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QUESTION TEACHING METHOD

to teach is to learn
Good teaching requires the teacher to ask open ended questions for feedback to evaluate progress, a
method attributed to Socrates.
Teaching skills are important for teachers at all levels, as well as parents, especially those interested in
home schooling. One of the key teaching methods that is of great importance is using questioning as a learning tool.
This method of using questions to teach and evaluate performance is called the Socratic Method. Based on
Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher and teacher, who was a mentor directly or indirectly for both Aristotle and
Plato. Socrates taught his students in a manner that was beyond some of the conventions of the time. The method
involved questioning. While classically and still today we find many teachers and professors or educational instructors
presenting lectures, as far back as Socrates we find questions being used as a key learning tool.
Questioning students not only allows the teacher to evaluate the level of understanding but also provides for
feedback, fine tuning the levels of teaching, dealing with misconceptions early, as well as improving the educational
material presented. Perhaps one of the most key thoughts beyond all the information above is very simple. Teaching
is learning. To teach is to learn. Good teachers learn and adapt to their students, and expand or refine their
teaching material as they learn about themselves as well.
Students help teachers redefine their own horizons and levels of knowledge. The Socratic Method of
teaching raises questions and provides a powerful system that can useful across the board for so many purposes.
One of the most useful facets of the Socratic Method of questioning is that it allows for quick evaluation of
what a student does and does not know. Many parents and teachers do use different methods of questioning,
however fail to ask appropriate questions or use an inappropriate style. Many fail to ask open ended questions.
Instead they assume the answer. For example: "Susy, you know what circumnavigation means, right?" Little Susy
may nod her head yes and still not understand what Magellan did with his ship in sailing the world. It would be better
to ask a more direct question: "Johnny, what does circumnavigation mean?" Or you could ask for a practical
example: " Johnny, what does circumnavigation mean, using an example from history?" (or from something you
just studied such as Magellan's explorations around the world).
Many children will not ask what a specific vocabulary word means and will just assume the meaning or
remain silent, which can lead to miscommunication or problems later with basic concepts. The same is true for math
concepts and much more. Failure to provide an adequate number of questions using open ended questions fails to
challenge the student and incorrectly assesses their ability. Now here is another thought. Most students want to be
challenged. It gives them a sense of positive reward or feedback to answer questions correctly and can also be a
motivational tool.
Questions allow the instructor to continually adapt the material and level of the lesson to better meet the
students needs. Some students do better with practical examples while others do better with definitions. By
questioning students and seeing where their strengths and weaknesses are one can provide better educational
material. In addition some concepts or examples are not effective. Some questions are too difficult, too confusing,
too ambiguous, and if put on a test, do not measure the students true knowledge but only reflect that the question
may be confusing. Fine tuning lessons can be very important.
Finally, to teach is to learn. This is very important and is the reason why so many teach. In many cases
students shed new light on a subject with their questions, asking something from a different angle then was ever
expected. This results in new answers or creative thought and expands everyones knowledge of the subject.
To teach is to learn. To find the answers we must ask questions, and those very questions are perhaps one
of the most important tools of teaching.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

OF QUESTION ANSWER METHOD OF TEACHING?
This method is quite important. Through question, an attempt is made to ascertain and evaluate the
knowledge of students in regard to the subject. This method ensures participation. The teacher should ask question
and the student should be encouraged to ask questions.
About this method a renowned author says, "If the teacher does not know the answer he should admit it and
either he ask the students to find it in the text-book or offer to find out the answer himself. No teacher can answer all
the question which can be asked in yes or no. The students should be asked such questions which compel them to
think the matter over. If the students cannot answer the question fully, his partial answer should be accepted and
another student may be asked to improve upon it. The teacher himself be in regular habit of reading latest texts as
students should also be asked to find answers in authoritative texts".
In this method the teacher controls the situation. Generally in-formal lesson is developed by means of
question-answer method.

Advantages of Question-Answer Method

(i) It can be used in all teaching situations.
(ii) It helps in developing the power of expression of the stu-dents.
(iii) It is helpful to ascertain the personal difficulties of the students.
(iv) It provides a check on preparation of assignments.
(v) It can be used to reflect student's background and attitude.
(vi) It is quite handy to the teacher when no other suitable teaching method is available.

Disadvantages
(i) It requires a lot of skill on the part of teacher to make a proper use of this method.
(ii) It may sometime mar the atmosphere of the class.
(iii) This method generally is quite embracing for timid stu-dents.
(iv) It is time consuming
Sources:
http://www.essortment.com/socratic-method-teaching-40021.html
http://www.preservearticles.com/2012032829135/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-question-answer-method-of-teaching.html

How to use this book

Don't just write a yes or no. When you answer a question, write at least one long sentence. If there is more than one
line, please try to explain your ideas in detail.

Conversation Questions
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Have You Ever ...
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Are You Good At ...?
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&
Superstitions
Talk About Four Things
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Teachers
Teenagers
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Tell me about...?
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What if...?
What would you...?
When did you first...?
When was the last...?
White Lies
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Wishes
World Peace
Would you ever...?
Would you rather...?

GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER

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What's your name?

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Where were you born?
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How old are you?
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How tall are you?
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Are you married or single?
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Where are you from?
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Where do you live?
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Where do you live? How long have you lived there?
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What's your phone number?
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What's your telephone number?
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When did you start to study English?
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What's your address?
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Which sports do you like?
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Who do you live with?
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What country are you from?
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Do you live alone?
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Do you live in a house or an apartment?
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Have you ever lived in another country?
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Do you have brothers and sisters? Are they older or younger than you?
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Do you have any pets?
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What was the last book you read?
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Do you like cooking?
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What's your favorite food?
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Are you good at cooking/swimming/etc?
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25. Do you like playing basketball?

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Have you ever met a famous person?
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How do you spend your free time?
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How long have you been studying English?
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Tell me about a favorite event of your adulthood.
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Tell me about a favorite event of your childhood.
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What are your hobbies?
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What two things could you not do when you were.....?
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What countries have you visited?
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What do you do on Sundays?
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What do you do? What's your job?
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What do you like doing in your free time?
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What hobbies do you have?
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What is the nearest bus stop or train station to your house?
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What is your motto?
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What is your religion? (Perhaps not a good question in some situations.)
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What kind of food do you like?
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What kind of people do you like?
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What kind of people do you not like?
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What languages do you speak?
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What two things could you not do when you were a child, but you can do now?
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What's something you do well?
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What's your father like?
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What's your mother like?
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Who do you respect the most?
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50. Who has had the most influence in your life?

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51. Why did you decide to take this course?

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52. Why do you want to learn English?

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53. Would you like to be famous?
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What do you think you will be doing five years from now?
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Where do you think you'll be living five years from now?
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What is your goal in life?
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Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
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When do you feel best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?
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How many cities have you lived in?
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What jobs have you done?
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Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
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What could you do as a child that you can't do now?
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Who is your next door neighbor in your home country?
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What is he or she like?
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Did you get along with each other?
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What is the best memory of our country that you will take back home with you?
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What is the worst memory of our country?
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How many times did you move as a child?
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What is the profile of the wife/husband you would meet?
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What kind of woman/man would you like to marry?
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ALLERGIES
1. Do you have any allergies?
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2. What do you think would be the worst thing to be allergic to?
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3. What things are people allergic to in your country?
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4. Some people are allergic to the twenty-first century. What do you think this means?
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5. What would life be like if you suddenly became allergic to your favorite food?
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6. What do you think / What is life like for hay fever sufferers?
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7. Why are some people allergic to eggs, wheat or peanuts while others are not?
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8. What are the symptoms of allergies?
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9. Can people be cured of allergies?
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10. Some people say children who dont like taking a bath are allergic to soap. Do you have a similar saying in
your country?
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11. Do you think its possible that lazy people are allergic to work?
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12. Do you know anyone who is allergic to opening his/her wallet?
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13. Do any of your family or friends have allergies?
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14. Which would be worse for you, an allergy to milk, alcohol or animals?
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15. What new allergies might be found in the future?
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16. How can you make children with allergies feel better?
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17. Are you ever allergic to speaking English?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
1. Do you trust alternative medicine?
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2. Do you know anyone who uses alternative medicine?
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3. Do you think alternative medicine is just a trend that goes in and out of fashion?
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4. Do you think alternative medicine works?
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5. Do you think alternative medicines are tried, tested and safe?
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6. Do you think alternative medicines work better than modern drugs?
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7. Do you think doctors should study about and be experts in alternative medicine?
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8. Do you think we can find all the medicines we need from the natural world, instead of making drugs?
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9. Have you tried any alternative medicine?
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11. What alternative medicine do you know about?
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12. What are your thoughts on traditional Chinese medicine?
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13. What do you think of things like art therapy, music therapy, healing with animals, etc?
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14. What is alternative about alternative medicine?
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15. What kind of people use alternative medicine?
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16. What springs to mind when you hear the term alternative medicine?
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17. What would you like to know about alternative medicine?
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18. Which countries in the world have the best medicines?
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19. Why do you think so little is known about the health benefits of alternative medicine?
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20. Would you like to try acupuncture?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
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ARABS
1. Who are the Arabs?
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2. Who is the greatest Arab leader?
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3. Do you think Arabs will play a greater role in world affairs in the future?
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4. Does the media in your country portray a negative or positive image of Arabs?
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5. Have you been to any Arab countries?
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6. How much political or economic power do Arabs have in the world?
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7. Is there one Arab country that is more influential than the others?
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8. What Arab cultural influences affect todays world?
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9. What are the differences between the words Arab, Arabic and Arabian?
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10. What countries have predominantly Arab populations?
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11. What cultural differences are the among Arabs from different Arab nations?
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12. What do all Arabs have in common?
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13. What do you know of the past history of the Arabs?
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14. What do you know of the recent history of the Arabs?
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15. What is the Arab League and how strong and unified is it?
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16. What is the source of animosities between Arab countries and Israel?
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17. What major contributions has Arab civilization made to the world?
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18. What makes an Arab an Arab?
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19. What stereotypes of Arabs exist in your country?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
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ARE YOU GOOD AT...?

1. Are you good at climbing trees?
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2. Are you good at singing?
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3. Are you good at speaking English?
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4. Are you good at computer games?
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5. Are you good at playing the piano?
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6. Are you good at playing basketball?
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7. Are you good at playing volleyball?
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8. Are you good at Tetris?
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9. Are you good at cooking noodles?
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10. Are you good at math?
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11. Are you good at telling jokes?
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12. Are you good at making people smile?
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13. Are you good at writing in your first language?
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14. Are you good at solving problems?
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15. Are you good at drawing pictures?
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16. Are you good at art?
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17. Are you good at music?
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18. Are you good at imitating others?
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19. Are you good at reading maps?
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20. Are you good at whistling?
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21. Are you good at remembering song lyrics?
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22. Are you good at fixing things?
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23. Are you good at sending text messages?
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24. Are you good at making new friends?

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25. Are you good at finding places?
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26. Are you good at playing the piano?
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27. Are you good at playing dodgeball?
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28. Are you good at cooking noodles?
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29. Are you good at playing volleyball?
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30. Is your father good at driving?
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31. Is your mother good at driving?
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32. Are you good at making pie?
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33. Are you good at English?
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34. Are you good at cooking?
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35. Are you good at telling stories?
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36. Are you good at dancing the waltz?
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37. Are you good at remembering directions?
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38. Are you good at swimming?
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39. Are you good at driving a car?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
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BEHAVIOR
What is bad behavior?
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2. What is good behavior?
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3. Can bad behavior lead to crime?
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4. How should we punish children who commit crimes?
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5. Should parents be held responsible for their children's behavior?
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6. Should some parent give medicine to their children to calm them down? Explain.
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What is the right behavior to use in a restaurant? At school? At a party? Give some examples.
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What should you do with a child who has very bad behavior?
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Would you teach your child to "hit back" at school if somebody hits them?

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YOUR QUESTIONS
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CARS AND DRIVING

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Are the drivers in your area where you live good drivers?
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Are you a good driver?
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Can you drive a manual shift car?
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Do you enjoy repairing cars?
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Do you have a car? If so, what kind of car do you have?
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Do you know anything about repairing or maintaining a car? What do you know how to do?
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Do you like drive at night?
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Do you prefer driving or riding public transportation?
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Do you think cars should be banned from city centers?
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Have you ever been (or) do you know anyone who has been in an accident related to drunk driving?
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Have you ever been in a car accident?
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Have you ever been pulled over by the police? What happened?
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Have you ever driven a car in a foreign country?
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How do American drivers compare to drivers in your country?
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How long did it take you to learn to drive?
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How old were you when you first learned to drive?
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Is drunk driving a problem in your country?
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Is it a standard (manual shift) or automatic shift?
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Was there anything difficult about learning to drive?
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What are the advantages of owning a car?
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What are the disadvantages of owning a car?
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25. What is the penalty for drunk driving in your country?
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What kind of car do you prefer?
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What side of the road do you drive in your country?
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Where did you learn how to do this?
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Which do you like best, a standard or automatic shift car?
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Who taught you to drive?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
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CHARITY
1. Are there any charities in (your town/city)? How about in (your country)? What are they?
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2. Do you agree with the expression charity begins at home? Explain.
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3. Do you ever buy used goods from charity shops?
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4. Do you give money to beggars or homeless people? Why or why not? If you give money to beggars or homeless
people, about how much do you give?
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5. Do you give money to registered charities? (e.g. Red Cross, World Wildlife Fund, Green Peace, Kimse Yok mu?- Is
Anybody There?,..) Can you name some other registered charities?
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6. Do you have a favourite charity organization? What do they do?
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8. Do you take part in fund raising events for charity?
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9. Do you think charities should only help people and not animals, buildings, etc?
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10. Do you think governments should do more to help charities?
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11. Do you think having large charity organizations is a good idea? Why or why not? What are some of the good
points? What are some of the bad points?
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12. Do you think that one day there will be no need for charities?
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13. Do you think the government should give money to homeless people?
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14. Do you think the people you know are very charitable?
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15. Do you think we should all donate some of our salary to charity?
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16. Do you worry about where the money you donate to charity goes?
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17. Have you ever received charity from others? What did you feel?
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18. How do you know if a beggar is a real beggar?
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19. How much suffering would disappear if more people donated money to charity?
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20. How often do you give money to charities?
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21. What do you think of people who stand outside stores or railway stations holding charity donation boxes?
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22. What is the largest amount of money you have donated?
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23. What was the last cause you donated money to?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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CHILDREN
1. Were there many children in your family?

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2. How many children do you have? How many would you like to have?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Do you enjoy being around children?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
4. When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What are the positive or negative things about being a child?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Do you think that children are different today from the time when you were child? Or from 50 years ago? 100
years ago?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What were some important experiences that you had when you were child which shaped you as a person?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Why do you think children commit violent crimes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Do you think children are more violent today than they used to be? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What was your favorite game when you were a child?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is most annoying or amazing thing about children?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What is the most important thing that we need to teach children?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Do you think that children are naturally good? Why or why not?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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CLASSROOM
1.

Do you like the location of your desk in your classroom? Why? Why not?
________________________________________________________________________________________

2.

Is your classroom a nice place to study? Why? Why not?

________________________________________________________________________________________

3.

What are five things you don't like about your classroom?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________

4.

What are five things you like about your classroom?

________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________

5.

What are five things you would like to change in your classroom?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________

6.

What is the ideal seating plan or arrangement in a classroom?

________________________________________________________________________________________

7.

Do you think classrooms are ideal learning places?

________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________

8.

What kind of classroom setting is the best for you?

________________________________________________________________________________________

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YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
7. __________________________________________________________________________________________
8. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
9. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
10. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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CLOTHES & FASHION

1. Do you often buy new clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. About how much money do you spend on clothes a year?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Are some people more fashion conscious than others? What types/groups of people?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4. Do fashionable clothes really change the way a person looks?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
5. Do you dress the same when you are depressed as you do when you are very happy?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
6. Do you like shopping for new clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
7. Do you often make your own clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
8. Do you prefer to go shopping or just browse? Why? (Browse: look around)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
9. Do you read fashion magazines?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
10. Do you think it is important to wear fashionable clothes? Explain.
_______________________________________________________________________________________

11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

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Do you think men should be allowed to wear skirts? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think people feel different when they wear different clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think that the clothes we wear reflect what is inside us? How?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Do you wear jewelry? If so, what kind of jewelry do you wear?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Do you wear the same color clothes now that you wore ten years ago?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Do you wear the same size clothes this year as you wore last year?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever been to a store that sells secondhand clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever bought imitation brand clothing?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever bought secondhand clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever made your own clothes? If so, what did you make?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever worn your hair braided in small braids? Did anyone look at you differently because of it?
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24. How many pairs of gloves do you have?

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25. How often do you wear jewelry?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
26. In what ways do you dress differently?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
27. In what ways does your grandmother dress differently then you?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
28. Is it possible for women to wear too much make-up? When is a person wearing to much make-up? What do you
think of men who wear make-up?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
29. Is it possible to be beautiful without wearing any make-up, earrings or other accessories?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
30. What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
31. What colors do you choose to wear when you are happy?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
32. What colors do you think look good on you?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
33. What colors do you think look good on your mother?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
34. What did you wear yesterday?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
35. What differences have you noticed in the fashions here and in your country?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
36. What do you think about men who wear earrings? What do you think of women who do?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
37. What do you think about secondhand clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

38.
39.
40.

41.
42.
43.
44.

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What do you think about women who don't wear earrings?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think of a man who is bald for fashion's sake?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think of body piercing? Do you have pierced ears? Do you know anyone with a pierced nose? Would
you ever pierce your tongue? Would you pierce other parts of your body?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think of men wearing high heels?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think of men who where tights?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think of people who always and only wear black?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think of people who dye their hair green? (dye: color)
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45. What do you think of people with tattoos? Do you have a tattoo? Do you know someone with a tattoo? What do
you think of the people who wear them?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
46. What do you think of women wearing high heels?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
47. What do you think of women who wear high heel shoes? Do you think high heel shoes are bad for a person's
health?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
48. What do you think of women who wear short mini-skirts?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
49. What is the difference in the people who choose to wear contacts and the people who choose to were glasses?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
50. What is your shoe size?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
51. What kind of clothes are in fashion now?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
52. What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
53. What type of clothing do you wear when you are angry and you want to express yourself?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
54. What would you think if a bride wore red?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
55. What would you think if the mother of the groom wore black at a wedding?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
56. What would you think of a woman who cut off all her hair and went around bald as a fashion statement?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
57. What's the most expensive piece of clothing you have ever bought?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
58. What's your favorite color for shoes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
59. When and where did you buy an article of clothing you're wearing right now? Why did you choose it?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
60. When was the last time you got dressed up? Why? How often do you get dressed up? Do you like to get dressed
up?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
61. When you get old do you think you will dress like your grandmother or grandfather?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
62. Where are some good stores to buy clothes in this area?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
63. Where do you usually buy clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
64. Why do you think people buy secondhand clothes?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
65. Why is it acceptable for women to wear men's clothing, but not for men to dress in women's clothing?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
66. Would you dress the same as you do in your country if you went to America for a visit?
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67. Would you ever wear contacts to change your eye color?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
68. Would you like to be a fashion model?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
69. What piece of clothing do you spend your money on the most? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
bald: /bld/

/bld/

braid /bred/: a length of hair that has been separated into three parts and then woven together
costume: /ks.tjum/
pierce: /ps/
hole

/k.stum/

/prs/: to have a small hole made in your ears, nose etc so that you can wear jewellery through the

tattoo /ttu/, /ttu/: a picture or writing that is permanently marked on your skin using a needle and ink

YOUR QUESTIONS
1. _______________________________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________________________________________________
6. _______________________________________________________________________________________
7. _______________________________________________________________________________________
8. _______________________________________________________________________________________
9. _______________________________________________________________________________________
10. _______________________________________________________________________________________
11. _______________________________________________________________________________________
12. _______________________________________________________________________________________

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COMPUTER
1. Do you access the Internet with your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Can you access the Internet from your home?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What is your favorite "news" site?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What Internet sites do you visit regularly?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Are you good at using a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Can your mother and father use a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Did you learn to use a computer in high school?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Do you have a computer at work and at home?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Do you have a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Do you have a digital camera?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
11. Do you have a laptop or a desktop computer? Do you have both?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
12. Do you have a scanner?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Do you have a web page?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Do you know any computer programming languages?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Do you know how to type well?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
16. Do you read computer magazines?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
17. Do you send photos by e-mail?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
18. Do you use chat-rooms? If so, what chat-rooms do you use and who do you talk to?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Do you use e-mail every day?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
20. Do you use e-mail?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
21. Do you use your computer when you do homework for school?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
22. Do you want a more powerful computer? If so, what computer do you want?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
23. Do you write e-mail in English?
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24. Have you ever sent an e-mail to your teacher?

_________________________________________________________________________________________
25. Have you ever studied English using your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
26. How many computer programming languages do you know?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
27. How many e-mail addresses do you have?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
28. How many e-mails do you get a day?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
29. How many e-mails do you send a day?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
30. How many times a day do you access your e-mail?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
31. How many times have you upgraded your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
32. How often do you use a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
33. How powerful is your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
34. What are some of your favorite computer games?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
35. What company made your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
36. What do you think is the best size to have?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
37. What do you use a computer for?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
38. What kind of computer do you have?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
39. What kind of pictures do you take with your digital camera?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
40. What operating system do you use?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
41. What size is your computer screen? ____
_________________________________________________________________________________________
42. What software do you use the most often?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
43. What's the URL? ____
_________________________________________________________________________________________
44. What's your e-mail address?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
45. When did you first start using a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
46. Where do you use your computer? ____
_________________________________________________________________________________________
47. Which computer magazines do you read?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
48. Which language do you use the most often?
_________________________________________________________________________________________

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49. Which languages do you know?

_________________________________________________________________________________________
50. Who taught you to use a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
51. Why did you buy your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
52. Does your family have a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
53. How fast can you type?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
54. Have you ever taken a course at school where you used a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
55. How do you study English with your computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
56. How does e-mail work?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
57. What is the difference between software and hardware?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
58. How many people in your family can use a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
59. How much did your first computer cost? How much did you last computer cost?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
60. How much does it cost by buy a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
61. What's the least expensive?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
62. What's the most expensive?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
63. How much does your Internet service provider cost?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
64. If you could buy a new computer, what would you like to buy?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
65. If you had lots of money, what kind of computer system would you like to buy?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
66. Which do you like better, a laptop computer or a desktop computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
67. What is your favorite website?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
68. Do you ever visit English websites while web-surfing?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
69. What is multimedia?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
70. When did you first get a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
71. Do you remember the first time you used a computer or the Internet?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
72. How long have there been personal computers in your country?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
73. Can your parents operate a computer? / Can you children use a computer?
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74. Do you think a computer can bring us happiness? Explain your opinion.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
75. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
1. What is configuration of your PC?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What are some good things about having a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. What are some bad things about having a computer?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
4. Does having a computer make life more complicated or less complicated?
5. How often do you perform a backup? What kind of backup method do you use? What kind of backup media
do you use?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
6. What are chat rooms and instant messaging? Why can these be dangerous for you and your kids?

Your QUESTIONS
1. _________________________________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________________________________________
6. _________________________________________________________________________________________
7. _________________________________________________________________________________________
8. _________________________________________________________________________________________
9. _________________________________________________________________________________________
10. _________________________________________________________________________________________

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CONFLICT
1.

What is conflict?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

2.

Is conflict always negative?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

3.

Can conflicts at work place affect the efficiency of one's work?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

4.

Can violent conflicts be solved with violence?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

5.

Does there have to be a winner and a loser of a conflict?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

6.

How can conflicts be resolved?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

7.

How can the world be peaceful when other countries are not trying to bring peace?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

8.

How do you deal with conflicts?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

9.

Is conflict inevitable?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

10. What causes conflict?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
11. What conflicts are going on around the world?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
12. What conflicts exist in your life?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
13. What happens to people who are involved in conflicts?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
14. What would you consider to be a constructive approach to conflict?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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CRIME
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Are some parts of this city considered more dangerous than others? Which parts?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Are there any places you are afraid to visit because of the high crime rate? If so, where?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Are there problems with drugs where you live?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Are you fearful about walking outside after dark?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you always lock your house? How about your car?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you know anyone who has been mugged?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you know someone who has been a victim of a violent crime?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think abortion is a crime?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think corporal punishment is necessary?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think gun control is a good idea? Explain.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think people who use illegal drugs should be put in jail?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think police TV dramas are realistic?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think policeman should be allowed to carry guns?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think prostitution is a crime? Do you think that "corporate criminals" are sufficiently punished for
their crimes?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think that capital punishment is a good idea? Why or why not?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think that police dramas can teach people how serious certain actions can be?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think that the death penalty would prevent crime in your country? Why (not)?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think there are any legal drugs that should be illegal?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think there is a link between drugs and crime?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think there will be more or less crime in the future?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you think your country is a safe place to live? Why or why not?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Do you walk alone at night in your home city?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever done anything illegal? If so, what did you do?
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24. Have you ever had something stolen from you?

___________________________________________________________________________________
25. Have you ever seen a crime?

___________________________________________________________________________________
26. How can you prevent things from being stolen?

___________________________________________________________________________________
27. If a person steals a loaf of bread because he needs to feed his starving family, should he be punished?
28.
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Is child abuse a problem in your country?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Is drunk driving a crime where you live? If so, what is the punishment?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Is your hometown considered safe?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What crimes do you think will decrease in the future?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What crimes do you think will increase in the future?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What crimes have you heard about recently in the news?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think is the worst crime a person could commit? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What is the punishment for murder in your country?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What is the punishment for stealing in your country?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What kinds of crimes do you think can be prevented? How?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What would you do if you heard a burglar in your house?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What's your opinion about the death penalty?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Who decides what is and isn't a crime?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Why do you think crime is more widespread in some societies than in others?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Why do you think people steal things?
___________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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DAYS OF THE WEEK

1. Can you spell the days of the week?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
2. On which day do you start work again?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What day is the day after tomorrow?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What day is tomorrow?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What day of the week is the hardest for you to spell?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What day was it yesterday?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What day was the day before yesterday?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
8. What days of the week are the weekend?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What is the date today?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What is your first working day of the week?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is your last working day of the week?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What was the date yesterday?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
13. What day is it today?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What will the date be tomorrow?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Which days of the week do you have an English class?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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EDUCATION
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21.

What do you study? What's your major?

_____________________________________________________________________________
Are there good universities in your city? What are they?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Does your country provide a good public school system?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Which high schools and universities are so good in your city?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Does your country have good public universities? If not, why do you think there is a lack of funding for education
in your country?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Do elite universities help or harm your country?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Does education guarantee a good job?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Are most schools coeducational in your country?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Are private universities tuitions reasonable?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Should education be free?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What realistic changes would you make to your country's attitude toward education?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
Are women encouraged to pursue education?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Who selects the university you will attend -- you or your parents?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Do you think that most parents influence what university their child will attend?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Do you think your school is a good one? Why/why not?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
Are foreign languages part of the curriculum? If so, which languages?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Once you graduate from a university should you stop learning?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Do you have difficulty with school work?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Do you think your teachers give too much homework?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Why are you studying a foreign language?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Why is it helpful to learn a Second language?
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22. Why English is hard to learn at university level?

_____________________________________________________________________________
23. What are some good ways to learn English?

_____________________________________________________________________________
24. What are the qualities of a good student?

_____________________________________________________________________________
25. What are the qualities of a good teacher?
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What are some ways a person can continue to learn?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Where do we learn the skills necessary to become a good student - in elementary, middle, high school, or
university?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What skills separate good students from bad students?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What was (or is) your favourite lesson? Why do you like it?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Are there any subjects/classes you wanted to study but they weren't available at your school/college?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Do you think it is easier to learn as a child or as an adult?
_____________________________________________________________________________
How do you travel to school?
_____________________________________________________________________________
How long must you go to university to get a degree?
_____________________________________________________________________________
How much is too much homework? How should the homework load be managed?
_____________________________________________________________________________
If you have not attended university, do you plan on doing so?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Is it difficult for people without a university education to get good jobs where you live?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What is the average age of a high school graduate?
_____________________________________________________________________________
On average, how well are teachers paid?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What is the average class size in your country?
_____________________________________________________________________________
How do your countrys schools compare with schools in other countries?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Why do you think people dont want to be teachers?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Why is it sometimes very difficult to speak another language?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Would you consider studying abroad?
_____________________________________________________________________________
How much free time does a high school student in your country have?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What kind of world do you think this would be if people never went to school?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Why do students cheat during tests and exams?
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47. How do students cheat in your school?

_____________________________________________________________________________
48. What is your attitude towards cheating?

_____________________________________________________________________________
49. What are the dangers of cheating?

_____________________________________________________________________________
50. How should parents react to cheating?
51.
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56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.

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How should teachers react to cheating?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Why do you (want to) study at Fatih University?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Tell about your learning experience.
_____________________________________________________________________________
How do you motivate yourself?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What kind of relationship do you have with your teachers?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What is your philosophy on homework? Grading? Portfolio?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Describe the ideal university for which you are looking.
_____________________________________________________________________________
How would you change the public schools for the better?
_____________________________________________________________________________
How is your classroom organized?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What lesson do you like the most/least, and why?

YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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ENERGY
1. Do you think scientists will solve the worlds energy problems?
___________________________________________________________________________________
2. Do you think solar cells, wind farms, tidal power, hydropower and thermal energy will solve our future energy
needs?
___________________________________________________________________________________
3. Do you try to save energy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
4. Does your country need a lot of energy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
5. Does your country use a lot of renewable energy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
6. Does your government have/need an energy conservation policy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
7. Have you started buying energy-efficient appliances for your house?
___________________________________________________________________________________
8. How can you save the amount of energy you use every day?
___________________________________________________________________________________
9. How much energy do you use every day?
___________________________________________________________________________________
10. What do you think low energy houses of the future will be like?
___________________________________________________________________________________
11. What do you think of a future in which we totally rely on nuclear energy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
12. What do you think of the worlds hugely increasing energy needs?
___________________________________________________________________________________
13. What do you think when multinational energy and oil companies say they care about the environment?
___________________________________________________________________________________
14. What happens if we run out of energy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
15. What have you done today that has used your countrys energy
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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ENVIRONMENTAL
1. Do you add to the environment's problems in your daily life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Do you think animals are angry with humans for destroying the Earth?
________________________________________________________________________________________
3. How would you explain to someone who doesn't know what global warming is?
________________________________________________________________________________________
4. How would you feel if all the pandas died and became extinct?
________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Is it better if we all went back to nature (left the cities and moved to the countryside)?
________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Is it possible for everyone to change their lifestyle to help the Earth?
________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Shopping increases environmental problems. Should we stop shopping?
________________________________________________________________________________________
8. What can you do every day to help the environment?
________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What causes climate change and how can we reverse it?
________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What do you think when you hear the words environmental problem?
________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is the biggest environmental problem? Why do you think so?
________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What makes environmental problems?
________________________________________________________________________________________
13. What problems do you know of about water?
________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Who is most responsible for creating environmental problems?
________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Why is an environmental problem a problem?
________________________________________________________________________________________
16. Will the problems get worse or will they slowly disappear?
________________________________________________________________________________________
17. Will we (humans) kill the Earth one day?
________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. _________________________________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________________________________________
6. _________________________________________________________________________________________

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ENVIRONMENT & POLLUTION

1.

Do you recycle?
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2.

Do you think cars should be banned from city centers?

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3.

Do you think people should recycle newspapers? Why or why not?

___________________________________________________________________________________

4.

Do you think recycling is an important community service?

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5.

Do you think there are lessons to learn from nature?

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6.

Do you usually drink bottled water? Why or Why not?

___________________________________________________________________________________

7.

Does your local government make it easy or hard for citizens to recycle?
___________________________________________________________________________________

8.

How can we protect the environment and at the same time improve people's standard of living?
___________________________________________________________________________________

9.

How has the world changed since you were a child? (technology, values, environment, health)
___________________________________________________________________________________

10. How is pollution effecting the environment of the United States today? How about your own country?

___________________________________________________________________________________
11. How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?

___________________________________________________________________________________
12. How would this help the environment?

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13. If you could choose one alternative energy source to develop which one would you choose? Why?

___________________________________________________________________________________
14. Should gas for motorists be more expensive?

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15. Should we make the development of renewable energy sources an economic priority?

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16. What about programs in your native country?

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17. What are some things that can be recycled?

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18. What are some things that your community is doing to help the?

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19. What are some things which you recycle?

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20. What are some types of pollution?

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21. What are some ways energy is wasted?

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22. What are some ways that you can reduce pollution in this country?

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23. What can large cities do to improve their air quality?

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24. What can we do to protect forests?

___________________________________________________________________________________
25. What can you do to help prevent pollution?

___________________________________________________________________________________
26. What can you do to make this world a better place?

___________________________________________________________________________________
27. What do you think of people who smoke cigarettes indoors?

___________________________________________________________________________________
28. What happens when we remove forests?

___________________________________________________________________________________
29. What is the main problem with renewable energy sources?

___________________________________________________________________________________
30. What is the most important issue facing the environment today?

___________________________________________________________________________________
31. What types of energy are popular in your native country?

___________________________________________________________________________________
32. What's happening to forests in the world?

___________________________________________________________________________________
33. Which side would you choose?

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34. Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the government? Explain.

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35. Who should pay for the costs associated with renewable energy?

___________________________________________________________________________________
36. Why should we recycle?

___________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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EVOLUTION
1. What do you understand by the term natural selection?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Do you think God created everything as it is outlined in the book of Genesis?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
3. How can we know what happened millions of years ago?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Do you believe the story of evolution as told in religious books?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Do you think Darwins theory of evolution is the best?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Do you think we descended from the apes?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
7. How do you think the world got here?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Do you think humans are set apart from the animal kingdom?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
9. How do you think we got here?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Many followers of the Intelligent Design theory say we were created by an intelligent designer. What do you
think?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What do you think we will look like millions of years from now?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What do you think of the survival of the fittest theory?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Why have we evolved into different looks and colours?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Do you think evolution is a random process?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
15. How was the very first life form created and what did it do/look like?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
16. How long ago did human become human and what made us human?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
17. Why is Darwins Theory of Evolution discarded by so many religions?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
18. Can you watch evolution happening?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Many schools in the USA teach creationism the idea that God put humans on Earth as we are today. What
do you think of this?
_________________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

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2.

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3.

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4.

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HOW DO YOU...?
1. How do earn your living?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How do you advance at work?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. How do you bargain?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. How do you boil an egg?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. How do you book a hotel room?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. How do you build a sandcastle?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7. How do you change a tire on a bicycle?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8. How do you change a tire on a car?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. How do you cheer up a friend if he or she failed an important test?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
10. How do you cheer up a friend if he or she is having a hard time finding a job after graduation?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
11. How do you cheer up a friend if he or she is overwhelmed by how much he or she has to do?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
12. How do you choose a name for your baby?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
13. How do you climb a mountain?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
14. How do you climb a tree?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
15. How do you control your anger?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
16. How do you cram for an exam?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
17. How do you do laundry?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
18. How do you do paper cutting?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
19. How do you drive a car?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
20. How do you enjoy a day at the beach?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
21. How do you enjoy your holidays?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
22. How do you fly a kite?

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____________________________________________________________________________________________
23. How do you get a driver's license?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
24. How do you get dressed?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
25. How do you get rid of a headache?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
26. How do you give a speech?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
27. How do you go fishing?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
28. How do you go to sleep?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
29. How do you improve your pronunciation?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
30. How do you improve your vocabulary?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
31. How do you iron your clothes?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
32. How do you judge a person?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
33. How do you know if someone really loves you?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
34. How do you learn a new language?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
35. How do you lose weight?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
36. How do you make a friend?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
37. How do you make a sandwich?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
38. How do you make a snowman?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
39. How do you make coffee?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
40. How do you make ice?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
41. How do you make rice?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
42. How do you make your house cooler?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
43. How do you mop the floor?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
44. How do you plan a surprise party?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
45. How do you plant vegetables?
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46. How do you play basketball?

____________________________________________________________________________________________
47. How do you play hide-and-seek?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
48. How do you play table tennis?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
49. How do you play tag?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
50. How do you play volleyball?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
51. How do you pray?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
52. How do you prepare for a wedding?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
53. How do you raise a child?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
54. How do you reach your office?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
55. How do you ride a bicycle?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
56. How do you safely cross the street?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
57. How do you sell your house?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
58. How do you send a text message from a cell phone?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
59. How do you send e-mail?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
60. How do you serve humanity?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
61. How do you set the table for a meal?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
62. How do you shave?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
63. How do you start a computer?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
64. How do you stop hiccupping?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
65. How do you stop smoking?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
66. How do you succeed in school?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
67. How do you take a book from the library?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
68. How do you take a photo?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
69. How do you take a shower?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
70. How do you take care of a goldfish?
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71. How do you take care of a plant?

____________________________________________________________________________________________
72. How do you thank your parents?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
73. How do you tie your shoes?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
74. How do you treat a cold?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
75. How do you use a calculator?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
76. How do you use a DVD player?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
77. How do you use a knife and fork?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
78. How do you use a microwaves oven?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
79. How do you use chopsticks?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
80. How do you use the phone?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
81. How do you wash a car?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
82. How do you wash dishes?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
83. How do you wash your clothes?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
84. How do you wrap a present?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
85. How do you write a resume?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
86. How to make a sandwich
____________________________________________________________________________________________
87. How would you teach English?
____________________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR QUESTIONS
5.

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6.

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7.

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8.

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9.

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10. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
11. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
12. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

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IRAQ
1. Does your country have good relations with Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How different is Iraq from other world countries?
________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What are the good things and bad things about Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What are your thoughts on the recent history of Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What do you know about Iraqi history?
________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What do you know about Iraqi politics?
________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What do you think Iraq will be like 50 years from now?
________________________________________________________________________________________
8. What do you think Iraqi people think of the world?
________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What do you think is the most tragic thing about Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What has Iraq given to the world?
________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is Iraq famous for?
________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What is your idea of a typical Iraqi person?
________________________________________________________________________________________
13. What things about Iraq do you think Iraqi people are proud of?
________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What was the last story you heard or read about Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
15. What would the world be like today if the US had never invaded Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
16. What would you like to ask an Iraqi person about Iraq?
________________________________________________________________________________________
17. Where do you think Iraq fits in the list of the worlds most important countries?
________________________________________________________________________________________
18. Who are the most famous Iraqi people you know?
________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Would you like to visit Iraq?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
7. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
8. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
10. _________________________________________________________________________________________
11. _________________________________________________________________________________________
12. _________________________________________________________________________________________

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ISLAM
1. What is Islam?
________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What springs to mind when you hear the word Islam?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What questions about Islam would you really like answered?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What was the last news story you read or heard about Islam?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What is Jihad and why do people misinterpret it?
________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What is the difference between Islam and other world religions?
________________________________________________________________________________________
7. How has Islam changed the world throughout history?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Why do you think Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world?
________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
________________________________________________________________________________________
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10. What do you know about Islamic art?
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11. How are Muslim countries different to non-Muslim countries?

________________________________________________________________________________________
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12. What things must and mustnt you do when you enter a mosque?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Does Islam have different rules for men and women?
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Would you like to make the pilgrimage to Mecca?
________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Do you think Muslims are treated equally by the major world powers?
________________________________________________________________________________________
16. What do you know about Islamic holidays such as Ramadan and the Eid celebrations?
________________________________________________________________________________________
17. What do you think of Islamic dress?
________________________________________________________________________________________
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

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2.

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3.

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4.

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5.

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6.

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8.

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9.

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10. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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LIFE
1. What comes to mind when you hear the word life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Do you enjoy life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What life-changing moments have you had in your life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Have you led an easy or difficult life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Do you think theres life after death?
________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Do you think theres life on Mars (or on other planets)?
________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Do you ever feel you have wasted your life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Would you like to live your same life all over again?
________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Whats your love life like?
________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Is life more similar to a pizza or a box of chocolates?
________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is the meaning of life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
12. Whats your biggest goal in life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Is life complicated?
________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What word would you use to sum up your life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Do you have a good quality of life?
________________________________________________________________________________________
16. If life came with an instruction manual, what would it say?
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17. Who has been your biggest influence in life?

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18. What will life be like fifty years from now?
________________________________________________________________________________________
19. What does life taste, smell, feel, look and sound like?
________________________________________________________________________________________
20. If you could live someone elses life, whose would it be and why?
________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
7. __________________________________________________________________________________________
8. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
9. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
10. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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LIKES AND DISLIKES

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What kind of music do you like?

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Who are your favorite performers or bands?
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Do you like music or musicians from other countries as well? If so, who or what kind?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What kinds of music dont you like?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Name some singers or groups that you dislike.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like watching TV?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What are your all-time favorite TV programs?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What are your favorite kinds of programs or shows?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like movies?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like movies from other countries as well? If so, what kind?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like actors from other countries as well? If so, who?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What kinds of movies or which actors dont you like?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Who are your favorite actors?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like programs or shows from other countries as well? If so, what kind?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like actors from other countries as well? If so, who?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What kinds of programs or which actors dont you like?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like watching movies?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What are your favorite kinds of movies?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What are your all-time favorite movies?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Who are your favorite actors?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like sports?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
What are your favorite kinds of sports?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Who are your favorite athletes?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Do you like sports from other countries as well? If so, what kind?
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25. Do you like football players from other countries as well? If so, who?

____________________________________________________________________________________________
26. Which athletes don't you like?

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27. Do you like reading books?

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28. What are your favorite kinds of books?

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29. What are your favorite titles?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
30. Who are your favorite authors?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
7. __________________________________________________________________________________________
8. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
9. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
10. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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WEDDINGS
1. Can you tell me about the wedding traditions in your country?
________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Describe the wedding you've been to or heard about.
________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Do you think it is important to get married before moving in with your boyfriend\girlfriend?
________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Do you think parents should be married or it is not important?
________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Have you heard of some unusual gifts given to a couple?
________________________________________________________________________________________
6. How much does it cost to organize a wedding ceremony? What are the main expense items?
________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What are the pros and cons of organizing a wedding with guests, wedding dress and so on?
________________________________________________________________________________________
8. What do you know about wedding agencies? What services do they provide?
________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What gifts do guests usually give to the bride and groom? What do you think is the best gift?
________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What is better, to have a traditional wedding with guests invited, wedding dress and the banquet or to have just
an official registration without any guests?
________________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is the best age for a man or woman to get married?
________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What is the divorce rate in your country?
________________________________________________________________________________________
13. What is your attitude toward a church wedding ceremony? Do you think it is necessary?
________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What is your attitude toward marriage?
________________________________________________________________________________________
15. What is your attitude toward wedding ceremonies?
________________________________________________________________________________________
16. What positive or negative changes take place in the life of a couple after marriage?
________________________________________________________________________________________
17. Who got married? What was the program of the day? What were your impressions of that wedding?
________________________________________________________________________________________
18. Will you feel comfortable living together without the official registration? What about having a baby?
________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Would you address to a wedding agency for help or would you organize everything yourself?
________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

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2.

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3.

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4.

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MATHS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Are all intelligent people good at maths?
________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Are girls or boys better at maths?
________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Are people who are really good at maths very interesting?
________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Are there times when two plus two equals five?
________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Are you good at mental arithmetic now?
________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Can you remember what your first real kiss was like?
________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Did you have a favourite or a hated maths teacher?
________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Did you like maths at school? Why? Why not?
________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Do you know your times tables up to 12 times 12?
________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Do you like maths the British English pronunciation and spelling, or math the American versions?
________________________________________________________________________________________
11. How many different branches of mathematics do you know of?
________________________________________________________________________________________
12. How often do you use maths of some kind in a normal day?
________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Were you good at maths at school? Why? Why not?
________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What do you know about the history of maths?
________________________________________________________________________________________
15. What do you remember when you hear the word mathematics?
________________________________________________________________________________________
16. What is maths useful for nowadays if we have computers and calculators?
________________________________________________________________________________________
17. What is the philosophy of mathematics?
________________________________________________________________________________________
18. What springs to mind when you hear the word mathematics?
________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Whats most confusing to you: algebra, statistics, probability or chaos theory?
________________________________________________________________________________________
20. Why is maths so important at schools?
________________________________________________________________________________________
21. Would you like to study maths again?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
5.

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11. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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PHYSICS
1) What comes to mind when you hear the word physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2) Is physics important?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3) Are you interested in physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4) What did you like most and least about physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5) Do all physics professors need messy hair and a beard?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6) What do you know about the laws of physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7) What do you know about the different branches of physics; e.g. quantum physics, applied physics, nuclear physics,
particle physics, etc?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8) What use is physics in our world?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9) Will you become rich if you have a physics degree?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
10) Who was the greatest physicist ever?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
1) What is physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2) How is your country at physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3) Would you like to do physics experiments?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4) What physics formulae do you know? Do you understand them?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5) What do you know about physics that you could teach a child?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6) Why do you think people like physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7) What do you know about Nobel Prize winners in physics?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8) What question would you like to ask a physicist?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9) The famous physicist Stephen Hawking said: My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why
it
is as it is and why it exists at all. What do you think of this?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
10) What is the greatest ever discovery in physics and what will the next one be?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

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SCHOOL
1.

Are you allowed to eat in the classrooms?

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2.

Are you allowed to smoke in the classrooms?

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3.

Did you belong to any clubs in high school?

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4.

Did you go to a public high school or a private one?

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5.

Did you have to wear a uniform in high school? How about elementary school?
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6.

Did you study art in high school?

___________________________________________________________________________________

7.

Do most of your teachers take attendance?

___________________________________________________________________________________

8.

Do some of your teachers let class out early?

___________________________________________________________________________________

9.

Do you carry a dictionary to your English classes? How about your other classes?
___________________________________________________________________________________

10. Do you enjoy studying English? (...math, science, ...)

___________________________________________________________________________________
11. Do you play on any of the school's sports teams?

___________________________________________________________________________________
12. Do you still keep in touch with your best friend in elementary school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
13. Have you ever been late for class? If so, why? When was the last time? Did the teacher get angry?

___________________________________________________________________________________
14. Have you ever failed a class? (Maybe this is not polite to ask.)

___________________________________________________________________________________
15. Have you ever slept in class?

___________________________________________________________________________________
16. How do you get to school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
17. How long does it take you to get to school?

___________________________________________________________________________________

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18. How many times have you been absent from school this year?

___________________________________________________________________________________
19. How much homework do you do every day?

___________________________________________________________________________________
20. Was your high school strict? How?

___________________________________________________________________________________
21. Were you on any sports teams in high school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
22. What classes do you not like? Why don't you like them?

___________________________________________________________________________________
23. What did you like best about high school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
24. What do you like best about your school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
25. What do you like the least about your school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
26. What do you think about your English class?

___________________________________________________________________________________
27. What do you want to do after you graduate?

___________________________________________________________________________________
28. What school did you graduate from? What high school? What junior high school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
29. What time does your first class begin on Tuesday?

___________________________________________________________________________________
30. What was the name of your junior high school?

___________________________________________________________________________________
31. What's your favorite subject? Why do you like it? Who is the teacher? How many times a week does the class

meet?
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
32. Which subjects are you good at? (What are your strong subjects?)

___________________________________________________________________________________

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33. Which subjects are you poor at? (Which subjects are difficult for you?)

___________________________________________________________________________________
34. Who is your favorite teacher? What course does he or she teach? Why do you like him or her?

___________________________________________________________________________________
35. What did you find the most surprising thing about the USA school system?

___________________________________________________________________________________
36. What are the major characteristics you think a teacher should have?

___________________________________________________________________________________
37. Do you have to wear a uniform to your school? (Did you have to....) Do you like wearing a uniform?

___________________________________________________________________________________
38. Tell us about your favorite teacher. Why do you like him/her? Explain.

___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
39. Do you like to wear a school uniform? Why or why not?

___________________________________________________________________________________
40. How are the customs of the classrooms in the US different from the customs that you have experienced in other

places?
___________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR QUESTIONS
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
7. __________________________________________________________________________________________
8. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
9. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
10. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSION

QUESTIONS
1.

What do you think are the three most important or interesting inventions since 1850? How about since 1950?
_________________________________________________________________________________________

2.

Do you think pets should be cloned? Why or why not?

________________________________________________________________________________________

3.

Do you think people should be allowed to clone people or organs of people? Why?
________________________________________________________________________________________

4.

What do you think about GMO (genetically modified organisms) vegetables? Is it better to use natural food
although it might not produce as much or should we use GMO crops?
________________________________________________________________________________________

5.

What do you think about GMO farm animals? Would you eat chicken from a GMO chicken?
________________________________________________________________________________________

6.

What do you think robots should be used for?

________________________________________________________________________________________

7.

Do you think using cell phones too much is bad for our physical or mental health? Why?
________________________________________________________________________________________

8.

If you could copy your brain for future generations, would you?
________________________________________________________________________________________

9.

What changes have social changes have cell phones made?

________________________________________________________________________________________

10. What are good and bad points of using computers?

________________________________________________________________________________________
11. Do you think modern technology reduces or increases stress? Why?

________________________________________________________________________________________
12. Do you think money should be spent to explore space or is it better spent helping people on earth? Why?

________________________________________________________________________________________
13. What is your opinion about children playing violent videogames or computer programs?

________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Have you used a chat site? Have you ever used voice chat? What do you think about it?

________________________________________________________________________________________

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SCIENCE QUESTIONS
1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word science?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2) How important is science?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3) Is science always good?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4) Do you always trust science?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5) Were you good at science at school?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6) What science projects or experiments did you like at school?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7) Would you donate your body to science after you die?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8) Why is science becoming less and less popular in schools?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9)

What kind of people love science?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

10) Do you like science?

____________________________________________________________________________________________
11)

What were your science teachers like?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

12)

What has science done for humankind?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

13)

What will science uncover in the next few decades?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

14)

What questions will science never answer?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

15)

Do science and religion fit well together?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

16)

What will the next big discovery in science be?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

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17)

Would you want your children to study science, management or law?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

18)

The Japanese anime character Ikari Gendo said: Science is the power of Man. What does this mean? Do you
agree?
____________________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

2.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

3.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

4.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

5.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

6.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

7.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

8.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

9.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

10. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

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WEATHER
1.

What are the seasons?

____________________________________________________________________________

2.

About how many inches of rain does your hometown get per year?
____________________________________________________________________________

3.

Are there any special traditions associated with different season in your country?
____________________________________________________________________________

4.

Do you have many disasters in you country which are caused by weather?
____________________________________________________________________________

5.

Do you have snow in your country? (Do you have hail?)

____________________________________________________________________________

6.

Do you know any interesting myths or stories about weather?

____________________________________________________________________________

7.
8.

Do you like snow? ____________________________________________________________

Do you think that in recent years we are losing our four distinct seasons?
____________________________________________________________________________

9.

Do you think weather affects the way people feel?

____________________________________________________________________________

10. Do you think weather patterns are changing? If so, why do you think this is?

____________________________________________________________________________
11. Have you ever been caught in bad weather? If so, what did you do?

____________________________________________________________________________
12. Have you ever been in a typhoon?

____________________________________________________________________________
13. Have you ever been stranded in a snowstorm? What did you do?

____________________________________________________________________________
14. Have you ever checked the weather for your city on the Internet?

____________________________________________________________________________
15. Have you ever seen snow?

____________________________________________________________________________
16. How can extreme weather conditions affect the economy and social life in countries?

____________________________________________________________________________
17. How does TV secure weather reports?

____________________________________________________________________________

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18. How does weather affect your attitude? How does weather affect your lifestyle?

____________________________________________________________________________
19. How to you depend on the weather reports on TV?

____________________________________________________________________________
20. In your opinion, which season is the most beautiful?

____________________________________________________________________________
21. What are the different kinds of weather?

____________________________________________________________________________
22. What crops are produced in which seasons in your country?

____________________________________________________________________________
23. What is the best season to get married? Can you think of other activities in which one season may be better

24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.

than another?
____________________________________________________________________________
What is the coldest season?
____________________________________________________________________________
What is the hottest season?
____________________________________________________________________________
What is the relationship between weather and natural disasters?
____________________________________________________________________________
What is the weather like in your country for each season?
____________________________________________________________________________
What is your favorite winter activity?
What kind of climate do you prefer when choosing a place to go on vacation?
____________________________________________________________________________
What month gets the most rain in your country? What month gets the most rain around here?)
____________________________________________________________________________
What time of year is the best weather where you live?
____________________________________________________________________________
What's the average temperature in your country in the summer time? How about in the winter?
____________________________________________________________________________
What's your favorite season and why?
____________________________________________________________________________
When would knowing tomorrow's weather change you plans?
____________________________________________________________________________
Where do you get your weather information?
____________________________________________________________________________
Which do you like better hot weather or cold weather? Which season is the most comfortable for you?
____________________________________________________________________________
Why do you think spring (or another season) is the most beautiful season?
____________________________________________________________________________
Why is it important to know future weather conditions in advanced?
____________________________________________________________________________

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WHAT IF
If a classmate asked you for the answer to a question during an exam while the teacher was not looking, what
would you do?
2. _______________________________________________________________________________________
3. If one song were to describe your life, what song would it be?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
1.

4.

If only one book existed, which book would you like it to be?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

5.

If a child's underwear was showing, would you tell them?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

6.

If the whole world were listening, what would you say?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

7.

If you bumped your car into another car, but nobody saw you do it, would you leave your name and address?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

8.

If you could ask an All-Knowing Being one question about life, what would it be?
_______________________________________________________________________________________

9.

If you could be a bird, what would you choose to be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

10. If you could be a crayon, what color and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
11. If you could be a plant, what would you choose to be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
12. If you could be a super-hero, which one would you be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
13. If you could be an animal, any animal, what animal would you be and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
14. If you could be another man or woman for a day, who would you choose and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
15. If you could be another person for a day, who would you be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
16. If you could be famous (a household name), what would you like to be famous for?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
17. If you could be invisible for a day what would you do and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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18. If you could be married with a foreign (man/woman), how do you think your life would change?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
19. If you could change one thing about your spouse or significant other, what would it be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
20. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
21. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
22. If you could change one thing that you did that was bad, perhaps a crime or some wrong you did to another

person, what would it be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
23. If you could choose how you were going to die, what would you choose your death to be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
24. If you could choose to live on a different planet, which one would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
25. If you could commit any crime and get away with it, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
26. If you could date a celebrity, who would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
27. If you could do any job, what would you like to do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
28. If you could go back to any moment in history, where would you go?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
29. If you could have a free chip put in your brain so that you would automatically be able to speak and understand

another language besides English, which language would it be and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
30. If you could have any car you wanted, which car would you choose? Would it be practical or flashy?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
31. If you could have dinner with anyone (dead OR alive), who would you choose, and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
32. If you could have only one food for the rest of your life (assuming that this strange situation would not affect your

health), which food would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
33. If you could hear what someone is thinking for a day, who would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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34. If you could live anywhere, where would you live?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
35. If you could live forever on earth as it is now, would you? Why or why not?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
36. If you could live perfectly well without sleeping, if you had no need to sleep at all, how would you spend all your

nights?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
37. If you could meet any famous person, dead or alive, who would it be and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
38. If you could move anywhere, where would you like to live?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
39. If you could not differentiate beautiful from ugly, how would choose your spouse? (Perhaps not an appropriate

questions, but it was submitted.)

_______________________________________________________________________________________
40. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, which song would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
41. If you could receive praise from a person, what person would it be? What kind of praise would you like to

receive?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
42. If you could solve the problem of hunger in the third world or repair the ozone, which would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
43. If you could speak any other language (besides English) which language would you like to speak?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
44. If you could spend a day with any celebrity, who would it be and what questions would you ask that person?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
45. If you could stop a bad habit that you have, what would you stop?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
46. If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world for any length of time, where would you go? f you could go

anywhere in the world for a holiday, where would you go?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
47. If you could travel back in time, where would you go?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
48. If you didn't have enough money to get the bus home what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
49. If you discovered a new island, what would you name it and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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50. If you found a suitcase full of $1,000,000, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
51. If you found a wallet with 1,000 in it, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
52. If you got arrested for murder, whom would you call with your telephone call from prison? And why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
53. If you got into traffic accident, what would you do at first?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
54. If you had 25-hour days (while everyone else continued to have 24-hour days), what would you do with the extra

time?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
55. f you had an accident and you had to be at home to recover for a long time, what would you do to relieve the

boredom?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
56. If you had one wish, what would it be?

_____________________________________________________________________________________
57. If you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
58. If you had the opportunity to be different, what would you change?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
59. If you had time machine and you could be transported to any time, the past or the future. What time would you

choose?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
60. If you had time machine, where would you go and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
61. If you had to choose between a wonderful romantic relationship that would end after only a year, or a so-so

relationship that would last your entire life, which one would you choose?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
62. If you had to choose between love and no money or money and no love for the rest of your life, which would you

choose?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
63. If you had to choose, would you give up your sight or your hearing?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
64. If you had to spend 100 days on a desert island, what five things would you take with you and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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65. If you received lottery tickets as a gift at the office party, and you won $30,000.00, would you share the winnings

with the person that gave you the gift?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
66. If you saw a robbery, would you report it?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
67. If you saw someone in public with toilet paper stuck to their shoe, would you tell them?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
68. If you saw your zipper was down and people had noticed, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
69. If you speak two languages and your spouse (husband or wife) speaks only one, will you raise your children to be

bilingual?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
70. If you were a candy, what candy would you be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
71. If you were a color, what color would you be and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
72. If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
73. If you were a monster, what monster would you be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
74. If you were a toy, what toy would you be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
75. If you were abducted by aliens, would you tell anybody? Why or why not?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
76. If you were American/Chinese/Mexican, how would your life be different?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
77. If you were asked to choose which time you would like to live in, which century would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
78. If you were asked to speak to a graduating class, what would you say?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
79. If you were down on your luck, would you seek the advice of a palm reader,

_______________________________________________________________________________________
80. If you were given a chance to go to the moon, would you go? Why or why not?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
81. If you were given a choice between being given great wisdom or great wealth, which would you choose?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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82. If you were given an opportunity to be born again, in which country would you like to be born?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
83. If you were given an opportunity to be born again, what kind of person would you choose to be?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
84. If you were given one million dollars, what would you buy?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
85. If you were given the opportunity to be born again, how would you change how you lived?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
86. If you were given three wishes, what would you wish for?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
87. If you were going to a deserted island and could only take three things with you, what would you take? Why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
88. If you were in the bank and somebody started to hold up the bank, what would you do? How would you react? If

you had one wish, what would you wish for?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
89. If you were offered a job in another part of the country, would you be willing to take the job, assuming that the

pay is very good?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
90. If you were on holiday and you lost your passport, would you know what to do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
91. if you were the leader of your country, what would you change?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
92. If you were the President of your country for a day, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
93. If you were the President, what problem or concern would you work on first?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
94. If you were the Queen for a day, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
95. If you were to be stranded on an island, which 3 things would you bring with you?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
96. If you were told that you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
97. If you were walking through the forest and you suddenly saw a tiger, what would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
98. If you woke up suddenly because your house was on fire, which three things would you save as you ran outside?

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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99. If you worked for a store and you saw another employee steal something, would you tell the manager?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
100.If your car broke down on the motorway, what would you do? Would you try to fix it yourself?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
101.If your friend could not have a child, would you carry her child for her?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
102.If your partner were offered a job in another part of the country, which was well paid, would you be willing to

change places?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
103.What if you have to sacrifice yourself for the sake of saving your mother? What would you do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
104. What kinds of problems would you have if you had to always tell the truth?

____________________________________________________________________________________
105. What if your cell phone fell in the toilet, what would you do?

___________________________________________________________________________________
106.What would you do if you found the wallet of your next-door neighbor who you hated?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
107.What would you do if you were at home at night, alone, and you heard a noise in your flat/house that seemed to

be footsteps? Would you stay calm or would you panic?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
108.You were told you had a terminal illness and had six months to live. What three things would be most important

for you to do?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
109.Your doctor has just told you that you have a month to live, what would you do in that stretch of time? If your

doctor told you that you had only one month to live, how would you use the time left?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

______________________________________________________________________________________

2.

______________________________________________________________________________________

3.

______________________________________________________________________________________

4.

______________________________________________________________________________________

5.

______________________________________________________________________________________

6.

______________________________________________________________________________________

7.

______________________________________________________________________________________

8.

______________________________________________________________________________________

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO...?

1. What would you like to do in the future?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What would you do if you were rich?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What would you do if you were poor?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What would you do if you were the principal of your school?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What would you do if you could suddenly speak English?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What would you do if you won a lottery?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What would you do if you were told you had one month to live?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8. What would you do if you lost your passport?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What would you do if you were kidnapped?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What would you choose to have written on your gravestone when you die?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

2.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

3.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

4.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

5.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

6.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

7.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

8.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

9.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

10. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

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WHEN DID YOU FIRST...?

1. When did you first drive a car?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. When did you first eat raw fish?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. When did you first give a speech?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. When did you first go on a date?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. When did you first go on holiday without your parents?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. When did you first have a car accident?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7. When did you first have a part-time job?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8. When did you first ride a bicycle?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. When did you first shoot a gun?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
10. When did you first travel to another country?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

2.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

3.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

4.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

5.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

6.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

7.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

8.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

9.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

10. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

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WHEN WAS THE LAST...?

1. When was the last time you argued with your parents?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. When was the last time you borrowed a book?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. When was the last time you bought a CD?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. When was the last time you clean your room?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
5. When was the last time you danced?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. When was the last time you dialed the wrong number?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
7. When was the last time you did your homework?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
8. When was the last time you drank coffee?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
9. When was the last time you drove for more than two hours?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
10. When was the last time you dyed your hair?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
11. When was the last time you fell?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
12. When was the last time you felt really happy?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
13. When was the last time you forgot where something important was?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
14. When was the last time you got a gift?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
15. When was the last time you had a headache?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
16. When was the last time you had a nightmare?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
17. When was the last time you had a party?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
18. When was the last time you had your hair cut?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
19. When was the last time you killed a cockroach?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
20. When was the last time you laughed your head off?
____________________________________________________________________________________________

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21. When was the last time you lent money to someone?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
22. When was the last time you lost money?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
23. When was the last time you painted your house?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
24. When was the last time you played a sport?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
25. When was the last time you saw a very interesting movie?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
26. When was the last time you screamed because you were scared?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
27. When was the last time you studied until late at night?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
28. When was the last time you swam?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
29. When was the last time you talked to an old friend?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
30. When was the last time you told a joke?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
31. When was the last time you took a day off?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
32. When was the last time you travel by train?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
33. When was the last time you visited your hometown?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
34. When was the last time you wanted to forget about the world?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
35. When was the last time you watched a soccer match?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
36. When was the last time you went shopping?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
37. When was the last time you went to a good restaurant?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
38. When was the last time you went window shopping?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
39. When was the last time you wrote a letter?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
40. When was the time you you last skip class?
____________________________________________________________________________________________

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WHO IS THE GREATEST...?

1. What is the greatest all-time movie?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. What is the greatest movie from the past year?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Where is the greatest place to play in the world?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4. Where is the greatest place to play in your city?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
5. Who is the all-time greatest athlete in world?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
6. Who is the greatest actor?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
7. Who is the greatest actress?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
8. Who is the greatest basketball player?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
9. Who is the greatest businessman in the world?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
10. Who is the greatest cook you know?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
11. Who is the greatest country leader today?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
12. Who is the greatest football player?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
13. Who is the greatest leader in the past?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
14. Who is the greatest pop singer?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
15. Who is the nicest person in the world?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
YOUR QUESTIONS
1) ______________________________________________________________________________________
2) ______________________________________________________________________________________
3) ______________________________________________________________________________________
4) ______________________________________________________________________________________
5) ______________________________________________________________________________________
6) ______________________________________________________________________________________
7) ______________________________________________________________________________________
8) ______________________________________________________________________________________
9) ______________________________________________________________________________________
10) ______________________________________________________________________________________

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WISHES
1. What are three wishes you have for your life? If you could choose only one of these to come true, which would it
be and why? What would be some positive and negative consequences (results) if each of these wishes came
true?
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2. What other wishes do you have for yourself?
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3. What wishes do your parents have for you? Are they the same?
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4. What wishes do you have for your country? For your family members? For your classmates? For your
roommates?
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5. How have your wishes changed since you were young?
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6. When you were young, how did you answer this questions: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
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7. Have you ever had a wish come true? Was it what you always wanted?
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8. Why do we wish for things we don't have?
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9. If you have a wish but your family doesn't agree with you, what should you do?
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10. Do you have any strange wishes? Explain.
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11. Why are wishes very important to people?
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12. Do you really want all your wishes to come true?
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13. What would be one thing you would wish for your spouse?
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14. What would be one thing you hope your spouse remembers most about you if you were to die before him/her?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
15. What wishes do you have for your country? For your family members? For your classmates? For your
roommates?
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16. What in your life would you not change?
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17. What are you thankful for?
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18. Who are you thankful for?
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If one song were to describe your life, what song would it be?
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If a classmate asked you for the answer to a question during an exam while the teacher was not looking, what
would you do?
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If only one book existed, which book would you like it to be?
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If a child's underwear was showing, would you tell them?
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If the whole world were listening, what would you say?
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If you bumped your car into another car, but nobody saw you do it, would you leave your name and address?
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If you could ask an All-Knowing Being one question about life, what would it be?
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If you could be a bird, what would you choose to be?
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If you could be a crayon, what color and why?
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If you could be a plant, what would you choose to be?
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If you could be a super-hero, which one would you be?
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If you could be an animal, any animal, what animal would you be and why?
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If you could be another man or woman for a day, who would you choose and why?
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If you could be another person for a day, who would you be?
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If you could be famous (a household name), what would you like to be famous for?
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If you could be invisible for a day what would you do and why?
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If you could be married with a foreign (man/woman), how do you think your life would change?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could change one thing about your spouse or significant other, what would it be?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
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If you could change one thing that you did that was bad, perhaps a crime or some wrong you did to another
person, what would it be?
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If you could choose how you were going to die, what would you choose your death to be?
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If you could choose to live on a different planet, which one would you choose?
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24. If you could commit any crime and get away with it, what would you do?

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25. If you could date a celebrity, who would you choose?

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26. If you could do any job, what would you like to do?

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27. If you could go back to any moment in history, where would you go?
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If you could have a free chip put in your brain so that you would automatically be able to speak and understand
another language besides English, which language would it be and why?
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If you could have any car you wanted, which car would you choose? Would it be practical or flashy?
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If you could have dinner with anyone (dead OR alive), who would you choose, and why?
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If you could have only one food for the rest of your life (assuming that this strange situation would not affect your
health), which food would you choose?
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If you could hear what someone is thinking for a day, who would you choose?
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If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
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If you could live forever on earth as it is now, would you? Why or why not?
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If you could live perfectly well without sleeping, if you had no need to sleep at all, how would you spend all your
nights?
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If you could meet any famous person, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could move anywhere, where would you like to live?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could not differentiate beautiful from ugly, how would choose your spouse? (Perhaps not an appropriate
questions, but it was submitted.)
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If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, which song would you choose?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could receive praise from a person, what person would it be? What kind of praise would you like to
receive?
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If you could solve the problem of hunger in the third world or repair the ozone, which would you do?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could speak any other language (besides English) which language would you like to speak?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could spend a day with any celebrity, who would it be and what questions would you ask that person?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you could stop a bad habit that you have, what would you stop?
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45. If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world for any length of time, where would you go? f you could go

anywhere in the world for a holiday, where would you go?

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47. If you didn't have enough money to get the bus home what would you do?

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48. If you discovered a new island, what would you name it and why?

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49. If you found a suitcase full of $1,000,000, what would you do?
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If you found a wallet with 1,000 in it, what would you do?
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If you got arrested for murder, whom would you call with your telephone call from prison? And why?
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If you got into traffic accident, what would you do at first?
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If you had 25-hour days (while everyone else continued to have 24-hour days), what would you do with the extra
time?
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f you had an accident and you had to be at home to recover for a long time, what would you do to relieve the
boredom?
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If you had one wish, what would it be?
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If you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do?
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If you had the opportunity to be different, what would you change?
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If you had time machine and you could be transported to any time, the past or the future. What time would you
choose?
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If you had time machine, where would you go and why?
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If you had to choose between a wonderful romantic relationship that would end after only a year, or a so-so
relationship that would last your entire life, which one would you choose?
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If you had to choose between love and no money or money and no love for the rest of your life, which would you
choose?
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If you had to choose, would you give up your sight or your hearing?
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If you had to spend 100 days on a desert island, what five things would you take with you and why?
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If you received lottery tickets as a gift at the office party, and you won $30,000.00, would you share the winnings
with the person that gave you the gift?
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If you saw a robbery, would you report it?
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If you saw someone in public with toilet paper stuck to their shoe, would you tell them?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you saw your zipper was down and people had noticed, what would you do?
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bilingual?
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If you were a candy, what candy would you be?
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If you were a color, what color would you be and why?
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If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be and why?
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If you were a monster, what monster would you be?
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If you were a toy, what toy would you be?
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If you were abducted by aliens, would you tell anybody? Why or why not?
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If you were American/Chinese/Mexican, how would your life be different?
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If you were asked to choose which time you would like to live in, which century would you choose?
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If you were asked to speak to a graduating class, what would you say?
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If you were down on your luck, would you seek the advice of a palm reader,
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If you were given a chance to go to the moon, would you go? Why or why not?
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If you were given a choice between being given great wisdom or great wealth, which would you choose?
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If you were given an opportunity to be born again, in which country would you like to be born?
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If you were given an opportunity to be born again, what kind of person would you choose to be?
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If you were given one million dollars, what would you buy?
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If you were given the opportunity to be born again, how would you change how you lived?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you were given three wishes, what would you wish for?
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If you were going to a deserted island and could only take three things with you, what would you take? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
If you were in the bank and somebody started to hold up the bank, what would you do? How would you react? If
you had one wish, what would you wish for?
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If you were offered a job in another part of the country, would you be willing to take the job, assuming that the
pay is very good?
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If you were on holiday and you lost your passport, would you know what to do?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
if you were the leader of your country, what would you change?
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If you were the President of your country for a day, what would you do?
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93. If you were the Queen for a day, what would you do?

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94. If you were to be stranded on an island, which 3 things would you bring with you?

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95. If you were told that you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?

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96. If you were walking through the forest and you suddenly saw a tiger, what would you do?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
97. If you woke up suddenly because your house was on fire, which three things would you save as you ran outside?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
98. If you worked for a store and you saw another employee steal something, would you tell the manager?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
99. If your car broke down on the motorway, what would you do? Would you try to fix it yourself?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
100.If your friend could not have a child, would you carry her child for her?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
101.If your partner were offered a job in another part of the country, which was well paid, would you be willing to
change places?
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102.What if you have to sacrifice yourself for the sake of saving your mother? What would you do?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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What kinds of problems would you have if you had to always tell the truth?
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What if your cell phone fell in the toilet, what would you do?
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105.What would you do if you found the wallet of your next-door neighbor who you hated?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
106.What would you do if you were at home at night, alone, and you heard a noise in your flat/house that seemed to
be footsteps? Would you stay calm or would you panic?
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107.You were told you had a terminal illness and had six months to live. What three things would be most important
for you to do?
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108.Your doctor has just told you that you have a month to live, what would you do in that stretch of time? If your
doctor told you that you had only one month to live, how would you use the time left?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
11) ______________________________________________________________________________________
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13) ______________________________________________________________________________________
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WOULD YOU RATHER...?

1. Would you rather be a boy or a girl?
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2. Would you rather be rich or poor?
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3. Would you rather go to Istanbul or New York?
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4. Would you rather have one long finger or 10 short fingers?
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5. Would you rather live in an apartment building or a house?
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6. Would you rather live in Europe or Asia?
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7. Would you rather short or tall?
8. _______________________________________________________________________________________
9. Would you rather always have to say everything on your mind or never speak again?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
10. Would you rather always lose or never play?
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11. Would you rather be a deep sea diver or an astronaut?
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12. Would you rather be a tree or live in a tree?
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13. Would you rather be able to hear any conversation or take back anything you say?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
14. Would you rather be able to read everyones mind all the time or always know their future?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
15. Would you rather go without television or junk food for the rest of your life?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
16. Would you rather live without music or live without T.V.?
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17. Would you rather have the details of your romantic life be made into a hit sit-com or have every one you meet
know your personal finances?
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18. Would you rather have a photographic memory or gain an extra 40 IQ points?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
19. Would you rather have your first child when you are 19 years old or when you are 45 years old?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
20. Would you rather have a photographic memory or be able to forget anything you wanted?
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21. Would you rather be able to fly or turn invisible?
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22. Would you rather go 30 days without refined sugar or 90 days without caffeine?
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23. Would you rather have a home with a great living room or a great back yard?
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24. Would you rather spend one month living without using any money or spend 3 months in a wheelchair?
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25. Would you rather have an ordinary home in an extraordinary location or an extraordinary home in an ordinary
location?
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26. Would you rather be able to lie without being caught or always be able to tell when someone is lying?
27. Would you rather have an extra hour every day or have $40 given to you free and clear every day?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
28. Would you rather have an extra finger or lose a finger?
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29. Would you rather write a best-selling novel or be an expert at picking stocks?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
30. Would you rather have an ugly scare across your face or lose 15 points of intelligence?
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31. Would you rather spend the next week sleeping more than 12 hours per night or less than 4 hours per night?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
32. Would you rather have someone bring you breakfast in bed tomorrow morning or be able to sleep in as late as
you want?
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YOUR QUESTIONS
1) ______________________________________________________________________________________
2) ______________________________________________________________________________________
3) ______________________________________________________________________________________
4) ______________________________________________________________________________________
5) ______________________________________________________________________________________
6) ______________________________________________________________________________________
7) ______________________________________________________________________________________
8) ______________________________________________________________________________________
9) ______________________________________________________________________________________
10) ______________________________________________________________________________________
11) ______________________________________________________________________________________
12) ______________________________________________________________________________________

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Contents
question teaching method ................................................................................................................................................... 2
what are the advantages and disadvantages of question answer method of teaching? ....................................................... 3
advantages of question-answer method........................................................................................................................ 3
disadvantages ................................................................................................................................................................. 3
how to use this book .......................................................................................................................................................... 3
conversation questions ................................................................................................................................................... 4
1. getting to know each other ........................................................................................................................................... 6
2. allergies ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
3. alternative medicine ................................................................................................................................................... 10
4. arabs ........................................................................................................................................................................... 11
5. are you good at...? ...................................................................................................................................................... 12
6. behavior...................................................................................................................................................................... 14
7. cars and driving .......................................................................................................................................................... 15
8. charity ........................................................................................................................................................................ 17
9. children....................................................................................................................................................................... 19
10. classroom ................................................................................................................................................................... 20
11. clothes & fashion ....................................................................................................................................................... 22
12. computer..................................................................................................................................................................... 26
13. conflict ....................................................................................................................................................................... 30
14. crime .......................................................................................................................................................................... 32
15. days of the week......................................................................................................................................................... 34
16. education .................................................................................................................................................................... 35
17. energy ......................................................................................................................................................................... 38
18. environmental............................................................................................................................................................. 39
19. environment & pollution ............................................................................................................................................ 40
20. evolution..................................................................................................................................................................... 43
21. how do you...? ............................................................................................................................................................ 44
22. islam ........................................................................................................................................................................... 50
23. life .............................................................................................................................................................................. 52
24. likes and dislikes ........................................................................................................................................................ 54
25. maths discussion questions ........................................................................................................................................ 57
26. physics........................................................................................................................................................................ 59
27. school ......................................................................................................................................................................... 61
28. science and technology discussion questions ............................................................................................................. 64
29. science questions ........................................................................................................................................................ 65
30. weather ....................................................................................................................................................................... 67
31. what if ........................................................................................................................................................................ 69
32. what would you do...? ................................................................................................................................................ 76
33. when dd you frst...? .................................................................................................................................................. 77
34. when was the last...?................................................................................................................................................... 78
35. what if ........................................................................................................................................................................ 82
36. would you rather...?.................................................................................................................................................... 87

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