Conversation Questions: What kind of food do you like?

Jenny invites Jake to an Indian restaurant, but Jake doesn’t like Indian food. What food does he like? We’re going out for a meal tonight, would you like to come? Why not? Where are you going? We’re going to the new Indian restaurant that opened in Islington. Ah. I don’t really like Indian food. What? [...]

ESL conversation questions: Are you afraid of flying?

From Unit 11 of the book, Questions for Conversation. Jenny asks Jeremy about his business trip to Prague, and admits being afraid of flying. Transcript: Hey Jeremy, how was your trip? Fine, thanks, the meeting was productive and I got to see a little of Prague How was the flight? Great. No problems. You can’t [...]

ESL Conversation Questions: What’s your name?

From the first unit in your book, Questions for Conversation – Getting to know you. I admit that it’s not very likely to ask someone so many questions when meeting for the first time. These questions are most often found as an icebreaker activity in the language classroom. In the video, I’ve made a more [...]

ESL Conversation Questions: How was your weekend? What did you do last weekend?

Transcript: Hi Jenny, how was your weekend? Great, we had a girl’s night out on Friday! We left the husbands and boyfriends at home with the kids and hit the town. What? You went to see the Chippendales? No, no, nothing like that. There were just five of us and went for a meal at [...]

Conversation questions: Money

Discuss these questions: 1.What is rich? Are you rich? How much do you need to be rich? 2.What do you spend your money on? 3.What would you like to buy but can’t afford? 4.Who is responsible for the current recession? 5.What would you do if you won 100 million Euros? 6.finish the proverb: “Money can’t [...]