Conversational Questions For Adults

Conversational
Questions for Adults

What is your name
Nice to meet you
Where do you live?
How old are you?
Why do you want to study English?
What is your work?
Crime
Crime may not be on the top of people’s lists of favorite topics
but it’s something that’s talked about. Depending on your adult
students’ life experiences, it may be something that has affected
their lives. Learning to discuss it could help your students out in
the long run. Good discussion questions are:
• Is crime a big problem in your city/country?
• Have you ever been a victim of crime?
• What crime is common in your city/country?
• What would you do if you noticed a crime being committed?
• How is the law enforcement in your city/country?
Restaurants
Along with eating, everybody loves talking about their favorite eateries and
restaurants. Some students could even relate to each other with their
choices and views. Good questions include:
1. How often do you go to restaurants?
2. What is your favorite restaurant? Why?
3. What do you usually order at a restaurant?
4. What is the restaurant experience like in your country?
5. Have you ever worked in a restaurant?
6. If you owned a restaurant, what kinds of food would
you serve?
Cooking
Cooking is another topic that may allow for some good conversation. Most
people in most countries do a good amount of cooking. A few good questions
could be:
1. In your home, who usually cooks?
2. How often do you cook?
3. How well do you cook? What can you cook well?
4. What are the advantages/disadvantages of cooking?
5. What food would you like to learn how to cook?
Books
Books make for a good discussion topic because most people enjoy a good
book.
When you read, your mind is filled with new images, feelings, ideas and
thoughts. Books also empower and educate people, so your adult students may
believe in the value of books. It can be immensely satisfying for adult students
to share how they feel about reading. Some questions to ask are:
1. Do you like books/reading? Why/why not?
2. What kind of books do/did you like?
3. What is your favorite book? Why?
4. What was the last book you read?
5. Do you believe reading books/literature is more important than reading
stuff online? Why/why not?
Sports
Now comes a topic that more men may favor, but it’s still
good for classes since female spectators are on the rise. Some
students may also have children that enjoy sports! A few
good examples are:
Do you like sports? Why/why not?
How often do you exercise/play sports?
Did you play any sports as a child?
What sport/physical activity is popular in your country?
What is your opinion on professional sports?
Television
Television is one of those topics that everyone has an opinion about. The irony of
it is that even though more and more programming is viewed on computers and
tablets, television is still a hot topic classes love to discuss. Good questions
include:
1. How often do you watch TV?
2. Should everyone have a television in their home?
3. What is the best way to watch television: On a television set, computer, tablet
or phone?
4. What television programs are popular in your country?
5. What do you think will be the future of television?
6. What is your opinion on television?
7. If you had your own TV show, what would it be like?
Learning
Learning is like nature—it’s all around us, even on a
subconscious level. Our brains are built to absorb, filter and
store information. Discussion about learning could actually
stimulate some English learning amongst the students! A few
questions that are suitable are:
1. How important is learning? Why?
2. Besides English, what are you currently learning?
3. What things are you good/bad at learning? Why?
4. What would you most like to learn?
5. What is the most difficult part of learning? Why?
Movies
Like television, talking about movies is a topic that has
something to be said by everybody. I mean, who doesn’t
watch movies? A few good questions to be asked could be:
1. What was the last movie you saw? How was it?
2. What is your favorite movie? Why?
3. How are the movies in your country? What are the best
ones?
4. How often do you watch movies in English?
5. If there were a movie about your life, what kind of movie
would it be? Why?
Games
Games are fun and everybody enjoys fun, no?
But in all seriousness, talking about games gets discussion
more geared towards past tense, which gives the students a
fond sense of nostalgia. Some simple questions could be:
1. What is your favorite game ever?
2. What games did you play as a kid?
3. What games are popular/came from your country?
4. How competitive are you when it comes to games?
5. What games do you still play now? Why?
Computers
The year is 2019 and you can’t go a day without talking
about computers. A greatly universal topic that could
have students discussing quite a few things, which could
all relate to real life too! Great questions on this could be:
1. Describe your computer at home/work.
2. What do you usually use a computer for?
3. Do you like computers? Why/why not?
4. What was the first computer you ever had like?
5. What do you think will be the future of computers?
Problems
Even though nobody likes to talk about problems, per se, everybody
still talks about their problems to other people! Problems are
actually a good topic for discussion since they could help others
relate to each other and even present solutions too. A few fine
examples of questions are:
1. How do you deal with your problems?
2. What problems do you come across in your work or life?
3. Do you feel that problems are opportunities? Why or why not?
4. What was the last problem you solved and how did you do it?
5. “Problems don’t matter. Solutions do.” Do you agree or
disagree?
Open antoree folder!!!!
Subject – verb examples:
The following sentences are examples of the S-V pattern.
She sleeps.
She sleeps soundly.
She sleeps on the sofa.
She sleeps every afternoon.
She is sleeping right now.
Mary will sleep later.
The dogs are sleeping in the garage.

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