English conversation questions for every level

What time is it where you are right now?

• Is it day or night there?
• What do you usually do at this time?

How was your day today?

• What was the best part?
• Was it a busy day?

What did you do last weekend?

• Who were you with?
• Was it fun?

What's the weather like today?

• Do you like this kind of weather?
• What's your favorite season?

What can you see from your window right now?

• Do you like the view?
• What would you like to see instead?

What did you eat today?

• Was it good?
• Who made it?

What do you like to do after work or school?

• How often do you do it?
• Who do you do it with?

What made you smile today?

• Who was there?
• What usually makes you smile?

What's your favorite day of the week?

• Why that day?
• What do you usually do then?

What kind of music do you like?

• Who's your favorite singer or band?
• Do you sing too?

Do you have a pet?

• What's its name?
• If not, what pet would you like?

Why are you learning English?

• How long have you been learning?
• What's the hardest part for you?

What's one thing you want to do this week?

• Why that?
• Is it easy or hard?

Are you a morning person or a night person?

• What time do you go to bed?
• When do you feel most awake?

What do you usually eat for breakfast?

• Do you eat it at home?
• What's your favorite breakfast?

What time do you usually wake up?

• Do you use an alarm?
• Is it easy for you to get up?

How do you get to work or school?

• How long does it take?
• Do you like the trip?

What do you usually do in the evening?

• Who do you spend it with?
• What's your favorite thing to do at night?

Do you like cooking or cleaning more?

• Why?
• Which one do you do more?

What's your favorite room in your home?

• What's in it?
• What do you do there?

Where do you usually buy food?

• Do you like shopping?
• What do you buy every week?

What do you do when you can't sleep?

• Does it help?
• How many hours do you usually sleep?

What's the first thing you do on your phone in the morning?

• Why that first?
• Is it a good habit?

What's a normal Sunday like for you?

• Is it relaxing?
• What would make it better?

Do you prefer hot weather or cold weather?

• What do you do on very hot days?
• And on very cold days?

What's something you do every day without thinking?

• When did you start doing it?
• Could you stop?

What's in your bag right now?

• What's the most useful thing in it?
• Is there anything strange in there?

What's your neighborhood like?

• Is it quiet or noisy?
• What's your favorite place near your home?

What's your favorite food?

• How often do you eat it?
• Can you cook it?

What did you have for dinner yesterday?

• Who made it?
• Was it good?

What's a food you don't like?

• Why not?
• Did you like it when you were a child?

Do you like spicy food?

• What's the spiciest thing you've eaten?
• Is spicy food common where you live?

What's a popular dish in your country?

• What's in it?
• When do people eat it?

Tea or coffee?

• How many cups do you drink a day?
• How do you like it?

What do you like to eat when you're sick?

• Who makes it for you?
• Does it help?

What can you cook?

• Who taught you?
• What do you want to learn to cook?

What's your favorite snack?

• When do you eat it?
• Is it healthy?

Which meal of the day is your favorite?

• What do you usually eat then?
• Do you ever skip meals?

What do you do in your free time?

• How often do you do it?
• Who do you do it with?

What's your favorite film?

• What's it about?
• How many times have you seen it?

Do you play any sports?

• How often do you play?
• Which sport do you like to watch?

What song do you listen to again and again?

• Why do you like it?
• When did you first hear it?

What do you like to read?

• Paper books or on a screen?
• When do you read?

Do you play video games?

• Which ones?
• Who do you play with?

What do you like to watch on YouTube?

• How long do you watch every day?
• Who's your favorite creator?

What's your favorite way to spend a Saturday?

• Who do you spend it with?
• What did you do last Saturday?

When did you last go to the cinema?

• What did you see?
• Did you like it?

Do you have a new hobby?

• How did you start?
• Is it hard?

Where did you go on your last trip?

• Who did you go with?
• What did you like most?

Do you like traveling by plane, train or bus?

• Why?
• What was your longest trip?

What city do you want to visit one day?

• Why that city?
• What would you do there?

What's the most beautiful place in your country?

• Have you been there?
• When is the best time to go?

Do you like the beach or the mountains more?

• What do you do there?
• When did you last go?

What do you always take on a trip?

• Have you ever forgotten something important?
• Do you pack a lot?

What's a place in your town that visitors should see?

• What can you do there?
• Do you go there often?

Do you like traveling alone or with other people?

• Have you ever traveled alone?
• Who's your best travel friend?

Do you work, study or both?

• What do you like about it?
• What don't you like?

What was your favorite subject at school?

• Why?
• Who was your favorite teacher?

What job did you want when you were a child?

• Why that job?
• Do you still want it?

Do you study better in the morning or at night?

• Where do you study?
• Do you listen to music when you study?

What's a job you think is very hard?

• Why?
• Would you do it?

What do you do on your days off?

• How many days off do you have?
• What did you do on your last one?

What's a holiday you love?

• What do you eat then?
• Who do you spend it with?

What languages do you speak?

• Which one was the hardest to learn?
• Which one do you want to learn next?

How do people say hello where you live?

• Do they shake hands, hug or kiss?
• What's polite?

What's a famous song in your language?

• What's it about?
• Do young people like it?

What's a word in your language that you love?

• What does it mean?
• Is there an English word like it?

What do people do on New Year's Eve where you live?

• What did you do last year?
• Is it a big party?

Which app do you use the most?

• What do you do on it?
• How long do you use it every day?

How many hours a day do you look at a screen?

• Is that too much?
• What would you do with that time?

What was your first phone?

• How old were you?
• Do you still have it?

Do you use AI apps?

• What do you use them for?
• Do you trust them?

What makes someone a good friend?

• Who's a good friend to you?
• Are you a good friend?

What did you like to do as a child?

• Where did you play?
• Do you still do it?

Who's someone you admire?

• Why?
• Have you ever met them?

What's something you're good at?

• How did you learn it?
• Could you teach it?

What's something you want to do one day?

• Why?
• When will you do it?

Who do you talk to the most in a normal week?

• What do you talk about?
• How do you usually talk: in person, by phone or online?

Tell us about your last birthday.

• What did you do?
• Did you get a nice present?

Tell us about a good day you had recently.

• What happened?
• Who was there?

Tell us about your first day at a new school or job.

• How did you feel?
• What do you remember most?

Tell us about a time you got lost.

• Where were you?
• How did you find your way?

Tell us about something funny that happened this week.

• Who was there?
• Did everyone laugh?

Tell us about a present you loved.

• Who gave it to you?
• Do you still have it?

Would you rather live in a big city or in the countryside?

• Why?
• What would you miss?

Would you rather have a cat or a dog?

• Why?
• What would you call it?

Would you rather be very tall or very small?

• What would be good about it?
• What would be hard?

Would you rather eat only pizza or only rice for a month?

• Why?
• What would you put on it?

Would you rather go to the beach or play in the snow?

• What would you do there?
• Who would you take?

Would you rather read the book or watch the film?

• Why?
• What's a good example?

Would you rather get up very early or stay up very late?

• What do you do at that time?
• Which one do you do now?

Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible?

• Where would you go first?
• Would you tell anyone?

If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be?

• Where would it live?
• What would you call it?

If you had a free day tomorrow, what would you do?

• Who would you see?
• Where would you go?

If you could eat only one food forever, what would it be?

• Why?
• Would you get bored?

If you could live in any country, where would you live?

• Why there?
• What language would you need to learn?

If you won a lot of money, what would you buy first?

• Why?
• Would you give some away?

If you could meet any famous person, who would it be?

• What would you ask them?
• Where would you meet?

What's a popular food you don't like?

• What do people say when you tell them?
• Is there any way you would eat it?

What's a famous film or show you didn't like?

• What was wrong with it?
• Why do other people love it?

What's something good that happened to you this week?

• Why did it make you happy?
• Did you tell anyone about it?

What's been keeping you busy lately?

• Is it something you enjoy?
• When will things slow down?

If today had a theme song, what would it be?

• Why that song?
• What would yesterday's song be?

What's the best thing you've watched or read recently?

• What was it about?
• Who would you recommend it to?

How did you end up in this room today?

• Do you join rooms often?
• What kind of conversation do you enjoy most?

What's a small thing that always makes your day better?

• When did it last happen?
• Can you make it happen on purpose?

What's something you're looking forward to?

• When is it?
• How are you getting ready for it?

What's a skill you'd love to learn this year?

• Why that one?
• What's stopping you?

What's one thing people usually guess wrong about you?

• Why do you think they guess that?
• Does it bother you?

What's the most interesting thing you learned this week?

• Where did you learn it?
• Who did you tell about it?

What would a perfect weekday look like for you?

• How close is it to your real weekday?
• What's the biggest difference?

What's one habit you'd like to change?

• Why haven't you changed it yet?
• What could help you?

What's a chore you secretly don't mind doing?

• What do you like about it?
• Which chore do you hate most?

How has your daily routine changed in the last few years?

• Is it better now?
• What do you miss from before?

What's something small that annoys you every day?

• Have you tried to fix it?
• Does it annoy other people too?

What's the most useful thing you own?

• How long have you had it?
• What would you do without it?

Do you plan your days, or just see what happens?

• Has that ever gone wrong?
• Which way works better for you?

How do you relax after a long day?

• Does it always work?
• What did you do yesterday?

Where do you get the most done: at home, in a café or somewhere else?

• Why there?
• Where can you never get anything done?

What's a shop or place near you that you couldn't live without?

• What do you buy or do there?
• How long has it been there?

What's a food from your country that visitors find strange?

• Do you like it?
• How would you describe the taste?

What's the best meal you've ever had?

• Where was it?
• Who were you with?

What's a food you hated as a kid but love now?

• What changed?
• Is there a food that went the other way?

If you opened a restaurant, what would you serve?

• What would you call it?
• Who would your customers be?

Do you prefer cooking at home or eating out?

• How often do you eat out?
• What's the best place near you?

What's a dish your family always makes for special days?

• Who cooks it?
• Could you make it yourself?

Is there a food you could eat every day and never get bored of?

• What is it about that food?
• Have you ever tested it?

What's a strange food combination you actually enjoy?

• Who taught you that?
• What do people say when they see it?

What food smell takes you back to your childhood?

• What memory does it bring back?
• Does anyone still cook it?

What food from another country would you love to try?

• Where did you hear about it?
• What do you think it tastes like?

What's a hobby you'd try if you had more time?

• What's stopping you?
• What would you need to start?

What show could you watch again and again?

• What do you love about it?
• Who's your favorite character?

Is there a song that reminds you of a special time?

• What happened then?
• Do you still listen to it?

What's the best concert, match or live event you've been to?

• Who did you go with?
• Would you go again?

What's a game or sport that's popular where you live but not elsewhere?

• Have you played it?
• How would you explain the rules?

Which hobbies are better alone, and which are better with friends?

• Which do you do alone?
• Which do you do with people?

What's a hobby people think is boring, but you love?

• How did you get into it?
• How would you get someone to try it?

Can you think of a film that was better than the book?

• What made it better?
• And a book that was better than the film?

What's the last thing you made with your hands?

• How did it turn out?
• Who did you show it to?

How do you find new music or shows?

• Do friends recommend things to you?
• Do apps get it right?

What's the best trip you've ever taken?

• What made it so good?
• Would you go back?

Has anything ever gone wrong on a trip?

• What happened?
• How did you fix it?

What surprised you most in a place you visited?

• Why was it surprising?
• Did it change how you think?

If someone visited your city for one day, what would you show them?

• Where would you take them to eat?
• What would you tell them to avoid?

Would you rather visit a new country or go back to a favorite place?

• Which favorite place?
• Which new country first?

Do you plan every detail of a trip, or decide as you go?

• Can you give an example?
• Has it ever gone wrong?

What's the best way to really get to know a new place?

• Did you do that last time?
• What do tourists usually miss?

If you could live anywhere for a year, where would you go?

• What would you do there?
• What would you miss from home?

What's a travel tip everyone should know?

• How did you learn it?
• What's a bad tip people believe?

How is your town different from the way it was ten years ago?

• Is it better now?
• What do you miss?

What's the best advice a teacher or boss has given you?

• Did you follow it?
• Would you give the same advice?

Would you rather work from home or in an office?

• Have you tried both?
• What's the biggest problem with each?

What's a skill school didn't teach you, but should have?

• Where did you learn it?
• How would you teach it?

What's your dream job, honestly?

• What would a normal day look like?
• What's the first step to get there?

How do you stay focused when you have a lot to do?

• What distracts you most?
• Does your phone help or hurt?

If you could study anything for free, what would it be?

• Why that?
• Would it be for work or for fun?

What's a job that will look very different in ten years?

• What will change?
• Would you want to do it then?

Do exams really show what a student knows?

• What would be a better way?
• What was your hardest exam?

What's something you learned at work or school that changed you?

• When was it?
• Do you still use it?

Is it better to have one career all your life, or several?

• How many jobs have you had?
• What would you try next?

What would you do all day if money didn't matter?

• Would you still work?
• What stops you from doing some of it now?

What makes a good teacher?

• Who was the best teacher you had?
• What did they do differently?

What's something people often get wrong about your country?

• Where does that idea come from?
• What's the truth?

What's a word from your language that English doesn't have?

• When do you use it?
• How would you explain it?

What's a funny mistake you've made while speaking English?

• What happened?
• Do you still make it?

What's a tradition where you live that you really love?

• Where does it come from?
• Do young people still do it?

What's rude where you live but normal somewhere else?

• Have you seen someone do it?
• How did people react?

What's an English word that's really hard for you to say?

• Why is it hard?
• Try it now. How did it go?

What's the best way you've found to learn new words?

• How many new words do you learn a week?
• What doesn't work for you?

Is there a famous story or legend where you grew up?

• Can you tell it in a few sentences?
• Who told it to you first?

What slang do young people use in your language?

• What does it mean?
• Do you use it?

How do people show they're upset where you live?

• Do they say it directly?
• How is that different in other places?

Is there a gesture that means something different where you live?

• Has a gesture ever confused you?
• What does a thumbs-up mean to you?

What surprises you about how people talk in English?

• Where did you notice it?
• Do you like it?

What's a piece of technology you couldn't live without?

• Why?
• What would you use instead?

What's an app you use every day but kind of hate?

• What's wrong with it?
• Why don't you delete it?

At what age should kids get their own phone?

• What rules would you set?
• When did you get yours?

Have you ever taken a break from your phone for a few days?

• How did it feel?
• What did you notice?

What's the most useful thing AI has done for you?

• How did it help?
• What did it get wrong?

Do you prefer texting or calling?

• Why?
• Who do you always call instead of texting?

What technology has changed your life the most?

• What was life like before it?
• Do you remember the first time you used it?

What's something online that you wish didn't exist?

• What harm does it do?
• What should replace it?

Do you trust online reviews?

• Have you ever been fooled by one?
• Do you write reviews yourself?

What will phones look like in ten years?

• What will they do that they can't now?
• Will we still call them phones?

What's the best advice anyone has given you?

• Who gave it to you?
• Did you follow it?

Who had a big influence on you when you were growing up?

• How did they influence you?
• Are you still in touch?

What's a goal you're working on right now?

• How's it going?
• What's the hardest part?

What did you believe as a child that turned out to be wrong?

• When did you find out?
• How did you feel?

What do you do when you have to make a big decision?

• Who do you ask?
• Have you ever regretted one?

How do you usually make new friends?

• Is it easier online or in person?
• Where did you meet your newest friend?

What's a lesson you learned the hard way?

• What happened?
• Would you do anything differently?

What's the best age to be, in your opinion?

• Why?
• What's good about the age you are now?

What would you tell your younger self?

• Would they listen?
• What would they say to you?

What do your friends come to you for?

• Advice, jokes or help?
• Who do you go to?

Tell us about a time you were really scared.

• What happened?
• How did it end?

Tell us about an embarrassing moment you can laugh about now.

• How did you react at the time?
• Who saw it?

Tell us about a time a stranger helped you.

• What did they do?
• Did you get to thank them?

Tell us about the first time you tried something completely new.

• How did it go?
• Would you do it again?

Tell us about a time you got something completely wrong.

• What happened?
• How did you fix it?

Tell us about a time you laughed so hard you couldn't stop.

• Where were you?
• Is it still funny?

Tell us about a trip that didn't go as planned.

• What went wrong?
• Was it still a good trip?

Tell us about a time you were really proud of yourself.

• Why?
• Who did you tell first?

Tell us about the strangest coincidence that's happened to you.

• Did it feel like it meant something?
• Do you believe in luck?

Tell us about a time you had to be brave.

• What helped you?
• Would you do it again?

Tell us how you met one of your closest friends.

• What did you think of them at first?
• What brought you together?

Tell us about a time a language mistake caused confusion.

• What did you say?
• What did they think you meant?

Tell us about a time you lost something important.

• Did you find it?
• Where was it?

Tell us about a day that changed your plans for the future.

• What changed?
• Are you glad it happened?

Would you rather speak every language or play every instrument?

• What would you do first?
• Which would change your life more?

Would you rather know your future or be able to change your past?

• What would you look at or change?
• Could it go wrong?

Would you rather have more free time or more money?

• What would you do with it?
• Which do you have less of right now?

Would you rather do your dream job for little money or a boring job for a lot?

• For how long?
• Would you have answered differently five years ago?

Would you rather give up social media or films for a year?

• Why?
• What would you miss most?

Would you rather live without music or without your phone?

• What would you do instead?
• Which would be harder after a week?

Would you rather be famous or be best friends with someone famous?

• Who?
• What's the downside?

Would you rather explore space or the deep ocean?

• What would you hope to find?
• Would you be scared?

Would you rather visit the past or the future for one day?

• Which year?
• What would you do first?

Would you rather always say exactly what you think or never speak again?

• Would you lose friends?
• Which is scarier?

Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?

• When would you use it?
• Would you use it too much?

Would you rather be really funny or really smart?

• Who do you know who's both?
• Which helps more in life?

If you could have one superpower for a day, what would it be?

• What would you do with it?
• Would you tell anyone?

If you could talk to animals, which animal would you talk to first?

• What would you ask it?
• What would it say about people?

If you could swap lives with someone for a week, who would it be?

• Why them?
• What would you do first?

If you could add one subject to every school, what would it be?

• Who would teach it?
• What would change?

If you could fix one problem in your town, what would you fix?

• How would you fix it?
• Why hasn't anyone done it yet?

If you could be great at one thing overnight, what would you choose?

• Why that?
• How would your life change?

If phones stopped working for a month, what would change for you?

• What would be better?
• What would be really hard?

If you wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?

• Why that title?
• Who would read it?

If you could change one rule where you live, what would it be?

• Why?
• Who would be unhappy about it?

If you could ask the future one question, what would you ask?

• Why that question?
• Do you really want to know the answer?

What's something everyone loves that you think is overrated?

• Why?
• Have you tried to like it?

What's something underrated that more people should try?

• How did you find it?
• Why don't more people know about it?

What's your unpopular opinion about food?

• Has anyone ever agreed with you?
• How do people react?

What's a common piece of advice you think is wrong?

• Who usually gives it?
• What's the better advice?

What's a rule at work or school that makes no sense?

• Why do you think it exists?
• What would you replace it with?

What's something about your town that drives you crazy?

• Has anyone tried to fix it?
• What would you do?

Which app or website has got worse over the years?

• What changed?
• Why do you still use it?

What's a trend you hope disappears soon?

• Why?
• Did you ever follow it?

What do older people tell young people that isn't true anymore?

• Who said it to you?
• What's true now?

What's a famous tourist spot that isn't worth the hype?

• What's a better place nearby?
• Why is it so popular?

What's a healthy habit you think is overhyped?

• Have you tried it?
• What actually works for you?

What do people waste too much money on?

• Do you do it too?
• What's really worth the money?

What's a holiday tradition you could happily skip?

• Why?
• What would you do instead?

What do English classes get completely wrong?

• What would you change?
• What actually helped you speak?

Is it better to grow up in a big city or a small town?

• Where did you grow up?
• Where would you raise children?

Should homework be banned?

• Did homework help you?
• What could replace it?

Is it rude to use your phone at the dinner table?

• What are the rules where you live?
• Is a restaurant different?

Should pets be allowed in shops and restaurants?

• Where should they never go?
• Who would complain?

Is it better to rent a home or to buy one?

• What's normal where you live?
• What would you choose?

Should tipping be expected?

• How does tipping work where you live?
• How much is fair?

Are online friends real friends?

• Do you have online friends?
• What makes a friendship real?

Is it better to save money or enjoy it now?

• Are you a saver or a spender?
• What's the right balance?

Should students have to wear school uniforms?

• Did you wear one?
• What did you think of it?

Should children learn a second language from their first year at school?

• When did you start learning yours?
• Is earlier always better?

What makes you feel calm?

• When did you last feel it?
• How often do you get to feel that way?

What did you use to think was important, but don't anymore?

• What changed?
• What matters to you instead?

What's the kindest thing a stranger has done for you?

• How did it change your day?
• Have you done the same for someone?

What are you most grateful for this year?

• Have you told anyone?
• Is it something big or small?

What do you think people need more of these days?

• Why?
• How could they get it?

When do you feel most free?

• What takes that feeling away?
• How could you feel it more often?

What's something you've changed your mind about recently?

• What made you change it?
• How did the people around you react?

What's a question you wish people asked you more often?

• How would you answer it?
• Why do you think people don't ask it?

What's something you're quietly proud of?

• Why quietly?
• Who knows about it?

What makes a conversation with a stranger really good?

• When did you last have one?
• What usually kills a conversation?

Do routines make life better or just more boring?

• Where's the line for you?
• Which routine would you never give up?

How much of your day is really your own choice?

• What would you change if you could?
• Who decides the rest?

What would a good life look like on an ordinary Tuesday?

• How close are you to it?
• What's missing?

Why do so many people like to say they're busy?

• Is being busy a good thing?
• When were you last truly bored?

Should restaurants show how much sugar and salt is in every dish?

• Would it change what you order?
• Whose job is it to eat well?

Should every school teach students how to cook?

• What should they learn first?
• Who taught you to cook?

Why do people argue so much about the real way to make a dish?

• Is there a dish people argue about where you live?
• Does a recipe belong to anyone?

Would you eat meat grown in a lab?

• What would worry you about it?
• Will it be normal in twenty years?

Has social media changed how people enjoy their hobbies?

• Do you share your hobbies online?
• Is it better or worse now?

Should a hobby stay just for fun, or is it fine to make money from it?

• Have you tried?
• What changes when money comes in?

Why do people get so emotional about sports teams?

• Do you support a team?
• What's the best part of being a fan?

Are video games art?

• Which game would prove your point?
• Where do you draw the line?

Is tourism good or bad for the places people visit?

• Have you seen this where you live?
• What could make it better?

Can you really understand a place as a tourist?

• What do visitors usually get wrong about your country?
• How long would it take to understand it?

Should popular cities limit how many tourists can visit?

• How would that work?
• Who would lose out?

Should people fly less, even if it means seeing less of the world?

• Would you give up flying?
• What's a fair middle way?

How does traveling change the way you see your own home?

• What did you notice when you came back?
• Did that feeling last?

What makes a place feel like home?

• Is it the people or the place?
• Have you ever felt at home somewhere new?

Should university be free for everyone?

• Who would pay for it?
• Is university always worth it?

Would a four-day work week be good for everyone?

• Would the same work get done?
• Who would it be bad for?

Will AI take jobs away, or mostly change how people do them?

• Which jobs first?
• How should people prepare?

Why do some important jobs pay so little?

• Which job do you think is paid too little?
• What should decide pay?

Can you be happy in a job you don't love?

• What else can make work worth it?
• Do you need to love your job?

What should schools stop teaching, and what should they start?

• Why?
• Who should decide?

Do you feel like a different person when you speak another language?

• In what way?
• Which version of you feels more like you?

Should the whole world learn one shared language?

• Which one?
• What would we lose?

Can you really understand a culture without speaking its language?

• What gets lost in translation?
• Have you felt that yourself?

When is it fine to borrow a tradition from another culture?

• Where's the line?
• Can you think of an example?

What's a value you grew up with that you'd defend anywhere?

• Who taught it to you?
• Has it ever been tested?

Will translation apps make learning languages pointless?

• Would you keep learning anyway?
• What can't an app do?

How has the internet changed the culture you grew up in?

• Is it mostly for the better?
• What's disappearing?

Which matters more: fitting in, or keeping your own culture?

• Have you ever had to choose?
• What does each one cost?

Should AI be allowed to decide who gets a job?

• Where's the line?
• Would you trust it more than a person?

Does social media bring people together or push them apart?

• How does it feel for you?
• What would you change about it?

Should people have the right to be forgotten online?

• Who should decide what disappears?
• Is there anything you'd delete?

Is technology making us smarter or lazier?

• What's one example each way?
• Which is true for you?

Should schools ban phones during the day?

• What did your school do?
• What would students gain or lose?

Who should stop fake news: platforms, governments or users?

• Have you ever believed something fake?
• How do you check now?

Would you let a robot look after an older relative?

• What would worry you?
• What could it do better than people?

Is it fair for a free app to make money from your data?

• What do you get in return?
• Would you pay to keep your data private?

Is it better to have a few close friends or lots of friends?

• Which do you have?
• Has that changed as you've got older?

What does success mean to you, and has that changed?

• Who taught you what success looks like?
• Are you successful by your own measure?

How do you know when it's time to let go of a plan?

• Have you done it?
• What helped you decide?

Are we shaped more by our families, our friends or ourselves?

• Which shaped you most?
• Can you change what shaped you?

What's a mistake you're glad you made?

• What did it teach you?
• Would you make it again?

When do you feel most like yourself?

• Where are you?
• Who's with you?

Tell us about a moment after which you saw the world differently.

• What changed?
• Has it stayed with you?

Tell us about a time you disagreed with everyone around you.

• Did you speak up?
• Were you right?

Tell us about a conversation that changed your mind.

• Who was it with?
• What did they say that got through to you?

Tell us about a time you failed and it turned out for the best.

• How did it feel then?
• What came out of it?

Tell us about a decision that was hard but right.

• How did you decide?
• What did it cost you?

Tell us about someone you met only once but never forgot.

• Why do you remember them?
• What would you say to them now?

Would you rather be admired by many people or truly understood by a few?

• Why?
• Which do you have now?

Would you rather have a comfortable life or an adventurous one?

• Can you have both?
• Which one have you chosen so far?

Would you rather know every hard truth or keep a few comfortable illusions?

• Which truths would hurt?
• Are some illusions useful?

Would you rather change the world quietly or be famous for something small?

• Why?
• What would you like to be remembered for?

If nobody could ever find out, would you still follow every rule?

• Which rules would you break?
• What does that say about rules?

If you could live forever, would you want to?

• What would you do with all that time?
• What would lose its meaning?

If a pill could make you happy all the time, would you take it?

• Why or why not?
• Is happiness really the goal?

If everyone had to tell the truth for one day, what would happen?

• Would the world be better the next day?
• Which truth would you tell?

If you could design school from scratch, what would it look like?

• What would you keep?
• Who would hate it?

If money didn't exist, what would make people work?

• Would you still work?
• What would replace it?

What's an opinion you hold that most people around you don't?

• How did you come to it?
• Do you share it openly?

Is "follow your passion" good advice?

• Who does it work for?
• What would you say instead?

Are people too easily offended these days, or not careful enough?

• Can you give an example?
• Has it changed how you talk?

Which success story do people tell too often, and what does it leave out?

• Who believes it?
• What's the real story?

When honesty and kindness clash, which should win?

• When did you last have to choose?
• Which did you pick?

What's something your generation does that you think is a mistake?

• Why do people do it?
• Do you do it too?

What's a "fact" everyone repeats that you suspect isn't true?

• Where does it come from?
• How could we check?

What do people misunderstand about learning a language?

• What did you get wrong at first?
• What would you tell a beginner?

Should voting be required by law?

• What happens in places where it is?
• Would it change the results?

Is lying ever the right thing to do?

• Can you give an example?
• Where's the line?

Should cities ban cars from their centers?

• Would it work where you live?
• Who would lose out?

Is it fair to judge people from the past by today's values?

• Can you give an example?
• How will people judge us?

Should zoos still exist?

• What does a good zoo look like?
• Is there a better option?

Should famous people have to be role models?

• Who's a good one?
• Is it fair to expect it of them?

Is competition good for children?

• What did competition teach you?
• When does it go too far?

Should young people do a year of community service?

• What would they do?
• Would you have liked it?

Is it better to be an expert in one thing or good at many things?

• Which are you?
• Which is better for the future?

Should social media apps check how old their users are?

• How could they do it?
• What about privacy?

Do we have a duty to help strangers?

• How far does that duty go?
• When did you last help one?

Should art made with AI be allowed to win prizes?

• What makes something art?
• Would you buy it?

Is it more important to be liked or to be respected?

• Which matters more at work?
• And with friends?

Are short videos ruining our attention span?

• How long can you watch something without checking your phone?
• What do long books or films give us?

What makes a life meaningful?

• Is meaning something you find or something you build?
• Who shaped your answer?

Can you choose to be happy?

• When has it felt like a choice?
• When hasn't it?

Do people really change, or do they just show different sides?

• Have you changed?
• What makes real change possible?

Is it possible to be completely honest with yourself?

• What gets in the way?
• How do you check?

What makes someone a good person: what they mean to do, or what they actually do?

• Can you think of an example?
• Who's a good person you know?

Is it better to be right or to be at peace?

• When did you have to choose?
• Do you regret your choice?

What do you think is worth fighting for?

• Have you ever fought for it?
• What would you never fight for?

Does everything happen for a reason?

• Where does that idea come from?
• How does believing it change things?

What's the difference between being alone and being lonely?

• When have you felt each one?
• Can you enjoy being alone?

How much of your life have you really chosen?

• What was decided for you?
• Does it matter?

What do we owe the people who come after us?

• What are we leaving them?
• What would you change today?

How do you deal with things you can't control?

• Does it get easier with age?
• What helps you most?

Is forgetting sometimes a gift?

• What would you happily forget?
• What must you never forget?

Can you be close friends with someone whose values are very different from yours?

• Have you done it?
• Where's the limit?

Is it more important to understand others or to be understood?

• Which is harder?
• Which do you need more right now?

When you're eighty, what do you want to be proud of?

• Why that?
• What could you start doing now?