Life Changes

Have you made any recent changes in your life?

Do you think change is important?
Do you like to rearrange your room or living-room?
Do you think change is important in people’s life?
Do you think it is possible for a cold hearted person to change?
Do you think that it is easy to mend our old ways?
Do you think it is easy to keep up with the times?
If you could change anything in your life, what would it be?
What is the most difficult change you have ever had to make?
Have you ever decided to get a tattoo?
Have you ever cut your hair really short?
What was the craziest change in appearance you have ever made?
What was the last major change you made in your life?
Have you ever decided to change the group that you usually hang out (spend time)
with?
What is one thing that you think you will never change about yourself?
What is one thing you have tried to change, but couldn’t?
If you won a million dollars what things would you change about your life?
What things would you keep the same?
Has a friend of yours ever made any major changes that you were proud of?
An alcoholic?
An unmotivated person?
A person who is stuck in their ways?)
Have you ever converted (changed) over to a different religion?
Have you ever changed over to a different political party.
Have you ever dumped a boyfriend or girlfriend? Was the change difficult?
Have you ever said no to a friend?
Have you lost a pet, or has a person ever passed away on you?
Have you ever quit your job?
Have you ever became depressed and stay indoors for long periods? How did you get
out of your depression?
Have you ever had to change the way you speak, or the way you act? Why?
Have you ever decided to change the way you dress? If so, why?
Have you ever decided to change the way you eat, or your form of exercise?

Beauty

• Who do you think is the most beautiful person in your country?

• Who do you think is the most beautiful person alive today?
• Who was the most beautiful person in history?
• Who is the most attractive in your family?
• Does beauty affect one’s success in life?
• Is it better to be physically attractive or intelligent?
• Is it better to be physically attractive or wealthy?
• Is beauty related to power?
o Can you think of anyone who is in a position of power that is not
physically attractive?
• Do people spend too much time and money on beauty?
• How much time should be spent on making yourself look better each day?
• Who would you say is beautiful that others maybe wouldn’t?
• Do you think people should have cosmetic surgery to enhance their looks?
o If so what is the minimum age when someone should have plastic
surgery?
o How popular is plastic surgery in your country?
o What is the most popular feature for cosmetic alteration?
o Do you think self-esteem affects beauty?
o Do you think beauty affects self-esteem?
• How important is beauty in your daily life?
• Have you ever noticed anyone ever feeling pressured to be more beautiful?
• What do you think of the proverb, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder?”
o Do you have any proverbs or idioms from your country that relate to
beauty?
• What do you think “beauty is skin deep” means?
• What are some beauty tips that you could share?
• Do you think people with many tattoos can be beautiful?
o How many tattoos are too many?
o Would you ever get a tattoo?
o Do you have a tattoo?
• Do you think people with many piercings can be beautiful?
o What kind of body piercing, if any, do you feel are acceptable?
o What kind of piercing, if any, do you feel are unacceptable?
• What personality trait is the most important for inner beauty?
• How do you define beauty, using your own words?
• Would you ever date someone who was not conventionally attractive?
• What makes one person more attractive than another?
• Do you think people from different countries than you see attractive the same
way?
• Is there someone famous that is considered beautiful, that you think is not?
• Are beauty pageants good or bad?
• Should children be entered into beauty pageants?
• Do you think one gender or group worries more about beauty than another?
• Would you want your children to be beautiful or talented?
• What are some of the drawbacks of being beautiful?
• What do you think about plastic surgery?
o Would you ever have plastic surgery?
o If so, what would you change?
 • What do you think of celebrities who get plastic surgery?
• Do you think it’s necessary to have plastic surgery if you are famous in order to
be successful?
• Do you think skin color affects whether a person is regarded as beautiful or not?
• Do you think that fairer skin makes you more beautiful?
• What are some advantages of being beautiful?
• What makes someone beautiful in your country?
o What differs between that idea and the American idea of beauty?
• What do you think “beauty is skin deep” means?
• How many different adjectives can you think of to describe a beautiful woman or
a handsome man?

Advice

• I want to quit smoking. What should I do?

• I won 100,000 dollars and I don’t know how to spend it. What should I do?
• I gained a lot of weight in last few years. I want to lose at least 10kg. What
should I do?
• I have just lost my job. I haven’t told my husband/wife yet. How should I tell
him/her?
• I found a wallet which had 2,000 dollars in it. How should I spend it?
• My son doesn’t want to go to school. He says that his teacher and all other
students hate him. What should I do?
• My child wakes up very often in the middle of the night. He sleeps usually
during the day. I haven’t had any good sleep for weeks. What should I do?
• I have a headache. What should I do?
• I hate working. What should I do?
• I feel sad. What should I do?
• I want to protect the environment but I don’t know how. What should I do?
• I am always late. What should I do?
• I keep losing my credit card. What should I do?
• I have a red nose. What should I do?
• I am new in this city. I would love to meet some people. What should I do?
• I want to get rich quickly. What should I do?
• I need a car but I don’t have enough money. What should I do?
• I want to be a cool man. What should I do?
• My girlfriend left me. I feel depressed. What should I do?
• My husband doesn’t help me with house chores. What should I do?
• Have you ever self-published something? What are some good ways to publish
your writing independently?
 • If you have a lot of things to get done in one week, how do you manage? What
advice would you give someone who is very busy?
• My girlfriend/boyfriend is seeing another man/woman. I saw a message in
his/her mobile phone. What should I do?

Adoption

• What is adoption?
• Do you know anyone who was adopted as a child?
• Do you know anyone who has adopted a child?
• What are some of the reasons people choose to adopt?
• What is the difference between domestic and international adoption?
• What are the views of adoption in your country?
• How would someone interested in adopting a child go about doing so?
• Where do children available for adoption come from?
• What happens to children that are not adopted?
• How do you go about adopting a child?
• Would you want to adopt a boy or a girl? Why?
• Do you think brothers and sisters should be separated in adoptions?
• Are adoptions common in your country?
• What are some organizations that help with adoptions?
• Should you tell the child that he or she was adopted? If so at what age? Or
when?
• Should adopted children have the right to know their biological parents?
• Should families with birth children also adopt?
• Is the real parent the birth parent or the adoptive parent?
• Should adoptions be between children and families of the same race and or
culture?
• How or should the adoptive parents maintain the adopted child’s cultural
identify?
• In your country are the legal rights of an adoptive child different from that of a
birth child?
• What are the legal consequences of adopting a child from a different race or
country?
• Why don’t more people adopt children?
• What makes a family, genetics or environment?
• Do you support an open adoption policy where the birth parents can choose to
be involved in the child’s life?
• Do you believe there is discrimination within the adoption organizations?
• Do you think a person should be able to adopt a child of a different race?
• Should a gay or lesbian couple be allowed to adopt a child?
 • Should there be an age restriction for the adoptive parents?
• Should a single man or woman be able to adopt a child?
• If you were to find out that you were adopted and not really from the country
where you are a citizen, which nationality would you hope would be your true
mother country? Why?
• When is the right time for a child to be told that he/she was adopted?
• Do you think it is preferable to adopt or to use artificial reproduction technology?
• Would you agree to an open adoption or closed adoption? Why?
• What is an open adoption?
• Would you want to find your birth family? Why or why not?
• Should prospective parents in adoption cases be required to do a parenting
course?
• Are there any risks when adopting a child?
• Do you think biological parents should always have a right to keep their identity
secret from the children they give up for adoption? Why or why not?
• Do you think people who have been adopted should always have the right to
find out who their birth-parents are?
• How would you feel if a child you had adopted wanted to search for his or her
birth parents?
• Do you think that adopted children should feel especially loved and wanted?
• Should people be allowed to adopt children of a different race and/or culture?
o What are some good points and bad points of this kind of adoption?
• How would you feel if you found out you were adopted?
o What would you do?
• Do you it is preferable to adopt or to use artificial reproduction technology?
• If you had a choice, would you want to be adopted?
• Should people be allowed to adopt children of a different race and/or culture?
What are some good points and bad points of this kind of adoption?
• How would you feel if you found out you were adopted? What would you do?

35 conversation questions about money

1. Are you a saver or a spender?
2. What do you love spending money on?
3. What do you hate spending money on?
4. What are you happy to pay good money for?
5. Were your parents good or bad with money?
6. What is the best financial decision you have ever made?
7. What is the smartest thing that someone can do with their money?
8. What advice would you give someone just starting out with their finances?
9. What tips can you share on budgeting and saving money?
10. When is the best time to save money?
11. When is the best time to spend money?
12. Are you saving money for any future purchases?
13. What are some ways to earn money? How many can you list in English?
14. Do you enjoy saving money?
15. Do you enjoy earning money?
16. Do you think it’s wise to lend money to someone else?
17. Do you donate money to any charities or causes?
18. Have you ever regretted spending money on something?
19. Does money cause stress?
20. Does money bring happiness?
21. What has been the best investment you’ve ever made?
22. Is money the solution to all of life’s problems?
23. What was the first job you ever got paid for? Were you paid a little or a lot?
24. How do you earn money today?
25. What is your favorite thing to spend money on?
26. What is your least favorite thing to spend money on?
27. Is it important to carry cash on you? Why or why not?
28. Do you prefer to pay by cash or by card?
29. Have you ever had money stolen from you?
30. If you won 20 million dollars, what changes would you make in your life?
31. Have you ever experienced financial difficulties?
32. Do you think it’s important to have an emergency fund?
33. Do you invest in stocks or mutual funds?
34. Have you ever invested in bitcoin or other forms of cryptocurrency?
35. Do you think that cryptocurrency will remove the need for physical cash money?