TRAVEL

1) Do you like travelling?

2) What is travel for you?
3) What different kinds of travelling are there?
4) What’s the best place you’ve ever been to?
5) Would you like to go travelling for a few years non-stop?
6) What are the good and bad things about travelling?
7) Where do you want to travel to before you die?
8) Is it better to travel or to arrive?
9) Lin Yutang said: "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old,
familiar pillow." Do you agree?
10) Elizabeth Drew said: "Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.”
What does this mean? Do you agree?

1) What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘travel’?
2) Are you a traveller?
3) Is travel an education?
4) Would you like to travel in space or to the moon?
5) Would you like to work in the travel industry?
6) What are the pros and cons of travelling first class and backpacking?
7) Is travel helping the world?
8) What would make you wiser – travelling around the world for ten years or reading 10,000 books?
9) Mason Cooley said: "Travellers never think that they are the foreigners." Do you agree?
10) St. Augustine said: "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
What does this mean? Do you agree?

1) What images come to your mind when you hear the word ‘tourism’?
2) How important is tourism to your country?
3) Would you like to work in tourism?
4) What are the good and bad things about tourism?
5) What do you think tourism will be like in the future?
6) What are the major tourist attractions in your country?
7) What do you think of the idea of space tourism?
8) How does tourism change lives?
9) What is eco-tourism? Do you think it’s a good idea?
10) Is there a difference between a tourist and a backpacker ?

1) Do you think tourism helps people in the world understand each other?
2) Is tourism something that only rich people take part in?
3) What do you think of sex tourism? Do you think it’ll ever disappear?
4) What factors affect tourism?
5) Do tourists really get to see the real countries they visit?
6) Do you think tourism is bad for the planet?
7) Are tourists in your country funny?
8) How has tourism changed over the past few decades?
9) Are you a good ambassador for your country’s tourism industry?
10) What is tourism?

Have you ever been abroad?

Where have you been?
Are you planning on going anywhere for your next vacation?
If so, where?
Who with?
How long will you stay?
Are you afraid of going abroad alone?
Could you live in another country for the rest of your life?
Describe the most interesting person you met on one of your travels.
What was your best trip.
What was your worst trip.
Did your class in high school go on a trip together?
If so, where did you go?
How long did you stay?
How did you get there?
Do you have a driver's license?
Do you like to travel with children? Why or why not?
Do you like to travel with your mother? Why or why not?
Do you prefer summer vacations or winter vacations?
Do you prefer to travel alone or in a group? Why?
Do you prefer to travel by train, bus, plane or ship?
Do you prefer travelling by car or by plane?
Have you ever been in a difficult situation while travelling?
Have you ever been on an airplane?
How many times?
What airlines have you flown with?
Have you ever been to a foreign country?
Have you ever got lost while travelling? If so, tell about it.
Have you ever hitchhiked? If so, how many times?
Have you ever taken a package tour?
How do you spend your time when you are on holiday and the weather is bad?
How many countries have you been to? How many states?
How many times have you travelled abroad?
How much luggage do you usually carry?
If you travelled to South America, what countries would like to visit?
If you went to ___(Insert a country name)__, what kind of souvenirs would you buy?
If you were going on a camping trip for a week, what 10 things would you bring? Explain why.
What are some countries that you would never visit? Why would you not visit them?
What are some things that you always take with you on a trip?
What countries would you like to visit? Why?
What countries would you most like to visit?
What countries would you not like to visit? Why?
What country do you most want to visit?
Why?
Do you think you will ever go there?
What do you need before you can travel to another country?
What is the most interesting city to visit in your country?
What is the most interesting souvenir that you have ever bought on one of your holidays?
What languages can you speak?
What place do you want to visit someday?
What was the most interesting place you have ever visited?
What's the most beautiful place you've ever been to?
When was the last time you travelled?
When you are on a long car journey do you play games or sing songs to occupy your time?
What kind of games?
What songs?
Where are you going to go the next time you travel?
When are you going to go?
Who are you going to go with?
How long are you going to go for?
What are you going to do there?
What kind of things do you think you will buy?
Where did you go on your last vacation?
How did you go?
Who did you go with?
Where did you spend your last vacation? Your summer vacation? Your Christmas vacation?
Where will you go on your next vacation?
Would you like to take a cruise? Where to? With who?
Do you prefer travelling on a hovercraft or a ferry?
Would you prefer to stay at a hotel/motel or camp while on vacation?
Would you rather visit another country or travel within your own country?
Would you rather go to a place where there are a lot of people or to a place where there are few people?
Do you find more fulfillment from your leisure activities including vacations than from your job?
Do you think the type of vacation one takes reflects one's social status?
What are popular tourist destinations in your country?
Have you been to any of them?
Which would you recommend if you could only recommend one? Why?
Do you prefer active or relaxing holidays? Why?
Which is better, package tour or a tour you organize and book yourself?
Why do you travel?
Why do people travel?
Would you like to go back to the same place?
Did you find anything of particular interest? / Did you get attracted to anything special?
What are some benefits of travel?
Why do people travel?
What is your favorite mode of travel?
Have you travelled in business class?
When you were a child did your family take a vacation every year?
Do you prefer a budget or first class hotel? Why?
Do you travel with a lot of baggage or do you like to travel light?
What is your favorite method of travel at your destination? Train? Bus? Boat? Bicycle? Backpacking?
What is the best kind of holiday for different ages of people? Children? Teenagers? Adults? Elderly
people?
Do you think it is a good idea to travel with friends, or alone? How about with your family?
If you had $100,000, where would you go on holiday? How about if you had $10,000? What about
$1,000?
Which countries have you travelled to?
Do you prefer hot countries or cool countries when you go on holiday
Who makes the decisions when your family decides to go on holiday
If you could choose one place to go this weekend, where would it be?
Has the airline ever lost your luggage? What happened?
On long flights do you usually walk around the plane to avoid health problems?
Have you ever read an interesting question in an in-flight magazine? What was it?
Is there any difference between young tourists and adult tourists?
Do you think tourism will harm the earth?

MONEY

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

2) Does money make the world go round?
3) Does money talk?
4) What would life be like without money?
5) How often do you think about money?
6) What does the expression, “money doesn’t grow on trees” mean? What would life be like if it did?
7) Who and why might someone ask, “Do you think I’m made of money” Have you ever asked this?
8) How would the world be different if all the money in the world was shared out equally among all people?
9) What’s the best way of making a lot of money?
10) Have you ever raised money for charity?

1) How important is money to you?

2) Is money really the root of all evil?
3) Can money buy happiness?
4) Do you worry about money?
5) What’s the largest amount of money you’ve ever had in your wallet/purse?
6) Does having a lot of money make someone more attractive?
7) Have you ever lost a lot of money?
8) How much pocket money should a 13-year-old get?
9) Do you ever run out of money?
10) Do you agree with the idiom that “a fool and his money are easily parted”?

About how much did you spend on presents last year?

About how much do you usually spend each day?
Are you a price conscious shopper?
Are you good at saving money?
Are you saving money to buy something?
If so, what are you planning to buy?
How much will it cost?
How much longer will you need to save before you can buy it?
Do banks pay a higher percent of interest here or in your country?
Do you compare prices at different stores when you shop?
Do you enjoy shopping?
Do you ever buy second-hand things? ("used things")
Do you ever give money to charity?
How often do you give to charity?
How much do you give?
Do you gamble?
Do you give tips at a restaurant in your country? How about to taxi drivers?
Do you haggle when you shop ?
Do you have a credit card?
Do you have a credit card? If so, do you have more than one?
Do you have more than one bank account?
Do you have to pay a sales tax in your country?
Do you invest in the stock market?
Do you often put money in the bank?
Do you sometimes buy things that you don't need?
If so, give some examples.
Do you sometimes give money to charities?
Do you think that money can buy love?
Do your parents give you an allowance? (Did your parents give...?)
How much? (Maybe not a good question to ask.)
What do you use it for?
How often do they give it to you?
Have you ever been in debt?
Have you ever owed money to people?
Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
Have you ever found any money? If so, what did you do with it?
Have you ever given money to a beggar?
Have you ever given money to a homeless person?
Have you ever had any money stolen from you?
How important is money to you?
If you had no money, do you think you could be happy?
How many different kinds of coins are there in your country? What are they?
How much did you spend last week?
How much did you spend yesterday?
How much do you have to spend to eat a good meal at a restaurant in your country?
How much do you spend on food each week?
How much do you think it costs to fly to Guam?
How much do you think it costs to stay at a hotel in London?
How much do you usually spend each month on entertainment?
How much do you usually spend each month on food?
How much do you usually spend each month on transportation?
How much does it cost to get a haircut in your country?
How much does it cost to ride a bus in your country?
How much is a liter of gasoline in your country?
How much money did you make on your first job?
(How much money do you think you will make on your first job?)
How much money did you spend yesterday?
Where did you spend it?
What did you spend it on?
Do you often spend that amount in one day?
How much money did your parents give you for an allowance when you were ten years old?
How much money do you have on you now? (Maybe not a polite question to ask.)
How much money do you have with you now? (Maybe not a good question to ask.)
How much time did you spend the last time you went shopping?
How often do you go shopping?
If someone gave you a lot of money, what would you do with it?
If someone gave you a million dollars, what would you do with it?
Some people say that "money makes the world go around." Do you agree? Why or why not?
What bank do you use?
What do you need to buy next?
What do you spend most of your money on?
What do you spend the most money on each month?
What do you want to buy next?
What is something that you have bought recently that cost a lot of money?
What is something that you have bought recently that was a good bargain?
What is something that you have bought recently?
What is something that you want to buy, but don't have enough money to buy.
What is something that you want to buy, but think you never will.
What is the average salary in your country?
What is the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
How much did it cost?
What is your opinion of discount stores?
What kind of things do you often shop for?
What kinds of things are you saving your money for?
What store did you like best and what store did you like least?
What was the last thing you bought for someone else?
What was the last thing you bought for yourself?
Where did you buy it?
why did you buy it?
What was the last thing you spent money on?
What's the most expensive thing you have ever bought?
What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
What's the most money you have spend on one thing?
What's the most money you have spent on something to eat?
What's the most money you have spent on something to wear?
What did you buy?
What's your favorite place to shop?
What's your favorite shopping area or store?
Where did you buy ___? (your shoes / your watch / etc.)
How much did you pay?
When did you buy it/them?
Where do you keep your money?
Where do you usually buy food?
Where is your favorite shopping area?
Which costs more, a hamburger in America or a hamburger in your country?
Which costs more, your telephone bill or your electric bill?
Which do you prefer, large stores or small stores?
Which do you think is more important, love or money?
Which store do you go to the most often?
Where is it?
Why do you like to go there?
Who do you often go shopping with?
Who do you spend money on?
In a marriage, do you think one person should handle the finances, or both?
How do you think money helps make us happy?
Do you think money is more important than love?
How much money do you want to earn each month?
What qualities must a person have to make BIG money?
Should children get an allowance (pocket money) from their parents?
When do you get your allowance?
How long does it last?
Is it enough money?
How do you usually spend your money? What do you usually buy?
How much should you give to your children?
How much do you give to your children?
Do you ever give money to beggars on the street? Why or why not?
Do you ever give money to charity? Why or why not?
If you found 100,000 won (or local currency) in a bag on the street, what would you do? Keep it?
What are you saving your money for?
Do you want to buy something special?
Who takes care of the money in your house?
When you buy something, do you "shop around" and go to many stores to compare prices?
When you buy something, what is most important to you: price, quality, fashion trend, status/image?
Explain these proverbs: What do they mean? Say them in other English words.
The best things in life are free.
Time is money.
Save your pennies for a rainy day.
Money talks.
You can't take it with you when you go.
Money doesn't grow on trees
Your rich uncle just died and gave you 50,000,000 won. (or local currency)
How would you spend it?
What would you buy?
Would you spend it on yourself, put it in the bank or buy something for your family?
Would you spend it all?
What is the most you have ever spent on a gift?
What was it?
Who did you give it to?
What was the occasion?
If you had to save money, what can you do without?
I would stop spending money on ___.
If you needed to earn some extra money, how would you do that?
If you had a large amount of money, what would you do with it?
Have you or your family ever won any money in a lottery?
How much money would you have to win to be happy?
Why do people often want more money, no matter how much they have got?
Why are poor people in many cases more generous than rich people?
What are some reasons for people being poor? Can poverty be avoided?
How do people become rich?
Do you think that riches can have a bad effect on a person? How?
What do you do if you can't get the clerk's attention at the store?
Is it easier to return items in the U.S. or in your country?
If you can't find an item at the store, do you find a clerk and ask for help, or do you leave and go
somewhere else?
If you don't want help when the clerk asks if you need help, what do you say?
Is it OK to bring children to the market or the department store?
Is it bad if one person or company controls the market that it specializes in?
For example, is it wrong for Microsoft to control most of the operating system software in the world?
Do you consider companies like Microsoft and people like Bill Gates smart and shrewd?
Some questions about Taxation.
In New Zealand at the moment the government is thinking of imposing a "flatulence tax" on farmers for
the livestock they own, as the flatulence contributes to Ozone depletion (supposedly).
What is the most ridiculous tax in your country, past, or present?
Do you think taxes in your country are too high/low?
What about New Zealand Taxes? / What about taxes here?
What is the effect on the economy of high taxation?
What is the effect on the economy of low taxation?
What are some of the different kinds of taxes your country has?
If you were the ruler of your country, what would you do to change the taxation system?
What is the funniest tax you can think of to introduce?
What do you like spending money on? What don't you like spending on?
What would you love to buy but you can't afford?
What is the next "big" thing you are going to buy?
Have you ever given money to people who beg in the streets?
Do you have a credit card? How many?
Is it better to pay cash or by credit card?
What things do you pay cash for?
What things do you pay by credit card?
Do you pay your credit card on time?
Have you ever paid late your credit card? What happened?
Are credits cards a good thing?
Do/Did your parents give you an allowance? How much?
Have your parents ever given you a credit card to pay for something? What did you buy?
Should parents give a credit card to teenagers?
Have you ever lent money to someone? Who? What did he/she need the money for?
Have you ever borrowed money from someone? Who? What did you need the money for?
Who wouldn't you lend money to?
Do you play the lottery?
What kind of lottery do you play?
Do you play football pools?
Do you play slot machines?
How much money do you spend for your son to go to the college?
Can I put my money in a Swiss bank?
Why do I always spend too much money?
How much money do you need for happiness?
How often do you go shopping? Are you a price-conscious shopper? Do you "shop around" and go to
many stores to compare prices?
Do you ever buy second-hand things ("used things")?
When you buy something, what things are most important to you? Price? Quality? Fashion trends? status?
or image?
Do you haggle (bargain with the seller) when you shop?
Do you give tips at a restaurant in your country? At a bar? How about to taxi drivers? To hairdressers? At
hotels? At airports to people who carry your bags?
Do you feel comfortable tipping?
Do you have more than one credit card?
What bank do you use? Do you like the service you receive?
Do you think that taxes are too high?
How do you think the government uses all the taxes they collect?
Do you sometimes buy things that you don't need?
Are you saving money to buy something? If so, what are you planning to buy? How much will it cost?
How much longer will you need to save before buying it?
Do you agree with the Beatles that "money can't buy you love"?
Did your parents give you an allowance (pocket money) when you were a child? What did you use it for?
Should children get an allowance from their parents?
Do you ever gamble? Did you win anything?
Have you ever found any money on the street? If so, what did you do with it?
Do you ever give money to charity? How much do you give?
Have you ever given money to a beggar or homeless person?
Have you ever had any money stolen from you? What happened?
What would you love to buy but that you can't afford?
What would you do if you won a large sum of money? What is the first thing you would buy with it?
Would you invest it?
Would you give some money to charity?
Would you help your family/friends?
How long would it take you to spend 1 million dollars?
Can a person be rich without having a lot of money or possessions? How?
How important is money to you? If you had little money, could you be happy?
How much do you spend each month on food? Where do you usually buy food?
 What do you spend most of your money on each month?
How much did it cost you to fly here from your home country?
How much does it cost to get a haircut in your country? Here?
How much does it cost to ride a bus in your country? Here?
How much is a liter of gasoline in your country? Here?
Which costs more, a hamburger here or a hamburger in your country?
If someone gave you a million dollars, what would you do with it?
Some people say that "money makes the world go round." Do you agree?
What is something that you bought recently?
What is something that you want to buy, but think you never will?
When did you open your first bank account?
How old were you when you earned your first salary? What did you spend it on?
Do you think that it is right for someone to beg for money?
Would you give money to a beggar? Why?
When you buy something, what things are most important to you: price, quality, fashion trends, status, or
image?
Do you have more than one bank account? Are you good at saving money?
Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? Did you ever gamble?
How much did it cost you to fly to here from your home country?
If you had to save money, what could you do without? "I would stop spending money on ___".
Why are poorer people in many cases more generous than rich people?
If you don't want help when the store clerk asks if you need help, what should you say to them? (Hint:
You can say, "Thanks, I'm just looking.")
Do you think taxes in your country are too high/low? What are some of the different kinds of taxes your
country has?
If you were the leader of your country, what would you do to change the taxation system? What would
you do to help your country's economy?
Which shopping centers and stores do you like best and which do you like least?
What was the last thing you bought for someone else? Why did you buy it?
What's the most money you have spent on something to wear?
Who takes care of the money in your family's home?
What qualities must a person have to make "big money"?
Do you often buy products that advertised on TV, newspapers or magazines? If so, what was the last item
that you bought?
Do you consider consumerism good or bad?
What differences can you notice between commercials from 10 or 15 years ago and commercials today?
Can you explain these proverbs in other words?
The best things in life are free.
Time is money.
Save your pennies for a rainy day.
Money talks.
You can't take it with you when you go.
Money doesn't grow on trees.

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 n
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?

1) What do you think of designer fashion?

2) What do you think of street fashion?
3) What area of fashion interests you most - clothes, hair, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, etc?
4) Tell me about the most fashionable people you know?
5) Could you date someone who has a terrible sense of fashion?
6) Do you have a favourite fashion designer?
7) What do you think of catwalk fashion? Can you wear the same clothes as the models
8) What do you think of the fashion in other countries?
9) What do you think is the best decade / era for fashion?
10) How would you describe your fashion?

 Are you a fashionable person?

 What is fashion?
 Who is fashionable that you know?
 Do you read fashion magazines?
 Which season is it the easiest to be fashionable?
 Can you be fashionable without spending money?
 Who is the most fashionable in your family?
 Why do you think so?
Where is a fashionable city in your country?
Do you think your friends are fashionable?
Are you dressed fashionably today?
Why do some people ignore fashion?
Who is the most fashionable teacher you know?
How much do you spend getting ready to go to school?
 College
 Work
 Out with friends
 To a party
 Do the times vary much?
When and where did you buy an article of clothing you're wearing right now? Why did you choose
it?
Have you ever gotten an item of clothing tailored?
 When?
 What was it for?
In your country do children have to wear school uniform?
 Do you think it is a good idea or not?
What would you do or feel if you were refused entry to somewhere because of what you are
wearing?
Do you think dress codes should be adhered to if requested on an invitation?
What would you wear to meet royalty or the President of your country?
Would you go to a fancy dress party? Why or why not?
What would you wear to a disco?
What wouldn't you wear to a wedding?
What clothes do you wear that require you to shave your hair?
What is your favorite article of clothing?
What's your favorite color for clothes? Why?
What two things you wouldn't wear together?
What fabrics do you like?
What is the longest you've ever worn your hair?
Do you like to wear a school uniform? Why or why not?
What fabrics do you think are beautiful
What color would you wear on a first date
What clothes would you wear on a first date
What would you wear to a romanic meal
What is a relaxing color
What is the most useful article of clothing in your wardrobe
Who is your favorite designer why
What would you wear to a formal dinner
Do you prefer brand name clothes? Why
What style hat would you wear?
What accessories do men wear/carry?
What style would a trendy young woman wear?
What fashion groups are there in your culture? For example skater style
 What would you never wear to a wedding
What material is uncomfortable in summer?
Describe the most expensive thing you own
What item of clothing is most uncomfortable material in summer?
What items of clothing are uncomfortable?
What is a major fashion faux pas?
Who is the best dressed person you can see now?
What clothes or hairstyles are from the 70s or 80s
What items of clothing do people not wear anymore?
What clothing do only children wear?

 About how much money do you spend on clothes a year?

 Do you like shopping for new clothes?
 Do you often buy new clothes?
 Do you prefer to go shopping or just browse? Why?
 Do you think men should be allowed to wear skirts?
 What piece of clothing do you spend your money on the most? Why?
 Do you read fashion magazines?
 Do you sometimes wear a hat?
 Do you think it is important to wear fashionable clothes?
 Do you think it is important to be in fashion?
Do you wear jewelry?
 If so, what kind of jewelry do you wear?
 How often do you wear jewelry?
 What is your most valuable piece of jewelry?
Do you wear the same color clothes now that you wore ten years ago?
Do you wear the same size clothes this year as you wore last year?
Do you think people feel different when they wear different clothes?
Have you ever made your own clothes?
 If so, what did you make?
 Do you often make your own clothes?
How many pairs of gloves do you have?
What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
What colors do you think look good on you?
What colors do you think look good on your mother?
What did you wear yesterday?
What do you think of body piercing?
 Do you have pierced ears?
 Do you know anyone with a pierced nose?
 Would you ever pierce your tongue?
What do you think of people who dye their hair green?
What do you think of women who wear high heel shoes?
 Do you think high heel shoes are bad for a person's health?
What fashions that you see today do you think will be out of fashion within two years?
What is your shoe size?
What kind of clothes are in fashion now?
What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
What's the most expensive piece of clothing you have ever bought?
What's your favorite color for shoes?
When was the last time you got dressed up?
 Why?
 How often do you get dressed up?
 Do you like to get dressed up?
Where are some good stores to buy clothes in this area?
Where do you usually buy clothes?
Would you like to be a fashion model?

 What would you think of a women who cut off all her hair and went around bald as a fashion
statement?
 What do you think of a man who is bald for fashion's sake?
 What do you think of women who wear short mini-skirts?
 Do you think that the clothes we wear reflect what is inside us ?
 What do you think of people who always and only wear black?
 What do you think of people with tattoos?
 Do you have a tattoo?
 Do you know someone with a tattoo?
What do you think of people with body piercing?
 Do you have pierced ears?
 Would you pierce other parts of your body?
What would you think of a high school student who always wore very conservative clothes?
What type of clothing do you wear when you are angry and you want to express yourself?
What colors do you choose to wear when you are happy?
Would you dress the same as you do in your country if you went to America for a visit?
Do you dress the same when you are depressed as you do when you are very happy?
 In what ways do you dress differently?
If you went out with a group of high school friends, would you dress differently then if you went out
with your grandmother and her friends?
In what ways does your Grandmother dress differently then you?
When you get old do you think you will dress like your grandmother or grandfather?
Would you ever wear dreadlocks?
 What do you think of the people who wear them?
Have you ever worn your hair braided in small braids.
 Did anyone look at you differently because of it?
Would you ever wear contacts to change your eye color?
What is the difference in the people who choose to wear contacts and the people who choose to
were glasses?
What do you think about women who don't wear earrings?
What do you think about men who wear earrings?
 What do you think of women who do?
Is it possible for women to wear too much make-up?
 When is a person wearing to much make-up?
 What do you think of men who wear make-up?
Is it possible to be beautiful without wearing any make-up, earrings or other accessories?
Do fashionable clothes really change the way a person looks?
What differences have you noticed in the fashions here and in your country?
What do you think of men who where tights?
What do you think about secondhand clothes?
 Why do you think people buy secondhand clothes?
 Have you ever been to a store that sells secondhand clothes?
 Have you ever bought secondhand clothes?
 Would you buy secondhand clothes?
When and where did you buy an article of clothing you're wearing right now? Why did you choose
it?
What would you think if the mother of the groom wore black at a wedding?
 What would you think if a bride wore red?
 Should a bride's dress be long or do you think it could be the length of a regular skirt?
What items of clothing do you consider provocative in this country?
 What types of clothing are provocative in your country?
 Do you ever dress this way?
What do you think of men wearing high heels?
What do you think of women wearing high heels?
Why is it acceptable for women to wear men's clothing, but not for men to dress in women's
clothing?
Is there a stigma attached to people who buy no-name (no brand) clothing?
Are some people more fashion conscious than others? What types/groups of people?
Have you ever bought imitation brand clothing?
What traditional clothes do people from your country wear?
 When do you wear them?
 Are they comfortable?
In your country do children have to wear school uniform?
 Did you wear a school uniform?
 Do you think wearing uniforms is a good idea?
 What would you do or feel if you were refused entry to somewhere because of what you are
wearing?
Do you think dress codes should be adhered to if requested on an invitation?
What would you wear to meet royalty or the President of your country?
Would you go to a fancy dress party? Why or why not?
How much do you spend getting ready to go to school? Work? Out with friends? To a party?
 Do the times vary much?
What traditional clothes do people from your country wear?
When do you wear them?
Are they comfortable?
Do you think there's a difference between" fashion " and "style" ?
How often do you go clothes shopping?
 Where do you like to go?
 Who do you like to go with?
 How much money do you usually spend?
 Would you bring your husband/boyfriend with you when you go clothes shopping?
What do you like to shop for the most?
Where is your favorite shopping centre?
What is your favorite brand?
Are you a shopaholic?
Do you go to many shops before buying one particular item or do you just buy the first one you
find?
Do you spend a lot of money on clothes your clothes?
Which type of clothes do you "collect"?
What's your favorite piece of clothing?
 How much did it cost?
 Where did you buy your favorite piece of clothing?
Have you ever felt uncomfortable with what you wear?
Did your parents ever make you wear something you didn't like?
Do you like to go shopping during the sales?

RULE AND REGULATIONS

English (ESL) Conversation Questions: School Rules & Parents’ Rules

Can you tell me 5 rules your school has?

Which rules do you agree with and why?
Which rules don’t you agree with and why?
Who is your strictest teacher?
What do they do?
Who is your least strict teacher?
Are you allowed to sleep in any of your classes?
Do you think teenagers need rules?
What happens if someone is caught smoking in your school?
Are your parents strict?
Are you allowed to stay out late?
What time do you have to go home at night?
What would happen if you broke one of your parents’ serious rules?
Can you play computer games for a long time?
Do your parents have any rules about studying?
Are your friends’ parents strict?
Do your parents let you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

Why do we have rules?

What would happen if we didn't have rules?
Who makes rules? Who should make rules?
What do we call leaders rulers? Where are you the ruler?
Do bosses always to get make the rules?
Do you always follow rules exactly?
Do you cheat on a rule? Did you break a rule today?
Is there a rule you hate? What rule would you like to make?
Guys and Gals! What rules would you make for the opposite sex?
There is an object called a ruler. What do we use if for?
Does everyone in society follow the same rules?
What rules do you follow at work?
What rules do you have for your children?
What rules do students have to follow?
What rules do you have for yourself?
What rules do your parents make for you?
Can we have one set of rules for the whole world?
What is the number one rule of living?

What are the regulations about smoking here in Spain?

Do you think it is a good idea for students to wear uniforms in schools?
Should teenagers be allowed to go to discos and pubs at 14?
What is the minimum age for voting?
Is high school compulsory? What is the school-leaving age in Spain?
What must you do if you want to go to university?
What subjects are compulsory in primary sdchool? And in High school?
What kind of rules do you have at home?
Do your parents make rules for you and your siblings?
What time must you be at home if you go out with friends?
Would you say that manners are social rules?
What kind of manners do you have in Spain ?
is it correct to eat with your mouth open?
is it correct to put your elbows on the table while you are eating?
is it good manners to talk with your mouth full?
is it good manners to brush your hair at the table? etc......
What are basic traffic regulations in Spain?
can you ride a motorbike at 14?
when can you get a driving license?
what must you do at red lights?
what must a driver do at a zebra crossing?
what do you need to drive a car?
What do you need a licence or a permit for?
If I want to work in Spain do I need a work permit?
Why are rules and regulations necessary?

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

2) Why do we have laws?
3) What laws in your country do you hate?
4) Are there any laws in your country that you think should be made tighter?
5) Have you ever broken any laws?
6) Do you think the laws in your country are similar to those in other countries?
7) Do you think there are laws for the rich and different laws for the poor?
8) Where, when and why do you think laws first started?
9) What laws do you tend to ignore?
10) What are gun laws like in your country?

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?
 Are you allowed to eat in the classrooms?
 Are you allowed to smoke in the classrooms?
 Did you belong to any clubs in high school?
 Did you go to a public high school or a private one?
 What are the advantages of each type of school?
 Which type of school did you want to go to?
Did you have to wear a uniform in high school? How about elementary school?
Did you study art in high school?
Did your high school have a band?
 If so, did you play in it?
 What instrument would you like to play in a high school band? Why?
Do most of your teachers take attendance?
Do some of your teachers let class out early?
 What do you think when the teacher lets the class out early?
Do you carry a dictionary to your English classes?
 How about your other classes?
 Do you have an electronic ditionary?
 Can you and do you access your cellphone dictionary to find the meaning of a word?
Do you enjoy studying English?
 Math?
 Science?
 Art?
 Biology?
 Chemistry?
Do you ever skip class?
Do you have any evening classes?
Do you play on any of the school's sports teams?
Do you still keep in touch with your best friend in elementary school?
Have you ever been absent?
Have you ever been late for class?
 If so, why?
 When was the last time?
 Did the teacher get angry?
Have you ever failed a class? (Maybe this is not polite to ask.)
Have you ever slept in class?
How do you usually come here?
How do you get to school?
How long does it take you to get to school?
How many times have you been absent from school this year?
How much homework do you do every day?
Was your high school strict?
Were you on any sports teams in high school?
What classes do you not like? Why don't you like them?
What did you like best about high school?
What do you like best about your school?
What do you like the least about your school?
What do you think about your English class? Your gym class?
What do you think of our cafeteria?
What do you think of this campus?
What do you want to do after you graduate?
What is your best memory from junior high school?
 How about high school?
 What's your worst memory?
What school did you graduate from? What high school? What junior high school?
What time does your first class begin on Tuesday?
What was the name of your junior high school?
What were some of the rules you had to follow at your high school?
 Which rules did you think were unfair?
 Did you ever get caught breaking any school rules?
 Were you allowed to smoke on campus?
 Were you allowed to eat food in the classroom?
What's your favorite subject?
 Why do you like it?
  Who is the teacher?
 How many times a week does the class meet?
Which subjects are you good at? (What are your strong subjects?)
Which subjects are you poor at? (Which subjects are difficult for you?)
Who is your favorite teacher?
 What course does he or she teach?
 Why do you like him or her?
What did you find the most surprising thing about the school system in the United States?
What are the major characteristics you think a teacher should have?
Do you have to wear a uniform to your school? (Did you have to...)Do you like wearing a uniform?
Do you think school uniform is a good idea? Why/Why not?
Are the clothes you wear to school important?
Do you feel pressure to wear expensive, designer clothes to school?
How are the customs in the classrooms in the US different from the customs that you have
experienced in other places?
Who do you like to sit with in your classroom?
Do you like to be taught by a male or female teacher?
Do you like to be taught by a female or male teacher?
Which subjects do you think are not useful or needed anymore?
What does the term coeducational mean?Did you go to coeducational schools?
Are boys and girls treated differently by teachers in coeducational schools that you have
attended? If so, how?
Do you think girls work together much better if there are no boys around? Agree or disagree?
Do you feel pressure to wear expensive, designer clothes to school?
Do you think fashion is important at school?
Is fashion also a kind of uniform?
What did your school uniform look like in junior high school?

HEALTH AND FITNESS

1) How is your health?

2) Do you do anything to stay healthy?
3) Do you worry about the health of those around you?
4) Do you ever worry about your own mental health?
5) Have you ever stopped doing something for your health?
6) Are you always a picture of health when you wake up in the morning?
7) What are the health risks associated with your lifestyle and environment?
8) What health problems do you worry about most?
9) What is the WHO and what does it do?
10) What can you do to improve your health?

1) Do you worry about your health?

2) Are you a health-conscious person?
3) Do you read magazines or newspaper articles about health?
4) What things do you do that might damage your health?
5) How often do you have a health check?
6) Have you ever been in poor or ill health?
7) Where do you go to get information on health?
8) Who are the healthiest people in the world and why are they so healthy?
9) What are the best and worst jobs for your health?
10) How is the health of your computer / the economy / the planet?

1) How is the health care in your country?

2) Is the health care in your country getting better or worse?
3) Is health care in your country free for some people?
4) Which country do you think has the best health care?
5) Which is better, private or public health care?
6) Are health care workers well paid in your country?
7) Do you ever think about health care for when you are old?
8) What is health care like for old and poor people in your country?
9) What happens to people in poor countries who cannot afford health care?
10) Is your country’s health care system in need of reform?

1) Is health care in your country fair to everyone?

2) What are the most important health care issues in your country?
3) What are the most important health care issues in the world?
4) What do you think the health care issues of the future will be?
5) What do you know about the history of health care in your country?
6) What are the health care problems in your country?
7) What do you know about the cost of health care in your country?
8) Do you think universal health care will ever come to the world?
9) How big an issue is health care in your national elections?
10) What questions would you like to ask health care workers?

 Are you a member of a health spa or gym?

 Are you afraid of needles?
 Are you healthy?
 Are your parents healthy?
 Do think that you need to lose weight?
 Do you always eat healthy food?
 Do you bruise easily?
 Do you catch a cold more than once a year?
 Do you consider alcohol a drug?
 Do you drink a lot?
 Do you eat a lot of vegetables?
 Do you eat lots of fruit?
 Do you eat vegetables every day?
 Do you ever get headaches?
 Do you know anyone who suffers from migraine headaches?
Do you ever read magazines or news articles about health? If yes, what subject(s) do you find the
most interesting?
Do you exercise?
 What kind of exercise do you do?
 How often do you exercise?
Do you go for regular medical check-ups?
Do you go to the dentist's twice a year?
Do you have a lot of stress?
Do you normally go one doctor in particular or any available doctor?
Do you have any allergies?
Do you have any scars?
 Where are they?
 Would you like to show them to the class?
Do you know anyone who suffers from backaches?
Do you know anyone with false teeth?
Do you often eat fast food?
Do you smoke?
 If so, do you smoke more than two cigarettes a day?
 Do you think smoking is not bad for your health?
Do you take medicine when you are sick?
Do you take vitamins or mineral supplements?
Do you take vitamins?
Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home?
Do you think nuclear power is safe?
Do you think pets are good for a person's health
Do you think that the tobacco companies should be held reasonably responsible for a person's
addiction to nicotine?
Do you think you are overweight?
Do you think you will live until a ripe old age? Why or why not?
Do you think you would be a good surgeon? Why or why not?
Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
Do you usually get enough sleep?
Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy?
 Have you ever been hospitalized?
 (Have you ever been in the hospital?)
Have you ever been to an acupuncturist? What do you think of acupuncture?
Have you ever broken a bone?
Have you ever burned yourself with hot water?
Have you ever donated blood?
Have you ever gotten a black eye?
Have you ever had braces on your teeth?
Have you ever had stitches?
Have you ever sprained your ankle?
Have you ever taken a sleeping pill to get to sleep?
How can you reduce stress in your life?
How have you been feeling lately?
How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
How many hours of sleep do you usually get?
How often do you eat junk food?
 What kinds of junk food do you eat?
How often do you exercise?
How often do you get a cold?
 (How often do you catch a cold?)
How often do you get sick in one year?
How often do you go to the doctor's?
How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?
How would you recommend treating a cold?
If a company sells the public a product they know to be harmful or addictive, should they be held
responsible for the use of that product even if the government approves it?
If you smoke, how old were you when you started smoking?
If you were President of Korea, what would you do to improve Koreans' health?
Should smoking in restaurants be banned?
What are some things people can do to keep healthy?
What are some things that cause stress?
What are some ways to deal with stress?
What are some ways you know that you can personally keep yourself healthy?
What disease frightens you the most? Why?
What do you do to stay healthy?
 (What are some things you do to keep healthy?)
What do you do, if you can't get to sleep?
What do you think about abortion? Why do some people support it and others are against it?
What do you think about getting old?
What do you think is the most serious health problem in Korea?
What do you think of cosmetic surgery? Do you know anyone who has had cosmetic surgery?
Would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?
What drinks to you think are healthy? What drinks do you think are unhealthy?
What foods to you think are healthy? What foods do you think are unhealthy?
What is the best way to find a doctor, if you're new in the area?
What is the best way to stop smoking?
What is the most horrible accident you have ever had?
What is the average age of people in your country
What kind of pollution is the most risky?
What time did you go to bed when you were a child?
What's the best way to stop smoking?
What's the highest temperature you've ever had?
What's your blood type?
When did you last take a bath?
When was the last time you went to a dentist?
When was the last time you went to a doctor?
When was the last time you went to a hospital?
When was the last time you were sick?
When you were in high school, how many days of school did you miss each year because of
sickness?
Who do you think is responsible for the care of your health--you yourself, your parents, or your
doctor and medical people?
Who is the healthiest person in your family? Who is the least healthy?
Why do people smoke?
Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
What is the health service like in your country?
What do you think of the health service in this country?
 How can the health service be improved?
Have you been to hospital since you arrived here?
What do you know about the SARS virus?
 What do you know about AIDS?
 What do you know about the common cold?
What is alternative medicine?
 Have you ever practiced alternative medicine?
What treatments or remedies do you follow when you have a cold?
which kind of medicine do you prefer to take when you are sick?
How often do you clean your bathroom?
Do you clean as often as your parent cleaned when you were a child?
Which parent did/does most of the cleaning in your household?
How old were you when you had start helping with the dishes/laundry/vacuuming/dusting/?
Were the chores divided equally between men and women?
Do people in your country usually wear deodorant?
How often do people in your country shower?
Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner cleaned too much or too little?
Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner had bad hygiene?
Do you enjoy cleaning? Which kind of cleaning do you enjoy most?
How often do you brush your teeth?
Have you ever swept something under the rug?
Do you use strong cleaners like bleach and ammonia?
Have you ever bought a miracle cleaner from a TV infomercial?
What's the best way to get stains out?
What alternative health therapies do you know about?
Have you ever tried any alternative health therapies?
Do you think traditional medicine is a good alternative to modern medicine?
In what circumstances should traditional or alternative medicine be used?
Do you think traditional therapies are compatible with modern medicine? Why or why not?
What are the advantages or disadvantages of modern medicine?
What are the advantages or disadvantages of traditional medicine?
What do you complain of?
What is wrong with you?
Have you any appetite?
How long have you been ill?
Have you any pain the back of your head?
How long has it been since you began to feel bad?
Have you a bitter taste in your mouth?
Do you feel nauseous?
Do you sleep well?
Is it hard to swallow?
Do we need to eat as much junk food as we do?
Have you ever realized during a dream that it is a dream; and have you then been able to change
events in that dream?
Do you think the government is doing all it can to prevent disease?
What do you think of wellness institutions and their programs?
How do you deal with stress?

 Do you think you have a healthy life style?

 Is it possible to have a healthy life style in modern world?
 Why do many people try to have a healthy life style?
 What is the main purpose of it?
What is healthy food?
 Do you pay much attention to what you eat?
 Do you think it is more important for you to eat healthy or tasty food?
Do you try to eat your breakfast, lunch and dinner at a certain time every day?
Do you have a snack every time you are hungry or do you wait for the lunch or dinner?
What is better for health?
Do you agree with the saying: "Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your
dinner to your enemy"? Why do people say so?
What is healthy about not eating after 6 p.m?
Do you try to follow this rule?
 Are you a success?
Is obesity a great problem in where you live?
 Why are there so many obese people in the US?
 What are the most efficient ways to loose weight?
Do you think diets are useful or not?
 Have you ever tried to go on a diet?
 What kind of diet was it?
 Did it work?
Is physical activity (jogging, going to a gym, swimming pool) an important part of a healthy life
style?
Can you tell a physically inactive person from someone who takes care of his\her physical
condition?
What are the main differences?
What is your attitude to smoking?
What is the influence of smoking on health?
 What about passive smoking?
Is it hard to give up smoking?
Do you know someone who gave up smoking?
 What is the best way to give up smoking?
What is a healthy dose of alcohol?
How mush beer, wine or vodka you can drink daily without any damage to your health?
 What is the damage of alcohol abuse to health?
How many hours of sleep do you need daily?
If you don't sleep enough, how do you feel and look?
Do you try to go to bed and get up at certain hours every day?
What is good about it?
Do you often find yourself under stress?
What are the areas of your life where stress situations take place more often?
 Work?
 Family?
 Relationships with friends?
 While commuting to work?
How do you usually cope with stress?
Is there any connection between the person's style of life and the duration of his life?
What do you prefer, to eat everything you like, drink a lot, smoke, have no physical exercise and
die at the age of 60 or lead a healthy life and live until 100?

LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE

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

2) What do you know about learning?
3) When do you think we first start learning?
4) What kinds or methods of learning do you like best?
5) Why are some people better at learning than others?
6) Do you have any learning difficulties?
7) What is the best learning experience you’ve had?
8) How can you make sure learning is always fun?
9) Do you think you’ll always be involved in lifelong learning?
10) Do you think learning by doing or learning by listening is best?

1) Are you good at learning new things?

2) When you learn new things, is there always a steep learning curve?
3) What’s the difference between teaching and learning? Does teaching always lead to learning?
4) Does learning always make you motivated to do things?
5) What tips on learning would you give to other people?
6) Do you think we ever stop learning? Are we ever too old to start learning something new?
7) What’s the unhappiest you’ve been while learning something?
8) What good and bad experiences have you had learning English?
9) Confucius said: ‘Thought without learning is perilous.’ Do you agree?
10) Is learning something new ever a total waste of time?

1) What do you think about language?

2) How do you think language first started?
3) How much of a barrier do you think language is?
4) How is our language different from animal language?
5) Do you think that one day there will be just one language in the world? Would the world be a better place?
6) Have you ever had a language exchange?
7) Does language make the personalities of each nationality different?
8) Do you think body language is universal?
9) Would you like to learn sign language?
10) What languages do you like or dislike the sound of?

1) What are your feelings towards your own language?

2) How would you compare your own language with English?
3) How do you think the world would be different if there was only one language?
4) What are the good and bad things about your language?
5) Is there a lot of bad / foul language in your mother tongue?
6) Why do you think there are so many different languages in the world?
7) What do you think of languages that are dying? Do you think they should be preserved?
8) What three languages would you really like to speak, and why?
9) What is the most confusing language in the world?
10) Do you think English should become an official language in your country?

 What is your mother tongue?

 How many languages do you speak?
 How did you learn your second language?
 What's the best way to learn a foreign language?
 What methods do you use to remember vocabulary better?
 Is it necessary to write words down?
 Is it possible to understand and write well but not be able to have a conversation?
 What is value of learning languages?
 Why do some people have more difficulty than others when learning a language?
 To what extent do you agree that it's better to learn language as a child? Why or why
not?
 To speak its language well, how important is it to know something about the culture
of a country?
 Are there some words that are similar in different languages?
 As a beginner, what are the first things that you need to be able to say?
 What are the problem areas that an intermediate learner may have?
 What are the problem areas that an advanced learner may have?
 When you travel to a foreign country, is it always easy to use your foreign language?
 How can the Internet be a helpful tool when learning a foreign language?
 Some people say that if you can teach something about your foreign language, then it
you to understand it better. Do you agree?
 Have you ever tried learning a new language from a textbook with audio tapes?
 Is it good to sit an exam that shows your level in English?
 What do you know about IELTS and TOEFL?
 Can you learn a language by watching television?
 Do you use free language-learning exercises on the Internet?
 Have you ever paid for 1:1 lessons?
 Would you like to be a translator? Why? / Why not?
 Is the classroom the best place to learn?
 Can a good teacher influence how well you enjoy learning a language?
 Is it possible to teach yourself a language?
 What careers are possible if you speak a foreign language?
 What languages would you like to learn in future?
 What different techniques do you have for learning vocabulary?
 Do you need to write in a foreign language?
 Do you need to use your foreign languages at work?
 Do you think that knowing a foreign language might encourage you to live abroad in
future?
 Is it a good idea to learn a language from a non-native speaker of that language?
 Are there any disadvantages?
 Do you know how large your vocabulary is in your foreign language?
 Could you teach your mother tongue to someone else?
 What personal qualities do you need to be an effective language learner?
 What tools can help you learn a foreign language?
 Have you ever made a telephone call in a foreign language?
 If yes, how did it go?
 Do you ever read websites in a foreign language?
 Is it possible to learn a language without studying grammar?
 Is knowing grammar more important than knowing vocabulary?
 Have teaching methods for language learning changed over the last 50 years?
 To speak a language well, why is it important to have an understanding of idioms?
 How did your best language teacher help you?
 Have you had any particularly poor language learning experiences?
 How old should a child be when a school introduces the first foreign language?
 Are teenage language exchange programs useful? Why? / Why not?
 Some people say "I'm no good at learning languages".
 Is this just a question of attitude (because of a previous bad experience) or were
some people born lacking the ability to learn a new language?