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 has been the best year in your life?
9) What important events happened in the year of your birth?
10) Has this year been a good year for you?
11) Do you make New Year resolutions?
12) In what year in history would you like to go back to?
13) What was the best thing to happen to you last year?
14) What is the best year at school?
15) Do you think a year is a long time?

WEBSITES

1) What do you think makes a good website?
2) Do you think websites are interesting?
3) Can you remember the very first website you looked at?
4) What’s your favourite website?
5) What would websites would you recommend other students to learn
English?
6) Would you like to have your own website?
7) What things really annoy you about websites?
8) How many websites do you look at in an average day / week?
9) How long do you spend looking at one website?
10) Have you ever got angry with a website?

11) Can you think of a website you use (and like) that needs to better
designed?
12) If you started your own website, what would you call it?
13) Do you think there are websites that are dangerous?
14) From what age do you think children should be allowed to look at
websites?
15) Do you think your government should be able to censor websites?

TELEVISION

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘television’?
2) What are the good things and bad things about television?
3) What would life be like without television?
4) How much television do you watch every day?
5) Are you happy with the programmes on TV?
6) Does television kill conversation in your family?
7) Does violence on television make young people more violent?
8) How will television change over the next few decades?

9) What are your earliest memories of television?
10) Is television important?
11) How would society be different if TV had never been invented?
12) What could you do for three hours without watching television?
13) What is there too much of on television?
14) How long can you sit watching TV?
15) What do you think of television shows from other countries?

TELEPHONES

1) Do you like using the telephone?
2) What was your longest telephone call?
3) What is the most annoying thing about using the phone?
4) Do you worry about your telephone bill?
5) Can you remember life before the mobile phone?
6) Do you think you use the telephone too much?
7) Do you like listening to other people’s telephone conversations?
8) Have you ever got really angry with someone over the telephone?
9) Do men or women talk more on the phone? Why?

10) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘telephone’?
11) How important is the telephone to you?
12) What would life be like with no telephone?
13) Do you ever talk in English on the phone?
14) How many calls do you make every day? How many of these are
necessary?
15) Who comes to your mind first when your telephone rings?

SPORTS

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘sport’?
2) Why do so many people like sport?
3) Why are some people not interested in sport?
4) How often do you read sports news?
5) Do you prefer playing or watching sports?
6) Do you have good or bad experiences with sports at school?
7) Do you think sports stars have the best life?
8) Who is your favourite all-time sport star?

9) What’s your favourite sport?
10) Do you prefer watching sports at the stadium, at home on TV, or in a
bar on a giant screen?
11) Would you like to play sport for a living?
12) How many hours of sport a week should children do at school?
13) Is football (soccer) THE world sport?
14) What is your country’s national sport? Do you like it?
15) What are blood sports and extreme sports? Do you like them?

STRESS

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘stress’?
2) Are you stressed at the moment?
3) What stresses you out?
4) What do you do to relieve your stress?
5) Is learning English stressful?
6) Is life becoming more or less stressful?
7) Who stresses you out the most?
8) What stresses you about walking in the streets?
9) Do you think technology is stressful?
10) How dangerous do you think stress is?

11) What’s the best stress reliever you know of?
12) Who do you give stress to?
13) Does watching TV make you stressed?
14) What things do you get stressed about that you wish you wouldn’t?
15) Who’s the most stressed person you know?

SUCESS

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘success’?
2) Are you a success?
3) Who is the most successful person you know?
4) Is success important to you?
5) What does success taste like?
6) How do you measure success?
7) What success stories do you have of studying English?
8) What part does luck play in success?

9) What is your biggest success in life?
10) What small successes do you have every day?
11) How would you define success?
12) Is success a journey or a destination?
13) What is your formula or recipe for success?
13) Does success keep you happy?
14) Do you think success breeds success?
15) Do you think you can teach someone to be successful?

THE SUN

1) Do you protect yourself from the sun?
2) How important is the sun in your life?
3) What do you think of sun worshippers?
4) Do you prefer the rising or setting sun?
5) Do you like a lot of sunshine in your house?
6) Do you like sun tans?
7) What symbols of the sun are there in your culture?
8) What did people think about the sun thousands of years ago?
9) How does a sunny day make you feel?
10) What will happen when the sun burns itself out?

11) Do you like the feeling of the sun on your skin?

12) Do you ever get tired of the sun?
13) Are people who live in sunny places happier than those who don’t?
14) Do you think it’s important to “make hay while the sun shines’?
15) Do you have a favourite movie about the sun?

RAIN

1) Why does it rain cats and dogs in England?

2) Do you like rain?

3) How does rain change your feelings?
4) Do you wish it rain more or rain less where you live?
5) What kind of rain do you like?
6) What do you like to do in the rain?
7) Have you ever done a rain dance?

9) Do you think rain means the same thing to people in different
countries?
10) What do you think of the sound and smell of rain?

11) Do you think acid rain is still a problem?
12) Do you think it’s OK to drink rainwater?
13) Where does rain come from? How is it formed?
14) Has anyone ever “rained on your parade”?
15) When was the last time you got soaked in the rain?

PEOPLE

1) Are people strange?
2) What’s the worst thing about people?
3) Do you think animals are better than people?
4) Why do people dislike each other so much?
5) Do people ever confuse you with other people?
6) Do guns kill people or do people kill people?
7) What kind of people do you like best?
8) What kind of people do you get fed up with?
9) What different kinds of groups of people can you think of?
10) 2) Are you a morning person?
11) Do you believe what people tell you?
12) Does learning always make you motivated to do things?
13) What can we do to protect indigenous people around the world?
14) Do you like reading about famous people?
15) Are you a people person??

NEIGHBORHOOD

1)What makes a good neighbor?
2) Are you neighbourly?
3) What kind of neighbors don’t you like?
4) Do you trust your neighbours?
5) Do you have nosy neighbors?
6) Do you have any terrible neighbours stories?
7) “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Do you believe this?
8) Do high fences make good neighbors?
9) What are the biggest problems among neighbours?
10) Would you like to live next door to your boss?

11) Have you ever argued with your neighbors?
12) What would you do if you had really noisy neighbours?
13) Would you like to have your parents or parents-in-law as neighbors?
14) Would you like your current neighbours to move?
15) Have you ever had a “dog problem” with neighbors?

NIGHT

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘night’?
2) What do you know about night?
3) Are you a night person or a day person?
4) What do you do at night that is different from during the day?
5) Do you feel different at night than you do during the day?
6) Do you have a favourite night of the week?
7) What did you do last night?
8) Do you ever have nightmares?
9) Do ‘things go bump in the night’ in your house?
10) What’s the best night out you’ve ever had?

11) Do you like the night?
12) Would you prefer to work a night shift or day shift?
13) Is it safe to walk the streets at night in your town?
14) How does nature change when days turns to night?
15) Do you like going to nightclubs?

MEALS

1) What’s your favourite meal?
2) Do you always eat healthy, balanced meals?
3) Are home-cooked meals the best?
4) Would you like to have a three-course meal every day?
5) Is the evening meal the most important meal of the day?
6) What’s the most delicious meal you can remember eating?
7) What do you think of frozen meals, microwave meals and other prepacked
meals?
8) What’s the best thing to do after a lovely meal?
9) How does meal time now differ from when you were a kid?
10) What’s the worst possible meal you could imagine?

11) Do you always have three meals a day?
12) What’s your favourite meal of the day?
13) Do you prefer meals alone, with one other person or lots of people?
14) Do you ever skip meals?
15) Do you think it’s OK to eat between meals?

MUSIC

1) What is the difference between music and song?
2) What does music mean to you?
3) What would life be like without music?
4) Which is more important to you, music or TV?
5) What kind of music do you like?
6) How have your musical tastes changed since when you were a kid?
7) What music can change the way you feel?
8) What’s the best time and place to listen to music?
9) Where does the best music come from, the USA, UK, Brazil or other?
10) What decade has produced the best music?

11) Do you think most music (say 90%) is rubbish?
12) Is the Internet helping  musicians?
14) What new music have you bought or listened to recently?
15) What do you think of the music your parents listen to?

MARRIAGE

1) Is marriage over-rated?
2) Are you in favor of marriage in the church?
3) What do you think of a marriage without a party?
4) What is the secret to a happy marriage?
5) Why are fewer and fewer people getting married?
6) Who has the happiest marriage you know? Why do you think this?
7) How do you think marriage changes people?
8) Do you believe in arranged marriages?
9) Should people stay married if they no longer love each other?
10) Do you think people should agree on a marriage contract before they
get married?
11)) Are there any rules to marriage?
12) What is important in a marriage?
13) Is marriage supposed to be easy or hard?
14) Is it OK to live together before marriage?
15) Why do so many marriages go wrong?

MORNINGS

1) What is your usual morning routine?
2) What were mornings like in your house when you were a kid?
3) How are weekend mornings different from weekday mornings?
4) Would you prefer the morning shift or evening shift?
5) Do animals prefer mornings?
6) Which is worse, the morning or evening rush hour?
7) Do you ever say, “It’s been a bad morning”?
8) Is morning the best time to study and get things done?
9) What happens in your town early in the morning?
10) What do you do early morning, mid morning and late morning?
11) Tell me 4 things you did this morning.

12) Are you a morning person?
13) What do you like doing in the morning?
14) Are you grumpy in the morning?
15) What things about morning would you like to change?

JAILS

1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘jail’?
2) Do you think jails work?
3) Would you like to work in a jail?
4) How would you feel if you had to spend a couple of months in jail?
5) Do you think people leave jail better people or better criminals?
6) What are the jails like in your country?
7) What do you think prisoners do in jail every day?
8) Do you think jails are dangerous places?
9) Have you ever visited someone in jail?
10) Would you live in a house / apartment that was right next door to a
jail?
11) Do you think ex cons deserve another chance in society?
12) Do you agree with the poor conditions in jails?
13) Do you think God helps people in jail?
14) If someone you like was in jail, would you visit?
15) Do you agree with the death penalty?

HOSPITALS

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘hospital’?
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) Why are people afraid of hospitals?
11) Do you think hospitals are happy or sad places?
12)- Have you ever stayed in a hospital?
13)- Can you say pronto socorro in English?
14)- Can you say posto de saúde in English?
15)- Have you ever slept over as a companion in a hospital?

GEOGRAPHY

1) Were you good at geography at school?
2) What is studied in geography?
3) Which part of the world do you think has the most interesting
geography?
4) How important is it to study geography at school?
5) What are the most important things about geography that children need
to know?
6) What jobs can you do if you have a geography degree?
7) What is the capital of Paris,Ireland, England,Italy and Peru?
8) What is the difference in cities, states, towns, countries, continents and capitals?
9) Tell me about one of your ex geography teachers.
10) What is boring about Geography?
11) What is the difference between Geography and History?
12) What can you find on a map?
13) What does Chemistry study? What does Biology study?
14) What does Philosophy study?
15)- What is the most interesting subject in school?

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?