Beginner – Free Talk

INSTRUCTIONS

Let’s talk. Choose only one topic either from Personal or Social that you would like us to talk about. Enjoy.
TRANSLATION

PERSONAL

FOOD AND DINING
 

  1. Name top three best foods in your country.
  2. Do you like to eat on restaurants or do you prefer foods that are cooked at home?
  3. Have you ever cooked for someone?
    • If yes, to whom did you cook and what did you cook?
    • If no, would you like to cook for someone someday?
  4. Do you know how to cook?
    • If yes, what do you usually cook and where did you learn how to cook?
    • If no, would you like to learn how to cook?
  5. Have you ever missed your meal/s?
  6. If you were to cook a new meal, what would it be and why?
  7. Which more are you? A meat lover or a vegetable lover?
  8. How often do you eat healthy foods?
  9. Name three to five foods from other countries that you already ate.
  10. Are there any food/s that you don’t like to eat?
    • If yes, what food/s is it/are they?
MUSIC
 

  1. Sing three to five lines of any English song you know.
  2. Who is your favorite English singer/band?
  3. What kind of music do you like the most? (Example: Pop, punk, rock, country, classical, etc.)
  4. Do you play any musical instrument?
    • If yes, what do you play?
    • If no, would you like to learn?
  5. Do you like Karaoke?
    • If no, why?
    • If yes, name one song you always sing during Karaoke.
  6. Do you like to listen to music while you are studying?
  7. Sing few lines of any song that best describes you.
  8. Does your family love music?
  9. What kind of songs that you don’t like? Why?
  10. Name three English singers that are famous in your country.
ANIMALS & PETS
 

  1. What is/are your favorite pet/s?
  2. Do you have any pet/s at home?
    • If yes, what kind of pet/s do you have at home?
    • If no, would you like to have one?
  3. In your own opinion, what animal is the best pet and why?
  4. Can you live in a world without animals? Yes or no?
  5. If you will have a new pet, what would you name it?
  6. What animal/s from other countries that you wish your country would have? Why?
  7. Would you like to visit countries like Africa that protects many wild animals? Yes or no?
  8. If you would become an animal, what would it be and why?
  9. What animal/s are you afraid of? Why?
  10. Do you think it is safe to have a snake or a spider as a pet? Why or why not?
CELEBRATIONS & HOLIDAYS
 

  1. What is your favorite Holiday? (Example: Christmas, New Year, Tanabata Festival, etc.)
  2. Name at least three holidays/celebrations that is famous in your country.
  3. Have you ever celebrated your birthday in school? Yes or no?
  4. What is the best birthday and Christmas gifts you have ever received?
  5. Name at least two celebrations in your country that other countries don’t have.
  6. What is the best gift you ever gave to someone?
  7. In three words, describe a holiday you celebrated that you will never forget.
  8. Are there any holiday/s that you don’t like?
  9. Does your country have Halloween?
    • If yes, how do you celebrate it?
  10. What is/are your family’s favorite holiday/celebration?
TRAVEL
 

  1. What is the best place you have ever visited in your country?
  2. If you are given the chance to live in another country, would you do it?
    • If yes, which country would you like to live in?
    • If no, why?
  3. Did you have any bad memory during your travel?
  4. Have you done camping?
    • If yes, how was it like?
    • If no, would you like to do it someday?
  5. Name three to five important things you always bring whenever you travel.
  6. Name top three tourist places in your country.
  7. Would you like to travel to space/outside Earth? Why or why not?
  8. Do you prefer to travel in cold countries or in hot countries or in warm countries?
  9. Have you ever got lost while travelling?
    • If yes, how did you find your way back?
  10. Do you like to travel alone or do you want to travel with someone? (Example: Friends or family?)
FADS & TRENDS
 

  1. Do you always follow the latest trend in your country?
    • If yes, what trend/s do you follow?
  2. What are three best trends in your country?
  3. Do you know any latest trends from other country/ies?
  4. Are there any fads and/or trends that you don’t like?
  5. Name one to three fads that you like the most.
  6. Name a trend and a fad from the past that you like to be used/do again.
  7. Are you trendy? Why or why not?
  8. What were some famous fads and trends in your school?
  9. If you were to do a cosplay, which character would you play and why?
  10. Do you know any old fads and trends that are still being followed and used today?
SPORTS
 

  1. What is/are your favorite sport/s?
  2. Name one to three sports that you want to learn.
  3. Name a sport/s that you wish you can do but can’t.
  4. What is the most famous sport in the world?
  5. What is the most famous sport in your country?
  6. Is there a sport you don’t like?
    • If yes, what is it?
  7. Do you like to watch/listen/read news about sports? Why or why not?
  8. Aside from sports, what other physical activities that you do? (Example: Hiking, biking, swimming, etc.)
  9. If you were given the chance to join in Olympics 2020, what sport would you like to join to? Why?
  10. Which do you like the most? Teams sports or single sports?
HOBBIES
 

  1. Name three hobbies that you love to do during your free time.
  2. Did someone taught you those three hobbies or did you learned them on your own?
  3. Do you feel happy whenever you show your hobbies to others or do you feel shy?
  4. Are you still able to do your hobbies even if you are busy?
  5. If you have more free time, what would you do with it?
  6. Is there a hobby that you want to do during your free time but can’t?
  7. Do you spend money on your hobby/ies? Yes or no?
  8. If you will spend a day doing your hobbies, who would you like to spend it with? Why?
  9. Is your free time shorter than before?
  10. Do you consider shopping, sleeping and watching movies as a hobby? Why or why not?
GADGETS & INTERNET
 

  1. How many hours do you think you spend your time on the internet?
  2. At what age did you have your own cellphone and laptop/desktop?
  3. Have your tried not to use any gadget for one day?
    • If yes, how did it go?
    • If no, why?
  4. Name one to three Internet sites that you always use/open to study.
  5. Do you always buy things that you like online? Why or why not?
  6. Which gadget do you use more? Phone or laptop/desktop?
  7. What gadget/s do you think will soon stop working in the future?
  8. Do you believe everything that you see, read and watch on the Internet? Yes or no?
  9. Do you think robots will look and act like us in the next fifty years?
  10. Do you think people can live in a world without gadgets and internet?
MOVIES & TELEVISION
 

  1. What is the latest movie you watched so far? Did you like it?
  2. What is your most favorite English and Japanese movie?
  3. Who is/are your favorite English movie actor/s and actress/es?
  4. Name one movie that you would like to happen in real life.
  5. What is/are your favorite TV Show/s? Why do you like it?
  6. What type of movie/s interest you the most? (Example: Romance, comedy, science fiction, horror, mystery, etc.?)
  7. Is there a TV show/program that you don’t like? Why?
  8. Name at least three educational TV shows in your country.
  9. Suggest a good TV show/s (Japanese and English) that I should watch.
  10. If your country opens a competition to show your talent/s, would you join? Why or why not?

SOCIAL

EDUCATION & LANGUAGES
 

  1. Name your three favorite subjects in school.
  2. Are there subject/s in school that you don’t like?
    • If yes, what subject/s are they?
  3. Is/are there English class/es in your school?
  4. Aside from English, what other language/s do you want to learn?
  5. Do you have plans to travel in other countries to improve your English skills?
  6. Aside from America and Philippines, which country/ies is/are the best place to learn English?
  7. Do you enjoy going to school?
  8. Is getting high grades important to you? Why or why not?
  9. Describe your school experience in three words.
  10. What else do you want to improve in your English skills? Why?
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL DISASTERS
 

  1. Name one to three most common natural disasters in your country.
  2. Have you ever planted a tree?
    • If yes, when and why?
    • If no, would you like to plant a tree?
  3. What is the most common pollution in your country? (Example: Land, air, water pollution, etc.)
  4. Do you save electricity? Yes or no?
  5. Name few things that can be recycled.
  6. Does your country have laws in saving the environment?
  7. In your own opinion, which country/ies is the cleanest?
  8. Do you watch or read news about environment and natural disasters?
  9. Have you experienced an earthquake?
  10. Name few things that you must have during a natural disaster.
HISTORY & CULTURE
 

  1. Describe your country’s culture in three words.
  2. What is your favorite part in the history of your country? Why?
  3. What is your favorite culture in your country?
  4. Do you have History Class/es in your school?
  5. What historical event in your country that you like to turn into a movie?
  6. Aside from your country’s culture and history, name one country that you would like to know and learn.
  7. If you are living in the old times in your country, what would you like to become? (Example: A samurai, soldier, geisha, ninja, prince, princess, etc.)
  8. Name at least one famous person from your country’s history.
  9. If you could travel back in old times, what gadget would you like to bring with you?
  10. Who is your favorite historical person?
LITERATURE & ART
 

  1. Do you like to read?
    • If yes, what do you like to read?
    • If no, why?
  2. What’s your favorite book?
  3. Do you like to read books that are based on real life?
  4. If given the chance, would you like to publish your own story?
    • If yes, what would be your story all about?
  5. What kind of art do you usually do? (Example: Writing stories, poems, painting, drawing, etc.)
  6. Have you visited art museums?
  7. Do you like listening to music while reading?
  8. Are movies, music and photography a kind of art?
  9. Do you have a library in your school?
    • If yes, what do you usually read or do inside the library?
    • If no, would you like to have a library in your school?
  10. How many hours or days would it take you to finish reading a book?
COMMUNITY & SOCIAL WORK
 

  1. Describe your neighborhood in three words.
  2. Have you helped a homeless person?
  3. Do you consider yourself helpful to others?
  4. What do you think is the number one community problem in your country?
  5. Have you helped an old man/woman to cross the streets?
  6. Have you ever helped someone who is a victim of bullying?
  7. Have you ever gave money to a beggar?
    • If no, do you give something else? (Example: Foods, dress, etc.)
  8. Does helping others makes you happy?
  9. Are you friendly to your neighbors?
  10. Do you feel safe in your community?
MONEY
 

  1. Do you save money?
    • If yes, why are you saving money? What for?
    • If no, why not?
  2. Do you buy things even if you don’t need it?
  3. Do you have a piggy bank? Yes or no?
  4. Have you ever found a money while walking on a street?
    • If yes, what did you do with the money?
  5. What is the most expensive thing you ever bought? Was it worth it?
    • Name three things that money can never buy.
  6. Which is more important to buy? A house and lot or a sports car?
  7. If your wallet never runs out of money, what would you always buy?
  8. If someone will give you one hundred million dollars, would you accept it or not?
  9. Do you think it’s possible to live in a world without money? Yes or no?
  10. Is money important to you? Yes or no?
HEALTH
 

  1. Do you exercise?
    • If yes, how many days in a week do you exercise?
    • If no, why?
  2. Are you getting enough sleep at night? (Note:A regular sleep is seven to ten hours)
  3. What do you do to stay healthy?
  4. Do you read/watch videos and news about taking care of your health?
  5. When was the last time you got sick?
    • What kind of sick is that and how long did it last?
  6. Describe your health in three to five words.
  7. How many times in a year do you go to a doctor?
  8. Do you have any allergies?
    • If yes, where are you allergic to?
  9. Are you afraid of injections?
  10. Are you afraid going to hospitals? Yes or no?
TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION
 

  1. Describe traffic in three words.
  2. Do you always put your seatbelt on?
  3. How many minutes or hours from your house would it to take to get to school?
  4. Which do you want to own and drive the most?
    • Car
    • Motorcycle
    • Bicycle
  5. What do you ride the most when you travel inside your country? (Example: Bus, train, taxi, etc.)
  6. At what time is safer to travel? At day or at night?
  7. If you would own a car, what would be its color?
  8. Do you think cars would be able to fly in the future? Why or why not?
  9. Name one to three countries that you think has less traffic problems.
  10. What do you usually do when you ride a bus or train?
    • Do you read books/newspapers?
    • Do you sleep?
    • Do you listen to music or watch videos on your phone?
EMPLOYMENT
 

  1. If you could have any job, what would it be and why?
  2. What do you think is the best job in your country?
  3. Name one to two jobs that you think you can do at the same time.
  4. Describe an excellent boss in three words.
  5. In your opinion, how many hours in a day should an employee work?
  6. What is your dream job?
  7. Is having a high salary important even if you will be always tired from work?
  8. What kind of jobs interest you the most?
  9. Where do you search for job openings? (Example: Internet, newspapers, etc.)
  10. Do you think it’s important for employees to know how to speak and write in English?
ECONOMY & LIVELIHOOD
 

  1. Do you read/watch news about your country’s economy?
  2. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “poverty”?
  3. Who works more in your country? Men or women?
  4. Have you tried not to buy things you want because their prices are expensive?
  5. Do you have plans in opening your own store as your business?
    • If yes, what kind of business is it?
  6. Aside from having a job, what else do you think you can do to earn for a living?
  7. Do you think companies these days hire younger people?
  8. Name a country that has the best economic status.
  9. In your country, at what age should people start working?
  10. Have you ever worked on a farm?
    • If yes, since when? Do you love farming?
    • if no, would you like to experience it even for just one week?