HOMETOWNS

1. Does your hometown have a college or university?
2. Does your hometown have a shopping mall shopping?
3. Does your hometown have antique shopping places?
4. Where is the best place to get a reasonably priced, but delicious meal in your hometown?
5. How long have you lived in your hometown?
6. Do any of your family members (still) live in your hometown?
7. Where did your maternal and paternal great-great-great grandparents live or come from?
8. Do you hope that someday your hometown would be world famous for something? What could it be famous for?
9. What is the average yearly rain fall for your hometown?
10. Does it snow in your hometown?

REAL STATE(HOUSING)

1.  Can you borrow money from a bank to get a place? Is it easy to buy and sell houses?
2. Draw/describe your dream house (money is no problem) where, materials, design, interior, landscaping etc
3. Imagine you have arrived in a country where they don't speak your language. You have no money or friends there. What would you do for accommodation?
4. Give some reasons why people become homeless.
5. What problems do home owners have? What can they do about them?
6. Is it better to rent or buy? Give reasons for your answer.
7. What do you think houses in the future will be like?
8. How important is security? How do you make a house secure?
9. Make a list of the 4 most important things you would look for when choosing a house to live in.
10. Some people say apartments are too much like boxes or cages. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

HEALTH

1. When you were in high school, how many days of school did you miss each year because of sickness?
2. Who is the healthiest person in your family? Who is the least healthy?
3. Why do people smoke?
4. Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
5. What is the health service like in your country?
6. How can the health service be improved?
7. Have you been to hospital in the last 3 months?
8. What do you know about Vaccines, how do they work?
9. What is the difference between a cold and the flu?
10. What do you think of this quote " Health is not the absence of illness, it is the joy to live"- Nuno Cobra

HAPPINESS

1. Are you a happy person?
2. What is happiness for you?
3. What do you think is the color for happiness?
4. Do you think that happiness lies within you? Or does it depend upon other people and external things?
5. Can money buy happiness?
6. Is happiness a state of mind?
7. What makes you feel happy?
8. What are the three most important things for you to be happy?
9. Is happiness relative, that is, does it have a different meaning for each person?
10. Do you believe you can choose to be happy?

HABITS

1. Are you extremely lazy?
2. Do you cut people off in the middle of their stories and conversations?
3. Does your mother or father have any bad habits?
4. Is it easy or difficult to get rid of a bad habit?
5. Do other people's bad habits get on your nerves?
6. Have you been successful in getting rid of a bad habit?
7. What bad habits bother you the most?
8. What good habits do you most admire?
9. What unusual habits do you observe in your family members? Do they bother you?
10. How can you develop a good habit?

GENERATION GAP

1. What is a generation gap?
2. Have you ever felt a generation gap with your friends?
3. How do you over come the generation gap?
4. When do you feel the generation gap the most?
5. Is it possible to overcome a generation gap?
6. At what point in life does the generation gap seem to be the largest?
7. Do you think you can be a better parent than your own parents in future?
8. Do you think it is OK to date or marry someone of a different gereration to yourself, either older or younger?
9. Some people think it is OK to marry a much older man but not a much older woman? Do you agree?
10. How would you feel if your father was a generation older than your mother? Do you know a family where this is the case?

GENDERS

1. Are there different expectations for sons and daughters?
2. What habits are deemed as appropriate for men but inappropriate for women?
3. What behaviors are deemed as appropriate for men but inappropriate for women?
4. What jobs are deemed as appropriate for men but inappropriate for women?
5. Are more doctors female or male in your country?
6. Are more nurses female or male in your country?
7. Are more professional musicians female or male in your country?
8. Are more teachers female or male in your country?
9. Are more truck drivers female or male in your country?
10. Are men and women equal in ability and intelligence?

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

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

FRIENDSHIP

1. Do you think it is possible to have a best friend of the opposite sex without becoming a girlfriend or boyfriend?
2. Do you think it would be possible for you still be friends with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend?
3. There is a proverb that says, "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Do you agree?
4. Do you believe that there is an end to any true friendships?
5. Do you believe your parents should be your friends?
6. What do you do if you receive a friend's call but you forgot his/her name?
7. Friendship is the most important relationship. Do you agree? Why? Why not?
8. What do you like best about your best friend(s)?
9. What are some ways your best friend has influenced your life in a positive way?
10. What are some ways your best friend has influenced your life in a positive way?

HOBBIES

1. How long have you had your hobby?
2. Which hobbies are the most expensive?
3. Which hobbies are the cheapest?
4. Which hobbies cost nothing at all?
5. Which hobbies are the most popular in your country?
6. Is hunting a hobby or a sport in your country?
7. Which hobbies are the most popular with women in your country? With men?
8. Did you have any hobbies when you were a child?
9. Can you think of any hobbies which are popular with children and adults?
10. Do you think a hobby is different from a sport?

FEELINGS

1. Are you annoyed when your partner/husband/wife flirts with someone else ?
2. Do bad mannered people upset you?
3. Do you get angry when politicians make promises they can't keep?
4. Do you get angry when you watch the news on TV and see all the terrible things happening in the world?
5. Does it annoy you when shop assistants try to sell you things you don't need?
6. Does it annoy you when someone interrupts you when you are speaking?
7. Does it annoy you when someone knows everything better than you and says so?
8. Does it annoy you when you are waiting in a long queue and someone pushes in front of you?
9. Does it annoy you when your teacher speaks too quickly?
10. Does it drive you crazy to always see the same faces and read about the same celebrities in the gossip columns?

DRUGS

1. Do some people have addictive personalities?
2. If you are addicted to drugs, what should you do?
3. What else can people become addicted to?
4. Why are some drugs more addicting than others?
5. Why do some people get addicted when others do not?
6. What happens in the brain of a person that causes addiction?
7. Do you know how much illegal drugs cost?
8. Do you think it is easy to buy illegal drugs where you live?
9. Which is worse, a peaceful drug addict or a violent non-addict?
10. Should pregnant women be arrested for child abuse if they use drugs when they are pregnant which may affect the baby?

DREAMS

1. When you were a child, what was your dream for the future? Has it changed?
2. Do you remember what you dream about in your sleep?
3. What is your dream for the future?
4. Have your dreams for your future changed?
5. Do you tell people about your dreams?
6. Do you think you can achieve your dreams?
7. If you had lots of money what would you do with it?
8. Do you think that having a lot of money can make you happy?
9. Do you think that having dreams and aspirations is a waste of time?
10. Do you think dreams are food for the soul?

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 losing weight?

DEATH AND DYING

1. Why are so many people afraid of death, when it is unavoidable?
2. What would happen if you died?
3. On account of your beliefs or some other reason, do you look forward to dying?
4. Have you ever had to put a pet to sleep?
5. Do you believe that you will be born again?
6. What should you say to someone who has lost a loved one?
7. Why is facing death a difficult experience?
8. How does a person cope with death of a friend or loved one?
9. What are some reactions to death of a friend?
10. How do your national customs surrounding death reflect the values of your country?

CULTURE

1. Do you know much about your own culture?
2. When people from other countries think about your culture, what do they usually think of?
3. In your culture is it polite to be straightforward and direct when you talk to someone?
4. To whom is it OK and to whom is it not OK?
5. What has surprised you when you've met people from other countries?
6. Have you looked at Internet pages from a different culture? If so, how were they different from those of your own culture?
7. What do you like about your culture?
8. What don't you like about your culture?
9. Are there many people of different cultures in your country? Are you friends with any?
10. Have you ever felt confused by the actions of someone from another culture?

COMPUTERS

1. Can your parents operate a computer? / Can you children use a computer?
2. Do you think a computer can bring us happiness?
3. Do you have a computer?
4. Do you know any computer languages like C or C++?
5. What is configuration of your PC?
6. How often do you perform a backup? What kind of backup method do you use? What kind of backup media do you use?
7. What are some good things about having a computer?
8. What are some bad things about having a computer?
9. Does having a computer make life more complicated or less complicated?
10. What computer games have you played?

CLOTHES AND FASHION

1. What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
2. What colors do you think look good on you?
3. What colors do you think look good on your mother?
4. What did you wear yesterday?
5. What do you think of body piercing?
6. What fashions that you see today do you think will be out of fashion within two years?
7. What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
8. What's the most expensive piece of clothing you have ever bought?
9. When was the last time you got dressed up?
10. What do you think about secondhand clothes?

BEGGARS

1. Do you give money to beggars or homeless people? Why or why not?
2. If you give money to beggars or homeless people, about how much do you give?
3. How do you know if a beggar is a real beggar?
4. Do you think beggars should work in gangs or on their own? Would you offer a beggar any job you had to be done at home?Would you offer a beggar a job to help yo around you house?
5. Would you rather give money to beggars or buskers? (Buskers are people who entertain you on the street for money, e.g. musicians)
6. Would you rather give money to beggars who have a disability, older beggars, beggars with babies or child beggars? Why?
7. Do you think it's acceptable for children to work late at night selling flowers and singing?
8. Do you think these children need to be out doing this, or are they just earning extra money?
9. What do you think will happen to these children in the future? Do they have a future?
10. Do you think there should be more help for beggars, homeless and poor people in (your town/city)? How about in (your country)?

CARS AND DRIVING

1. How long did it take you to learn to drive?
2. What is the longest trip you have ever taken by car?
3. Have you ever broken down and been stranded on the side of the road? Who helped you?
4. How do American drivers compare to drivers in your country?
5. What are the speed limits in your country? what do you think about that?
6. On what occasions do you honk your car horn?
7. Is it acceptable to honk in your country
8. Are women better drivers than men?
9. Do you think the age for driving should be raised or lowered?
10. Do you think driving lessons should be provided by high schools?