B1 (Intermediate)

Entertainment

  1. What do you do for entertainment? How often do you do it?
  2. What are some seasonal entertainments in your country?
  3. Do you like to watch animations? What do you usually watch on TV?
  4. What kind of music do you listen to?
  5. How often do you go to the cinema or theater?
  6. Are there any theme parks in your city? How often do you go there?
  7. What kind of entertainments do you plan for your guests?
  8. Who's the most entertaining person you know? Are you an entertaining person?

Encouragement

  1. How do you encourage yourself to keep going in hard times?
  2. Who usually encourages you? Does it work?
  3. Do you usually encourage your friends? How?
  4. What's the best way to encourage children to do their chores?
  5. Has anybody ever discouraged you? Why? What happened?
  6. Have you ever discouraged someone? Why? What happened?
  7. Have you ever been inspired by a famous person/celebrity?
  8. What's the most honest and influential word of encouragement you have ever heard?
  9. What song/movie has encouraged you?

Death and Dying

  1. Are you afraid of death? Do you think about it too often?
  2. What do you think happens after death?
  3. Are you afraid of dead bodies? Have you ever seen one?
  4. Is there anything worth dying for?
  5. Are you ready to sell your soul to devil to live forever?
  6. If you are offered to push a button to kill someone that you don't know and you have never seen to live 15 years longer, would you do it?
  7. How can you comfort a person who has just experienced the death of a family member or a close friend?
  8. Do you usually go to funerals?

Creativity

  1. What can you use a knife for? Think of as many possible ways?
  2. What's creativity? Do you consider yourself creative?
  3. What's the last creative thing you have done?
  4. Does your job/major at University/school include creativity?
  5. Do you believe that children are more creative than adults? If yes, why is it so?
  6. Does the educational system in your country persuade creativity? How?
  7. Do you think you can learn to be creative or is it something instinctive?

Complaining

  1. What do you usually complain about? Who do you complain to?
  2. Have you ever complained at school/University/in a restaurant/hotel or a gym?
  3. Have you ever written a complaint letter?
  4. What are some reasons to complain about in a restaurant/hotel?
  5. What is the difference between complaining and nagging?
  6. Do you usually get a satisfactory result when you complain?
  7. What's the one thing you would like to complain about right now?

Colors

  1. What's your favorite color? Has it always been so?
  2. Do you think that each person has a color/ what's your color?
  3. What does your favorite color tell about you?
  4. Would you like to paint your walls various colors or do you prefer the plain white/cream color?
  5. What color is your furniture? Do you like it?
  6. What color do you like to wear?
  7. Is there a color you hate? How do you feel about it?
  8. How do colors affect your mood? How does red/yellow/black/white/purple make you feel?

Chores

  1. Who does the chores at your home? Who decides it?
  2. Do you hate doing chores or you don't mind them?
  3. What's the one house chore you really hate? How often do you do it?
  4. What do you do at home? Is it fair?
  5. If you could have only one, which one would you choose: a dishwasher, a washing machine or a TV?
  6. Is it a good idea to pay kids for doing chores? What could be the reasons?
  7. Which one do you prefer: ironing the clothes or vacuuming the house?
  8. How many hours a week do you spend on house chores?

Charity

  1. Have you ever worked for a charity?
  2. What's your favorite charity?
  3. How often do you give money to charities?
  4. Why do people help charities? Is it out of good will or just selfishness?
  5. How do you feel when you help the poor?
  6. Do you think the help from these charities will ever change someone's life?
  7. Do you agree that "charity begins at home"? If so, when does it end?
  8. If you were going to open a charity, who would you help?

Celebrities

  1. Who's you favorite Hollywood celebrity? Why? What would you do if you saw your favorite celebrity in person?
  2. Do you wish you were a celebrity? Why? Why not?
  3. Why do so many people show huge interest in celebrities?
  4. Have you ever seen a famous celebrity in person? What did you do?
  5. Do celebrities have a happy life?
  6. Which one is more important to you: having a private life or being famous?
  7. Would you change your behavior with your friends if you become a celebrity?
  8. What's the best thing about being a celebrity?

Advice

  1. What's the last piece of advice you gave someone?
  2. What was the last piece of advice someone gave you? Was it any useful?
  3. Do you usually advise people? Do you ask for people's advice?
  4. Whose advice do you usually take?
  5. What's the worst/best advice you have ever heard?
  6. Do you think a stranger (like a psychologist) can give you a good piece of advice?
  7. What advice would you give someone who wants to marry?
  8. What advice would you give someone who wants to choose a major at University?

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