FRIENDS

1) What do friends mean to you?
2) What makes a friend a best friend?
3) What makes you a good friend?
4) Is it easy for you to make friends?
5) Do you have any particularly close friends?
6) Do you stay in touch with all of the friends you’ve made?
7) Which long-lost friend would you like to see again?
8) Is there a difference in friendship between your male friends and
female friends?
9) What would life be like without friends?
10) Do you ever worry about losing your friends?
11) Are friends sometimes more important than family?
12) How similar are you to your friends?
13) At which stages of life is it easier to make friends?
14) Are your childhood friends those you have strongest bonds with?
15) How often do you fall out with your friends?

EATING

1) How much do you enjoy eating?
2) What time of the day do you most enjoy eating?
3) Do you have a midnight snack?
4) Where in your house is your favourite place to eat?
5) Who do you like eating with most?
6) Do you like watching TV while you eat?
7) Are there any rules in your house when you eat?
8) Are you a slow or fast eater?
9) Are you a fussy / picky eater?

10) Do you ever get bored of eating?
11) How many times do you chew your food?
12) What do you think of people who eat food on trains or buses?
13) Are there any rules in your country about eating in public?
14) Is the issue of healthy eating important to you?
15) On what occasions do you overeat?

DOGS

1) Do you like dogs?
2) Are dogs really man’s best friend?
3) What kind of dogs do you like and dislike?
4) Do you think dogs are the best kind of pet?
5) Do you think dogs have a good life?
6) Are you ever afraid of dogs?
7) What do you think of dogs that bark non-stop?
8) Do you think people spend too much money on dogs?
9) In what ways are dogs helpful to humans?
10) Are there many abandoned dogs in your town?
11) In English, dogs go woof woof and in Portuguese?

12)Do owners have to clean up after their dogs in your town?
13) Dog is on the menu in many countries. What do you think of this?
14) What would you do if someone bought you a puppy as a present?
15) What do you think of people who organize dog fights?

CITIES

1) Are cities good things?
2) What is your favorite city?
3) How are city people and country people different?
4) What are the biggest problems with living in cities?
5) What damage do cities do to the countryside?
6) When does a town become a city?
7) Which world city do you think would be the best to live in?
8) How will cities in the future be different from those today?
9) If you were city mayor, what changes would you make to your city?
10) Which city would you choose as capital of the world and why?

11) Do you prefer city or country life?
12) What do you like and dislike about the capital city of your country?
13) What do you think are the world’s three greatest cities and why?
14) Is the capital city of a country always that country’s best city?
15) Is it better to grow up in the city?

ENGLAND

1- Where is England located?
2- What is the difference between England and the United Kingdom?
3- Have you ever been to England?
4- What is the weather like in England?
5- What do people usually eat in England?
6- What is a prime minister?
7- Can you tell me some English singers, bands or programs you know?
8- If you went to England for 3 weeks, what would you like to do there?
9- Have you ever listened to an English accent?
10- Tell me 2 or 3 places that were colonized by England.
11- Would you be able to live in England for 2 years?
12- What esle do you know about Great Britain?
13- What do you know about the Beatles?
14- What do you know about the Queen?
15- Are there beaches in England? What are they like?

TEENAGE YEARS

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘adolescence’?

2) What is adolescence?

3) What happens during adolescence?

4) Is adolescence generally  a good or happy time? Why?

5) What problems did you have in your adolescence?

6) Did you worry about whether or not other people liked you?

7) Did you rebel against your parents or teachers?

8) When did you begin to feel like you were an adult?

10) What worries and fears did you have as a adolescent?

11) Is there a term for adolescence in your language?

12) Were you an early or late developer?

13) Did you suffer from spots and acne?

14) Would you like to relive your adolescence?

15) What advice would you give to today’s adolescents?

SIMPLE JOB INTERVIEW

1. What’s your full name?
2. How old are you?
3. Are you married or single?
4. What’s your address?
5. What’re you phone numbers?
6. What’s your e-mail?
7. What do you like to do in your free time?
8. What’s your profession?
9. Are you graduated in this area? If no, what’s your graduation?
10. Why did you choose this area?
11. How long have you been working in this area?
12. How did you get your first job in this area?
13. Do you like what you do?
14. When did you start in your last or current job?
15. How long have you been a.....?
16. When did you have your first job?
17. What do you love about your profession?
18. What do you need to improve about your profession?
19. What languages do you speak?
20. Can you speak Spanish or French?

THE PAST

1. What did you do last Saturday night?
2. Where were you born?
3. How many hours did you sleep last night?
4. When did you go to the movies?
5. What did you do this morning?
6. What was the last thing you cooked?
7. What were you doing before this class started?
8. What was the last good book you read?
9. Where did you go in your last vacation and what did you do?
10. What did you do for your last birthday?
11. Where were you last New Year's day?
12. What did you study in your last English class?
13. When was the last time you went to the beach? where was the beach?
14. What did you get last Christmas as a gift?
15. When did you last exercise?

SUPERNATURAL

1. Are you afraid of spirits?
2. Do you believe in angels?
3. Do you believe in witches why or why not.
4. Do you believe in astrology? What is your astrological sign?
5. Do you believe in coincidences? Why or why not?
6. Do you believe in God? Why or why not?
7. Do you believe in life after death?
8. Do you believe in vampires? / Do you believe that vampires exist?
9. Do you think heaven exist?
10. Do you think hell exist?
11. Do think black cats are unlucky?
12. Are you logical or supertitious?
13. Do you believe in the Devil?
14. How often do you read the horoscopes?
15. Are you afraid of black magic?

TESTS

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘test’?
2) Do you get nervous when you take tests?
3) Are there any kinds of tests that you love?
4) Do you have any special routines you follow before you take a test?
5)How did you feel when you took your drive's license test?
6) What do you think about while you wait for the result of a test?
7) Have you ever cheated on a test? Tell me about it
8) Have you ever taken an online test?Did you cheat
9) Do you think testing is useful or a waste of time?

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 ?
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) What do you think about Indian food?

COMPANY RESPONSABILITY

1) How responsible is your company?
2) When and why do you think people first started talking about corporate
responsibility?
3) What do companies need to do to show they exercise good corporate
responsibility?
4) Which companies do you think are leaders in corporate responsibility?
5) Which industries show poor corporate responsibility?
6) Do you think there should be a corporate responsibility law?
7) Do you think making huge profits means companies can never be
responsible?
8) What are the most irresponsible companies on Earth?
9) Are there different responsibilities for small companies and
multinationals?
10) Can a company survive if it shows no corporate responsibility?

CAPITALISM

1) What is capitalism?
2) Is capitalism the best economic system for the world?
3) Who likes capitalism?
4) Who suffers from capitalism?
5) Will the whole world be capitalist one day?
6) What are the advantages of capitalism over communism?
7) What is the free market?
8) What is the difference between capitalism and greed?
9) What happens to the less intelligent or able under capitalism?
10) If capitalism is so great, why are there many people living below the
poverty line in capitalist countries?

COMPANY

1) Tell me a little about the history of your company.
2) What are your favourite companies?
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?
6) Which companies do you think provide the best customer service and
best products?
7) Do you prefer bricks-and-mortar companies or Internet companies?
8) Amazon.com founder and boss Jeff Bezos said: "A brand for a company
is like a reputation for a person." What do you think of this?
9) Mary Kay Ash said: "People are definitely a company’s greatest asset."
Do you think this is true all over the world?
10) Andrew Grove said: "In the future, all companies will be Internet
companies." Do you agree? Would this be good?

BUSINESS WORLD

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?
Hundreds more

BANKS

1) Do like banks?
2) What are the good things about banks?
3) What are the bad things about banks?
4) What do you think of bank charges?
5) Are bank workers always helpful?
6) Has a bank ever made a mistake with your account/money?
7) Would you like to work for a bank?
8) Have you ever taken out a bank loan or overdraft?
9) What do wish were different about the bank service?
10) Have you ever met your bank manager?

AMBITION

1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘ambition’?
2) Are you ambitious?
3) Is it important to have ambitions?
4) Who is the most ambitious person you know?
5) What were your ambitions when you were a child?
6) Can ambitions be dangerous?

7) Why do we have ambitions?
8) What’s the difference between an ambition and a dream?
9) What ambition have you held the longest?
10) What happens after you have fulfilled all of you ambitions?

ADVERTISING

1) How would you define advertising?
2) Would you like to work in advertising?
3) Do you prefer advertisements on TV, in newspapers, on the radio, on
the Internet or in the street?
4) Do you think advertising is an art?
5) Would you like there to be no ads on TV?
6) What do you think of the ads in other countries?
7) Have you ever placed an ad in the classified section of a newspaper?
8) Do you think advertising is a clever way of lying about products?
9) What products depend most on advertising?
10) What do you think of advertisements for language schools?