SPEAKOUT B1+ SPEAKİNG QUESTİONS
1-’If you can’t enjoy little things,then you will never be happy’What do you
think this means?What are some’little things’that make you happy?
2-Do you have any possessions which previously belonged to your
parents,grandparents or friends?What are they?Who did they belong to?
3-Do you have a possession which is not worth a lot,but is special to you?
4-Do you own a lot of things made from the same material,e.g.
siver,denim,leather?
5-Think of a time when you had to replace something you had lost.What
happened?
6- Think of a time a friend or relative gave you something special.What
was the occasion?
7- Think of a time someone made something and gave it to you.What was
it?Did you like it?Why /Why not?
8- Think of a time you were living or studying in a different place to
now.Why were you there?
9-Do you ever have to leave or listen to phone messages in English? Do
you find this diffucult?Why/Why not?
10-How old were you when you got your first phone?What do you
remember about getting it?
11-Apart from your phone,what gadgets do you love,and which could you
live without?Why?
12-Are there any gadgets that you would like to have?
13-What gadget would you like to hav ethat hasn’t been invented yet?
14-Think of three gadgets that were invented during your lifetime.Which is
the best and why?
15-Dou you think you spend too much time looking at screens?Why/Why
not?
16-What’s the best present youtube ve ever received?
17-What good habits do you have?Talk about one or two of them.
18-Have you ever tried to stop a bad habit or build a new positive habit?
What happened?
19-Why is it diffucult to break bad habits,do you think?
20-What wildlife programmes are popular in your country?
21-Why do you think people enjoy these kinds of programmers?
22-In what ways do they affect our attitudes to the natural world?
23-Where do you like working and why?
24-Do you work or study at home?
25-What ‘s good about it?
26-What are the main challenges?
27-Do you usually get a lot done in the morning?
28-How do you feel when you fall behind schedule?
29-Do you try to get easier tasks out of the way before you start diffucult
tasks?
30-Do you easily lose concentration when you are working or studying?
31-What steps do you take to avoid distractions when you are working or
studying?
32-Is it important to keep to a routine?
33-Are you good at meeting deadlines?
34-Do you usually deal well with unexpected problems?
35-Did you have any chances(opportunities)to visit a workplace when you
were younger?Where was it?
36-How much background(experience)do you have in working in ateam?
What is the most challenging thing about it?
37-Have you ever planned and arranged(organise)an event like a party or
aconference?How did it go?
38-Would you be OK being in charge of(take responsibility for)organising a
friend’s wedding?
39-Are you good at dealing with(handle)the conflicts in a work or school
situation?Can you give an example?
40-What sort of short-term(temporary)jobs are available in your country in
the summer?
41-Would you like to make a long-term(permanent) move to another
country?Where to?
42-Do you think a company is treating(exploited)workers unfairly if it
makes them work overtime?
43-Gig work advantages and disadvantages
44-Is gig work common where you live?What sort?
45-If you chose to become a gig worker,what sort of gig work would you
chose?
46-Have you ever had an interview for a collage or university course,or a
job?Were there any questions that surprised you?
47-How would a colleague or classmate describe you?
48-What are your main strengths?
49-Tell me about a time that you learnt from a mistake.
50-What motivates you,and what makes you feel unmotivated?
51-How well do you deal with stressful situations?
52-What are your long-term goals?
53-What did you want to be when you were growing up?
54-Do you prefer true stories or fiction?
55-What are the differences between documentaries and other types of
film?
56-Do you like watching documentaries?If so,which types?If not,which
subjects for a documentary would interest you?
57-Do you regulary share stories or videos on social media?Who with?
What type of stories/videos?
58-Are there any types of story /video really don’t like?
59-Are you good or bad at keeping secrets for family,friendsand
colleagues?Think of examples.
60-When was the last time you had a problem with a product or service?
What problems can you remember having?
61-Do you ever complain about products or services?
62-Are you usually successful when you complain?Why/Why not,do you
think?
63-Have you ever written an email or letter of complaint?
64-What do you think is important in a complaint email or letter?
65-What sort of problems might happen when you stay in a hotel?List five
or more.
66-Have you ever had a bad meal or experience in a restaurant?Give
details.
67-What things can go wrong when you have a meal at a restaurant?List
four or five.
68-What do you do if you have bad service or bad meal in a restaurant?
69-What was the last thing you bought?
70-What kinf of things do you enjoy buying?
71-What kind of things don’t you enjoy buying?
72-What do you know about the marketing technique that’s shown in the
image?
73-How easily do you think you are affected by advertising and marketing?
74-When you are thinking about buying something,where do you get
information about it?
75-Have you ever ridden an e-bike?What do you know about them?
76-What kinds of things do you always do yourself? (cook dinner,cut
hair,cut the grass,do the cleaning,do the shopping,fix things,walk the dog)
77-What things do you pay someone to do for you? cook dinner,cut
hair,cut the grass,do the cleaning,do the shopping,fix things,walk the dog)
78-What’s your favourite city?
79-Do you think these look like interestin places to visit?Why/Why not?
80-When you visit a city,what kinds of thinhs do you like to do?
81-What is your favourite part of this area?Why do you like it?
82-Are there any places in the area you have never visited?Why?
83-Where would be recommend for a tourist to go first?Why?
84-If you could chose where to live in this area,where would it be?Why?
85-Which is your favourite spot for shopping?Why?
86-Which area is best for going out with friends?Why?
87-How do you plan for a trip to a new area ?What do you like/dislike about
travelling somewhere new?
88-Who in your group has travelled the most and the furthest?
89-Has anyone in your group made a long or diffucult journey?
90-What is the best thing about travelling?What is the worst?
91-Which of the journeys sounds the most challenging?ın what ways?
92-Which of the journeys would you prefer to do?Why?
93-Is there a long or special journey you would like to go on?
94-Have you ever used these types of transport to travel around a city?
Which ones?
95-What do you think is the best way to travel around a city?Why?
96-What is your favourite word?
97-Which situation do you think was the most embarrassing?Why?
98-Has anything like these situations ever happened to you or someone
you know?What happened?
99-Are there any words in your language which you mistakes with?How
about in English?
100-Do you enjoy parties and gatherings where you don’t know many
people?Why/Why not?
101-What sort of things do you usually talk about with people you don’t
know?
102-What do you do to keep the conservation going?
103-How easy or diffucult do you find it to communicate in these
situations?(face to face,making a complaint,speaking to an audience,video
meetings)
104-How do the following affect your communication?
*speaking in another language
*how you feel(stressed/happy,etc. )
*talking the people you don’ know
105-Are you a good communication?
106-In what situations do you have diffuculty communicating?
107-What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
108-Do you have any particular interest which you have had since you
were a child?
109-How did you learn about them?
110-Have you interests cahnged over the years?Can you give examples.
111-What are the best ways to encourge young children to be interested in
the world?
112-Do you have to give presentations for work or your studies?If so,on
what subjects?
113-Describe a time when you had to speak in public(a project in school,a
presentation at work,a wedding,teaching a class,etc. )
114-What do you think makes a good or bad presentations?Can you think
of any examples that you have seen?
115-Have you ever made your own film?
116-What do you think makes a good film?
117-Do you subscribe to any magazines,news websites or media
channels?
118-How do you find out about breaking news and updates?
119-What stories are trending at the moment?Do you think they will go
viral?
120-Did you have to read aloud in school when you were younger?
121-If you have to make a big decision,do you talk it over with anyone
first?
122-If someone screamed’Help! ‘in the street,would you definitelly go to
help them?
123-Do you shout at people when you’re angry with them?
124-When you’re alone ,do you ever talk to yourself?
125-If someone whispers to you on the phone(because they have to),do
you whisper back even if you don’t have to?
126-Would you speak up in a group even if most people seem to disagree
with your opinion?
127-Is the effective to yell at children or animals in order to correct their
behaviour?
128-What are your main strengths?
129-What are your weaknesses?
130-Tell me about a diffucult situation you had,and how you handled it?
131-Who do you admire most,and why?
132-What motivates you,and what makes you feel demotivated?
133-How would a colleague or classmate describe you?
134-Tell me about a time that you made a mistake.
135-How do you react when you fail at something?
136-What do you find most annoying in other people?
137-What would be their main criticism?
138-How do you prefer to contact compains:by phone or by the chat servic
eon their websites?
139-When you call a company,what kind of automated messages do you
often hear while you’re waiting to talk to someone?
140-Is there anything you don’t like about the experience of contacting
customer service on the phone?
141-What are some of the main reasons that people argue with their
collegues or classmates?
142-What’s the best way of stopping an argument becoming a big
problem?
143-Have you ever worked as a volunteer or do you know anyone who
has?What did you/they do?
144-If you volunteered,what type of organisation would you want to work
for?
145-Do you think you have the right qualities to be a volunteer?Why,why
not?
146-Where do you prefer to read the news?
147-Do you ever read the news on social media?Why,why not?
148-Why do some people prefer to read news in a short text and not a full
story?
149-How do people travel around your town or city?
150-What are the good things and bad things about your town or city?
151-What are the good things and bad things about your town’s transport
systems?
152-What’s the best transport system you’ve ever used?
153-How do you prefer to access customer service?Why? (by email,usin a
chatbot,on the phone)
154-What are the good and bad things about using each method?
155-Do you learn the most important lessons inside or outside the
classroom?Why?
156-Do people leanr more from bad experiences or good expreinces?Why?
157-In your presentation you talked about how disappointed you felt,Did
that feeling help you in some way?
158-Can you tell me a little more about what you did after you left the
course?
159-Tou said that you relaised you wouldn’t be a great doctor.Cna you tell
me why you felt that?
NORTHSTAR4 READING AND WRITING :SPEAKING
QUESTION
1-Why are some people geniuses and others are not?Does the
environment a person is raised in create a genius (nurture),or was the
person simply born that way (nature)?
2-What would it be like to be a genius?Describe the advantages and
disasvantages?
3-There are many different kinds of obstacles that people face in their
lives:Physical and economic are two examples.What are some other
examples of the kinds of obstacles that people face?
4-What are some ways that people overcome their obstacles?
5-What role can genes play in medicine?Do you think medical treatment
could be more effective if doctors had genetic information about their
patients?
6-Genetic testing is now widely available and far less expensive than it has
been in the past.What would be the advantage of someone’s knowing he
or she had a gene for a specific disease?What would be the disadvantage?
7-Is an animal’s ability to imitate human behavior a sign of high
intelligence?Explain.
8-Are domesticated animals(dogs,horses,monkeys,parrots)that can be
trained more intelligent than animals living in the wild?
9-Which animals seem to exhibit higher levels of intelligence than others?
What do they do that makes them seem intelligent?
10-It has been projected that by the year2050,the average lifespan will
reach125,and by 2087 it will be150!Is living longer a good thing?Why or
why not?
11-How would issues as relationshipsimarriage,family structure, living
situations,and career be affected by people’s having very long lifespans?
12-Volunteering is a way of helping people in need without being
paid,What can people learn from volunteering?
13-What are some different ways that people volunteer their time to help
others?Why do they do this?
14-What do you think the problem is,and how did it happen?(ocean of
problems)
15-Do you think the problem has gotten worse?If so,why? (ocean of
problems)
16-What do people typically use their smarthphones for?
17-Nomophobia is the fear of being without your smartphone,Phantom
vibration syndrome is an associated problem in which people think they
feel or hear their phone vibrate and check it expecting to find a message
or a call-but the phone did not vibrate.Why might someone have these
syndromes?What does this indicate?
NORTHSTAR4 LISTENING AND SPEAKING: SPEAKING QUESTION
1-The photo shows a prodigy-a young person with expectional abilities.Do
you know of anyone who could be considered a prodigy?What does this
person do that is different or special?
2-If a child shows unusual talent in a particular area,how should the
parents react?Should they push the child to develop that talent,or allow
the child to develop it naturally?
3-Why do some children show advanced abilities at an early age?Are tthey
born with a special talent,or do they lean it somehow?
4-To push the boundaried means to exceed limits or overcome
obstacles.What kinds of challenges do you predict this unit will be about?
5-The photo shows individuals racing in wheechairs.They hav not
permitted their physical challenges to get in their way.What kinds of
challenges hav they probably faced?What personal qualities are likely to
hav helped them succeed?
6-How would you define the word disability?Provide some examples of
disabilities.
7-An old proverb about sleep says:’’Early to bed,early to rise,makes you
healty,wealthy,and wise.’’What does this proverb mean?
8-Some people are’’early birds’’ (they wake up early)and others are ‘’night
owls’’ (they stay up late).Is one sleep routine better than the other?Why?
9-Do most people get enoug sleep?Explain.
10-The photo shows dolphins,considered to be one of the most intelligent
animals on Earth.In what ways does a dolphin demonstrate intelligence?
How might dophin intelligence b tested?
11-Do all animals think?How might the thoughts of animals differ from
those of humans?
12-Longevity means the length of a person’s life.What are some factors
that might help a person live a long,happy life?
13-The photo shows an older man running.Is this a good activity for older
people?What kinds of activities do senior citizens—older people—enjoy?
14-At what age do people become’’elderly, ‘’and what problems do people
begin to face as they age?
15-The photo shows a lin of volunteers unloading supplies for earthquake
survivors in Ecuador.Why do people do volunteer work?
16-Philanthropic organizations(sometimes called nonprofit or non-
governmental organizations)collect money to support different
social,political,and other activities.Charities collect money to help
individuals in need.Why do people donate money to philanthropies and
charities?
17-What are some things that people do with money they don’t plan to
spend while they are alive?What should people with extra wealth do with
their money?
18-Water has been called our most precious resource.Why do we need
water so badly?
19-The photo shows a man in southeast Indıa fetching water.What issues
do countries and communities face when there is a water shortage?
20-What should be done to protect our water supplies?
21-What are some benefits and drawbacks of playing video games?
22-What is a resonable daily amount of screen time for teens?What about
adults?
