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20 Conversation Questions About Culture

The document contains a comprehensive list of 66 conversation questions focused on various aspects of culture, community, and personal experiences. It encourages discussions about cultural definitions, traditions, celebrations, and individual aspirations. The questions are designed to promote cultural understanding and personal reflection among participants.

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20 Conversation Questions About Culture

The document contains a comprehensive list of 66 conversation questions focused on various aspects of culture, community, and personal experiences. It encourages discussions about cultural definitions, traditions, celebrations, and individual aspirations. The questions are designed to promote cultural understanding and personal reflection among participants.

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20 Conversation Questions About Culture

1. What kind of things define a culture?


2. What’s your favorite thing about your culture?
3. What don’t you like about your culture?
4. Do you think culture is important?
5. How are elders treated in your culture?
6. What kind of things are considered rude in your culture?
7. Is there any music that defines your culture?
8. Have you ever visited another country? How was the culture different
there?
9. Is food a big part of your culture?
10. Have you ever experienced culture shock?
11. Have you ever experienced reverse culture shock?
12. What do people from other countries typically think about your culture?
13. Do young people and older people behave differently in your culture?
14. Are you friends with anybody from a different culture?
15. If you could change anything about your culture, what would you
change?
16. Is it considered rude in your culture to be direct with someone?
17. What languages are spoken in your culture?
18. What is the most interesting thing your culture has given to the world?
19. Has your culture adopted anything from other cultures?
20. If someone visited your country from another country, what advice would
you give them?

QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMUNITY, COUNTRY, & CULTURE

1. What National holidays do you celebrate?


2. Can you draw me a picture of your country’s flag or explain it to me?
3. Describe a traditional costume that would be worn for a special occasion.
(Or draw a picture of it.)
4. How is Christmas celebrated where you live?
5. How is Easter celebrated where you live?
6. How is New Years Celebrated where you live?
7. When is New Years Day?
8. How are birthdays celebrated?

9. When you first meet someone, how do you greet them? (Shake hands?)
10. What do you do with your teeth when you lose them?
11. What languages are spoken in your country?
12. What languages do you speak?
13. When you speak to an adult, is it polite or rude to make eye contact?
14. What age are you considered an adult?
15. Are some birthdays more special than others?
16. Are marriages arranged by parents?
17. At what age do people typically marry?
18. Do you give thanks before eating?
19. Do you use a twelve hour clock, or a twenty-four hour clock?
20. What side of the road to people drive on?
21. How important is punctuality?
22. What types of animals are kept as pets?
23. What types of music are popular?
24. What types of instruments are played?
25. Are there any traditional dances?
26. Do you have a traditional costume for your area and how does it differ
from those in neighbouring areas?
27. What things are considered lucky or unlucky?
28. Do you have any traditional fairy tales?
29. What traditional festivals are celebrated in your community?
30. Do you have a harvest festival?
31. How do you welcome visitors in your home?
32. What colours are in your country’s flag?
33. Is it safe to play outside in your community?
34. Do you know most of the people in your community well, or are they
strangers?
35. What is your role in society?
36. Do you live in a city/village/town/other?
37. Is your house close to the house of your neighbours?
38. How many people live in your country?
39. Do you live near a lake or a river?
40. Do you live near mountains?
41. What types of jobs do adults do?
42. What types of jobs do kids do?
43. Do you have electricity in your home?
44. Do you have running water in your home? If not, how do you get water?
45. What types of animals live in your country?
46. Do you live near a large city?
47. Can you draw me a map of your community?
48. How do most people commute if they want to go somewhere?
49. Does it snow where you live?
50. What are your seasons like?
51. What month is the hottest?

52. What month is the coldest?


53. What types of things do the people in your community do together?
54. Who is the leader of your country?
55. What are the main religions in your country?
56. What are some interesting things about your country’s history?
57. What does the word “success” mean to people in your community?
58. How many schools are in your community?
59. How many churches are in your community?
60. Is there a town library?
61. What fruits and vegetables grow in your country?
62. What flowers grow?
63. Do you have different forms of the word "you" depending on the context?
64. What do you like best about the sponsorship program?
65. What types of natural disasters are most common in your country?
66. What type of calender do you use? (And what year is it in your country?)
67. Have you met any foreigners who speak your language well?
68. Which cities in your area have you visited?

Personal

1. Tell me about yourself.


2. What are your strengths?
3. What are your weaknesses?
4. What do you see as a major success in your life?
5. Describe a major disappointment in your life.
6. What motivates you?
7. What does success mean to you?
8. What are three of your greatest accomplishments?
9. The word accomplishment means an achievement, something you did
well.
10. What are your plans for the future?
11. Have you done any volunteer work?
12. What are your hobbies?
13. What do you like to do in your spare time / free time?
14. Where do you see yourself five years from now? Ten years from now?
15. What is your favourite book / movie?
16. What do you do for fun?
17. What would you do if you won the lottery?

Getting to Know the Student

1. What is your given name?


2. Do you have an English name? How did you get that English name?
3. If you had to choose just one word to describe yourself, what would you
choose?
4. Where do you want to study?
5. What do you want to study and why?
6. Tell me about your hometown. If I came to visit you, where in your
hometown would you take me? What would you show me?
7. What is one thing you love and respect about your mother or father?

Cultural Understanding

1. What is one difference between education in Korea and education in


Australia?
2. What is one part of Australian culture that you are excited to experience?
3. What is one part of Korean culture that you would like to share with
Australians?

Goals and Aspirations

1. What is your favorite subject to study in school?


2. What do you do in your spare time?
3. What ways would you like to get involved in our school? Do you have
any interest in playing a sport or joining a club at our school?
4. When you go to a university, what would you like to study?
5. In ten years, where would you like to be living, and what would you like
to be doing?

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