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ESL Conversation Questions

If you need conversation questions for your class, you have come to the right spot! All of our questions are designed to get the most out of your student’s English ability.

Looking for grammar based conversation questions?

Or perhaps you are looking for questions sorted by textbook?

Questions by topic

Adoption

Advice

Aging

Aliens

Animals

Appearance

Architecture/Building Design

Art

Artificial Intelligence

Beauty

Birthdays

Books

Brains

Camping

Cars and Driving

Challenges

Change

Charity

Childhood

Choices

Cities

Cleanliness

Cloning

Color

Communication

Computers

Conspiracies and Cover Ups

Cooking

Corruption

Crime

Customs

Dating

Disabilities

Dreaming

Eating Habits

Electric Cars

Email

Emotional Intelligence

Empathy

Entrepreneurs

Environmental Problems

Errands and Services

Ethics

Facts and Statistics

Family

Family Values

Fashion

Fast Food

Fears and Phobias

First Impressions

The Five Senses

Food

Free Time

Friendship

Future

Games

Getting a Job

Golf

Habits

Having Children

Health

History and Historical Events

Holidays

Homes

Hotels

Human Wonders

Humor and Comedy

Idol Worship

Immigration

Individuality

Intelligence

The Internet

Jobs

Kindness

Languages

Law and Justice

Learning English

Life Experiences and Milestones

Love

Luck and Chance

Luxury Items

Manners

Marriage

Massage

The Media

Meeting New People

Memory

Motivation

Movies

Multiple Intelligences

Music

Natural Disasters

Natural Wonders

Neighborhoods

Neighbors

News

Numbers

Online Dating

The Past

Past Ability

Personal Backgrounds

Personality

Politics and Government

Pressures of Being a Student

Privacy

Productivity

Remedies

Responsibility

Restaurants

Risk Taking

Science and Research

Seasons

Secrets

Shopping

Singing

Single Life

Skills and Talents

Sleep

Smoking

Social Issues

Space

Sports

Stories

Storytelling

Studying in Another Country

Success and Failure

Super Heroes

The Supernatural

Technology

Television

Time and Pace of Life

Tourism

Transitions

Travel

The Unexplained

Water

Wealth and Minimalism

Wishes

Working in Another Country

If this isn’t enough questions for you, here is a site with a lot of conversation starters. Although it’s aimed at native speakers of English there are a lot of questions that are suitable for intermediate students. The site also has a short list of topics with conversation questions.

Questions by grammar focus

Adjectives: ‘-ed’ and ‘-ing’

Adverbs of Frequency

Adverbs of Manner

Already, Ever, Yet

Comparatives

Equatives

Fixed Expressions (Idioms)

For and Since and How Long Questions

Gerunds and Infinitives

How Often Questions

How Questions

Infinitives of Purpose

Modals of Possibility Might Could

Participial Adjectives

Passive Voice

Past Passive

Phrasal Verbs

Present Continuous

Present Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous

Present Unreal Conditional/Second Conditional

Quantifiers

Real Conditional – Future

Real Conditional – Present

Should and Shouldn’t

Simple Past

Simple Present

Suffixes

Superlatives

Too Enough

Used To

Will

Would rather

Questions by textbook

English File Advanced

English File Beginner

English File Elementary

English File Intermediate

English File Pre-Intermediate

English File Upper-Intermediate

Face2Face Advanced

Face2Face Elementary

Face2Face Intermediate

Face2Face Pre-Intermediate

Face2Face Starter

Face2Face Upper-Intermediate

Headway Advanced

Headway Beginner

Headway Elementary

Headway Intermediate

Headway Pre-Intermediate

Headway Upper-Intermediate

Impact Issues 1

Interchange Intro

Interchange Level 1

Interchange Level 2

Interchange Level 3

Outcomes Advanced

Outcomes Beginner

Outcomes Elementary

Outcomes Intermediate

Outcomes Pre-Intermediate

Outcomes Upper-Intermediate

Pathways 2

Q: Skills for Success 2 Listening and Speaking

Q: Skills for Success 3 Listening and Speaking

Speakout Advanced

Speakout Elementary

Speakout Intermediate

Speakout Pre-Intermediate

Speakout Starter

Speakout Upper-Intermediate

Top Notch 2

Top Notch 3

Touchstone 2

Touchstone 3

World English 2

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