Questions by Topics 7-12

I. Sports/ Exercise
1. Do you think sports people earn too much money?
2. Would you like to get fitter? What do you think you should do?
3. Are you a fan of a football team? How long have you been a fan?
4. Are you a member of a club or organization? How long have you been a member?
5. What’s your favourite sport? How long have you done that?
6. Do you do any sport or exercise?
7. Did you use to do any other sports or exercise? Why did you stop?
8. Which sports do you think are the most exciting to watch?
9. Which sports do you think are the most boring?
10. Are you a fan of a sports team? Which one?
11. Do you watch their matches?
12. What is the most exciting sporting event you have ever seen?
13. When you play a sport or a game with family or friends, how do you react if you
lose?
14. Are you a good or bad loser?
15. Are any of your family or friends bad losers?
II. Education/ School
1. What school did you use to go? Did you enjoy it?
2. Did you use to behave well at school?
3. Did you use to go on school trips abroad?
4. How did you use to get to school?
5. What did your reports use to be like?
6. Have you ever tried to learn something new and failed?
7. Would you like to work or study in another country?
8. Do you think it is important to learn to cook at school?
9. How many classes have you missed this year?
10. What do you do? How long have you worked / studied there?
11. Who’s your English teacher? How long have you known him / her?
12. When you were at school did you get a report at the end of every term?
13. Were your report usually good or bad?
14. Did you always show them to your parents?
15. Which school subjects were you good at?
16. Which school subjects were you bad at?
17. Which subject was your favorite?
18. Which subject did you hate?
19. What kind of student were you in high school? Good/bad organized/disorganized?
Obey rules, never skipped class, never be late, never got into trouble, had a lot of
friends?
20. Did you use to have a teacher you really liked?
 21. Did you use to have a teacher you hated?
22. What subjects did you use to enjoy at school?
23. What did your reports use to be like?
24. Did you use to go on school trips?
25. Did you use to go to school by bus?
26. Did you use to wear a uniform?
27. Would you like to work or study in another country?
III. Language Learning
1. Do you think it’s possible to learn a foreign language studying on your own at
home?
2. Have you ever spoken to a tourist in English? When? Why?
3. Have you ever had to speak in English on the phone? Who to? What about?
4. Have you ever seen a film or video clip in English? Which? Did it have subtitles?
How much did you understand?
5. Have you ever read a book or magazine in English? Which one?
6. Have you ever asked directions in English in a foreign city? Where? What
happened?
7. Have you ever used an app or website to improve your English? Which one?
8. Have you ever learnt another foreign language? How well can you speak it?
9. Do you think you can learn a language without a dictionary?
10. Do you think it’s possible to learn a language in a month?
11. What do you find difficult about learning English?
12. Do you feel motivated to improve your English? Why (not)?
13. Would you like to live in a different country and learn their language? Which
one?
14. Do you think you can learn a language on your own?
15. Do you think it’s possible to learn two languages at the same time?
16. What do you find easy about learning English?
17. What’s your main motivation for learning English?
18. Would you like to learn another language? Which one?
IV. Reading
1. Do you like reading books?
2. Do you have a favourite place or time of day to read? Why do you like it?
3. What kinds of book do you like reading?
4. Do you have a favourite author?
5. How many books do you read a month?
6. Do you prefer to read normal books or eBooks? Why?
7. How do you find out about new books and authors?
8. What was the last book you bought? Where did you buy it?
9. Are you a fast reader or a slow reader?
10. Do you sometimes read more than one book at a time?
11. Whose advice on books do you always listen to?
12. Is there a book everyone liked but you hated?
 13. Have you ever started reading a book but not finished? Why not?
14. Have you read a Multimedia eBook? What did you think of it?
15. Do you prefer to read the book or watch the film based on the book? Why?
16. Do you ever read the last page of a novel first?
17. Do you read any magazines or newspapers? Which ones?
18. Do you read online? What do you read?
19. How do you find out about the news? In newspapers? On the internet? On the
radio? Why?
20. Did your parents read to you when you were a child? What books did they read?
21. How old were you when you first started to read?
22. Did you read comics when you were a child? Which ones?
23. Is there a book which you can remember reading when you were a child? What
was it about?
24. Is there anybody in your family who like reading? Who?
25. Have you ever written a blog? Do you like reading blogs?
26. Do you think women like reading more than men? Why?
27. Do you think that people today are reading more or less than 20 years ago? Why?
28. If somebody gives you a book as a present, what do you do?
29. Are you following anybody on Twitter?
V. Animals
1. What’s the most dangerous animal in your country?
2. If you want on a safari, what animal would you most like to see?
3. What’s your favourite film about an animal?
4. What’s your favourite cartoon animal?
5. Are there any animals or insects you are really afraid of?
6. Do you (or did you) have a pet? What?
7. Are you allergic to any animals or insects?
8. If you could be an animal, which animal would you like to be?
9. What would you do if you saw somebody being attacked by a dog?
10. Do you have a pet? How long have you had it?
VI. Routines
1. What’s the first thing you do when you get home from work/school?
2. How many emails to text messages do you get a day? Are they mostly from
friends? Do you usually reply immediately?
3. What time do you wake up during the week?
4. Do you go to bed early during the week? What time do you go to bed?
5. Do you use an alarm clock to wake up? If not, what makes you wake up?
6. Do you get up immediately after you wake up?
7. How do you feel when you wake up?
8. Do you have anything to eat before you go to school/work?
9. How do you get to school/work?
10. Would you like to change your working/studying hours?
11. In general, are you a morning or evening person?
 12. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
13. What hours do you study?
14. Could you organize you days better? How?
15. Have you ever forgotten to turn your mobile phone off in a concert or the cinema?
16. Do you throw away old clothes or do you give them to other people?
17. Do you enjoy trying on clothes when you go shopping?
18. Do you often go away at the weekend? Where to?
19. Before you go shopping do you usually write down what you have to buy? Do
you only buy what’s on the list?

VII. Hobbies/ Free time

1. What do you think is the most interesting thing to do for a visitor to your town?
2. What kind of music do you listen to?
3. Do you play a musical instrument? Which?
4. What TV programmes do you watch?
5. Do you do any sport or exercise? What?
6. What kinds of books or magazines do you read?
7. How often do you go to the cinema?
8. Do you spend a long time on Facebook every day? How long?
9. Are you planning to go anywhere next weekend?
10. What’s your favourite hobby? How long have you done that?
VIII. Family
1. Who do you get on with best in your family?
2. Is there anybody you don’t get on with?
3. Who do you look like in your family?
4. If you have a problem that you need to talk about, do you talk to a friend or to a
member of your family? Why?
5. Who are you more like in your family?
6. How much time do you spend with your family?
7. Do you prefer to go out with your family or your friends?
8. Do you have any brothers and sisters?
IX. Neigbours/ Houses
1. Do you live in a modern flat? How long have you lived there?
2. Do you live near this school? How long have you lived there?
3. Have you ever asked your neighbours to turn the TV or the music down? What
happened?
X. Decision making/ singing/ phobia
1. How long do you usually spend deciding what to wear in the morning?
2. Do you think you are a decisive person?
3. Do you often change your mind about things? What kind of things?
4. Do you have problems deciding … what to buy when you go shopping?
5. … what to wear when you go out?
6. … what to eat in a restaurant?
 7. … what to do in your free time?
8. … where to go on holiday?
9. When you are happy do you sometimes feel like singing?
10. Do you ever sing in the shower/in a choir or band/karaoke?
11. Is there a particular singer whose songs you like singing?
12. Do you have a favorite song?
13. Which of the phobias do you think is the most irrational? (acrophobia,
glossophobia, arachnophobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia)
14. Which do you think makes the sufferers’ lives most complicated?
15. Do you or anyone you know have a phobia? When and how did it start? How does
it affect your or their lives?
16. Are you afraid of anything? How long have you been afraid of that?
XI. Gossip
1. Do you think gossiping is good or bad? Why?
2. Do you enjoy sharing news about other people?
3. Do you think some people feel bad after gossiping?
4. Have you ever gossiped about anyone?
5. Have you ever heard any gossip about you?
6. Do you agree that we are programmed to gossip? Why?
7. Do you think men or women gossip more?
8. How do you think people feel after gossiping?
9. Would you ever gossip about anyone?
10. Do you think gossiping can be a positive thing?