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Manners Do bad mannered In your opinion, people bother you? what’s the best way to teach good manners to children? What things are What things are considered bad considered good mannered in your manners in your culture? Why? culture? Is it important for Are people in children to have your hometown or good manners, or city polite on the should they express road (when they themselves freely? drive)? How can you be Can manners more polite when affect your level of you drive? success in life? Explain your answer. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

In your opinion, Creativity what is creativity? Do you consider yourself creative? Explain your answer. Do you think Do you think creativity can be more emphasis learned or are should be placed on people born with it? creativity at school? Discuss ideas for Do you think you a device that would need to take risks in make people’s lives order to be creative? easier. In your opinion, Can creativity who are some of the help you in your most creative career prospects? musicians and Explain. writers in the last 20 years? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Describe your Dating ideal date with someone. Describe your ideal person to go on a date with. Do you \"go Have you ever Dutch\" when dating, been or would you or do you think one ever go on a ‘blind of the people on the date’? date should pay? Do you believe in What’s the ‘love at first sight’? biggest ‘crush’ Explain. you’ve ever had on someone? Was it mutual? Do perfect What are some relationships exist? good conversation topics to talk about on a first date? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Meaning of Education Online Education There is too much will one day replace pressure on students traditional schools and young and universities. employees in your country. University People should get education should be a job for a year compulsory for before they go to everyone university. Voting for a Home schooling is politician who didn’t better than public go to university schooling. wouldn’t be sensible. A ‘top class’ Teachers should education be paid more! guarantees a good job. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Value of Education The government Governments of should offer full developed nations funding to students should offer students who want to study. from developing nations full funding. If private Schools and universities break universities the law they should shouldn’t ban be forced to close. mobile phones in class. Social skills are as The internet has important as good had a terrible effect grades. on people’s level of knowledge and social skills. Universities Everybody should should be more learn English. practical and offer ‘a year in industry’. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Politics 16-year-olds Multi-cultural should be allowed to societies are vote. They are dangerous as they mature and can lead to cultural responsible enough. misunderstandings. Cities like NY, Extremist beliefs Paris, Madrid, are sometimes Barcelona & necessary and good. London have high crime because of immigration. Political parties Voting is a waste shouldn’t be allowed of time. to accept donations from private enterprises. Voting should be All politicians compulsory. should have a university degree and special training to take part in politics. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Have you ever…. ? Have you ever Have you ever cheated on an exam? forgotten someone’s birthday? Have you ever Have you ever given a false excuse tried any extreme to get out of sports? Which ones something? Describe would you like to try the situation. in future? Have you ever Have you ever been to Thailand? been stuck in an Which countries elevator? would you most like to visit and why? Have you ever Have you ever received a present received a present that you loved? that you hated? What was it? What was it? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Meeting People Do you like What are some meeting new people? good questions to Why? ask someone you just met? Do you feel What are some nervous when you questions you meet new people? shouldn't ask people you just met? How can you What kind of quickly create people do you like to rapport with new meet? people you meet? Do people in your Describe the country use a lot of advantages of body language when meeting people when they speak? you move to a new country. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Living Abroad Have you ever Which country or lived abroad? / How continents would can living abroad you like to live in? change a person? What would you Why do you think miss most if you had some people live to live abroad for abroad? some time? What do you Do you think believe would be the everyone should live most difficult part of in another country living in another at least once in their country? life? How is living Do you know abroad different anyone who has from having a decided to live holiday abroad? abroad for good? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Space Exploration How does space Are we alone in research benefit the the universe? people? Explain your opinion. What progress do Would you you estimate space consider traveling research will achieve into space? over the next two decades? Is your country Do you think that involved in space it is worth spending exploration? so much money on space exploration? What aspects of Should our universe interest astronomy be taught you most? in schools? What is your opinion? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

What is your Food country/region’s traditional dish? What kind of new food would you like to try? Why does food What are the play an important advantages and role in celebrations? disadvantages of Genetically Modified Food? In what way is Would you buy food important in Genetically our lives? Modified Food? How popular is What would you organic food in your say is your favourite country? kind of food? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Cooking Do you think that How much do you traditional home like cooking? cooking is a thing of the past? What do you How important is think is easier to it for men to know make: food or how to cook? desert? Who taught you Do you have how to cook? home cooked food every day of the week? Why do you think Should cooking the most famous be taught at school? chefs are men? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

How has Travelling technology affected the way we travel? What benefits are there to travelling? How does Should we travel travelling contribute our own country to international before travelling understanding? abroad? Are there any Do you prefer to risks to travelling to travel in organised another country? groups or independently? What is the worst What is your experience you have favourite means to had when travel very long travelling? distances? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Shopping What’s your Do you shop in favourite store for small shops, like clothes, books, boutiques, or do you music, etc.? What do go to the big you like about it? department stores? Do you wait for Have you found a the sales and look good bargain for bargains? recently? What was it? Why do people go What is the most window-shopping? expensive item you have ever bought (apart from a car or house)? Do you feel that How often do you global chain stores make impulse spoil the character purchases? of a town? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Fashion What are some of Do you consider the latest fashion yourself trends where you fashionable? live? How would you Why do you think describe the working some clothing comes life of a fashion back into fashion model? again after 20 or 30 years? Are the prices of Which city in some designer your country would clothing justified? say is the most fashion conscious? Who is the best Which fashion dressed person in accessories are most your family? important to you? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Weather How has the What is the weather changed in coldest and hottest your region over the temperature you last few years? have ever experienced? How can the Do prefer to live weather affect a in a hot or a cold person’s mood? climate? What is your How does the favourite kind of weather affect our weather? lifestyle? Have you ever For how many experienced extreme days is the weather weather, such as forecast in your hurricanes, flooding, country accurate? etc.? One, three, more? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Animals What animals, What would you birds and insects can do if you found an you see where you injured animal or live – in your garden bird by the side of and in your area? the road? What should we Have you ever do about seen wild animals up endangered species close? such as the blue whale, the cheetah, Which animal is and the snow the best pet to have? leopard? Is it cruel to lock up animals and birds behind bars in zoos and safari parks? Which animal do What is your you identify with? country’s national animal? Why was it chosen? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Driving What kind of car Have you ever do you drive? suffered from road rage? Why do you think Will we all still be many people prefer driving cars in 30 driving to using years’ public transport? time? How do you feel What is should be about driverless the legal age for cars? someone to get a driving licence? What is the How would you longest car trip you describe the driving have been on? behaviour of people in your country? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

The Human Body What makes a If you could swap person attractive? bodies with somebody else for one day, who would it be? Would you like What are the pros your body to be and cons of tattoos cryogenically frozen and body piercings? when you die? Would you ever What do you like consider having the most / the least plastic surgery? about your body? What do you do Which part of to look after your your body is the body? most sensitive to illness or pain? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Colors and Numbers What numbers or Do you prefer dates are important colour or black and to you? white films and photographs? What number do What colour you consider a lucky clothes and shoes do number? you prefer? Why? Do you have one How can different favourite colour, or colours affect our different favourite mood? How? colours for different things? What do you Do you think think it would be different cultures like to be colour have different blind? meanings for colours? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Family How often do you Which member of see your your family are you grandparents or closest to? extended family? How important How is family life are families to different now, society? compared to 100 years ago? Would you like to What would say know you family is the ideal number tree? of children for a family? What roles How would you should different describe the perfect members of a family family? have in a household? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Describe your Home dream home. If there was a fire at your home, what would you rescue first? What would you What is your do if you lost your favourite room in home and became your home? homeless? Many people say What kind of that their home is relationship do you their sanctuary. Is have with your this true for you? neighbours? Do you think it is How important is better to rent or to it for you to keep own your home? your house perfectly clean and tidy? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

How would you Free Time describe your ideal weekend? What is your favourite activity to do after a long day at work or school? Do you have more Do you think you or less free time use your free time compared to your wisely? parents when they were your age? What activity Do you prefer to would you like to try spend you free time that you haven’t on your own, or with tried yet? others? What would be What stage(s) in the ideal amount of our life do you think free time per day? we have the most/least free time? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

What is the Public Transport biggest problem with public How do you think transport in your transport will be town or city? different in fifty years’ time? What is your favourite mode of What is the most public transport? popular form of transport in your city/country? Why do you think Do you think that not everyone is governments should using public encourage public transport? transportation more? How safe is it for How good is the people to use public public transport in your transportation in city at all hours of your city? the day and night? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Have you or any Hospital member of your family ever been to Do you believe hospital? that all healthcare should be free? Which groups of If a close friend people need to or relative needed you to donate a use hospitals the kidney for a kidney most often? transplant, would you do it? In what ways can your local hospital Would you ever be improved? consider going to hospital for non- What do you essential treatment, think is the easiest like cosmetic job in a hospital? surgery? What do you think is the worst job in a hospital? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Problems What is the Would you rather biggest problem you have ten small have faced so far in problems or one big your life? problem? What social When did you last problems are your help somebody with country/region their problems? facing at the moment? Do you think Would you ever most people bring write on an internet their problems upon forum for advice? themselves? Would you Is it easier to consider training to trust a stranger than become a counsellor, somebody close to and helping people you to help you with for a living? your problems? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Media If you could keep Is there such a only one form of thing as an unbiased media, which would source of news? you choose? Radio is over a What would hundred years old. happen if the media Why hasn’t it ever just stopped? been replaced by a more modern form How can students of media? use different parts of the media to How influenced improve their are you by the language skills? media? Should the Are newspapers government control becoming obsolete? the press? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Hotels Would you like to What are the work in a hotel? advantages and disadvantages of staying in a hotel? Do you use the If you were the spa and leisure manager of an old facilities when you two-star hotel that stay at a hotel? was in danger of closure, how would you try to make it profitable again? How would you What is your describe a typical opinion of large, all- day’s work of a hotel inclusive resort receptionist? hotels? Do you think it is Does your acceptable to take behaviour differ things such as when staying in a bathrobes, soap, etc, hotel compared to from a hotel room when you are at when you leave? home? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Languages What are the Which language advantages and do you think would disadvantages of be the best global English becoming a language? global language? What body Is preserving a language do you use dying language as in your culture? important as preserving an endangered species? Apart from Do you agree that English, which other English is essential language would you for success in one’s like to learn? career? What age is the What is more best to start learning important when a new language? speaking a foreign language: fluency or accuracy? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Technology Has technology Do technological made our lives more advances increase complicated? the gap between rich and poor? Which areas of Which invention technology are the has had a more most important to positive impact on teach at school? our lives: the mobile phone or personal computer? Do you agree that Do you believe technology has made that advances in us lazy? technology causes job losses? If mobile phones In your opinion, disappeared one which industry has day, how do you been most think people would transformed by cope? technology? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

How would you Art describe your relationship with What paintings, art? drawings, or sculptures do you have in your home? Is collecting What’s the point works of art a good in owning a valuable investment? piece of art if it has to be kept locked Do you go to art away? exhibitions, galleries, antique What is your markets? definition of art? Who is the most Is there any famous artist from public art in your your country? city? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

History Do you think it is What period of important to have a history would you knowledge of like to learn more history? about? Should history Which local lessons focus on historical figure has politics and war, or had the greatest on social changes? impact on your country? What do you think of the recent Which historical history of your figure would you country, the past 30 like to meet? years? Are you proud of Do you think the history of your history repeats country? itself? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

Books How important is What should be reading books? the roles of libraries in modern life? If you could write Would you go to a book, what kind of bookshops more book (genre) would often if they were it be? friendly places with comfortable armchairs and coffee shops? Could you live in What is the worst a world without book that you’ve books? ever read? Have you read How can we more than one book encourage children by the same author? to read more? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

IELTS CONVERSATION QUESTIONS These instant conversation worksheets are designed to help you: - develop ideas for the exam - explore vocabulary you might not have used before - gain fluency - and to prepare for a range of possible conversation topics that could appear They’re not laid out exactly the same as in the exam and the style is different, as they are designed to stimulate ideas and give you a chance to practice speaking freely. They can be used as part of your preparation alone or with a partner. If you want to make the activity more exciting and more like an exam, you can use a stopwatch and record yourself answering the questions. After you have answered the questions, listen to the recording and analyse your performance. You will find things that you need to correct and things that you did well. The important thing is that you get a little better every time. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

1.WORK OR STUDIES What do you do? Do you study or are you currently working? What does your job position/course entail? Can you describe your tasks on a daily basis? What is your favorite task at work/subject at school? What is your least favorite task at work/subject? How would you describe your current job/school? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

2. DAYS OFF How many days do you work/attend class per week? How many days off do you have a week? What do you do during your days off? What do you do during your holiday? How much leave per year do you think people should have as a minimum? Is the current minimum good? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

3. AGE AT WORK At what age do people usually start working in your country? What is the ideal age for someone to start working? Why? What is the ideal age for someone to stop working? Why? At what age would you want to retire? Why? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

4. JOB LOCATION What jobs are available in your hometown? What is the most popular city in your country in terms of job hunting? Why? What is the most sought-after job in your country? Why? Describe your ideal city or town to work in. Uploaded by S. M. Safi

5. WORKING FROM HOME In your own words, how would you define working from home? What is a good excuse to work from home? How do people stay productive working from home? What are the benefits of working from home? What are the disadvantages of working from home? What would it take for you to permanently work from home? How popular are work from home jobs in your country? In your opinion, should working from home be an option for all office workers? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

6. SCHOOL LOCATION How far do you live from your college or university? How many hours do you commute in total per week? Would you consider renting an apartment near your school? Why/Why not? What do you like about the location of your current school? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

7. STUDYING ABROAD Why do you want to study abroad? In your opinion/experience, what is the best country to study your subject in? Why? If you were given a chance, which country would you like to work in? What should people consider before working or studying abroad? Why do some people prefer to study abroad? What type of people are ideal for studying abroad? What type of people do you think would not be successful studying abroad? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

8. OFFICE LUNCH Where do you usually eat out during lunch break? Why? Why do so many people prefer eating out rather than eating in their office or university? Why do some people prefer eating home cooked meals in the office rather than eating out? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

9. AFTER WORK/SCHOOL ACTIVITIES What do you usually do after work/class? How often do you stay out with friends after class or after work? What do you usually do? Is it important to spend time with your class mates or work colleagues outside of school or work? Why/Why not? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

10. REWARDS AND RECOGNITION AT WORK Why should employers recognize employees’ efforts? How should an employer recognize an employee? How would you feel if you were recognized for the quality of your work? What reward would you like to receive? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

11. TEAM BUILDING Why is it important to have team building activities when you work for a company? Who benefits the most in team building, employees or employers? How does team building help a business/company? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

12. WORKING HOURS What do you think about 9 to 5 jobs? Would you prefer a different time-table? Why? In your opinion, how many hours should someone work in a day? Why? In your opinion, how many days should someone work in a week? Why? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

13. OVERTIME Should companies be able to force employees to work overtime? Why/Why not? Should companies be forced to pay employees for any overtime they work? Why/Why not? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

14. TRAVEL What are the advantages and disadvantages of frequent travel? Would you like to travel as part of your job? Why/Why not? When and where was your last trip? What is your most memorable trip? Why? Which country would you most like to visit in your next trip? Why? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

15. EXPERIENCE In your country, how common is it to stay in the same job for a long time? Why? How important is experience when you’re just starting out? Why? Uploaded by S. M. Safi

16. JOB PROMOTION How important is getting a promotion to you? Why? What is the best way to be promoted in a job? How can office politics affect promotion? Uploaded by S. M. Safi