B1 (Intermediate)
- What color is peace? What are the global symbols of peace? What's your personal symbol of peace?
- Can you name some people who have won the peace Nobel Prize? Who are they?
- What country do you think is the most peaceful? Is your country peaceful? Why? How long has your country been at peace?
- How can we make the world a more peaceful place as an individual?
- Are you a peaceful person? Do you do anything to keep peaceful like yoga, meditation...?
- How often do you think about peace? Do you think lots of people think about it?
- What is privacy?
- Do you keep a diary? What do you write on it? Are other people allowed to read it? Where do you keep it?
- Do you lock your wardrobe? Does your laptop/PC or mobile phone have a password? Why?
- Is privacy important for you? Why?
- Do you respect other people's privacy? How? Do people usually respect privacy in your culture?
- Do you think the government has the right to read your emails? Why? Why not?
- What do you think about CCTVs/safety cameras? Are they against your privacy?
- Do you usually leave a tip in a restaurant?
- Is tipping common in your country? What are some of the common occasions when you leave a tip?
- In which jobs, tipping is an important part of the salary?
- Can you think of situations when tipping is necessary? When is it optional?
- What's the biggest tip you have ever left? Why?
- What are some things that define a culture? (Music,…)
- How much do you know about your culture? Are you proud of that?
- What interesting things can you say about your culture? What don't you like about your culture?
- Is it polite to be frank and direct in your culture?
- If some people from other countries came to your country, what advice would you give them?
- How do you feel when you go abroad and you face a new culture? Is it interesting for you or do you become nervous?
- What are some common crimes in your city/ society?
- Are some parts of your city/country more dangerous? Why?
- Have you ever been the victim of a crime?
- Do you think police fights effectively with criminals?
- Do you think police dramas are realistic?
- Are the punishments for crimes appropriate in your country? Is death sentence allowed in your country? Do you agree or disagree?
- Should punishment be the same for teenagers and adults? Why?
- Is there any connection between crime and drugs?
- Have you ever seen a crime?
- Who must have the right to decide about the life of a baby before it is born? Why?
- Is abortion legal or illegal in your country?
- What do various religions say about abortion?
- What does your society think about abortion?
- Which one is worse, to have an abortion or to give birth to a baby you don't want and you don't love?
- If a woman wants to have an abortion, what rights does the father have? Why?
- Do you know anyone who has had an abortion? How would you/she describe the experience?
- How old are you? How old are your parents? Is it OK?
- Are your friends mostly the same age as you are, older or younger? Why?
- Have you experienced the moment when you say "now I understand my mum/dad"? When was it? How old were you?
- Do you ever disagree with your friends/ parents or sisters and brothers on music, fashion or values?
- How long does a generation last? What forms the ideas and values of a generation?
- How do you compare your generation with the previous one and the next one?
- Are you happy with your gender now? (being a boy/ girl)
- What is it that you like to do but you cannot, because of your gender?
- Is it OK for men to wear pink clothes? To cry? To cook at home?
- Is it ok for women to do boxing? Join army?
- Are some jobs considered manly/ womanly? Do you agree? Why?
- Do you think it is fine for boys to play with girlie toys and vice versa? Why? Why not?
- Which one do you think are happier, men or women? Why?
- Why do people use drugs?
- Is alcohol a drug? Do you know any alcoholics?
- Have you ever used any illegal drugs? What were your reasons?
- If you found out that your best friend is addicted to some kind of drugs, what would you do?
- Is tobacco a drug? Why is it legal?
- Is there any difference between soft drugs like marijuana and hard drugs like crack? Would you ever want to try any of them?
- What punishment do drug dealers deserve?
- What kinds of discrimination can you name? Which is the worst and why?
- What do you think is the reason behind discrimination?
- Have you ever personally suffered from discrimination in your family/ in your society? How did you feel? What did you do?
- Have you ever discriminated against others?
- Imagine you manage a company and you want to employ some people, do you prefer men or women? Do you prefer white or black people? Do you prefer your friends to strangers?
- How can we help reduce discrimination?
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