Topic 21

Anger

1. What is anger?
2. What causes anger?
3. What makes you angry?
4. What happens to you when you are angry?
5. How often do you get angry?
6. When was the last time you got angry?
7. What made you angry?
8. What did you do about it?
9. How long did your anger last?
10.Has someone ever gotten angry at you? Tell me
about it.
11.Has something bad ever happened to you because
you were angry?
12.What are the bad effects of getting angry?
13.What are the physical effects of getting angry? [e.g.
stress, high blood pressure]
14.What do you do to control your anger?
15.Do men and women show their anger differently?
16.What should a person do when he/she is angry?
17.What should a person not do when he/she is angry?
18.What do you think is the best way to release anger?
Control anger?
Topic 22

Chores
1. How many are you in the family?
2. Who does most of the chores at home? Why?
3. How does your family decide on who does various
chores around the house?
4. What chores are your responsibility?
5. What chores are assigned to each member of your
family?
6. Can you name some chores that need to be done
everyday?
7. Who does those chores?
8. How do you help in everyday chores?
9. Which chores do you not like to do? Why?
10.Which one is the simplest and easiest for you?
11.Do you get rewards for doing chores at home?
12.When do you do the chores assigned to you?
13.In your opinion, which chores can be done by children?
14.Which chores cannot be done by children?
15.At what age should children start helping at home?
16.How about you, how old were you when your mom
taught you about house chores? Did you enjoy it when
you were young?
17.Have you ever considered paying for someone to do
the chores? [maid / helper]
18.If you could have a robot to do all your chores in one
day, what would you choose for it to do?
Topic 23

Childhood
1. Did you have a happy childhood?
2. When and where were you born?
3. Where did you spend your childhood?
4. Who took care of you? [mother, father, grandmother,
grandfather]
5. Did you have any nickname?
6. What did you look like when you were a child?
7. How were you as a child? [shy, friendly, active,
stubborn]
8. Did you have a lot of friends?
9. What did you like to do when you were a child?
10.How old were you when you:
~ first went to school
~ learned to ride a bike
~ flew a kite
~ first did house chores
Follow-up:
Who taught you to ride a bike? Did you have your own
bike?
What was the house chore you first did when you were
young? [If the student still remembers it]
11.Can you remember specific things from your
childhood clearly? Tell me about it.
12.When you were a child, what did you want to be?
13. What embarrassing situations did you have when you
were a child?
Topic 24

Pets
1. Do you have a pet? What is it?
2. What is your pet’s name? How did you choose this
name?
3. How old is it?
4. Where did you get it from?
5. Who takes care of your pet?
6. What do you feed it?
7. Do you play with it?
8. Where does it sleep?
9. Does it know any tricks?
10.If someone else wants to have your pet, would you
give it away?
11.If you don’t have a pet, Why don’t you have a pet?
12.Would you ever consider getting a pet? Which one?
13.What are the responsibilities of being a pet owner?
14.What should a pet owner NOT do?
15.What should you prepare/plan for before getting a
pet?
16.Do you have any bad experiences with your pet?
With someone else’s pet?
17.Is it okay to free pets outside? [dogs, cats, birds]
18.Have you had any problems with your neighbor’s pets?
19.What do you think is the most difficult task in taking
care of a pet?
Topic 25

Have you ever…

[Part 1]
1. Have you ever been so mad?
2. Why? Tell me what happened.
3. What did you do?
4. Have you ever ridden a roller coaster?
5. When was your first roller coaster ride?
6. Who were with you?
7. How did you feel riding a roller coaster?
8. Have you ever gone skydiving?
9. If not, would you like to do it? Why? Why not?
10.Have you ever gotten wet under the rain?
11.When was it? Tell me what happened.
12.What did you do?
13.Have you ever ridden a horse?
14.When was it? How was the feeling?
15.If not, would you like to do it?
16.Have you ever been lost?
17.How old were you when you got lost?
18.Where were you / Where were you going when you
got lost?
19.Who was with you?
20.How were you found?
21.Have you ever slept in class?
22.Why did you fall asleep?
23.What classes was that?
24.Did your teacher catch you sleeping in class?
If yes, what happened? Were you punished?
Topic 26

Have you ever…

[Part 2]
1. Have you ever traveled abroad?
2. When was the first time you traveled abroad? Where did
you go?
3. What other countries have you visited?
4. What did you do there?Who traveled with you?
5. What countries would you like to visit in the future?
6. Have you ever been hospitalized?
7. If yes, for what reason?
8. How long did you stay in the hospital?
9. How long were you absent in school / work?
10.Have you ever slept on the bus or subway?
11.Have you ever missed your stop because you’ve fallen
asleep?What happened?
12.If you haven’t experienced this, then what do you do to
keep yourself awake on the bus/subway?
13.Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?
14.Have you ever been alone [in other places]?
15.Was it your choice to be alone? What was the reason?
16.When do you prefer to be alone?
17.How do you feel being alone?
18.Who did you talk about?
19.What did you talk about that person?
20.What made you smile?
21.Have you ever talked about someone and it suddenly
ruined your mood? Who was it and why did it
ruin your mood?
Topic 27

Homes

1. Where do you prefer to live? [house, apartment, villa] Why?

2. What type of housing do you live in?
3. Are you comfortable in your home?
4. Describe your home.
5. How many rooms are there?
6. Is there a living room, garage, garden, kitchen, etc?
7. Are you happy with the size of your home?
8. Is your home clean?
9. What kind of decorations do you put in your home?
10.How is your home different from your childhood home?
11.What is your favorite part in your home?
12.What activities can you do at home?
13.If you had $5,000 to improve your home, what would you
spend it on?
14.What do you do to maintain your home?
15.Describe your ideal home.
Topic 28

How often do
you… [Part 1]
1. Do you exercise?How often do you exercise?
2. Where do you exercise?
3. What kind of exercise do you do?
4. Do you eat at fast food restaurants?
5. How often do you eat there?
6. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
7. What food do you usually order?
8. How often do you brush your teeth?
9. How do you feel when you don’t brush your teeth?
10.What is the importance of brushing your teeth?
11.At what age did you learn to brush your teeth alone?
12.What are the bad effects of poor oral hygiene?
13.Are there any bad effects of too much brushing of teeth?
14.Do you use a certain brand of toothpaste?
15.Do you use a special type of toothbrush?
16.Do you like shopping?
17.How often do you go shopping?
18.Who do you go shopping with?
19.What do you usually buy?
20.Do you go window-shopping?
21.Can you control yourself when it comes to shopping or are
you a shopaholic?
22.How do you feel after buying the item(s)
you really like?
Topic 29

How often do
you… [Part 2]
1. Do you like watching movies?
2. How often do you watch movies?
3. Do you prefer to watch movies alone, with friends or with
your family? Why?
4. What was the latest movie you saw?
5. What is your all-time favorite movie?
6. Do you like sports? Why or why not?
7. How often do you play sports?
8. What sports do you play?
9. Who is your favorite player/athlete?
10.Which do you prefer, playing sports or watching sports?
11.Do you use the social networking sites? Which ones?
12.How often do you open them?
13.Why did you join social networking sites?
14.What do you like most about it?
15.What do you dislike about it?
16.Do you like to travel?
17.How often do you travel?
18.Who do you travel with?
19.Where have you traveled before?
20.What is a good place to visit in summer? winter?
Topic 30

Communication
1. What is “communication”?
2. What is the importance of communication?
3. What is the basic form of communication?
4. What is the first thing people learn in order to
communicate?
5. Can you give 10 forms of communication?
6. How often do you communicate with your friends?
Childhood friends? Relatives?
7. What form of communication do you use for each?
8. Which forms of communication do you usually use?
9. Which do you think is the most common form of
communication? [uncommon, expensive, cheap,
convenient]
10.How do you think people will communicate in the future?
11.How has communication changed through human
history?
12.Do you think people can communicate with ghosts and
spirits?
13.If people can communicate, do you think animals can, too?
How?
14.Can humans communicate with animal, too? How?
15.Can you imagine life without communication?
16.How do you think deaf and mute people feel for not
being able to hear and/or speak?
17.If you could change the form of communication,
how would you change it?
Topic 31

Camping

1. Do you go camping?
2. How many times have you gone camping?
3. Who do you usually go camping with?
4. When was your first camping trip? Tell me about it.
5. When was your most recent camping trip? Tell me
about it.
6. What are the 4 most important things to bring when
you go camping?
7. Where is the best place to go camping in your country?
8. What is the best activity to do while camping?
9. What is the best food to bring on a camping trip?
10.When is the best time to go camping? [season]
11.Tell me about your best camping experience.
12.Tell me about your worst camping experience.
13.What do you like about camping?
14.What don’t you like about camping?
15.What is the purpose of camping / Why do people go
camping?
16.What about you, what is your personal reason for
going on a camping trip?
17.If you could go camping anywhere in the world, where
would you go? Why?
Topic 32

Ghosts

1. Do you believe in ghosts? Why? Why not?

2. Where do you think do ghosts come from? [Do you
believe that dead people come back to life as ghosts?]
3. Have you ever seen ghosts? Tell me about it.
What is the scariest ghost story you know?
~ Who told you about it?
~ Can you tell me about it?
~ Do you believe it?
4. What is the scariest ghost movie you know?
~ When did you watch it? How did you feel?
~ Tell me about that movie.
6. Do you believe that some people can talk to ghosts?
How? Do you know anyone who can?
7. If you could talk to a ghost, would you do it? Who
would you talk to? Why?
8. Do you know a place in Korea that is haunted with
ghosts? [a building, a park, an apartment, a school]
9. What is the story behind that place? Do you believe it?
10. If ghosts were real, then what are they doing here?
11. If you accidentally see a ghost, how do you think
would you react?
Topic 33

Inventions

1. Who invents things?

2. Do you think it’s fun to invent things?
3. Would you ever try to invent something?
4. What is the greatest invention? Why do you think so?
5. What is the coolest invention?
6. What is the most useful invention?
7. What is the most dangerous invention?
8. What is happening in the pictures above?
9. What invention is needed to save the world from
global warming?
10.Which invention is better, the internet or the
electricity?
11.How was the world different before cars were
invented?
12.How was the world different before the plane was
invented?
13.If transportation weren’t invented, how would people
travel?
14.If you could invent anything, what would it be? Why?
15.If you could un-invent anything, what would it be?
Why?
16.If you could talk to an inventor/scientist, who would it
be? What would you ask?
Topic 34

Poverty
1. What is poverty?
2. Why is there poverty?
3. Is there poverty in Korea?
4. What can you say about the information above?
5. How do people live in poverty?
6. What problems do poor people have?
7. Why do they get hungry?
8. How do you feel about the people who live on the
street?
9. What do you do when you see poor people?
10.Do you help them? How?
11.Do you believe that the rich are growing richer, and
the poor are growing poorer?
12.Do you consider yourself to be poor, middle-class, or
rich?
13.How do you identify if the person is poor, middle-
class or rich?
14.Why does every country in the world have poor
people?
15.If you were rich, would you help poor people? How?
16.Does poverty cause crime? Site examples.
17.If you were poor, how would you improve your living
situation?
18.How can we stop poverty?
Topic 35

Love

1. What is 'love'?
2. How do you know if it's 'love'?
3. Who was the person you first loved? [family, relatives,
teacher, etc.]
4. Have you ever fallen in love?
5. When? Can you tell me about it?
6. What is the feeling of being in love?
7. How do people fall in love?
8. Do you believe that teenagers can fall in love? If not,
then what do you call it?
9. Do you think married couples who stay together are
still in love with each other?
10.How do people fall out of love? Do you think people
really fall out of love?
11.What are the possible reasons for falling out of love?
12.Have you ever fallen out of love?
13.How important is 'love'?
14.What is the difference between 'love' and being 'in
love'?
15.Is it important to love or be loved?
Topic 36

Marriage
1. Is marriage in your country the same or different with
other countries? How?
2. What are some of the wedding traditions in your
country? Tell me about them.
3. In your country, do parents have big influence on who
you should marry?
4. What if the parents don’t like the person their
daughter/son is going to marry, what will happen?
5. If you were in that situation what would you do?
6. Do you believe in arranged marriages?
7. If your parents arranged you to marry someone else,
what would you do?
8. When do people usually get married in your country?
9. What do you think is the right age to get married?
10.What do you think about same sex marriage?
11.What are the rules for a happy marriage?
12. How do you think marriage changes people?
13. What is the importance of marriage?
14.How can married couple stay in love with each other?
15.Should people stay married if they no longer love
each other?
16.Do you believe in divorce? What do you think about
the opinion above?
17.Why do some wives/husbands become unfaithful?
Topic 37

Lies

1. Do you think telling the truth is always necessary?

2. If the truth would hurt the person you love [or your
family], would you still tell the truth?
3. Why do people lie?
4. Has someone ever told you a lie? What was it? How
did you find out that it was a lie? What did you do?
5. What's the biggest lie someone has told you?
6. What’s the most painful truth someone has told you?
7. How do you feel when someone lies to you?
8. Who lies more, men or women?
9. What lies do men usually say?
10.What lies to women usually say?
11.What would you do if someone spread lies about you?
12.They say children who are good liars often grow up to
be very intelligent. Were you a good liar when you
were a child?
13.Would you ever lie to protect someone in your family?
Topic 38

World’s Most
[Nature]
1. This is Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfall. Do you
know where it is? [Venezuela]
2. Do you like this waterfall? Can you describe it?
3. Have you seen waterfalls?
4. What do you think of waterfalls?
5. Are there waterfalls in Korea?

6. This is Lake Baikal [Siberia] in

summer and in winter. It is the world’s
biggest and deepest lake.
Can you describe the pictures?
7. Are there any lakes in Korea? Have you seen any?
8. What activities can you do in and around a lake?

9. Do you know what it is? [Mount Everest ~ world’s highest

peak]
10. Where is it located? [Himalayas]
11. Have you ever climbed a mountain?
12. Tell me about your recent hiking/climbing experience.
13. Have you ever seen a river?
14. What is the longest river in your country?
15 .What activities can you do in, on and around a river?
Topic 39

Pet Peeves

1. Do you have thing that frequently bother you?

2. Are there any pet peeves you can mention to your
friends?
3. What is a “pet peeve”?
4. How do you react when someone bothers you?
5. Do you complain a lot?
6. Do you complain about big things or little things?
7. What are some small things that bother you?
8. How do you deal with your pet peeves?
9. Do little bugs bother you?
10. What bothers you when people are driving?

• pet peeve : a small thing that bothers a person very

much ; something that might bother one person but
not another

Examples.

People who talk on their cell phones at the movies.

People who don’t use their signals when they make a turn
or change lanes.

Litterbugs : a person who throws trash on the ground;

a person who does not care about the environment
Topic 40

Drinking

1. Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t

avoid drinking alcohol?
2. Have ever had to pay the bill where a lot of drinks were
consumed, but you hardly had a thing?
3. When is a good time to drink?
4. Should late company “dinners” happen on weekday?
5. Does late night drinking affect you at work the next
day?
6. Do you enjoy drinking?
7. Can you hold your alcohol?
8. Do you have any funny or embarrassing stories from a
time you were out drinking?
9. Where do you usually drink alcohol?