If you don’t live in a cave you know what’s happening in Afghanistan right now. If you don’t know, you can find out here. No matter what your political preferences are, or what do you believe in, I’m sure you agree that education is important. What is happening in Afghanistan…
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English Speaking Practice: 20 Conversation Topics
These conversations topics and questions will help any learner practice and master speaking English. Age or level of English doesn’t matter, what matters is practice, practice, practice. So here you go, find a speaking partner, choose a topic and have fun! Starting a conversation 1. Current situation How are you…
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20 Fun Discussion Questions for (Not Only) the ESL Classroom
I don’t know about your corner of the world, but here in Central Europe summer has arrived with full force. It’s scorching hot. I finally understand the 3-hour siesta they have in some countries. Who would want to move, or think in this heat? So I cut my students some…
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Popular ESL Conversation Topics for English Practice
This activity for adults and teenagers contains five ESL conversation topics and fifty conversation questions. It starts with everyone’s most favorite topic: Tell me something about you. People love to talk about themselves, so let them! You can also watch this interesting Ted Talk about being ourselves. If you love…
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Conversation Starters: 30 Interesting Conversation Questions Not Only For ESL Students
These interesting and deep conversation starters are not only intended for ESL students but also for everyone who would like to start chatting with a stranger, neighbor, colleague, someone they fancy, partner, friend. No matter how well you know somebody, these deep conversation starters will help you connect with them…
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Conversation Questions Gerunds and Infinitives: ESL Speaking Activity
We use gerunds (verb + ing): After certain verbs – I enjoy drawing After prepositions – I drank a beer after running. As the subject or object of a sentence – Jogging is good exercise We use ‘to’ + infinitive: After certain verbs – We decided to buy the house. After many adjectives – It’s easy to do it. –…
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30 Hypothetical Conversation Questions for ESL Students
Here is another set of conversation questions, this some for more advanced students as the questions are hypothetical, so it requires a knowledge of conditionals and a certain level of creativity. I’d recommend it for 16+ (B1, B2, C1). The questions for this activity are used with the kind permission…
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ESL Role-play Worksheet: Food
In this post, you will find role-plays on various topics connected to food. With these role-plays, your students will be discussing the best dishes in the world, ordering food they don’t know, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of delivery and cooking, and choosing the best diet. There is another restaurant-themed…
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50 ESL Conversation Questions for Teens and Adults
This speaking activity contains 50 ESL conversation questions for teens and adult learners. (16+, B1+). It is best for small groups or as a pair-work. This activity contains 50 questions and a YouTube video, so students can practice listening to real language and you can also play the game from the video with…
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Conversation Questions: Future Tenses
The focus of this activity is to practice grammar while speaking. These conversation questions with future tenses will help the students better understand when to use various future tenses. When we want to talk about the future we can use these tenses/structures: We can use the Present Simple when we…