CONVERSATION QUESTIONS

Did you have a happy childhood?

What did you like to do when you were a child?
What did you look like?
Where were you born?
When you were born?
How old were you when you learned to ride a bicycle?
Did you have your own bicycle?
Do you remember who taught you to ride a bicycle?
Did you have a bad cycle accident?
What was your favorite subject? Why?
What was your favorite game?
Who did you play it with?
When did you play it?
Do you remember anything about your personality when a child?
Were you good at making friends?
How did you make a friend?
Did you have a lot of friends?
What did you enjoy doing with your friends?
What were some embarrassing situations when you were a child?
Were you a good student?
When you were a child, what did you want to grow up to be? Did you want to be a mother or father?
A firefighter? A doctor? A scientist?
Can you remember specific things from your childhood clearly?
 How old were you at the time of your first memories?
What kind of food did you like?
 Did you used to eat anything or were you a picky eater?
 What foods did you like eating?
 What foods didn't you like to eat?
 Did you have any foods you hated?
What was your favorite toy when you were a child?
 Who gave you this toy?
 Did it have a name?
 Do you still have it?
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Do you have enough free time?

Do you have free time on Sundays?
Do you have much free time during the day?
Do you have much free time in the evenings?
Do you have much free time in the mornings?
Do you like to watch movies?
What are you doing this weekend?
What did you do last summer vacation?
What did you do last weekend?
What do you do in your free time?
What hobbies do you have?
When do you have free time? (How do you spend your free time?)
Where do you spend your free time?
Who do you spend your free time with?
How do you like to spend your free time?
 going shopping? going to the cinema? chatting? playing computer games going to the disco? playing
sports? reading? relaxing?
If you had more free time, what would you do with it?
Tell me about some good places to hang out.
 Why are they good?
Where do young people in this country usually spend their free time?
Would you like to have more free time?
 What would you like to give up so that you could have more free time?
If it were suddenly announced that tomorrow was a national holiday, what would you do?
What do you do on Saturdays?
Do people's leisure time activities change as they get older? How?
Who do you like to spend your leisure time with?
 What do you usually do?
Do you like gossiping in your free time?
 Who do you gossip with?
 Who do you gossip about?
What do you really hate having to do in your free time?
What new activity would you like to try doing in your free time?
Do you ever feel that you waste your free time? How?
 What can you do about this?
Do you find that your works or studies takes up your free time?
Are there any activities that you used to do but don't do anymore?
 Why did you stop?
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How are birthdays celebrated in your country?

What are some birthday traditions you know of from other countries?
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
What is your best birthday memory?
What is your worst birthday memory?
Have you ever had a surprise birthday party for yourself or someone else?
What is the best birthday gift you have ever received?
What is the worst birthday gift you have ever received?
What are some things you like to do for your birthday?
When is your birthday?
Did your parents give you birthday parties when you were a child?
In your opinion, what is the best time of year to have a birthday?
How do people you know celebrate turning 40?
Do you think getting older (40, 50, 60) is depressing for people, or a happy occasion?
What do you think is the best age?
Do you like going to work on your birthday?
Did you like going to school on your birthday when you were a child?
Have you ever had a surprise party?
Whose birthday do you always remember?
Among your close friends and relatives, whose birthday is coming up next?
About how many birthday gifts or cards do you send or give to people each year?
Have you ever forgotten someone's birthday that you should have remembered?
Do you know any famous people's birthdays? (Are any the same as yours?)
Do you know of any big events that happened the year you were born?
What is the best birthday gift you have ever received?
What is the best birthday gift you have ever given?
What is the worst birthday gift you have ever received?
What is the worst birthday gift you have ever given?
If you are in your teen years, tell how old you will be in twenty years time and say whether you look
forward to that age or does it scare you.
If you could celebrate your own birthday the way you wanted, what would you do?
 Where would you like to go?
 How many people would you invite?
Would you rather celebrate your birthday with just your relatives or just your friends?
Do you remember what gifts you received on your last birthday?
What would you like to get most for your birthday this year?
Is the cost of a present important to you?
What kind of gift do you usually prepare for your friend's birthday?
 Your mother's?
 What about for other family members?
Which is a better present, a well-chosen gift or money?
Are birthdays really important?
How do you celebrate your birthday?
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Why do you like living in the city?

What are some of the advantages of living in a city?
What are some of the disadvantages of living in a city?
Do you know the neighbors who live near you?
What's your favorite city? Why?
What city do you live in?
 What part of this city do you like the best?
 Can you describe the city?
What aspects of life in the city would you complain about?
What do you think should be done to improve living condition in cities?
What are some differences between living in the city and living in the country?
What size city is best to live in? Why?
What are the names of two big cities in Europe?
What are the names of two small cities in Europe?
If you had grown up in a different city, how would your life have been different?
Did you grow up in the city or in the country?
Do you walk alone at night in your home city?
Would you want to be the mayor of your city?
 What would you do?
 How would you change things?
 Do you think you could make big changes in your city?
Which cities do you feel safe in?
Which cities have the best bus services/taxis/metro?
How can we make our cities safer places to live?
What would you do if you were in charge of a city? How would you improve it?
Do all the cities in your country or the U.S. have the same educational system?
Can you suggest some good tourist sites to visit in your city?
Does your city have a professional or semi-professional sports team?
 How many teams are there?
 What are sports?
 What are the team's names?
 Do you go and watch some of these sports? How much does it cost?
 Do some of these teams win championships?
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What country would you like to visit?

What country would you like to live in and why?
What country would you like to work in?
What country has the most interesting customs?
What country would be fun to work in?
Would you like to work in a tropical country?
Would you like to work in Antarctica?
Would you like to live where there is always snow?
Would you like to live where there is desert and hot weather?
What countries in Europe have you visited?
What countries would you not like to visit and why?
What country in Asia would be a great place to live?
Is your country the best place for you to live?
What is special about your country?
What festivals and feasts does your country have?
Would you like to go and live in another country?
What countries would you like to travel to for a vacation?
How would you travel to see your country?
How would you travel the world?
What countries would you travel to if you were to do a world trip?
Which country gets the most snowfall and why?
What country/ countries neighbor (neighbor) your country?
What are some similarities and differences between your neighboring country and your country?
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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?
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?
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Are friends more important than family? What do you think?

Are you pressured by your family to act in a certain way?
Are you the oldest among your brothers and sisters?
Are your parents strict?
Did you ever meet any of your great grandparents?
Do you have any brothers or sisters? If so, how old are they?
Do you have to clean your own room?
Does your mother make you clean your room?
Do you like your family? Why or why not?
Do you live with any of your grandparents?
Do you live with your parents?
Do you look more like your mother or your father?
Do you often argue with your mother or father? What about?
Do you often visit your grandparents?
Do you think people should adopt children from other countries?
Do you usually have any influence on family matters?
Do your parents let you stay out late?
What time do you have to be home?
How did you get your name?
For whom are you named?
Who are you named after?
How big is your family?
How many (first) cousins do you have?
How many aunts and uncles do you have?
How many brothers and sisters do you have?
How many children do you have?
How many members do you have in your family altogether?
How many people are in your (immediate) family?
How many people are in your family?
How often do you see your cousins?
How often do you see your grandparents?
How often is your entire family together?
How old are your brothers and sisters?
How old are your children?
How old are your grandparents?
How old are your parents?
What are some of your fondest memories of childhood?
What are your parents like?
What do you and your family like to do together?
What do your parents do in their free time?
What are the occupations of your family members?
What does your father do? What's his job?
What does your mother do?
What is the best memory you have of your family doing something together?
CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
What are three wishes you have for your life?
 If you could choose only one of these to come true, which would it be and why?
 What would be some positive and negative consequences (results) if each of these wishes came
true?
What other wishes do you have for yourself?
 What wishes do your parents have for you?
 Are they the same?
What wishes do you have for your country?
 For your family members?
 For your classmates?
 For your roommates?
How have your wishes changed since you were young?
When you were young, how did you answer this questions: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Have you ever had a wish come true?
 Was it what you always wanted?
 Why do we wish for things we don't have?
If you have a wish but your family doesn't agree with you, what should you do?
Do you have any strange wishes?
Why are wishes very important to people?
Do you really want all your wishes to come true?
What would be one thing you would wish for your spouse?
What would be one thing you hope your spouse remembers most about you if you were to die before
him/her?
What wishes do you have for your country?
 For your family members?
 For your classmates?
 For your roommates?
What in your life would you not change?
What are you thankful for?
 Who are you thankful for?

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
Do you like to eat fruits? What's your favorite one?
How often do you eat fresh fruit?
In your opinion, what's the most delicious fruit?
Do you like vegetables? What's your favorite one?
Do you think that fruits and vegetables are good for your health? Why or why not?
Are you or would you like to be vegetarian?
How often do you drink fruit juice? What kind of fruit juice do you drink?
Do you like to eat fruit salad?
What kind of vegetables and fruits do you buy at the supermarket?
What the means the saying: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away?"
What are the most common fruits and vegetables in your country?
Can fruits and vegetables help you cure diseases?
Can fruits and vegetables help you lose weight if you are on a diet?
Do you cultivate fruits or vegetables in your garden?
Do you like to use things that have a fruit smell? ( E.g: Perfumes, erasers, etc)
What's the most delicious fruit in your opinion?
Do you think that fruits and vegetables are good for your health? Why (not)?
Are you / would you like to be vegetarian?
How many vegetables and fruits do you buy at the supermarket?
What is the meaning of the saying: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away?"
What are the most common fruits and vegetables in your country?
Do you like to use things that have fruit smell? ( E.g: Perfumes, erasers, etc)

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
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?

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
Do you think English is a difficult language to learn?
Have you ever spoken English on the phone?
How often do you practice your English?
What is your favorite way to practice your English? (UK spelling = favorite)
What is the most difficult thing about English?
Why are you learning English?
What do you think you will be able to do in English in the future?
Do you think that English will completely dominate all the other languages in the future? If yes, how
will it affect the world?
How much time do you spend looking out of the window during class?
If you are really absorbed in lessons, do the classroom arrangement matter?
How do you use the Internet to learn English?
What search engine do you use most often when you study? Why?
Do you think English is a difficult language to learn?
What is your favorite way to practice your English?
What do you think you will be able to do in English in the future?
How can English language help you advance in your career?
Which country is the best place to study English?
Are you willing to get a tutor just to further learn English?
What is the best way to learn vocabulary at the upper intermediate level EFL?
How can I listen to conversations and improve my pronunciation?
What do you like about your classroom?
Who cooks Thanksgiving dinner in your home?
When do you eat?
Why do you think people celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
What are some characteristics of your personality?
What makes you happy?
What are some things that make you angry?
Are you happy with your personality?
Would you like to be different?
Are you a determined person? Are you a stubborn person?
Are you shy? In which occasions are you shy?
Do you consider yourself selfish? Why?
Is your personality suited to your job?
In what way has your personality changed? Why has it changed??
Are you more introverted (focused on your inner world) or more extraverted (focused on other people
and the outer world)?
Do you think you can change a major characteristic of your personality if you try?
Do you think you have an unusual personality? Why?
If you could change any aspect of your personality, what would it be?
What sort of things would you do to amuse yourself during a car journey?
What personality traits do you consider important in a good friend / a boss / a partner?
Do you consider yourself to be even-tempered?
What is one thing that many people don't know about you?
What expressions include colors when discussing illness? (ex., white or pale, pink eye, black and blue for
bruises, yellow fever)
What expressions include colors and feelings? (ex. I feel blue, green with envy, red with rage, turning red,
black circles under the eyes, you are turning blue)
What do the colors in your home country's flag represent?
Do you think birth order makes a difference in your personality?