B1 (Intermediate)
- How many jobs have you had so far? What are some of the most common reasons that people change their jobs?
- At what age do people start working in your country?
- What is a typical day at work like for you?
- Do you prefer to have a routine job with a fixed amount of salary or an exciting one with changing salary?
- Do you like to be self-employed?
- What's your dream job? What's in it that makes it special to you?
- Are you planning to change your job within the next six months?
- Have you ever had a job interview? How did it go?
- How do you dress for an interview (in your country)?
- What are the most common questions you are asked in an interview?
- Is it ok if you ask the interviewer questions? What questions do you usually ask?
- Do you try to find out some information about the organization before the interview? How can you get this information?
- Is it common for you to shake hand with the interviewer?
- Is it OK to discuss money matters at a job interview in your country?
- What's your typical weekend like?
- How would you describe an ideal weekend?
- Do you have two days for weekend or one day and a half? Is that enough? Don't you think that three days would be much better?
- Why do we need weekends?
- Do you prefer relaxing weekends doing nothing or active ones?
- What are your plans for this weekend? What did you do last weekend?
- Is there anything you don't like about weekends and you wish you could change it?
- Do you enjoy going to parties? What's the most enjoyable thing you do at parties?
- How often do you go to parties? Do you ever reject an invitation to a party? If so, Why? What do you usually tell the person? What does RSVP mean?
- Do you prefer to go to a party that you know most people or the one where there are lots of new people? Are you good at starting a conversation with strangers?
- Have you ever been to a fancy dress party? What did you wear? If not, would you like to go? What would you wear?
- Have you ever done gardening? Did you like it? How did it feel?
- What are the things you can do in a garden?
- How many flowers and trees can you name in your language? How about in English?
- How many garden tools can you name in English?
- Do you think gardening is relaxing or boring?
- Do you prefer to have a perfect garden by using chemical fertilizers or to have a beautiful organic one?
- How can you do gardening if you live in a small house or in an apartment?
- How much free time do you have?
- Do you usually plan your free times or you just relax?
- What's your favorite free time activity? How often do you do it? How long have you been doing it?
- What would you do if you had more free time?
- Would you agree to work less hours and receive less salary to have more free time?
- Do you like to go shopping in your free time? Who do you prefer to go shopping with?
- What is the most popular hobby in your country?
- Did you used to have any hobbies in the past? Why did you quit them?
- Do you have a bad habit? Have you ever tried to quit it? What happened?
- What's the one bad habit you wish you could easily change?
- What are some of your good habits?
- Do you bite your nails? Did you do it when you were a child?
- Do you eat/sleep late?
- How do we learn our habits? Is it possible to change a habit once you have become an adult?
- What's the worst habit you can't stand?
- What would you do if one of your close friends had a bad habit?
- What are the main forms of pollution? Which one is threatening the earth most?
- Do you consider yourself a green person? What do you do to be so?
- Do you worry about the environment? What are your main concerns?
- What's global warming?
- Are there any rules in your country against littering?
- Is recycling litter common in your country? What kinds of materials are usually recycled?
- When you buy spray products do you check if they are Ozone friendly? Does it really matter?
- Have you ever experienced an earthquake? How would you describe it?
- What should you do, the moment an earthquake occurs?
- What would you put in your earthquake emergency pack?
- When was the last earthquake you can remember? How strong was it on the Richter scale?
- Is your home strong enough to resist an earthquake?
- Do you think we can predict earthquakes?
- What are some common changes in climate before an earthquake?
- Would you like to work for an NGO that helps people who are trapped in an earthquake?
- Name some natural disasters you know about? Which one is the most common in your country? Which one is the most frightening to you?
- Have you ever volunteered to help people after a disaster? How?
- What kind of help do people need in disaster times?
- Have you ever been in a disaster? How would you describe your experience?
- What are some manmade disasters? Have you ever experienced any of them?
- Have you ever prepared for a disaster?
- What would you do to help people in a disaster?
- Who's a walking disaster?
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