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For and Since and How Long
Questions

How long…
1. have you been alive?
2. have you had a cell phone?
3. have you been studying English?
4. do you plan on working?
5. do you want to live?
6. have you lived in your current house or apartment?
7. have you had an email address?
8. have you had your current hairstyle?
9. do you want to study English for?
10. have you been awake today?

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Gerunds and Infinitives

Gerunds
1. What do you always avoid doing until the last minute?
2. What are some things you enjoy doing every day? How about

every week?
3. Is there anything you have quit recently?
4. What do you miss most about your childhood?
5. What do you often discuss with your friends when you hang

out with them?
6. What is something you are thinking of doing next year?

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Infinitives
1. What is something you plan to do soon?
2. What is something you started to do, but didn’t finish?
3. Talk about a recent big decision you made. What did you
decide?
4. Is there anything specific you would like to learn?
5. What are some of you hopes for the future?
6. Talk about some difficult choices you have made recently.
7. What do you want to do this coming break?

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Gerunds or Infinitives
1. What is something you love doing, but don’t have enough time
for?
2. Is there anything you have begun recently?
3. What type of personality traits do you hate?
4. What do you like to do on the weekend?
5. What is something you can’t stand doing?
6. Remembering to do things is sometimes hard. What is
something you have a hard time remembering?
7. What is something crazy you would like to try?

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How Often Questions

1. How often do you order delivery food?
2. How often do you run?
3. How often do you eat junk food?
4. How often do you drink?
5. How often do you travel?
6. How often do you visit your family?
7. How often do you eat vegetables?
8. How often do you go to the dentist?
9. How often do you lift weights?
10. How often do you ride a bicycle?

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How Questions

1. How well do you play video games?
2. How tall are your parents?
3. How tall are you?
4. How impatient are you?
5. How hard do you work in your classes?
6. How greedy are you?
7. How good is your mother’s cooking?
8. How mature/childish are you?
9. How big do you want your apartment to be when you get

married?
10. How stylish are you?
11. How well can you play sports?
12. How close are you and your best friend?
13. How well do you dance?
14. How well do you sing?

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Modals of Possibility Might Could

1. What are some new laws that your country’s government
might pass?

2. What might cell phones be able to do in the future?
3. What are some things you might buy if you had more money?
4. What are some things your parents told you when you were

young that might not be true?
5. Do you think a woman could be president of your country?
6. Do you think you could be CEO of a large company?
7. What are some things you might do this weekend?
8. Do you think that news companies might not always tell the

truth? Why or why not?
9. Could China become the dominant superpower in the world?
10. What are some things that could improve your life?

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Participial Adjectives

1. What kind of things do you find exciting?
2. When was the last time you were terrified?
3. Have you heard about any surprising news or gossip recently?
4. What is the most thrilling thing you have ever done?
5. What do you do when you are bored?
6. What would be the most satisfying job for you?
7. What is one of the most exciting jobs you can think of? How

about one of the most boring jobs?
8. Is there anybody who you know who is very exciting?
9. What is something that you find boring?
10. Can you think of an interesting political plan or invention that

would help everybody?
11. Is there anyone who you think is inspiring?
12. Is there anything that you think is too frustrating to do?

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Passive Voice

1. What is imported by your country?
2. What is exported by your country?
3. What do you think is the most popular luxury item in your

country? Who is it made by?
4. What do you think expensive perfume is made from?
5. Who are the best electronics made by?
6. Who are the most expensive cars made by?
7. What materials are your clothes or shoes made from?
8. Who are your favorite clothes made by?
9. Who are your favorite movies made by?
10. Who are the worst cars made by?
11. Where is your favorite fruit grown?
12. Who wrote your favorite book?
13. What company made your clothing?
14. What cell phone game is played most in your country?

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Past Passive

1. What is the most important ancient monument in your
country? What was it used for?

2. What is your country’s most famous painting? Who was it
painted by?

3. What is the most important ancient artifact in your country?
What was it used for?

4. What do you think the Nazca lines were used for?
5. What is your favorite painting? Who was it painted by?
6. How were the Pyramids built? Why were they built?
7. How many of the seven ancient wonders can you name? Who

were they built by?
8. What is the most amazing ancient monument? Who was it built

by?
9. Do you know of any amazing ancient technologies? Who were

they invented by?
10. Why was the capital of your country built where it was?

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Phrasal Verbs

1. How do you help out your friends and family?
2. What time do you usually get up? Do you wish you could get up

earlier or later?
3. Have you ever been picked up by a crazy taxi driver?
4. Can you set up a computer?
5. Do you talk your friends into doing bad things?
6. —Is there anything you turned down but now regret it?
7. —What is the best or worst thing your friends talked you into?
8. What do you leave out when you talk to your parents about your

life?
9. How often do you borrow money? Do you always pay it back?
10. Have any of your friends borrowed money and not paid you back?
11. How often do you get together with your high school or elementary

school friends?
12. Have you ever blown anything up? What was it and how did it

happen?

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13. Have you ever had to take care of someone or something (sibling,
pet, babysitting, etc.)? Did you enjoy it?
14. What is your favorite place to eat out at?
15. Do you know anyone who dropped out of high school or
university?
16. Is there anyone you don’t get along with? Who and why?
17. How do you pick out the clothes you are going to buy? How about
the clothes you are going to wear for the day?
18. Is there anything you need to cut down on?
19. What is something that you always put off until another day?
20. Have you ever run into a celebrity?
21. When do you usually wake up? When would you prefer to wake
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22. If you could do something over in your life, what would you do
over?
23. What do you leave out when you talk to your parents about your
life?
24. How often do you borrow money? Do you always pay it back?
25. Have any of your friends borrowed money and not paid you back?
26. How often do you get together with your high school or elementary
school friends?
27. How do you help out your friends and family?
28. What time do you usually get up? Do you wish you could get up
earlier or later?

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Present Continuous

1. What are you doing this year to improve yourself?
2. What do you think your best friend is doing right now?
3. Are you reading any interesting books these days? Which

ones?
4. What TV shows are you watching now?
5. Think of your favorite celebrity. What do you think they are

doing right now?
6. Who are you hanging out with a lot these days?
7. What projects are you working on this week?
8. What are you studying these days?
9. Show your partner a picture on your phone. Describe what is

happening in the photo.
10. What is your favorite sports team? How are they doing this

season?

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Present Perfect

1. Ask your group if they have seen some of your favorite
movies.

2. Have you ever drastically changed your hair style or clothing
style in a short time?

3. Have you ever shot a gun?
4. Have you ever ridden an animal?
5. Where have you traveled?
6. What sports have you played?
7. Where is the best place you have ever been?
8. What’s the craziest thing you have ever done?
9. Have you ever screamed at someone in public?
10. Who is the greatest person you have ever met?
11. How long have you studied English?
12. What have you done a lot this week?
13. What is the most exciting thing you have ever done?
14. What have you done too many times?

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15. Ask your group two or three interesting “Have you ever…?”
questions
Have you ever:
1. been in a fist fight?
2. been on TV?
3. driven or rode in a sports car?
4. eaten anything really strange?
5. fallen down stairs?
6. fallen asleep and when you woke up you didn’t know where you
were?
7. forgotten an important birthday?
8. walked into something when you were texting?
9. dialed your country’s emergency number?
10. given a public speech?
11. built a snowman?
12. fallen asleep while talking on the phone?

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13. tried riding a skateboard?
14. started laughing when no one else was laughing because you
thought of something funny?
15. been swimming where you couldn’t touch the bottom?
16. woken up and not been able to move?
17. gone skiing?
18. gotten a horrible haircut?
19. received a gift you hated?
20. played a joke on a friend?
21. fallen in front of a large group of people?
22. had a déjà vu experience?
23. slept someplace strange?
24. worked a job you hated?
25. Try to find something you have done that none of your group
members has done.

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Present Perfect Continuous

1. What kinds movies have you been watching recently? Would
you recommend any?

2. Have you followed any TV series for a really long time?
3. What new TV series have you been watching that you would

recommend?
4. What are some of your favorite books, newspapers or

magazines that you have been reading lately?
5. Are there any blogs that you have been following?
6. Are you a member of any clubs or groups? How long have you

been a member of that club or group?
7. Have you found any good restaurants in this area that you

have been eating at recently?
8. What have you been doing with your free time recently?
9. Have you been getting enough exercise?
10. What has been happening in the news lately?

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Present Unreal Conditional/Second
Conditional

1. If you could have any super power, what would it be?
2. What would you do if you could speak English perfectly?
3. If you won the lottery, what would you buy?
4. If you could change one thing about your past, what would you

change?
5. If you could travel to an uninhabited planet, would you?
6. Where would you like to go if you won a free plane ticket?
7. If you could have one futuristic device, what would it be?
8. If you could learn one skill, what would it be?
9. Who would you like to go on a date with if you could choose

anyone?
10. Would you choose to be the king/queen of a small country?

What would you do if you became the kind/queen?
11. What would you do if you knew this was your last day to be

alive?

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Quantifiers

1. When you go shopping and what do you usually buy?
2. Talk about the quantity of each thing you buy.
3. Can you ever have too much money?
4. What is something you have too much of?
5. How much free time do you have?
6. How many planets do you think have life on them?
7. What is something that you government spends too much

money on?
8. What a few ways to save a lot of money?
9. How much money do you spend on clothes?
10. How many friends is too many?
11. How much time do you spend on a computer?
12. What is something that you can never have too much of?

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Real Conditional – Future

What will/can/might/ happen…
… if you get into a fight?
… if you get arrested?
… if we don’t stop polluting?
… if the world’s population keeps increasing?
… if computers become more intelligent than humans?
…if you learn to speak English perfectly?

What will/can/might you do…
…if you can’t get to sleep tonight?
…if your computer dies?
… if you don’t graduate?
…if a burglar breaks into your house while you are sleeping?
…if a beautiful girl/handsome guy gives you their number?

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Real Conditional – Present

1. If your friend forgets your birthday, what do you do?
2. If you see a homeless person on the street, do you give them

money?
3. Why or why not?
4. If your friend lies to you and you find out, what do you do?
5. If you fail an important test, what do you do?
6. If you get a great grade on an important test, what do you do?
7. If you forget your friend’s/girlfriend’s/boyfriend’s birthday,

what do you do?
8. What do you do if you get a cold?
9. What do you do if you need money?
10. If you don’t practice English, what happens?
11. If you get money for your birthday, what do you spend it on?
12. Ask your partner or group some present real conditional

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Should and Shouldn’t

1. What are some things you should do when you first meet your
boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s parents? How about things you shouldn’t
do?

2. What are some things you should do to improve your English?
3. What should you do to be popular?
4. What should politicians do to make your country a better

place? What should ordinary people do?

5. What should people do to be happy?
6. Should scientists try to make machines that can think by

themselves and have emotions?

7. What should you do in an earthquake?
8. What should you do when a typhoon hits?
9. Think of one major problem facing your country. What should

be done to fix it?

10. What is one huge problem with the world? What should be

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11. I just saw a man steal a woman’s purse, what should I do?
12. I just cut myself really badly, what should I do?
13. I want to be healthier, give me some advice.
14. I don’t know what I want to do in the future, what should I do?
15. I just saw a UFO, give me some advice.
16. What three pieces of advice you will give your children?
17. What foods should people eat a lot of to be healthy?
18. What advice can you give me to improve my cooking?
19. What foreign restaurant do you recommend? What dish should I
get?
20. Are there any restaurants near here I really should stay away
from?
21. Are there any coffee shops or bars you can recommend?

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Simple Past

1. Tell me about your last vacation. Where did you go? What did
you do?

2. What did you do for you last birthday?
3. Who was your first crush?
4. What was the last really difficult thing you had to do?
5. Who did you meet last week?
6. Tell me about what you did for the last 24 hours.
7. When was the last time you were really excited about

something? Tell me about where you lived as a child.

8. When was the last time you went to an amusement park? How
was it?

9. What was the best meal you ate recently?
10. How did you come here?
11. When was the last time you went to a movie theater? What did

you see?
12. Talk about the last time you were really scared.
13. Tell me about your best or worst school teacher.

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14. What tech problems annoyed you recently?
15. What was your first TV like?
16. What are some events in the past that made you who you are?
17. What bands were popular when you were young?
18. When was the last time you were shocked?
19. What chores did you have to do when you were young?
20. Where did you hang out with your friends last? What did you
do?
21. Who were some of your favorite sports stars in the past?
22. What did they play?
23. Why were they your favorite?
24. Name some of your country’s famous sports stars of the past.
25. Why were they famous?
26. What was your best memory from when you were a child?

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27. What is your earliest memory?
28. Which was better for you: elementary school, junior high
school or high school? Why?
29. Did you study hard in high school?
30. What kinds of food did you eat when you were a child? Do you
eat the same things now?
31. What was your country like when you were a child?
32. Do you think the past was better than the present? Why or why
not?
33. What were some of the benefits of living in the past?

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Simple Present

1. What are some activities you like to do?
2. What are some good habits that you have?
3. What are some things you do every day?
4. Do you have any bad habits?
5. What is something you should do every day but don’t?
6. What is something you eat almost every day?
7. What do you do at your job?
8. What is your morning routine? How about your evening routine?
9. Is there anything you do only once a year?
10. What is something you do about once every month?
11. What is the strangest fact you know?
12. What do you do in your free time?

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Suffixes

1. What is the best way to energize yourself when you are tired?
2. Who is the most dependable person you know?
3. Do you find it hard to pay attention in your classes?
4. What are you particularly good at?
5. What are some of your predictions for this year?
6. How can you improve your accuracy when speaking English?
7. What do you do for amusement on rainy days?
8. What books stimulate your mind?
9. Do like the traditional music of your country?
10. What is a humorous TV show you like to watch?

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Superlatives

1. Who is the best looking celebrity in your country? How about
the worst looking celebrity?

2. Who is the craziest famous person you know about?
3. What restaurant has the most delicious food you have ever

eaten?
4. What is the best song ever?
5. Who is the greatest baseball player?
6. Who is the most skilled soccer player?
7. Who is the most creative celebrity in your country? Why?
8. Where is the best place to buy handmade things in your

country? Have you bought anything there?
9. What is the most difficult thing about studying English?
10. What is the strangest product you have ever seen?

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11. Who is the most creative person you know?
12. Where is the best place to go in your country for a vacation?
13. Who was the most important inventor in history?
14. When is the happiest time of a person’s life?
15. What is the most disgusting food you have ever eaten?
16. What is the saddest movie you have seen?
17. What country is the best to live in? Why?
18. What is the most exciting game you have ever played?

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Too Enough

1. Have you ever eaten too much food?
2. What age is old enough to serve in the military?
3. What age is old enough to buy cigarettes and alcohol? Is the

Korean government’s age limits too low or too high?
4. Have you ever felt like you were not smart enough to do

something?
5. Have you ever felt like you were too smart to do something?
6. How much is too much money? Is it possible to have too much

money?
7. Do you think designer brand name products are too

expensive? (Gucci, Armani, LV, etc)
8. How about brand name products, are they too expensive?

(Samsung, Sony, LG)
9. Do you think that your country’s big corporations are too big,

big enough, or not big enough?

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10. Have you ever been too afraid to do something?
11. Do you get enough exercise?
12. Many people think that they never have enough stuff. Why do
you think this is?
13. What do you never have enough of?
14. What do you have too much of?

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Used To

1. What is a food that you used to hate but now you like?
2. Who used to be your hero when you were young?
3. Did you use to have a pet?
4. Did you use to get good grades in high school?
5. What used to be your favorite game to play?
6. Where did you used to play when you were a child?
7. How often did you used to get in trouble when you were

younger?
8. What was your country like when you were a child?
9. Do you think the past was better than the present? Why or why

not?
10. What were some of the benefits of living in the past?

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Will

1. When will you graduate?
2. How will you use English in the future?
3. Will humans ever meet aliens? What will the meeting be like?

4. What kind sci-fi movie will the future be like? (The Matrix,
Terminator, i-Robot, Minority Report etc.)

5. Will the Pacific Garbage Patch ever be cleaned up? Will it keep
growing?

6. Do you think houses will be more environmentally friendly in
the future?

7. Where will we get our energy when we run out of oil?

8. How will India and China affect the environment in the future?

9. What will happen if we keep polluting the environment?

10. Will the climate keep changing or go back to normal?

11. Will science find a solution to the environmental problems we
have? What kind of solution will it be?

12. What will you do this weekend?
13. Do you want to get married? When will you get married?

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15. What will life be like when you are 40?
16. Will computers ever take over the world?
17. Will we be able to add machines to our body to improve it in

the future?
18. How will fashion change in the future?
19. After you graduate will you go for a higher degree like an M.A.

or a Ph.D?
20. What kind of music will your children listen to?
21. When will humans live on another planet?
22. What will you do after this class?
23. What will you do after you finish university?
24. What will you do before you get married?
25. After your children grow up what will you do?
26. Where will you move after you finish university?
27. What kind of neighborhood will you live in when you get older?
28. What will cities be like 50 years from now?
29. How will electronics be different?

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30. In 50 years there are projected to be 10 billion people on the
earth. How will that affect the future?

31. How will medicine and health care change in the future?
32. China’s and India’s populations and economies are growing

quickly, what do you think China and India will be like in 50
years?
33. How do you think you will change in the future?
34. Where will you be and what will you be doing in 10 years?
35. What is something that will happen in the future that you are
looking forward to?
36. How will you change the world?

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Would rather

1. Would you rather live in Argentina or live abroad?

2. Would you rather be smart or beautiful /
handsome?

3. Would you rather be poor and happy or rich and
unhappy?

4. Would you rather marry someone plain with a good
personality or someone beautiful without much
personality?

5. If war broke out in your country would you rather flee
the country or fight?

6. Would you rather be rich or famous?

7. If you had to lose one of your senses(sight, smell,
hearing, touch, taste) which would you rather lose?

8. Would you rather marry a rich celebrity or a rich
CEO?

9. Would you rather have a brand new Mac or PC?

10. Would you rather take a trip to a new country or get
a new TV?

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SPEAKING PROMPTS

SET—1

1. Should cell phones be banned in classrooms?

2. Should laptops be allowed in classrooms?

3. Are single-sex schools more effective than co-ed schools?

4. Are smartphone and television making children unhealthy,

distracted, and irritable?

5. Should we play sports that involve animals and make them

uncomfortable?

6. Should schools do away with uniform?

7. Should time on social media sites be limited to an hour a

day?

8. Should violent video games be banned?

9. Should homework in schools be done away with?

10. Should animal dissections be banned in schools?

11. Should attendance in college be made optional?

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13. My top-three movies. Why?
14. My top-three travel destinations. Why?
15. My three best friends. What do you like about them?
16. My top-three movie stars. Why?
17. My top-three sports persons. Why?
18. My top-three sports persons who don’t play my favorite
sport. Why?
19. My top-three animals. Why?
20. Which has been your most memorable vacation?
21. What’s the best surprise you’ve received?
22. When have you felt the most frightened?
23. Which subject in your school or college days you
disliked the most? Why?
24. What has been your biggest success so far? What
efforts you made to pull it off? How it changed your life?
25. Which is the best season of the year?
26. The most important lesson in life I’ve learnt so far is…

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27. Who has been the most influential person in your life?
Why?
28. Summer is the best and worst of times. Why?
29. What are the three biggest problems your city faces?
30. Three surprising things about me are…
31. How do you plan a party?
32. What is your dream job? Why?
33. If you could have dinner with anyone, who would he/
she be? What ten questions would you ask?
34. What is your favorite book? Why?
35. Most successful person I know is…
36. Most memorable moment of your life
37. Worst moment of your life
38. Should internet access be limited?
39. Have you been bullied? How did you tackle it?
40. What foods you’ll never eat? Why?
41. What are the three things you’re scared of? Why?

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42. Movies are providing cues to people to commit crime.
Should the movie content be regulated for this?
43. Should physical education be compulsory up to High
School?
44. Should students be graded for their handwriting in
schools?

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SET—2

1. Should animals be subjected to scientific and commercial

tests?

2. What impact does social networking sites have on society?

3. Is the grading system used in colleges effective?

4. Do celebrities have higher chance of getting away with crime

than non-celebrities?

5. Should nuclear energy be exploited for commercial purpose

or abandoned because of associated risks?

6. Are humans to blame for certain animal extinctions?

7. Should we kill animals for food?

8. Is peer pressure harmful or beneficial to individuals?

9. Should cigarettes be banned?

10. Do celebrities make for bad role models?

11. Are credit cards worse than debit cards?

12. Should zoos be banned because they keep animals in

confinement?

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13. Should sex education be banned in schools?

14. Are we too dependent on computers?

15. Does money motivate people more than any other thing

in the workplace?

16. Is boarding school system better than day-school

system?
17. Will posting a student’s grades on a notice board

motivate him to improve?

18. How can bullying and ragging be stopped in schools

and colleges?

19. Are video games responsible for bad behavior among

children?

20. Which is better: daydreaming or night-dreaming?

21. Is there life after death?

22. If you could transform into an animal, which animal

would it be and why?

23. If you could go into past through a time machine, which

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24. Whom would you prefer to date – attractive and
popular or intelligent and smart?
25. Which is better to have as a pet – cat or dog?
26. What is a better measure of success – money or
wisdom?
27. Is intelligence sufficient to achieve success?
28. Is lying OK? If yes, when?
29. What human quality do we need more in the world?
Why?
30. Does media influence how and what we think?
31. Real learning doesn’t happen in a classroom.
32. Should we be judged by how we dress?
33. Should we be judged by how we speak?
34. What would you do if you get one million US dollars?
35. How would you spend three months on an uninhabited
island with no escape? Describe your daily routine.
36. Good grades matter.

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37. What would you do for living if you know you can’t
fail in it?
38. If I were invisible for a day…
39. What are you grateful for?
40. Are exams a good way to assess students? What could
be other ways?
41. Does life exist outside our solar system? Why? Why
not?
42. Is assassination of a dictator justified?
43. How can one become millionaire?
44. Are professional athletes overpaid?
45. What are three keys to a happy life?
46. Are Reality TV shows fixed?
47. Is glass half full or half empty for you?
48. If you become head of the government, what five steps
would you take for the welfare of people?
49. What twenty things can you make from snow?

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50. Three tips you would like to give to others on growing

their money.
51. If I was in charge of designing school’s curriculum, I
would…

52. Should religious places remain tax exempt?

53. Should drinking age be lowered?

54. Is chess a sport?

55. Should performance-enhancing drugs be allowed in

sports?

56. Are standardized tests good or bad for education?

57. Freedom of speech should be absolute without any

restrictions.

58. Citizens who do not vote in elections should be fined.

59. Driving age should be lowered to 16.

60. Cosmetic surgery should be banned.

61. Internet should be censored.

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63. Prisoners shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

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64. Obesity tax should be implemented to control obesity.
65. Gambling should be banned.
66. Corporal punishment in schools serves a purpose and
shouldn’t be stopped.
67. Performance by children shouldn’t be allowed on
television.

SET—3

1. Should capital punishment be banned?

2. Is global warming really an issue or just a hype by elitists?

3. Is euthanasia justified?

4. Is cloning animals ethical?

5. Does God exist?

6. Is torture by police justified for national security?

7. Are beauty pageants a way to objectify women?
8. Should animal safaris in the wild be banned because they’re

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10. Is human cloning justified, and should it be allowed?

11. Should companies market their products directly to

children?

12. Should libraries have banned books?

13. Should humans eat to live or live to eat?

14. Is it better to be honest and poor or dishonest and rich?

15. Do nice people finish last?

16. Should we spend on sending people to Mars or to more

pressing needs such as eradicating poverty?
17. Who would win the battle of the two big cats – tiger and

lion?

18. Will machines take over humans in 100 years?
19. Which of the two – success or failure – teaches you the

most?

20. Are Batman, Superman, and Spiderman misleading idols?

21. What is your biggest worry about your future?

22. What is your biggest worry about your country?

23. Should companies be allowed to market junk food?

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24. To err is human. To forgive is divine. Discuss.

25. The more we communicate, the less we really say.

26. Wisdom is not dependent on age.
27. If I ruled the world…

28. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.

29. You become the average of your five best friends.

30. Would you want to become wise or intelligent?

31. What is the best letter in English alphabet?

32. Why are humans so interested in understanding the

universe?

33. Is capitalism the best political and economic system?

34. Can renewable energy effectively replace fossil fuels?

35. Should guns be easily available to adults for self-defense?

36. Should government bailout banks when they face

bankruptcy?

37. Should dictatorship replace democracy in countries where

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