ELMENTRY PRE-INTERMADIATE

Success-Failure

1. How would you define success?

2. Do you have the same idea of success as your parents?
3. To what extent will your encourage your children to become successful?
4. Do you think failures can contribute to a person's success?
5. Can you think of any famous people who encountered failure before success?

Social Networking

6. What is social networking?

7. Can social networking sites be dangerous?
8. What precautions would you advise people to take?
9. Should the use of social networking sites be banned at work?
10. Are social networking sites changing our daily behavior?
11. Is it possible to become a social networking addict?

Diseases

12. What dangerous diseases are people scared of nowadays?

13. Should we be better-informed about the dangers of these diseases?
14. What is the best way to stop diseases from spreading?
15. Do diseases have an effect on travel?
16. Which disease is it urgent to find a cure for?

Manners

17. Are good manners important?

18. Do people have better manners today than before?
19. Can you give examples of what you think are good manners?
20. What do you think are bad manners?
21. Can good manners in one country be bad manners in another country?
22. What about table manners? Can you give examples of some good table manners?
23. How about bad table manners?
24. Can manners affect your success in life? How?
25. What's the best way to teach manners to children?
26. What advice about manners would you give a foreigner visiting your country?

News coverage in the media today.

27. Do you think news coverage today correctly describes what is going on in the world?
28. Do you trust everything you hear or see on the news?
29. What improvements would you make?
30. What is the most important current news story?
31. Do certain types of events get too much/too little coverage?
32. Do you trust the media? Are you sure the information given is always true?
33. Is it important to keep up with current events?