Month: February 2019

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘love’?
(2) How important is love?
(3) Do you think it is possible to love everyone?
(4) How do people fall in love?
(5) How and why do people fall out of love?
(6) What is your favourite love song and why?
(7) How does love make you feel?
(8) Does love last forever?
(9) What does love look like?
(10) Has love changed over the past 10,000 years?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) What is love?
(2) What would your life be like without love?
(3) What does it feel like to say, “I love you”?
(4) Do you love to live or live to love?
(5) Are there any rules to love?
(6) What kind of love is the best love?
(7) Is there a thin line between love and hate?
(8) Do you love yourself? Should you do so?
(9) What is the difference between love and being in love?
(10) Is it more important to love or be loved?

THE DISCUSSION ON COFFEE
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) Are you a ‘coffeeholic’?
(2) Do you care if you have instant or blend coffee?
(3) Do you need coffee to wake you up in the morning?
(4) Is coffee bad for you?
(5) Does coffee affect your appetite?
(6) What do you think of Starbucks?
(7) Do you think caffeine is a dangerous drug?
(8) What do you think of the new trend of flavored coffee?
(9) Do you like the smell of coffee?
(10) What would you like to know about coffee?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Are there any health benefits to drinking coffee?
(2) What do you know about coffee production and who gets the big profits?
(3) Would you drink less coffee if you knew it stained your teeth?
(4) What is the difference between blend, cappuccino and espresso?
(5) Does coffee grown in different parts of the world taste differently?
(6) What role does coffee (or tea) play in your life?
(7) What’s the difference between Irish coffee and Turkish coffee?
(8) Do you know what fair trade coffee is?
(9) Do you like coffee sold in cans?
(10) What do you think happens when you overdose on coffee?

THE DISCUSSION ON JUNK FOOD
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1) What springs to mind when you hear the term ‘junk food’?
(2) How often do you eat junk food?
(3) What is it about junk food that is so bad for us?
(4) Do you think there should be a junk food tax to help pay for people who go to hospital with heart and weight problems?
(5) Why is junk food so delicious?
(6) Are parents who feed junk food to their children irresponsible?
(7) Do you think there’ll be more or less junk food in the future?
(8) What junk food do you really, really like?
(9) Is the junk food from your country tastier than the junk food from other countries?
(10) How can you change your lifestyle to eat less junk food?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1) Do lots of people eat junk food in your country?
(2) Does your government educate people about the dangers of junk food?
(3) Do you think junk food makers are immoral and should think more about people’s health?
(4) What do you think of people who eat mostly junk food?
(5) Does junk food or good quality healthy food make you happier?
(6) If you had to choose between a strict vegetarian diet forever or a junk food diet forever, which would you choose?
(7) Why does junk food cost so much?
(8) What is the definition of junk food?
(9) Is chocolate the most addictive junk food?
(10) Do you think people ate junk food hundreds of years ago?