B1 (Intermediate)
- Have you ever done any online course? Were you successful at it?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of an online course?
- Why has distant learning become so fashionable these days?
- Are the degrees and certificates that are offered by distant learning institutions as valid as the ones offered by common educational systems?
- What did you like/dislike about going to school? What was your favorite subject at school?
- Have you been to University? Why? Why not?
- What did you study at university? Why? How long did it take/ does it take?
- Does your academic education help you find a better job? Does it help you do your job better?
- Do you think you had a good education?
- What are the good points and bad points about the educational system in schools of your country?
- Do you enjoy learning? Are you doing a course now?
- What social networking sites have you ever joined? Which of them are you actively using?
- Do you agree that social networking sites are for people who are not good at meeting people face to face?
- Have you ever tried to find new friends on a social network?
- What various activities can you do on a social networking site?
- Do you think teenagers' activities on social networking sites should be supervised by parents? How? Why?
- How is your life different without social networks?
- Do you have a Facebook account? How long have you had it?
- Why did you decide to create a Facebook account?
- How long do you spend on Facebook every day?
- How many friends do you have on Facebook? Do you know all of them personally?
- What do you usually do on Facebook?
- What's the best thing about Facebook?
- Is your Facebook account open to public? Can everybody see your posts and pictures?
- If you have to pay to use Facebook, will you continue using it?
- Why are people so interested in Facebook?
- How many secrets do you have? Do you enjoy having secrets or do they make you nervous?
- Are you good at keeping secrets? Do your friends usually tell their secrets to you?
- Have you ever revealed someone's secret by accident? What happened?
- If your best friend stole something and asked you to tell nobody, would you keep his/her secret?
- Do you use your real name on the internet? Why? Why not?
- What kind of information do you think is private on the net?
- If you find out about someone's secret by accident, what would you do?
- Are you interested in making lists? What kind of list do you usually make?
- Do you need plans to start an activity, like learning a new language?
- Imagine that you need to plan a party. What kind of details do you include in your plan (number and name of guests, food,…)?
- Do you plan your trips or are you a last minute type of person? Do you make a list of things you have to pack?
- Don't you think that planning can spoil the fun and surprise of a journey?
- How often do you remember your dreams?
- Have you ever had the same dream many times? Was it a good one or a bad one?
- Do you scream and wake up in the middle of your nightmares?
- What is the worst nightmare you have ever had? Could you go back to sleep?
- Do dreams have special meanings? How can we understand?
- Have your dreams ever come true?
- Do you talk or walk when you dream?
- Do you like your name? What does it mean?
- Who chose your name? Why did they choose this name for you?
- If you wanted to change your name, what name would you choose?
- When you have children, what would you call them?
- Do you think a person's name can influence his/her life/ character? Give examples.
- What is the most common boy/girl's name in your country? Do you like to have a common name or a distinctive one?
- Do women change their name after marriage? What do you think about it?
- What is your motivation in learning English? Is it important to have a motive?
- Have you ever tried to lose weight? Did you go on a diet/Did you exercise? What was your motivation? Were you successful?
- Are you generally self motivated or do you need outside motivations?
- What are some good motives for students to study better?
- What are some good motives for employees to work better?
- What are some good motives for children to behave well?
- What are the things that keep you motivated in life?
- Do you have a poor or a good memory?
- When was the last time you forgot something? What did you forget?
- Is it good to have a perfect memory? Why? Why not?
- What's your first memory? Can you remember the details?
- What is the one memory you can remember clearly?
- What's you happiest memory?
- Are you good at remembering names/ numbers/faces/ dates?
- Have you ever forgotten something very important?
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