Simple Present Conversation Questions

1. How often do you do exercise?

2. Do you enjoy cooking?
3. How often do you cook?
4. What about your mother? Does she like cooking?
5. Do you go out with your friends?
6. How often do you go out with your friends?
7. Where do you go?
8. Do you use a computer a lot?
9. Do you like travelling?
10. Does your best friend like travelling?
11. How many languages does your best friend speak?
12. Does your father like watching soccer?
13. Does he like watching Formula 1 races?
14. Do you have a pet? / Do you want to have a pet?
15. Does your best friend have a pet?
16. Do you like spicy food?
17. What kind of food do you like?

Simple Past Conversation Questions

1. Tell me about your last vacation. Where did you go? What did you do?
2. What did you do for you last birthday?
3. Who was your first crush?
4. What was the last really difficult thing you had to do?
5. Who did you meet last week? What did you do together?
6. When was the last time you were really excited about something?
7. Tell me about where you lived as a child.
8. When was the last time you went to an amusement park? How was it?
9. What was the best meal you ate recently?
10. When was the last time you went to a movie theater? What did you see?
11. Talk about the last time you were really scared.
12. Tell me about your best or worst school teacher/boss.
13. What did your bedroom look like when you were a teenager?
14. What bands were popular when you were young?
15. When was the last time you were shocked?
16. What chores did you have to do when you were young?
17. Where did you hang out with your friends last? What did you do?

Simple Future Conversation Questions

1. What kind of neighborhood will you live in when you get older?
2. Will humans ever meet aliens? What will the meeting be like?
3. What kind of sci-fi movie will the future be like? (The Matrix, Terminator, i-Robot, Minority
Report etc.)
4. Do you think houses will be more environmentally friendly in the future?
 5. Will science find a solution to the environmental problems we have? What kind of solution will it
be?
6. What are you going to do this weekend?
7. Will computers ever take over the world?
8. Will we be able to add machines to our body to improve it in the future?
9. When will humans live on another planet?
10. What will you do after this class?
11. What other things will change about life in the future?
12. Where will you be and what will you be doing in 10 years?
13. What is something that will happen in the future that you are looking forward to?
14. What will you do before you get married?
15. What about after your children grow up?
16. How will electronics be different in the future?
17. How will medicine and health care change in the future?

Mixed Tenses Conversation Questions

 Who were some of your favorite movie stars in the past? What did they do?
 Why were they your favorite?
 Do you like shopping?
 How often do you go shopping?
 Does your mother go shopping with you?
 Do you like shopping for food?
 Where will we get our energy when we run out of oil?
 What will happen if we keep polluting the environment?
 Will the climate keep changing or go back to normal?
 What do you usually do before you go to bed?
 Do you read a book before you go to sleep?
 What was your best memory from when you were a child?
 What is your earliest memory?
 What are some things you do every day?
 Do you have any bad habits?
 What is something you should do every day but don’t?
 Do you want to get married? When will you get married?
 Will you have children?
 What will life be like when you are 40?
 Which was better for you: elementary school, junior high school or high school? Why?
 Did you study hard in high school?
 In 50 years there are projected to be 10 billion people on the earth. How will that affect the
future?
 China’s and India’s populations and economies are growing quickly, what do you think China and
India will be like in 50 years?
 What kinds of food did you eat when you were a child? Do you eat the same things now?
 What was your country like when you were a child? What about your neighborhood?
 What do you do in your free time?
 What are some activities you like to do?
 What are some good habits that you have?
 Who was your childhood best friend?
 What games did you like to play when you were a child?
 What were some of your favorite toys?
 What is something you eat almost every day?
 What do you do at your job?
 What is your morning routine? How about your evening routine?
 How do you think you will change in the future?
 How will you change the world?
 How will fashion change in the future?
 How will you use English in the future?
 Do you think the past was better than the present? Why or why not?
 What were some of the benefits of living in the past?
 Is there anything you do only once a year?
 What is something you do about once every month?
 What is the strangest fact you know?
 What do you do in your free time?