Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom A Project of The Internet TESL Journal

A list of questions you can use to stimulate conversation during tutoring sessions or with a conversation partner.

Accidents at Home Adoption Advertising Advice Age: Youth & Old Age Airplanes Amusement Parks Anger Animals & Pets Annoying Things Arguing Art The Art of Conversation Bags and Purses Baseball Basketball Beach Beauty & Physical Attractiveness Behavior Birthdays Body Language Books & Reading Bullfighting Business Cars & Driving Celebrities Change Charity Cheating Childbirth Childhood Children Chores Cities Classrooms Cloning Clothes & Fashion College Colors / Colours Comics Community Commuting Complaining Computers Conflict Corruption Countries Creativity Crime Culture Cultural Shock & Adapting to Canada Dangers Dating Death & Dying Diets Disabilities & Handicaps Disaster Disaster Preparation Discrimination Dogs & Cats Do You Wish...? Dreams Drugs Earthquakes Easter Education Encouragement English Literature & Books English study Entertainment Environment & Pollution Everyday Questions Eye Contact Facebook Fads & Trends Faith & Faithlessness Family Family & Alternative Lifestyles Famous People Fashion Favorites Fears Feelings Films in Your own Language Fire Safety First Dates

Food & Eating Free Time & Hobbies Friends Fruits & Vegetables Future Gambling Garage sale Gardening Gay Community Gender Roles Generation Gap Gestures Getting to Know Each Other Gifts Goals Going to a Party Gossip & Rumors Habits Happiness Have You Ever ... Health Healthy Lifestyle Hobbies Holidays: Holidays April Fool's Day Christmas Halloween Saint Patrick's Day Thanksgiving After a Vacation Valentine's Day Home Homeless Hometowns Homework Honesty & Truthfulness How Long...? How often do you...? Humor If You Were...? Immigration Internet Inventions Job Interview Jobs & Occupations Jokes Languages Leaders & Leadership Learning a Foreign Language My Life so Far Likes & Dislikes Living Arrangements & Dream House Love, Dating & Marriage Machines Makeup, Lotions & Skin Care Manners Marriage Martial Arts Meaning of Life & Reasons for Living Meeting People Memory Midlife Crisis Mind, Body & Health Money & Shopping Motivation Movie Industry Movies Moving to Another Country Music Names Neighbor Complaints Neighborhood News New Media New Year's Day New Year's Resolutions Dreams, Daydreams & Nightmares Olympics Body Painting Parenting Going to a Party Planning a Party Personality Photography

Plagiarism Plans Police Politics Pope John II Possessions Poverty Prejudices Privacy Procrastination Race Religion House Renovation Restaurants & Eating Out Nursing Homes & Retirement Communities Retirement Russia & the World Safety Inside & Outside of Home School Science & Technology Secrets Self-employment Service Industry Silly Questions Single Life Sleep Smoking Social Problems Social Networking Sports Standardized Exams Stereotypes Stress Super Heroes in Comics Supernatural, Ghosts & Superstitions Talk About Four Things Talk About Three Things Teachers Teenagers Telepathy Telephones Television Tell me about...? Terror Texting Time Tipping Trade Fairs, County Fairs & Industrial Exhibitions Traffic Accidents Transportation Trauma Travel Tsunami Two Unemployment The Unexplained United States University Moving to the United States About the United States United States Geography United States Leadership Vegetarian Volunteer Work War Weather Weddings Weekends What if...? What would you...? When did you first...? When was the last...? White Lies Who is the greatest...? Wishes World Peace Would you ever...? Would you rather...? Drills Are You Good At ...? Days of the Week How do you...? Months of the Year