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1 Education

• How are education priorities today different from those in the past?
• What is your opinion on the way languages are taught in schools?
• How can the type of school you go to affect career success?
• What changes do you think will happen in the classroom in the near future?

2 Life experience

• Do you agree that we learn best from our mistakes?
• What’s the best way to gain experience in life?
• Can we gain life experience from books and movies?
• Which is more important, experience or potential?
• What experience do you wish you’d gained?

3 Money

• What typical things can visitors to your country buy?
• What things do young people like to buy in your country?
• Is it a good idea to save money? Why (why not)?
• Do you think that people are happier if they have money? Why (why not)?
• What can shops do to make shopping more pleasant for their customers?
• Do you think that in the future people will do most of their shopping using the Internet? Why?/ Why not?

4 Old age

• At what age should people retire from work?
• What problems can people face after retirement?
• How important are retirees to your country’s economy?
• When should you start saving for retirement?
• Why do some companies encourage early retirement?

5 Environment

• What causes environmental problems?
• What should the government do to protect the environment?
• What should we do to protect the environment?
• What other measures can you think of to protect the environment?
• How should we educate children to protect the environment?
• What’s the difference between the old and the young as regards environmental protection?

6 Internet and social media

• Which websites are popular among your generation?
• Is using the internet a social or solitary activity?
• How has the internet changed social behavior?
• Should companies check job applicants’ online profiles?
• What will be the next big development online?

7 Family

• Is family important in your country?
• How has the size of the family changed in the last few decades in your country?
• What role do grandparents play in the family in your country?
• How do you think the family will change in the future?

8 Sports

• What types of sports are popular in your country?
• What are the benefits of playing a sport?
• Do you think the types of sport that are popular will change in the future?
• how can sports bring people from different countries closer together?

9 Leadership

• Do you think people are born to be leaders?
• Can leadership skills be taught?
• Why are elected politicians often so unpopular?
• What should a leader do to remain popular?
• Do you think unelected heads of state are a good idea?

10 Leisure activities

• What types of leisure activities are popular in your country?
• Why it is important for people to have time for leisure activities?
• Why are some activities more popular than others?
• Are the types of leisure activities that are popular today the same as those that were popular when your parents were young?
• What types of leisure activities may become more popular in the future?

11 Parks

• Why do you think it is important for cities to have parks?
• Do you think the government should be responsible for maintaining parks?
• How can we as citizens help maintain parks?
• What would happen if we did not have any parks?

12 Young people

• What type of people influence the young in your country?
• Why it is important to have role models?
• Do you think the education system in your country influences young people’s behavior?
• What type of person (parents, teachers, friends etc) are best to influence young people’s behavior?
• What do you think young people will be most influenced by it the future?

13 Diet

• Do you think diet is important?
• What is a balanced diet?
• Do many people eat in restaurants in your country?
• What is the typical diet of people in your country?
• What’s the difference between restaurant food and home cooked food?

14 Work

• Do you think job satisfaction is more important than salary when choosing a job?
• What skills do you think are needed to get a good job these days?
• Do you think women should be able to do all the same jobs that men do?
• How has technology changed the way we work?
• What is the difference between white collar and blue collar jobs?
• What jobs do you think are most valuable to society?

15 Television

• How popular is watching television in your country?
• Tell me about the types of program that are generally on television in your country.
• Why do people like watching television?
• What effects can watching television have on children?
• Do you think state or private television is better?

16 Universities

• Is higher education too expensive in your country?
• Should all students pay for their university education?
• What advantages do universities bring to society?
• Which is more important, research or teaching?
• How should students spend their summer vacations?

17 Shopping

• Is shopping a popular activity in your country
• How have shopping habits changed over recent years?
• To what extent do you think advertising affects the way people shop?
• Do you think shopping habits are likely to change in the future?

18 Photography

• Is it easy to take good photographs?
• What are the pros and cons of digital photography?
• Should people share their photographs online?
• When can an image be worth a thousand words?
• Is a photograph a reliable form of identification?

19 Friendship

• Do you think childhood friendship can last for long?
• Is it important that people should have good friendship while at work?
• Do you think companies should let the employees gather together for socializing in order to be successful?
• Do you remember the friends you had made in childhood?
• Is it easy to make friends now as compared to the past?
• What are the important qualities of a good friend?

20 Cookery and eating out

• What is the national meal of your country?
• What type of food your parents like to eat?
• What are the advantages of eating out?
• What are the disadvantages of eating out?
• When do people generally eat out?
• What is the government of your country doing to promote cookery?

21 Humor

• Do you think a sense of humor is important? Why? Why not?
• Do you like movies or TV shows that make you laugh?
• Is humor easy to translate from one language to other?
• Are there jokes in your language that are hard to translate?
• Can humor be useful in learning another language? In what way?

22 House and buildings

• Do you think children should have their own rooms? Why?
• Is it common to own your own house in your country?
• What are the advantages of owning your own house?
• Do you think it is a good idea to rent a house to live? Why?
• Why do most of the young people live in apartments in cities?
• In big cities, the living space is getting smaller. Could you recommend some possible solutions on this?

23 Relationships

• Do you want to meet a new person? Why?
• In what ways can we meet new people?
• Do you think technologies help in relationships between people? How?
• Do you think online friends can have a negative impact?
• How can you make someone new at work or college comfortable?
• Do you have many friends in your workplace or community? Why?
• How to be a respectable person?

24 Lying

• What is a lie?
• Do people lie on a daily basis? Why?
• In what situations do you lie a little?
• Why is honesty important for kids?
• What is the importance of teaching children to be honest?
• Tell me a situation when someone was lying but it didn’t hurt anyone.

25 Reading

• In what ways are newspapers better for learning about the news than listening to the radio or watching television?
• Do you think newspapers should be completely free to say whatever they want?
• What do people enjoy reading in your country?
• Do you think it is important for people to read a lot? Why (not)?
• What sort of stories do newspapers and magazines publish about well-known or famous people in your country?
• Do you think the media should be allowed to publish stories about the private lives of public figures?

26 Art

• What kind of art do you enjoy?
• What are the traditional art forms in your country?
• Do you think children should study art at school?
• What makes a good painting?
• How can children benefit from learning art?
• How has art changed in the last few decades in your country?

27 Music

• Do you think music is getting better as time goes on?
• Where do you think people enjoy listening to music the most?
• Is it better to go to a live concert or to listen to a CD?
• Do you like the same music as your parents?

28 Clothes

29 Happiness

• What do you think ‘happiness’ is?
• What are some things that make you happy?
• Do you think people who have more talent are happier than others?
• Do you think money makes people happy?
• Are the things that make people happy today the same as several decades ago?
• Why do people feel happy when they are with members of their family?
• In general, what do you think makes a happy family?
• What kind of people do you think are most likely to be happy?

30 Role models

• Which type of people are respected most in your society?
• Do you agree with this situation?
• What happens when young people lack good role models?
• What standards of behaviour should teachers set?
• Do you agree that you should never meet your heroes?

31 Advertisements

• Do you think advertising influences what people buy?
• What makes an advertisement effective?
• What is the purpose of advertising?
• How have advertisements changed since you were a child?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of advertising?
• Do you think that advertisements should be strictly regulated?
• How important is it for advertisers to tell the whole truth in advertisements?

32 Dreams

• Do you dream much at night?
• Do you often remember your dreams?
• Do you think we can learn anything from dreams? (Why, why not)?
• Do people in your country talk about their dreams? (Why, why not)?
• Do you think that dreams can come true?

33 Transport

• How do most people travel long distances in your country?
• Have the types of transport people use changed much over the last few decades?
• What kinds of improvement have there been in transport in your country in recent years?
• Do you think transport is likely to continue to improve in the future?