Abilities Entertainment

1. What are you good at? 1. What do you do for entertainment?

2. What sports can you play well? 2. What is the best movie/TV series you’ve watched? And
3. Can you play any musical instrument? And sing? the worst?
4. How many languages can you speak? 3. What is your favourite social network? Why?
5. Are you good at doing arts and crafts? 4. What games do you enjoy playing (video/board/outdoor
6. What talent/ability would you like to have? games)?
7. What were you good at as a kid, but aren’t good at now? 5. Do you prefer indoor or outdoor activities?
8. Is there anything that you can’t do? How hard have you 6. How often do you go out (restaurants/pubs/parties)?
tried? 7. When was the last time you went to the cinema/theatre/
museum?
Adventures 8. What do you do on vacation that you don’t usually do in
your city?
1. Are you an adventurous person?
2. What activities can you do on an adventure trip? Environment
3. Do you like adventure movies? Give an example.
4. Talk about an exciting adventure you have had. 1. What are the most serious environmental problems?
5. Are some adventures dangerous? 2. How can we protect our planet?
6. Have you ever gone camping? 3. What are some human actions that harm the
7. Where would you like to go for an adventure: a jungle, a environment?
desert or an island? 4. Do you consider yourself a green person? Why?
8. Is adrenaline good for you? Is it addictive? 5. Would you volunteer to clean beaches?
6. How can we preserve endangered species?
Birthdays 7. Can you mention any famous environmentalists?
8. Where will we get our energy from when we run out of oil?
1. When is your birthday?
2. How do you usually celebrate it? Family
3. How did you celebrate your last birthday?
4. What were your birthday parties like when you were a kid? 1. Do you have any brothers or sisters? How old are they?
5. What is the best/worst birthday gift you have ever 2. How big is your family?
received? 3. Describe a family member.
6. Have you ever gone to a surprise party? And to a costume 4. Who do you look like in your family?
party? 5. What do you and your family like doing together?
7. Have you ever forgotten an important birthday? 6. How often do you argue with your siblings? What about?
8. What present would you like for your nwxt birthday? 7. Do you get on well with your extended family?
8. Do you like going out/travelling together? When was the
Books last time you did so?
1. Do you like reading books? Feelings
2. What type of books do you like?
3. What is your favourite book? What is it about? 1. What makes you happy? What is one of your happiest
4. Do you prefer paper books or e-books? memories?
5. How do you choose the books you are going to read? 2. What makes you angry?
6. Have you ever read books in a foreign language? 3. Do you have any fears or phobias?
7. Have you ever read a book and the watched its film 4. What makes you feel nervous? How can you calm your
adaptation? nerves?
8. If you wrote a book, what would it be about? 5. What do you do to feel better when you are feeling down?
6. Are you rational or emotional?
Celebrities 7. Do you express or hide your feelings?
8. Talk about an embarrassing situation you experienced.
1. Who is the most famous person in the world? And in your
country? Food
2. What are the pros and cons of being a celebrity?
3. Have you ever met a celebrity? Who would you like to 1. What is your favourite food? And dessert?
meet? 2. Are you a good cook?
4. Are there any celebrities you really dislike? Who are they? 3. How often do you eat out?
5. Would you ever date someone famous? 4. What did you eat today?
6. Which famous people living today might be remembered in 5. What is the strangest food you have tried?
100 years? 6. What food did you hate as a child but now you love?
7. If you were a celebrity, what would you like to be famous 7. What types of foreign food have you tried?
for? 8. Do you prefer salty or sweet food?
8. Should journalists report on a famous people’s private life?
Free time
Childhood
1. What do you do in your free time?
1. What was your favourite game/toy? Dis you use to play 2. What hobbies do you have?
outside? 3. Who do you spend your free time with?
2. Do you remember your first day at school? 4. Do you have a lot of spare time during the day?
3. What were your favourite cartoons and TV shows? 5. What is the most popular hobby in your country?
4. Who was your best friend? How did you meet him/her? 6. If you had more free time, what would you do with it?
5. What were your biggest fears as a child? 7. Do you plan your leisure activities or make spontaneous
6. What is your happiest childhood memory? decisions?
7. What was your worst punishment as a child? 8. What is more important, having more free time or make
8. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? money?

Clothes Friends

1. What are you wearing today? 1. Describe your best friend. What do you have in common?
2. Do you like shopping for new clothes? How often do you 2. What do you usually do with your friends?
go? 3. How much time do you spend with friends every week?
3. Are you interested in fashion? What clothes are 4. What is the biggest thing you have done to help a friend?
fashionable now? 5. What traits must a good friend have?
4. How much time do you spend getting ready to go to 6. Do you have any long distance friends? How do you keep
school/ work/ a party? in touch?
5. When was the last time you dressed up? 7. Do you make friends easily?
6. Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If not, would you 8. Have you got a big or small circle of friends?
like to?
7. Have you ever bought clothes or shoes online?
8. What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
Future School

1. How are you going to spend your next holiday? 1. What is your favourite subject? Why?
2. What is the next film/series you would like to watch? 2. Which subjects are you good at? Which ones do you find
3. Are you planning to take up a new activity soon? difficult?
4. Are you going to do anything exciting this month? 3. What rules do you have to follow at school?
5. What is your biggest hope for next year? 4. Have you ever been caught breaking any rules at school?
6. How will your life be different in ten years? 5. Have you ever played truant?
7. What jobs will disappear in the future? What new jobs will 6. Have you ever cheated in an exam? How?
appear? 7. Are face-to-face classes more effective than online
8. Will we face another global threat (pandemic/war/natural classes?
disaster)? 8. Do you think school uniforms are a good idea?

Holidays Sports

1. What type of holidays do you like? 1. Do you play any sports? Which is your favourite?
2. Who do you usually travel with? Where do you stay? 2. Do you prefer watching or playing sports?
3. Where did you spend your last holiday? 3. What is the most popular sport in your country?
4. Describe a memorable situation. 4. What is your favourite football team?
5. What stressful things can happen on a holiday? 5. Have you ever met a sports celebrity?
6. What country/city would you like to visit? 6. When was the last time you went to a sports event?
7. When you travel, do you try the local food? 7. Have you ever tried any extreme sports? If not, would you
8. Do you prefer package holidays or to organize them like to?
yourself? 8. What should a sports player do to have a healthy lifestyle?

Jobs Technology

1. What job would you like to have? 1. What are your favourite websites/apps? Why?
2. What do you do? Describe a typical day at work. 2. How much time do you spend online everyday?
3. What was your first job? 3. Are there any new gadgets that you want to get?
4. What do you love and what do you hate about your job? 4. What technology could you not live without?
5. What traits must a good boss have? 5. Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of
6. What is more important: good pay or good working technology.
conditions? 6. What has been the most important invention in the last
7. What should you not do during a job interview? decade?
8. If you could have any job for a day, what would it be? 7. When should kids get a phone? Should their online activity
be supervised?
My routine 8. Do you worry about your privacy on the web?
1. What time do you get up? What is the first thing you do? Weekends
2. What do you usually have for breakfast?
3. What time do you go to school/work? How do you get 1. What do you usually do on weekends?
there? 2. What time do you usually get up/go to bed on the
4. Describe your daily routine. weekend?
5. What is your favourite day of the week? Why? 3. What do you eat on Saturdays/Sundays?
6. What do you generally do in the evening? 4. What did you do last weekend?
7. Do you ever take a nap? How long should a Good nap be? 5. What are your plans for the next weekend?
8. What is the last thing you do before falling asleep? 6. What do you like doing on rainy weekends?
7. What is your idea of a perfect weekend?
Personality 8. Do you prefer relaxing weekends or active ones?
1. Describe your personality.
2. Are you shy or outgoing?
3. Describe a member of your family. How is your
relationship with him/her?
4. Do all of your friends have similar personalities?
5. Mention some personality traits you can’t stand.
6. What are three positive words that people often use to
describe you?
7. What was your personality like as a child? How has it
changed?
8. If you could change any aspect of your personality, what
would it be?

Pet peeves

1. What are the most common pet peeves? Do you have

any?
2. What are some annoying things that your friends do?
3. What annoys you the most about living at home with your
family?
4. How do you deal with a person or situation that is
bothering you?
5. Have you ever been asked to stop doing something
because it’s irritating?
6. What is the most annoying question you get asked?
7. What are some irritating things drivers/pedestrians do?
8. Which is worse: someone sneezing without covering their
mouth or chewing with their mouth open?

Pets

1. Do you have any pets? If not, would you like to?

2. What is your pet’s name? how did you come up with the
name?
3. What is the best pet to own? Why?
4. What is the most unusual pet you have ever seen?
5. Have you ever been bitten/scratched by a dog/cat?
6. Would you allow you’re your pet to sleep on your bed?
Why?
7. Have you ever seen a working dog? Give some example.
8. If your pet gets lost, what can you do to find him/her?