1. What kind of art do you like?
2. What kind of art don’t you like?
3. Do you enjoy visiting art galleries?
4. When did you last visit an art gallery?
5. Do you have a favorite piece of art?
6. Do you have a favourite artist?
7. Have you ever seen any famous works of art?
8. Have you ever been shocked by a piece of art
9. Do you always believe what art critics say?
10. What do you think of modern art?
11. What do you think of street art?
12. What do you think of body art?
13. Do you have any artistic talents?
14. Should children study art at school?
15. Have you got any pictures at your walls?
16. If you could buy a great work of art, what would it be?
17. Should people buy expensive pieces of art instead of helping people in need?
18. What would life be like without art?

1. Are you reading a good book at the moment?
2. What kind of books do you like?
3. What kind of books don’t you like?
4. What’s your favorite book?
5. Do you sometimes reread your favorite books?
6. How do you decide what to read?
7. Can you judge a book by its cover?
8. Do you ever recommend your favorite books to your friends?
9. Have you ever read a book that, in your opinion, was overrated
10. Do you usually finish books you don’t like at first?
11. Can you remember your first book?
12. Have you ever read a book that had a big effect on your life?
13. When did you last visit a library?
14. Will libraries disappear in the future?15. Do you ever order books online?
16. Do you prefer e-books or traditional ones?
17. What do you think about pirating e-books
18. Will e-books replace traditional ones in the future?

1. How often do you go to the cinema?
2. Do you prefer watching films at home or at the cinema?
3. What kind of films do you like?
4. What kind of films don’t you like?
5. Do you prefer old films or modern ones?
6. Who are your favorite actors?
7. Do you have a favorite producer?
8. How do you decide what to watch?
9. Do you buy films on DVD?
10. Do you download films from Internet?
11. Do your prefer watching a film alone or with somebody?
12. Can you remember being shocked by a film?
13. What film have you seen the most times?
14. What’s the funniest film you’ve ever seen?
15. What’s the scariest film you’ve ever seen?
16. Have you ever walked out of a cinema before the film finished?
17. Have you ever seen a film that had a big effect on your life?
18. How will the cinema change in the next 20 years?

1. What kind of clothes do you like?
2. What kind of clothes don’t you like?
3. What’s your favorite piece of clothing?
4. What do you never wear?
5. What do you wear now that you never wore 10 years ago?
6. What did you wear 10 years ago that you never wear now?
7. How long does it take you to decide what to wear when you get dressed?
8. Do you ever have any problems with clothes?
9. Do you enjoy shopping for new clothes?
10. Where do you know from what fashionable is?
11. Have you ever bought something quite expensive, but never really worn?
12. Do you ever make your own clothes?
13. How important is it to be well-dressed?
14. Do people feel different in different clothes?
15. Can you judge someone by clothes?
16. Do the clothes reflect what is inside?
17. What’s the strangest fashion you’ve ever seen?
18. What will we wear in 20 years?

1. What kind of food do you like?
2. What kind of food don’t you like?
3. Do you like fast food?
4. How often do you eat out?
5. What’s your favorite restaurant?
6. Do you ever get takeaway food?
7. Are you good at cooking?
8. Is eating mostly a chore or a pleasure for you?
9. What time do you usually have dinner?
10. Do you usually eat at the same time on weekdays and at weekends?
11. Do you have a healthy diet?
12. Do you care where the food you eat comes from?
13. Do you avoid any food or drinks for health reasons?
14. What do you think about vegetarians?
15. When you eat out, do you prefer something new or what you know?
16. What’s the most unusual dish you’ve ever tried?
17. Have your tastes changed since your childhood?
18. How has food changed over the recent years?

1. Do you prefer beach holidays or sightseeing ones?
2. Do you prefer travelling alone or with somebody?
3. What do you like about travelling?
4. What do you dislike about travelling?
5. How do you like to travel?
6. Do you usually take a lot of luggage or do you travel light?
7. What’s the best hotel you’ve ever stayed in?
8. What’s the worst hotel you’ve ever stayed in?
9. What can ruin a holiday?
10. Do you ever get bored when you are on holiday?
11. What do you like doing in a new place?
12. Are you good at using maps?
13. Have you ever lost being on holiday?
14. Do you usually take a lot of photos on your holidays?
15. Would you like to live somewhere that you’ve visited for a holiday?
16. Where was your last holiday?
17. Are you planning your next holiday?
18. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

1. Who or what makes you laugh?
2. When did you last laugh a lot?
3. Do you usually read jokes in newspapers or on the Internet?
4. Do you prefer telling or listening to jokes?
5. Can you tell your favorite joke?
6. Have you ever read a book which made you laugh out loud?
7. Have you ever laughed at an inappropriate time?
8. Do you enjoy watching humorous videos on the Internet?
9. Do you enjoy watching humorous TV programs?
10. Who’s your favorite stand-up comic?
11. Do you ever go to stand-up comedy shows?
12. Have you ever seen a comedy film or show that you didn’t find funny?
13. What are jokes in your country usually about?
14. Do people all over the world laugh at the same things?
15. What makes a joke funny?
16. How important is it to have a good sense of humor?
17. Why is humor good for health?
18. What would life be like without humor?

1. Do you like visiting museums?
2. How often do you visit museums?
3. When did you last visit a museum?
4. Can you remember your first visit to a museum?
5. What’s the most famous museum you’ve ever been to?
6. How do you decide which museum to visit?
7. Do you prefer small or big museums?
8. Do you usually get some information about the museum before visiting it?
9. What do you think of interactive tours about museums?
10. Do you prefer walk about a museum independently or with a guide?
11. How do you feel about audio guides?
12. What museum has impressed you most of all?
13. Can you describe the exhibit which has impressed you the most?
14. Have you ever been shocked with an exhibit or a whole museum?
15. Have you ever been disappointed with a museum which was advertised a lot?
16. How often do you recommend museums to your friends?
17. Do you usually buy some books or souvenirs about museums you’ve visited?
18. How do you imagine museums in the future?

1. Do you like your name?
2. What does your name mean?
3. How did your parents choose your name?
4. Is it a good idea to name a baby after someone in the family?
5. What do you think about naming a baby after a saint?
6. How do you feel about naming a baby after a famous person?
7. Is it a good idea to name a baby after one of the parents?
8. What do you think about giving a foreign name to a baby?
9. How do you feel about parents who invent names for their babies?
10. What’s the most unusual name you’ve ever heard?
11. Is it better to have a common name or more unusual one?
12. If you could change your name, what would you choose?
13. Have you ever lied about your name?
14. Have you ever had any problems with your name?
15. Can you tell a funny story connected with your name?
16. Are you good at remembering names?
17. How do you feel about giving human names to pets?
18. Do names affect people’s lives?

1. Do you enjoy going to parties?
2. When did you last go to a party?
3. Can you remember your first party?
4. Do you prefer big or small parties?
5. Do you prefer parties at homes or pubic places?
6. Are you a party starter, goer or poorer?
7. What do you like to do at parties?
8. Do you like playing party games?
9. Have you ever met someone at a party who became your friend or even more?
10. What makes a party enjoyable?
11. Can you describe the best party you’ve ever been to?
12. Can you describe the most unusual party you’ve ever been to?
13. Can you describe the most expensive party you’ve ever been to?
14. Can you describe the worst party you’ve ever been to?
15. What can ruin a party?
16. What annoying things can people do at parties?
17. Have you ever been to a party in another country?
18. Should people spend a lot of money on parties instead of helping others?

1. How often do you travel by plane?
2. What do you like about flying?
3. What do you dislike about flying?
4. When did you first travel by plane?
5. Do you have a favorite airline?
6. Have you ever suffered from delays or cancellations of flights?
7. Do you prefer travelling in a big plane or in a small one?
8. How much hand luggage do you usually take with you?
9. Which seat do you prefer: window, center or aisle?
10. Do you enjoy takeoffs or landings?
11. What’s the longest flight you’ve ever taken?
12. What do you like doing during the flight?
13. Do you usually like food on board?
14. Can you sleep during the flight?
15. Do you enjoy talking with strangers in a plane?
16. How safe do you feel on board?
17. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever experienced during the flight?
18. How would life be different if people stopped travelling by plane?

1. Do you prefer to give or to receive presents?
2. Can you describe the first present you remember?
3. Can you remember a present you wished for in your childhood, but never got?
4. What’s the best present you’ve ever got?
5. What’s the most expensive present you’ve ever got?
6. What’s the most unusual present you’ve ever got?
7. What’s the funniest present you’ve ever got?
8. What’s the most useless present you’ve ever got?
9. What kind of presents do you hate to get?
10. What occasions do you give or receive presents on?
11. Do you ever give presents for no obvious reason?
12. Do you enjoy shopping for presents?
13. Do you usually buy presents in advance or in the last minute?
14. What kind of presents do you like to give?
15. Are you good at gift-wrapping?
16. Can you tell about some gifts traditions in your country?
17. Do you know any gifts traditions in other countries?
18. Who do you find it most difficult to buy presents for?

1. How often do you go shopping?
2. Is shopping routine or pleasure for you?
3. What do you like about shopping?
4. What don’t you like about shopping?
5. Do you prefer large store chains or small shops?
6. Do you ever go to markets?
7. Have you ever bought anything from a door-to-door salesman?
8. Have you ever ordered anything by mail?
9. Do you do any shopping online?
10. What’s more important to you: price, quality, brand or something else?
11. Do you usually plan your purchases?
12. Do you like to ‘shop around’ comparing prices?
13. Are you a bargain-hunter?
14. Do you usually bargain with the seller, if it’s possible?
15. Do you sometimes buy things you don’t really need?
16. Have you ever bought something on impulse and then regretted?
17. How have shops changed over the last 50 years?
18. How will shops change over the next 50 years?

1. Do you like travelling by train?
2. How often do you travel by train?
3. When did you last travel by train?
4. Can you remember your first train trip?
5. How much time did you spend on your longest train journey?
6. What are the advantages of going by train?
7. What are the disadvantages of going by train?
8. Do you prefer a lower berth or an upper one?
9. What do you usually do while travelling in a train?
10. Do you prefer to take some food with you or to buy it on the road?
11. Do you like visiting a dining car?
12. Do you prefer to go out at the stations or to stay in the carriage?
13. Do you prefer to socialize with other passengers or to keep alone?
14. Have you ever met a very interesting person on your train trip?
15. Have you ever continued your train acquaintance?
16. How do you feel about separating compartments for men and women?
17. What should be improved in trains?
18. Will railway disappear in the future?

1. How do you feel about advertising?
2. Are you easily persuaded to buy something after seeing or hearing an advertisement?
3. What kind of advertisements attracts your attention?
4. What’s the best advertisement you’ve ever seen?
5. What’s the most shocking advertisement you’ve ever seen?
6. What’s the funniest advertisement you’ve ever seen?
7. What makes an advertisement memorable?
8. Is advertising an art?
9. Can your favorite celebrity persuade you to buy a product?
10. Are children and teenagers more influenced by advertising than adults?
11. Do you usually accept advertising fliers offered to you?
12. What’s the best form of advertising?
13. Have you ever placed an advertisement?
14. Have you ever been angry about an advertisement?
15. Should some advertisements be banned?
16. Should alcohol and tobacco companies be allowed to advertise?
17. What regulations should be applied to advertisements to protect consumers?
18. What would the world be like without advertising?

1. What’s your favorite animal?
2. Have you got a pet?
3. What are the advantages of having a pet?
4. What are the disadvantages of having a pet?
5. Are any pets pests?
6. What can children learn by having a pet?
7. Should people spend a lot of money on pets instead of helping people in need?
8. Do you like visiting zoos?
9. Is keeping animals in zoos cruel?
10. What do you think about using animals in circuses?
11. How do you feel about hunting?
12. What do you think about blood sports?
13. How do you feel about using animals for medical researches?
14. Are you afraid of stray dogs?
15. In what cases an animal should be put down?
16. Do animals have souls?
17. Do animals have a sense of past and future?
18. What’s the biggest difference between people and animals?

1. What’s your earliest memory?
2. What was your favorite toy?
3. What was your favorite cartoon?
4. Were you afraid of anything?
5. What was your favorite game?
6. Were you good at making friends?
7. Do you keep in touch with your childhood friends?
8. What childhood activity do you miss now?
9. What’s your fondest memory of childhood?
10. Is childhood the best time of life?
11. What are the advantages of being a child?
12. What are the disadvantages of being a child?
13. How was your childhood different from that of your parents?
14. How was your childhood different from that today?
15. Are children more violent today than they used to be?
16. Should we correct children when their parents aren’t around?
17. Should we answer children’s questions if they are inappropriate ones?
18. What’s the most important thing we need to teach children?

1. Are you good at making friends?
2. Can you remember your first friend?
3. What’s the best age for making friends?
4. How long has your strongest friendship lasted?
5. How often do you contact with your long-distance friends?
6. How difficult is it to maintain a friendship?
7. What can break a good relationship?
8. Is it a good idea to go on holiday with a friend?
9. What do you think about lending/borrowing money to/from a friend?
10. Would it be difficult if your friend was your boss or subordinate?
11. Is it a good idea to start business with a friend?
12. Is it possible to establish a strong friendship through Internet?
13. Is it possible to have the best friend from a different generation?
14. Is it possible to have the best friend from a different social or cultural background?
15. Is it possible to have the best friend of the opposite sex without falling in love?
16. Is it possible to be friends with ex-spouses?
17. Is it possible to be friends with your teacher?
18. Can you imagine your life without friends?

1. How many hours a week do you use the Internet?
2. Do you prefer watching TV or surfing the Internet in your free time?
3. Do you use the Internet mostly for work or for pleasure?
4. What sites do you visit the most?
5. What annoys you about the Internet?
6. Are you worried to give your personal information to web sites?
7. Do you think you spend too much time on the Internet?
8. Do you know anybody who is, in your opinion, an Internet addict?
9. Is the Internet making people lazier or more stupid?
10. Do we rely too much on the Internet?
11. When did you first get on the Internet?
12. Does the Internet bring more use or harm to children?
13. Should the Internet be regulated to protect children?
14. Can the Internet help to solve some global problems?
15. How might the Internet develop in the future?
16. Will the Internet replace all other media one day?
17. Is the Internet the most important invention of your lifetime?
18. Can you imagine your life without the Internet?

1. How much money have you got in your wallet?
2. Are you mostly a saver or a spender?
3. Do you ever give money to charities?
4. Do you ever gamble?
5. Have you ever found any money?
6. Have you ever had any money stolen from you?
7. What are the symbols of wealth for you?
8. Would you rather be rich and ugly or poor and good-looking?
9. What would you do with $1,000,000?
10. What are the advantages of being rich?
11. What are the disadvantages of being rich?
12. Can money buy love?
13. Is it possible to be happy in spite of being poor?
14. Are poor people usually more generous than rich ones?
15. Do rich people generally spend their money wisely?
16. Should global wealth be re-distributed?
17. Does money make the world go round?
18. How would society work without money?

1. How much time do you spend on listening to music?
2. What kind of music do you like?
3. What kind of music don’t you like?
4. Do you like singing?
5. Do you like dancing?
6. Can you play any musical instrument?
7. How does music make you feel?
8. Can you concentrate on other things while listening to music?
9. Can you fall asleep while listening to music?
10. Can music affect unborn children?
11. Can music heal sick people?
12. Can animals enjoy music?
13. Why is music so important to culture?
14. Do people from different culture react to music in different ways?
15. How have your musical tastes changed since your teenage years?
16. Will your favorite music in 20 years be the same as today?
17. What will the next piece of music technology?
18. What would the world be like without music?

1. How superstitious are you?
2. Do you like reading or watching about unsolved mysteries?
3. Do you believe in Lock Ness Monster?
4. Do you believe in Yeti?
5. Do you believe in UFOs?
6. Do you believe in ghosts?
7. Would you spend a night in a haunted house?
8. Can you tell a mystery connected with your town?
9. Have you ever experienced something you couldn’t explain?
10. Have you ever felt that something had happened to you before?
11. Have you ever known that something was going to happen before it did?
12. Do you believe in reincarnation?
13. Do you believe that some people have supernatural power?
14. Is it possible to predict the future?
15. Do you believe in horoscopes?
16. Why do some people need fortune-tellers?
17. What is mysterious for you?
18. What would life be like without mystery?

1. Where do you usually get the news from?
2. How often do you read newspapers?
3. Do you ever buy newspapers?
4. Do you prefer newspapers or magazines?
5. What’s in the news today?
6. How is it important to stay up to date with current affairs?
7. Do you like being up to date with current affairs?
8. Do you like discussing the news with your colleagues?
9. What do you think about people who invent the news about themselves?
10. What do you think about reporters who invent the news?
11. What annoys you about reporting the news in your country?
12. What would you like to see more in the news?
13. What would you like to see less in the news?
14. How big is the influence of media on people’s minds?
15. Should some media be banned?
16. Will there still be newspapers in 100 years?
17. Have you ever been involved in a story that was featured in the news?
18. Can you imagine your life without the news?

1. How many hours sleep do you usually get?
2. Do you fall asleep easily or does it take you a while?
3. What do you do if you can’t fall asleep?
4. Do you like reading a book or watching TV in bed?
5. Can you fall asleep while reading a book or watching TV?
6. Are you a heavy sleeper or do you wake up easily?
7. What can awake you at night?
8. Can you remember your dreams when you wake up?
9. Have you ever dreamt something that later came true?
10. Do you often have the same dream?
11. Do you believe that dreams help us to predict future?
12. Do you ever suffer from nightmare?
13. Do you believe that it’s possible to interpret dreams?
14. Do you need an alarm clock to wake up?
15. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
16. Do you ever oversleep?
17. Do you sometimes have a nap at lunchtime or at another time of day?
18. Do you wish you could sleep more?

1. Are you an early adopter of new technologies?
2. What’s the most advanced piece of technology that you own?
3. Are you frightened or worried about using any new technology?
4. What modern gadget couldn’t you live without?
5. Do people work more or less nowadays than 50 years ago?
6. What kind of jobs might disappear in the future?
7. Are people healthier or unhealthier now than 50 years ago?
8. Will your job be the same in 10 years?
9. What’s the most important invention of your lifetime?
10. How has your home changed since your childhood?
11. How will homes change in the next 20 years?
12. What might your mobile phone do in 10 years?
13. How will cars change in the next 20 years?
14. Would you like a car that drives itself?
15. When will we get flying cars?
16. What time saving gadget do you wish someone would invent?
17. Will humans make contacts with intelligent life from another planets?
18. What do you want to see in your lifetime?

1. How many hours a week do you watch TV?
2. Is there more than one TV set in your home?
3. Do you usually leave the TV on when you aren’t watching?
4. Can you fall asleep in front of a working TV set?
5. What kind of TV programs do you like?
6. What kind of TV programs don’t you like?
7. What’s your favorite TV program?
8. Who’s your favorite TV star?
9. What’s your favorite TV channel?
10. How do you decide what to watch on TV?
11. Do you ever download missed TV programs from Internet?
12. How has TV changed over the recent years?
13. What do you think about reality shows?
14. Can you remember being choked by a TV program?
15. Is there too much violence on TV?
16. Should some TV programs be banned to protect children?
17. How big is the influence of TV on people’s lives?
18. Can you imagine your life without TV?

1. Are you good at managing time?
2. Do you wear a watch?
3. How long can you do without knowing the time?
4. Do you use a diary?
5. Are you good at meeting deadlines?
6. Are you usually on time for appointments?
7. Do you prefer to arrive exactly on time or a bit earlier?
8. What do you do if you arrive too early?
9. How much does waiting bother you?
10. What’s a waste of time for you?
11. When does time go slowly for you?
12. When does time go quickly for you?
13. Do you prefer being busy or having an easy schedule?
14. How are you going to spend your time when you retire?
15. What would you do if you had an extra hour a day?
16. What would you do if you could stop time?
17. If you had a pill to live 1,000 years, would you take it?
18. If you had a time machine, which period would you visit?

1. What’s your favorite kind of weather?
2. What do you like doing when the weather is good?
3. What do you like doing when the weather is bad?
4. How does the weather affect your health?
5. How does the weather affect your mood?
6. Do you know the weather forecast for the next week?
7. Why is it important to know future weather conditions?
8. Do you like to have small talks about the weather?
9. How much do you depend on weather reports?
10. How do you feel about the weather in your country?
11. What kind of climate do you prefer when choosing a place for a holiday?
12. Have you ever thought about moving to a country with a different climate?
13. What’s the hottest temperature you’ve ever experienced?
14. What’s the coldest temperature you’ve ever experienced?
15. Have you ever experienced extreme weather conditions?
16. How can extreme weather conditions affect the economy of a country?
17. Are we losing our four distinct seasons in recent years?
18. If you could abolish one form of the weather, what would it be?

1. How do you usually feel on your birthday?
2. What’s the best age to be?
3. Have you ever had to prove your age?
4. Is there a generation gap between you and your parents?
5. What’s the best age for leaving parents’ home?
6. Are young women usually more mature than young men?
7. Do men remain attractive longer than women?
8. Is it possible love between people of different generations?
9. What age limits should be changed?
10. What annoying things do people younger or older than you do?
11. Have you ever lied about your age?
12. Why is getting older usually depressing people?
13. Is it possible friendship between people of different generations?
14. What things can old people teach the young?
15. What’s the best age for retirement?
16. Should men retire older than women?
17. Should old people be forced to retire?
18. What problems can cause ‘ageing population’?

1. What kind of buildings do you like?
2. What kind of buildings don’t you like?
3. Do you prefer old architecture or modern one?
4. Can you describe the biggest building you’ve ever seen?
5. Can you describe the oldest building you’ve ever seen?
6. Can you describe the most beautiful building you’ve ever seen?
7. Can you describe the most unusual building you’ve ever seen?
8. What city impressed you most of all with its architecture?
9. Which period of history has the best architecture?
10. Why have ancient buildings stood for thousands of years while modern ones haven’t?
11. Why is it necessary to protect old buildings?
12. What role does architecture play in modern society?
13. What would you like to change about buildings in your town?
14. What can your town’s authorities do to improve its architecture?
15. What’s more important: building appearance or comfort for people?
16. How much does architecture affect a person’s mind?
17. What changes of architecture took place in the past 20 years?
18. What will architecture be like in 20 years from now?

1. What kind of buildings do you like?
2. What kind of buildings don’t you like?
3. Do you prefer old architecture or modern one?
4. Can you describe the biggest building you’ve ever seen?
5. Can you describe the oldest building you’ve ever seen?
6. Can you describe the most beautiful building you’ve ever seen?
7. Can you describe the most unusual building you’ve ever seen?
8. What city impressed you most of all with its architecture?
9. Which period of history has the best architecture?
10. Why have ancient buildings stood for thousands of years while modern ones haven’t?
11. Why is it necessary to protect old buildings?
12. What role does architecture play in modern society?
13. What would you like to change about buildings in your town?
14. What can your town’s authorities do to improve its architecture?
15. What’s more important: building appearance or comfort for people?
16. How much does architecture affect a person’s mind?
17. What changes of architecture took place in the past 20 years?
18. What will architecture be like in 20 years from now?

1. What’s a conflict?
2. Can you remember your first conflict?
3. What kind of conflicts can take place at school?
4. What kind of conflicts can happen at work?
5. What kind of conflicts can occur in a family?
6. What kind of conflicts can take place between neighbors?
7. What kind of conflicts can happen between countries?
8. Are conflicts inevitable?
9. What are the advantages of a conflict?
10. What are the disadvantages of a conflict?
11. Why do some people confront more than others?
12. Why do some people create conflicts?
13. Do you usually try to avoid conflicts?
14. Can you tell about your last conflict?
15. What are the constructive ways to solve a conflict?
16. What are the deconstructive ways to solve a conflict?
17. How do you feel about involving third-party mediation?
18. What would life be like without conflicts?

1. How much do you worry about the environment?
2. How has the environment changed since your childhood?
3. Are you interested in reading articles or watching TV programs about environmental problems?
4. What are the main environmental problems in your country?
5. How do you feel about recycling?
6. Which kind of energy do you support?
7. What are the biggest environmental problems in the world?
8. Are the recent natural disasters the result of human influence on the environment?
9. Do you see any changes in the weather or climate of your place?
10. What are factors that have contributed to global warming?
11. What can governments do to save our environment?
12. How can we protect the environment and at the same time improve people’s standard of living?
13. What can individuals do to help the environment?
14. Have you ever done anything to help the environment?
15. What do you think about environmental groups like Greenpeace?
16. What can be done to increase the awareness about environmental problems?
17. Is the planet being gradually damaged?
18. How will the world look like in 100 years?

1. Who is the most famous person in the world?
2. Which celebrity annoys you?
3. Are you interested in stars’ private lives?
4. Can you tell some news about any celebrity?
5. Does stars’ life affect their personality?
6. Do stars have a big influence on people’s minds?
7. Which celebrity is a good role model for you?
8. Which celebrity is a bad role model for you?
9. Did you have an icon at your teen age?
10. Should stars have responsibility towards their fans?
11. Do you think stars are overpaid?
12. Would you like to be famous?
13. What are the advantages of being famous?
14. What are the disadvantages of being famous?
15. Have you ever met anyone famous?
16. If you could have dinner with someone famous, who would you choose?
17. Do people nowadays become famous for the same reasons as 100 years ago?
18. Which famous people living today might still be remembered in 100 years?

1. How conscious are you about your health?
2. What things might damage your health?
3. Do you fell you should give up something to protect your health?
4. What do you do to stay healthy?
5. Do you ever read articles or watch TV programs about health?
6. Do you usually take medicine when you are sick?
7. Do you usually go to a doctor when you get a cold?
8. How often do you have a health check?
9. What are your experiences of hospitals?
10. Have you ever been to a hospital in another country?
11. How could hospitals be made better places to visit and stay in?
12. Which is better: private or public health care?
13. What do you think about alternative medicine?
14. Who is more responsible for your health: you or the government?
15. Is the health care in your country getting better or worse?
16. What are the health care problems in your country?
17. Are people today healthier or unhealthier than 50 years ago?
18. What health problems can the mankind face in the future?

1. What laws in your country do you like?
2. What laws in your country don’t you like?
3. Is anything that is not prohibited by law allowed?
4. Is it OK sometimes to break the law?
5. Have you ever broken the law?
6. Have you ever got into trouble for breaking the law?
7. Have you ever used a lawyer?
8. Have you ever been in a court?
9. What should be done to improve the courts?
10. Are there different laws for the rich and the poor?
11. Would you like to be a lawmaker?
12. What laws would you introduce?
13. What laws would you take from other countries?
14. What laws would you never take from other countries?
15. What’s the craziest law you’ve ever heard about?
16. How do you feel about death penalty?
17. What do you think of replacing all national laws by international laws?
18. What would the world be like without laws?

1. How much are you interested in politics?
2. Can you tell some recent political news?
3. How often do you read articles or watch TV programs on political issues?
4. Do you like talking about politics?
5. What are the main political problems in your country?
6. What do you think about your country’s political system?
7. What do you think about your country’s politicians?
8. What qualities make a good political leader?
9. Did you vote in the last election?
10. How do you decide who or what to vote for?
11. How have your political views changed during your lifetime?
12. How is it possible to get more people to vote?
13. How do you feel about stars who run for a position in politics?
14. Would you like to work in politics?
15. If you were a politician, what problems would you focus on?
16. What are the main political issues in the world?
17. What can cause a war?
18. What would the world be like without politics?

1. Did you enjoy going to school?
2. Were you a good or a bad pupil?
3. What were your favorite subjects?
4. What were your favorite teachers?
5. What did you use to do at break time?
6. Was there any bullying at your school?
7. Did you ever get in trouble at school?
8. What was the most useful thing you learnt at school?
9. How have schools changed since your childhood?
10. How old should children be when they start and finish school?
11. Should school children wear uniform?
12. Should religion be taught at school?
13. Should sex be taught at school?
14. What should children be taught at school to be prepared for ‘real world’?
15. What do you think about private education?
16. What do you think about educating boys and girls in separate schools?
17. What should be done to improve the quality of education in schools?
18. What will schools be like in 20 years?

1. What’s your favorite sport?
2. What sport do you hate?
3. Are you mostly a sport watcher or doer?
4. Should everyone practice sport?
5. Who’s your favorite athlete?
6. What qualities must a professional sportsperson have?
7. Should children be trained hard?
8. What makes a good trainer?
9. Do you know all the rules of your favorite sport?
10. Do you prefer watching sports live or on TV?
11. Do you prefer watching sports alone or with somebody?
12. What do you think about sports bars?
13. How do you feel about sports fans?
14. What do you think about extreme sports?
15. How do you feel about gambling on sports events?
16. What are the advantages for a country to hold sports competitions?
17. What are the disadvantages for a country to hold sports competitions?
18. What would life be like without sport?

1. Are you stressed at the moment?
2. Is speaking English stressful for you?
3. How often do you get stressed?
4. Do you get stressed easily?
5. How do you feel that you are suffering from stress?
6. Does stress make it hard for you to think or eat?
7. How do you interact with others when you are under a lot of stress?
8. What situations stress you most of all?
9. What’s the most stressful experience you’ve ever had?
10. What’s the most stressful time of your life?
11. What do you do when you have stress?
12. Do you prefer to relax or be active when you are stressed?
13. How do you reduce stress in your life?
14. How do you help your family and friends to recover stress?
15. Is life in general becoming more or less stressful?
16. How dangerous stress is?
17. Can stress be useful?
18. What would life be like without any stress?

1. What’s success?
2. Who’s the most successful person?
3. Do you like reading or watching stories of success?
4. Are successful people happier than others?
5. How do you measure success?
6. Which does success mostly depend on: luck or hard-working?
7. What are the advantages of being successful?
8. What are the disadvantages of being successful?
9. How important success for you?
10. How successful are you compared with your friends?
11. Can you remember you first success?
12. Can you tell about the biggest success in your life?
13. Can you tell about your last success?
14. How often do you feel successful?
15. Can you feel successful within you, without recognizing by others?
16. Do you usually notice small successes you have every day?
17. Is it possible to teach success?
18. What would life be like if we didn’t recognize success?

1. Why do we need to work?
2. What job did you dream of in your childhood?
3. Did you choose your current job by economic necessity?
4. What do you like about your present job?
5. What do you dislike about your present job?
6. What your working conditions would you like to change?
7. Are you looking forward to your retirement?
8. Do you ever imagine being someone else?
9. What’s the most exciting job?
10. What’s the most boring job?
11. Are some jobs overpaid?
12. Is it better to be a boss or a subordinate?
13. Do you know any workaholic?
14. Who are better workers: men or women?
15. Is housework a real work?
16. Who is more responsible for employment: a government or a person?
17. If you had a huge amount of money, would you still work?
18. What would life be like if we didn’t have to work?