ISE I Vocabulary classes

Class 1: Describing people

Destination page 49, exercise A
New English File page 150
Questions:
1. Do you think fashion styles and personality are linked? Why?
2. Do you think birth order makes difference in personality? If so,
can you tell me some examples?
3. What personality trait would you like to have?
4. Do you think that personality is related to blood type?
5. Do you want to have friends with similar personalities or very
different personalities? Why?
6. What kinds of people do you get along with?
7. Do you think we are born with our personalities or we develop
them? Explain.
8. What is the most attractive personality trait a person can have?
9. Do you believe personality tests on the internet?
10. How has your personality changed over the years?
Class 2: Fashion
New English File page 151
Questions:
1. Do you think you need a lot of money to be fashionable? Why?
2. Do you think the way we dress tells what kind of person we
are?
3. What is your opinion on school uniforms?
4. What do you think of the fashion industry?
5. Do you think fashion is only for physically attractive people?
Why?
6. What do you think of designer fashion?
7. Should fashion be considered an important topic in our lives?
Why?
8. How does the fashion affect people’s lives?
9. Do you think that the fashion of today is better than the one of
the past? Why?
10. Do you think there is too much pressure on young people
to be fashionable? Why is that?
Class 3: Holidays and travel
New English File page 152
Destination page 37
Destination page 38, exercise C
Destination page 39, exercise G
Questions:
1. Do you prefer visiting beaches or mountains? Why?
2. Is traveling making people more open-minded and
understanding of differences?
3. Is it true that we tend to overpack when traveling somewhere?
If so, why do we do it?
4. When you travel to a certain place, what is your primary goal to
do there?
5. DO you like buying souvenirs from the place you visit? Why?
6. Do you prefer guided tours or organizing your own tour? Why?
7. What are some of the benefits of traveling alone?
8. Is it good to try and learn some of the local language before
going to a place or should English be universally spoken? Why?
9. Do you think you need to be language savvy to be able to
travel? Why?
10. What are some downsides of vacationing with your
parents?
Class 4: Phrasal verbs
Basic phrasal verbs and exercises for B1 (lots of exercises online)
Class 5: Work, money and shopping
Destination page 113
Destination page 61
New English File page 155
Questions:
1. How important is it to get along with your coworkers?
2. Do you think we should have a 9 to 5 working hours or do you
prefer working in shifts?
3. Do you prefer a job with better salary but with more
responsibility or a lower salary job with less responsibilities?
Why?
4. Should we study about money in school? Why?
5. Is having a lot of money stressful and brings many problems?
Why?
6. What would life be like without money?
7. Can money really buy happiness? Why?
8. What is your opinion on buying clothes and accessories on a
street market?
9. What is your opinion on shopping online?
10. Do you prefer going shopping alone or with other people?
Why?
Class 6: Leisure activities and hobbies
Destination page 13
Complete Preliminary page 31
Questions:
1. What would you do if you had more free time?
2. What is the most worthwhile thing a person can do with their
free time?
3. Do you think people have more or less time than in the past?
Why is that?
4. What hobby would you like to take up?
5. Do you think you spend your free time effectively? What would
you do?
6. Do you think that happiness is related to having more or less
free time? Why?
7. Do you have any hobby that you used to do in the past? Why
did you quit it?
8. Do you think that people today are lazy and just want more
free time? Why?
9. Do you think internet makes us waste our free time?
10. Do you think that reducing our working week from 5 to 4
weeks will improve our work-life balance? Why?
Class 7: Sports and movement
New English File page 78, exercises 1, 3
New English File page 162
Questions:
1. Should sport be an important part of education? Why?
2. Is there too much money in sport? How does it contribute?
3. Do you think that sports can be stressful? Why?
4. Sometimes the cities invest money in sports. Do you think it is
fair to do that? Why?
5. Is it good that professional sports are so commercial
nowadays? Why?
6. Do you think that playing sports helps you work better in a
team at work? Why? How?
7. Do you prefer team sports or individual sports? What are their
advantages?
8. Do you think that sports stars have the best life? Why?
9. Do you prefer to watch sports or play sports? Why?
10. Why are sports so popular?
Class 8: Weather
Destination page 149, exercise A
Complete preliminary page 62, exercise 1
Complete preliminary page 78, exercise 4
Questions:
1. Name some disadvantages of hot climate.
2. Do weather conditions affect any of your hobbies? Which?
3. Do you believe that weather forecast is accurate? Why?
4. Do you think that the humans influence the weather? How?
5. Do you think the weather affects how we feel?
6. What do you prefer: hot or cold climate? Why?
7. Do you think that in the future we will be able to control the
weather? How and Why?
8. Could you live in a place where it’s hot all year? Why?
9. What would be the best season to get married?
10. Do you think that in recent years we have lost our four
distinctive seasons? Why is that?
Class 9: Health and fitness
Complete Preliminary page 81, exercise 2
Destination page 125, exercise B, C
Destination page 126, exercise D, G
Questions:
1. What are the best ways to avoid getting sick?
2. Life expectancy is getting longer. How long do you think people
will be able to live in the future?
3. Do you really believe that laughter prolongs life? Why?
4. Which meal of the day is the most important? Why?
5. Do you think that exercising can make you happier? Why?
6. What can we do to improve our health?
7. How often should we do a health check-up?
8. Is doing exercise addictive? Why?
9. What time of the day is the best for exercising? Why?
10. If you were to do exercises, would you prefer to do them
alone or with a friend? Why?
Class 10: Crime
Destination page 101
Destination page 102, exercise C
Questions:
1. How can stores stop shoplifters?
2. Do you think there is a lot of crime in Spain? What is the reason
behind it?
3. How can we reduce crime?
4. What is the purpose of prison?
5. What do you think of the death penalty as a punishment?
6. Do you think we need more police on the street? Why?
7. If everybody has a gun, there will be less crime. Do you agree?
Why?
8. Do you think criminals can change? Why?
9. What is the best way for police to keep neighborhoods safe?
10. Should police be less or more strict? Why?