Conversation Questions
School
A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.
Related: Standardized Exams
- Are you allowed to eat in the classrooms?
- Are you allowed to smoke in the classrooms?
- Did you belong to any clubs in high school?
- Did you go to a public high school or a private one?
- What are the advantages of each type of school?
- Which type of school did you want to go to?
- Did you have to wear a uniform in high school? How about elementary school?
- Did you study art in high school?
- Did your high school have a band?
- If so, did you play in it?
- What instrument would you like to play in a high school band? Why?
- Do most of your teachers take attendance?
- Do some of your teachers let class out early?
- What do you think when the teacher lets the class out early?
- Do you carry a dictionary to your English classes?
- How about your other classes?
- Do you have an electronic ditionary?
- Can you and do you access your cellphone dictionary to find the meaning of a word?
- Do you enjoy studying English?
- Math?
- Science?
- Art?
- Biology?
- Chemistry?
- Do you ever skip class?
- Do you have any evening classes?
- Do you play on any of the school's sports teams?
- Do you still keep in touch with your best friend in elementary school?
- Have you ever been absent?
- Have you ever been late for class?
- If so, why?
- When was the last time?
- Did the teacher get angry?
- Have you ever failed a class? (Maybe this is not polite to ask.)
- Have you ever slept in class?
- How do you usually come here?
- How do you get to school?
- How long does it take you to get to school?
- How many times have you been absent from school this year?
- How much homework do you do every day?
- Was your high school strict?
- Were you on any sports teams in high school?
- What classes do you not like? Why don't you like them?
- What did you like best about high school?
- What do you like best about your school?
- What do you like the least about your school?
- What do you think about your English class? Your gym class?
- What do you think of our cafeteria?
- What do you think of this campus?
- What do you want to do after you graduate?
- What is your best memory from junior high school?
- How about high school?
- What's your worst memory?
- What school did you graduate from? What high school? What junior high school?
- What time does your first class begin on Tuesday?
- What was the name of your junior high school?
- What were some of the rules you had to follow at your high school?
- Which rules did you think were unfair?
- Did you ever get caught breaking any school rules?
- Were you allowed to smoke on campus?
- Were you allowed to eat food in the classroom?
- What's your favorite subject?
- Why do you like it?
- Who is the teacher?
- How many times a week does the class meet?
- Which subjects are you good at? (What are your strong subjects?)
- Which subjects are you poor at? (Which subjects are difficult for you?)
- Who is your favorite teacher?
- What course does he or she teach?
- Why do you like him or her?
- What did you find the most surprising thing about the school system in the United States?
- What are the major characteristics you think a teacher should have?
- Do you have to wear a uniform to your school? (Did you have to...)Do you like wearing a uniform?
- Do you think school uniform is a good idea? Why/Why not?
- Are the clothes you wear to school important?
- Do you feel pressure to wear expensive, designer clothes to school?
- How are the customs in the classrooms in the US different from the customs that you have experienced in other places?
- Who do you like to sit with in your classroom?
- Do you like to be taught by a male or female teacher?
- Do you like to be taught by a female or male teacher?
- Which subjects do you think are not useful or needed anymore?
- What does the term coeducational mean?Did you go to coeducational schools?
- Are boys and girls treated differently by teachers in coeducational schools that you have attended? If so, how?
- Do you think girls work together much better if there are no boys around? Agree or disagree?
- Do you feel pressure to wear expensive, designer clothes to school?
- Do you think fashion is important at school?
- Is fashion also a kind of uniform?
- What did your school uniform look like in junior high school?
If you can think of another good question for this list, please add it.
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