Conversation Questions: Getting to Know Each Other

• Do you have any pets?
• What was the last book you read?
• Do you like to cook?
• What's your favorite food?
• Are you good at cooking/swimming/etc?
• Are you married or single?
• Do you have brothers and sisters?
  • Are they older or younger than you?
• Do you like baseball?
• Do you live alone?
• Do you live in a house or an apartment?
• Have you ever lived in another country?
• Have you ever met a famous person?
• How do you spend your free time?
• How long have you been studying English?
• How old are you?
• How tall are you?
• Tell me about a favorite event of your adulthood.
• Tell me about a favorite event of your childhood.
• What are your hobbies?
• What two things could you not do when you were...?
• What countries have you visited?
• What country are you from?
• What do you do on Sundays?
• What do you do? What's your job?
• What do you like to do in your free time?
• What hobbies do you have?
• What is the nearest bus stop or train station to your house?
• What is your motto?
• What is your religion? (Perhaps not a good question in some situations.)
• What kind of food do you like?
• What kind of people do you like?
• What kind of people do you not like?
• What languages do you speak?
• What two things could you not do when you were a child, but you can do now?
• What's something you do well?
• What's your address?
• What's your father like?
• What's your mother like?
• What's your name?
• What's your phone number?
• What's your telephone number?
• When did you start to study English?
• Where are you from?
• Where do you live?
• Where do you live? How long have you lived there?
• Where were you born?
• Which sports do you like?
• Who do you live with?
• Who do you respect the most?
• Who has had the most influence in your life?
• Why did you decide to take this course?
• Why do you want to learn English?
• Would you like to be famous?
• What do you think you will be doing five years from now?
  • Where do you think you'll be living five years from now?
• What is your goal in life?
• Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
• When do you feel best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?
• How many cities have you lived in?
• What jobs have you done?
• Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
• What could you do as a child that you can't do now?
• Who is your next door neighbor in your home country?
  • What is he or she like?
  • Did you get along with each other?
• What is the best memory of our country that you will take back home with you?
• What is the worst memory of our country?
• How many times did you move as a child?
• Are you a task oriented person or a people oriented person?
• What is the profile of the wife/husband you would meet?
  • What kind of woman/man would you like to marry?