General Topics for Discussion or Speeches

 English is easy to learn.

 Money is more important than love.
 Students should be required to study English in elementary
school.
 Violence is sometimes necessary.
 Personality is more important than beauty.
 People who live in apartments shouldn't own pets.
 No job is perfect.
 Everyone is good at something.
 We are not alone in the universe.
 Life was better 20 years ago.
 The most important thing about a job is the salary.
 You can know a lot about a person from the clothes he or
she wears.
 Teachers should be able to use physical punishment.
 Global warming isn't real.
 There are actions we can take to stop global warming.
 There are no such things as ghosts.
 Everyone has the right to have an opinion even if the
opinion is false according to well-known facts.
 People get offended too easily nowadays.
 What goes around comes around. (If you do good, good will
come to you / If you do bad, bad things will happen to you.)
 Parents should never hit their children.
 Table manners and etiquette have become less important
in the 21st century.

Crime Discussion/Speech Topics

 Smoking marijuana should be legal.

 Police officers should not carry guns.
 Criminals who take a life (kill someone) should spend their
entire life behind bars.
 Graffiti is art, not crime.
 Prisoners are sent to jail to be reeducated.

Gender Issues Discussion/Speech Topics

 Men should open doors for women.

 Men and women can never really be equal.
 Women are better at teaching children than men are.
 Men are smarter than women.
  Companies should have quotas on their executive boards
to make them 50% female.
 At a bar, men should initiate conversation with women
(and not the other way around).

Health Discussion/Speech Topics

 People who get plastic surgery usually look worse later in

life.
 Nowadays, people are too dependent on medicine.
 This country's healthcare system needs a lot of
improvement.
 If you feel unwell, you should go to the doctor.
 Western medicine is more effective than Eastern medicine.
 People who use acupuncture are crazy.
 People should be more concerned about their health.
 Beauty products, vitamins, and mineral supplements
generally provide the benefits they promise.
 Home remedies can be just as useful as medicine from a
pharmacy.
 Obesity is a disease.
 Humans shouldn't drink the milk of other animals such as
cows.
 There should be an extra tax on unhealthy food.
 Worrying about cancer can give you cancer.

Politics Discussion/Speech Topics

 Life would be better without government or rules.

 People should be able to criticize the government.
 The government has the right to monitor phone calls and
e-mails.
 The government should increase environmental
regulations on businesses.
 Women should be allowed to wear a niqab (or face veil) to
civic ceremonies.
 We should tax the rich to help the poor.
 New Canadians who become terrorists should lose their
citizenship and be sent back to where they came from.
 The government should be stricter on immigration.
 Canada should not participate in the war against ISIS.
 Voting for a political party that is unlikely to win the
election is wasting your vote.
Enjoy your discussion.

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