Top 10 conversation starters for adults | ESL Conversation & Discussion Topics

Do you want to get some discussion going in your ESL/EFL classes? Thought so. Then you’ll need to check out my top conversation questions to get the ball rolling. Watch the full video for all the details about conversation starters for adults! If you’re a language teacher, then it’s kind of a can’t-miss list of ESL conversation topics. ------- • Check out this blog post for extra conversation tips: https://eslspeaking.org/conversation-starters-adults/ • Want more examples of English conversation starters? Watch @ScienceOfPeople "Start a Conversation with Anyone" video here: https://youtu.be/6K9LhzyLUfY ------ Check out my book: 1001 English Expressions and Phrases https://amzn.to/40Tm5DX https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #classroomtips #conversation -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript for TEFL convo starters: Here are my top 10 conversation starters for adults. So I hate talking about the same old boring things and I'm an English teacher and I hate having my students talk about these same boring things or me talking about the same boring things with them, so I like to have some good ideas for conversation starters. My first one is: if you won the lottery what would you do? And a nice fit with this, if you're a teacher, is to put this with the "If I Had a Million Dollars" song by The Bare Naked Ladies and make a whole lesson around this. The second thing I like to talk about is bucket list. So a bucket list item is something you want to do before you die, so I get students to think of maybe like two or three things that they want to do and then we can talk about that. The third conversation topic is guilty pleasures. So this is something that you do that you know is bad, however, you do it anyway because it's your guilty pleasure. The fourth conversation starter is, what was the last thing you bought that cost more than a certain amount? Say $100 or $500, it would be lower if you're talking with kids. All right, the fifth thing is, if you were president or prime minister what would you do and what would you change about your country? The next conversation starter is a dream vacation. So I love hearing the differences that people have, some people would go to the beach, and some people would go on a backpacking trip. Yeah, there's a million different things that people would choose. The next one is a bit morbid but quite interesting to find out, it's if you had 100 days left to live how would you spend it and who would you spend it with? The next one is what is your favorite thing to cook? And everyone always has the most delicious things, which motivates me to go home and make something for myself. The next conversation starter is What is your dream job. If I'm talking to adults I like to know if they're doing their dream job now or if they have kind of another thing that they are more interested in. Then the last one is, what are your bad habits? So these are things that maybe people do like they drink a lot or smoking, that kind of thing. I like to find out what that is. Timestamp for ESL/EFL Conversation Starters for Adults: 0:00 Outro 0:20 If you won the lottery, what would you do? 0:32 Bucket list 0:43 Guilty pleasures 0:54 What was the last thing you bought that costs x amount? 1:05 If you were president/ prime minister, what would you do? 1:12 A dream vacation 1:25 If you had 100 days left to live, how would you spend it? 1:35 What is your favourite thing to cook? 1:45 What is your dream job? 1:55 What are your bad habits? 2:07 Outro Tags: english speaking topics for intermediate, conversation starters for adults , esl conversation questions getting to know each other, esl conversation topics for intermediate students, speaking topics for adults, freetalk for adults, topics for adults, topic to talk about, discussion topics for adults, conversation topic for adults, esl free talking topics for adults, topic in chat,