Conversation Questions Inventions
Conversation Questions Inventions
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?