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Conversation Questions Inventions

The document provides a list of potential conversation questions about inventions for an ESL classroom. The questions cover various topics including the most useful 20th/21st century inventions, famous inventors and their creations, the impact of inventions like television and mobile phones, internet usage and impact, opinions on good and bad inventions, cloning, time travel, fighting aging, space exploration, and what students would invent if they were scientists.

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Conversation Questions Inventions

The document provides a list of potential conversation questions about inventions for an ESL classroom. The questions cover various topics including the most useful 20th/21st century inventions, famous inventors and their creations, the impact of inventions like television and mobile phones, internet usage and impact, opinions on good and bad inventions, cloning, time travel, fighting aging, space exploration, and what students would invent if they were scientists.

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Conversation Questions

Inventions
A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.

• What are the best and the most useful inventions of the mankind in the
20th and 21st centuries?
• What famous inventors do you know?
• What were their inventions?
• Do you know anything about the inventions of Leonardo da
Vinci?
• How did the invention of television change people's life?
• Do you think it is a useful invention?
• What is the role of television in your life?
• How often do you watch it?
• When did you buy or get your first mobile phone?
• Do you think you can live without your mobile or is it now an
important part of your daily life?
• Are you anxious when the battery is flat or you are out of
reach?
• What do scientists say about the influence of mobile phones on our
health?
• Do you use the Internet?
• What Internet services do you use?
• Do you feel any addiction to the Internet?
• How much do you spend on the Internet a month?
• How did the Internet influence such things as communication,
correspondence, access to information?
• Do you think that the Internet is the good or the evil?
• What do you think is the worst invention of the mankind? (weapon, atomic
energy, cigarettes, television, mobile phones, cars, genetically modified
products etc)
• Can you name some inventions are you looking forward to? (human
cloning, time traveling, eternal-life-pill, AIDS\cancer vaccine, teleportation)
• What do you know about cloning?
• Who invented it?
• How does it work?
• Who is Dolly (sheep)?
• What is your attitude to human cloning?
• Do you think it should be prohibited?
• What is good and bad about human cloning?
• Do you think time machine will ever be invented?
• Would you like to do some time traveling?
• What time would you like to visit, what event would you like to
witness?
• Do you think aging is the problem the mankind can not fight?
• What discoveries and inventions has been made recently to
fight aging?
• Do you believe that the elixir of life will ever be discovered?
• Would you like to be immortal or would you just prefer to
remain young throughout your life and die in the end?
• What is the use of space exploration?
• What technologies has space exploration brought to our daily
life?
• Do you believe that one day people will live on the moon and on other
planets?
• Why isn't it possible today?
• What would you invent if your a scientist?

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