
385.What sandwich do you love ?
386.When was the last time you ate at a restaurant?
387.When was the last time you ate dinner with your mother?
388.Where do you usually eat out?
389.Which country's food do you always eat?
390.Which do you eat more often, rice or bread?
391.Which fast food restaurants do like?
392.Which fast food restaurants do you eat at the most often?
393.Who do you usually eat dinner with at work?
394.What did you have for breakfast this morning?
395.What do you never have for breakfast?
396.How big is your family?
397.How many (first) cousins do you have?
398.How many aunts and uncles do you have?
399.How many brothers and sisters do you have?
400.How many children do you have?
401.How many members do you have in your family altogether?
402.How many people are in your (immediate) family?
403.Have you got a big, medium or small family?
404.How often do you see your cousins?
405.How often do you see your grandparents?
406.How often is your entire family together?
407.How old are your brothers and sisters?
408.How old are your children?
409.How old are your grandparents?
410.Do you like to sunbake?
411.Do you think sunblock is important?
412.Have you ever been to a famous beach?
413.What do you wear to the beach?
414.How do you keep your money safe while you are swimming?
415.Is trash a problem at your local beach?
416.Is pollution a problem at your local beach?
417.How are birthdays celebrated in your country?
418.How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
419.What is your best birthday memory?
420.What did you do for your last birthday?
421.What is the best birthday gift you have ever received?
422.What is the worst birthday gift you have ever received?
423.What are some things you like to do for your birthday?
424.When is your birthday?
425.Do you have a computer at work and at home?
426.Do you have a laptop or a desktop computer or do you have both?
427.Do you use at computer at work?
428.Have you ever studied English using your computer?
429.How many times have you upgraded your computer?
430.How powerful is your computer?
431.What company made your computer?
432.What kind of computer do you have?
433.What size is your computer screen?
434.What do you think is the best size to have?
435.Where do you use your computer?
436.Where in your room is your computer?
437.Why did you buy your computer?
438.Do you have a digital camera?
439.Do you send photos by e-mail?
440.What kind of pictures do you take with your digital camera?
441.Do you have a scanner?
442.What kind of scanner do you have?
443.Do you have a web page?
444.What materials do you download?
445.When did you start surfing on the net?
446.How much time do you stay in front of a computer a day?
447.How much time do you spend reading e-mails?
448.Do you know any sites to watch movies?
449.Do you use any particular software?
450.Which languages do you know?
451.Which language do you use the most often?
452.Do you read computer magazines?
453.Which computer magazines do you read?
454.Do you use a computer?
455.Are you good at using a computer?
456.Are you still using your first computer?
457.Did you learn to use a computer in high school?
458.Do you know how to type well?
459.How often do you use a computer?
460.What are some of your favorite computer games?
461.What do you use a computer for?
462.What operating system do you use?
463.What software do you use the most often?
464.When did you first start using a computer?
465.Who taught you to use a computer?
466.Do you use chat-rooms? If so, what chat-rooms do you use and who do you talk to?
467.Do you use the msn?
468.Do you use e-mail every day?
469.Do you write e-mail in English?
470.Have you ever sent an e-mail to your teacher?
471.How many e-mails do you get a day?
472.How many e-mails do you send a day?
473.How many times a day do you access your e-mail?
474.What's your e-mail address?
475.How many e-mail addresses do you have?
476.Do you want a more powerful computer? If so, what computer do you want?
477.Does your family have a computer?
478.How fast can you type?
479.About how much money do you spend on clothes a year?
480.Do you like shopping for new clothes?
481.Do you often buy new clothes?
482.Do you prefer shopping or looking around shops? Why?
483.Do you think men should always pay the bills?
484.What piece of clothing do you spend more money on? Why?
485.Do you read fashion magazines?
486.Do you sometimes wear a hat?
487.Do you think it is important to wear fashionable clothes?
488.Do you remember what you dream about in your sleep?
489.What is your dream for the future?
490.Have your dreams for your future changed?
491.Do you tell people about your dreams?
492.Do you think you can achieve your dreams?
493.If you had lots of money what would you do with it?
494.Do you think that having a lot of money can make you happy?
495.Have you ever dreamt in English?
496.What did you dream to be when little?
497.Do you believe in your dreams?
498.How many languages do you dream of speaking?
499.How often do you dream at night?
500.What is your biggest dream now?

PLACEMENT TEST LEVEL 2

1.what do you do when you wake up?

2.What did you do in your last vacation?

3.How often do you go to the supermarket?

4.How much coffee do you drink a day?

5.When was the last time you went to the movies?

6.Tell me 3 things there are in your bedroom.

7.Where were you last Saturday night?

8.When will you see your friends again?

9.What were you doing one hour ago?

10.Have you ever been to Rio de Janeiro?

11.Which store do you go to the most?

12.How often do you get sick?

13.What don't you enjoy doing on Mondays?

14.How many languages do you wanna speak?

15.What do you prefer, cooking only for you or cooking for many people?

16. What hair color do you have?

17.What kind of work do you do?

18.What time do you have your meals?

19.. Do you like to walk or do you always drive?

20.Do you prefer scary movies or romantic comedy?


must answer 15 questions without any help and in a coherent and understandable way, there can be mistakes, but they must not interfere with the meaning.

MY LAST WEEKEND

1. Did you work or had free time?
2. Did you eat at home or out?
3. Did you go to the mall?
4. What time did you get up on Saturday?
5. What time did you get up on Sunday?
6. Did you see your friends?
7. What did you watch on TV?
8. Where did you go?
9. Did you go to a restaurant? Where?
10. What did you read?
11. What did you eat on Sunday for lunch?
12. What did you eat on Saturday night?
13. Did you have breakfast on Sunday morni (ng? What did you have?
14. Did you drive a lot or a little?
15. Did you ride your bike?
16. Did you go to the park?
17. Did you drink wine, beer or something?
18. What music did you listen to?
19. What friend did you see?
20. Did you go to the supermarket? What did you buy?