1. Conversation topics Discuss the following prompts and questions with your partner. Also ask further questions and see where the conversation takes you.

2. Have you ever slept in class?

3. Are you an organized person? Discuss.

4. Define good music.

5. Name some things you should get around to doing.

6. Discuss.

7. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of these approaches to life.

8. Some people say youth is wasted on the young. Do you agree?

9. Describe the perfect pizza. What? When? With whom?

10. Sometimes time drags, sometimes it goes too fast. Discuss.

11. Name some good ways of making new friends. How can one lose friends?

12. Discuss the pros and cons of credit cards.

13. What can you do to conserve wildlife?

14. What did she find?

15. Is one adult at 18? In America one becomes of age at 21.

16. Explain what happeded.

17. What are the best ways of keeping our roads safe?

18. Does gaming dominate young people’s lives too much these days?

19. What make of car would you like to own one day? Why?

20. Should new drivers have a speed limit of 80 km/h for a full year (the way it used to be)?

21. What is it that counts: is it the looks or the music?

22. Give advice to someone who is easily offended.

23. What did he mean by this?

24. Discuss.

25. Talk about the role of coffee in your life.

26. Discuss.

27. How does the moon affect Earth and its inhabitants?

28. What’s your favourite Beatle-song?

29. They say if women ruled the world, there wouldn’t be wars. Discuss.

30. How do you get to sleep when the demons come?

31. What do you do with your old clothes?

32. How is information technology changing the way teachers teach and students learn?

33. What is it about celebrities’ lives that interests people so much?

34. Is there anything you regret doing or not having done?

35. What do you think about this business idea?

36. Talk about bands whose music used to be good but who have now lost their form.

37. Which song do you like to sing?

38. Talk about people wearing earphones in different situations.

39. Who is your favourite composer of classical music and why?

40. What’s your Blues Name? Do you ever get the Blues? What do you do when you’re down?

41. Could you go back to one of these older models of mobile phones?

42. Talk about Finns and their pets.

43. Are you happy with school food these days?

44. Are you still dead set on getting a dog?

45. What are your plans after graduating from senior high school?

46. How does this fact make you feel?

47. What are some of your favourite summer activities?

48. Why is the man wearing a paper bag over his head?

49. Talk about you and shoes.

50. Discuss.

51. Your task: Develop ordinary toilet paper as a product so that it will sell more. Any ideas?

52. Talk about chocolate.

53. Which celebrity would you like to meet and why?

55. Talk about relationships.

56. What’s the right time to move away from your parents’ house?

57. How widespread is this kind of thinking today?

58. What’s your secret to getting up early in the morning?

59. Some people are agoraphobic (=afraid of open spaces or claustrophobic (closed spaces). Name some other common fears.

60. Discuss.

61. Share with your partner your experiences of sitting in detention.

62. Discuss.

63. Describe a healthy diet to your partner.

64. Discuss.

66. …and Finnish students say they don’t ’like it’ in Finnish schools. Please elaborate on this.

67. Share your thoughts on Barack Obama with your partner.

68. Talk about why London is an interesting city.

69. Why are horror movies so popular?

70. Why is it so nice to kick these guys’ asses?

71. Do you need one of these? Discuss.

72. Tell us about the instrument that you play.

73. Why are some people angry at Mc Donald’s?

74. Should senior citizens get to live in their own home or should they be put in a home?

75. Talk about this picture.

76. Talk about different kinds of addictions.

77. Pick five of the adjectives and tell your partner why they describe you.

78. Do you think there is life out there in space?

79. Why do women tend to leave the countryside?

80. Should the use of smart phones be allowed in class?

81. Tell your partner about an interesting book that you’ve read lately.

82. Talk about your best childhood memories with your partner.

83. Which do you appreciate more: a rewarding job or good pay?

84. How would you market Finland abroad?

85. Talk about you and candy.

86. Are there too many cars in cities today? How about the country- side?

87. Talk about young people and work.

88. Share your thoughts on climate change with your partner.

89. Coke or no Coke? Discuss.

90. Do you like to take part in competitions?

91. Discuss.

93. Talk about your favourite smells and where you can smell them.

95. Name some of your best excuses.

96. Explain the situation.

97. Talk about facial surgery.

98. Name some other childhood favourites of yours.

99. Do people have guardian angels?

100. Name some other ways of getting chicks.