B1 (Intermediate)

1. Do you prefer to send SMS or make a phone call? Why?
2. Do you send SMS when you are talking to people/in the class/in bed? Is it considered polite?
3. How many SMSs do you send a day on average? How many of them are really important?
4. Who do you usually send SMS to?
5. What language do you use in your text messages?
6. How many letters can you type a minute on your mobile phone?
7. If SMS was free, would you send more? 

1. How many TV Sets do you have in your house? Where are they?
2. How many TV sets you wish you had in your house? Where would you put them?
3. Who usually has the remote control? Do you ever fight for that?
4. How many hours a day do you watch TV? What kind of programs do you watch?
5. What's your favorite program on TV?
6. If you had no TV, what other things could you do instead of watching TV?
7. When you are watching TV, do you notice what is happening around you?
8. What is the longest time you have sat and watched TV?

1. Are you a technology friendly person?
2. What new technology couldn't you live without?
3. What technology do you detest? Why?
4. Has technology made us more intelligent? How?
5. When you buy a new instrument do you usually read the manual? Do you look for all the possible features?
6. How long can you survive without technology?
7. Can you think of new technologies in future?
8. Do you always trust technology? Has technology ever let you down? What happened?

1. When was the last time you took an important exam? What was the result? How did you feel before/during/after the exam?
2. Do you usually become nervous at exams? Why? Why not?
3. Are exams important in your educational system? Is it good?
4. How can exams help you learn?
5. Have you ever cheated in an exam? How? Why?
6. If we omit exams, how can we say who is good/bad at schools?

1.       Who is/was your favorite teacher at school? Why?

2.       Have you ever had a teacher you disliked? How do you describe him/her?

3.       How do you describe a good teacher?

4.       How do you describe a bad teacher?

5.       Have you ever thought about becoming a teacher? Why? Why not?

6.       Is teaching a well-paid job in your country?

7.       Are teachers well-trained in your country? 

1. Do/did you like studying history at school? Why? Why not?
2. Why do we have to study history at school?
3. How much can you trust history? Some people say history was written by winners so we cannot trust it, what do you think?
4. Which period of history do you enjoy studying more?
5. Who is your favorite character in history? What do you like about him/her?
6. If you had the chance to go back in time, which period of time would you choose?
7. What do you know about your family history? Is it important to you?

1. What are some of the good universities in your country? Have you gone to one? Why? Why not?
2. Is going to university important to your family? Why?
3. Is choosing a major at university easy?
4. Did you study your favorite major at university? (if not, why?) what advice will you give to your brother/sister who wants to choose a major?
5. How many years do students normally spend at university?
6. Can you easily contact your professors outside the class?
7. Does university life involve more fun or more study?

1. Did you go to a single sex school? Why? Why not?
2. Can you choose to go to a single sex school or a coeducational one? If you had the choice which one would you choose?
3. Who does better in coeducational systems? Boys or girls? Why?
4. Do students study better in single-sex schools? Why? Why not?
5. Do you believe we should have single-sex schools from primary levels? Does the age of students make any difference?
6. What are the main concerns of students who go to coeducational schools?

1. Do you enjoy spending your time in a classroom?
2. Do you prefer to sit in rows or in a circle? Why?
3. Where do you usually sit in a classroom? Why?
4. Do you think the teacher should tell students where to sit?
5. How many hours a day do you spend in classrooms? How would you improve your classroom?
6. What are the five things you don't have in your classroom but you believe they are necessary?
7. Do you have to get permission in order to leave the class?

1. What's your favorite book? What kind of books do you like most? (mystery, detective, science fiction,…)
2. Who is your favorite writer?
3. What was the name of the last book you read? What was it about?
4. How often do you read books? How many hours a week do you read?
5. What is the longest book you have ever read? How many pages is it? How long did it take you to finish reading it?
6. Have you ever thought about writing a book? What would it be about?
7. Is there a book you never finished reading it? Why?