Food  

1. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘food’?
2. How often do you think about food?
3. Can you eat anything?
4. Can you go without food for a whole day?
5. Do you have to watch what you eat?
6. What is your favourite breakfast, lunch and dinner?
7. Do you think your country’s food is the best?
8. Do you think “you are what you eat”?
9. What do you think about canned, frozen and processed food?
10. What kinds of international cuisine do you like?
11. Are you fussy or particular about the food you eat?
12. Have your favourite kinds of food changed over the years?
13. Do you like fast food and slow food?
14. What do you think about food additives?
15. Do you care where the food you eat comes from?
16. What national dishes from your country would you recommend to the world?
17. Do you worry about the rising cost of food?
18. Do you think the world’s food will ever run out?
19. What do you think of genetically-modified (GM) food?
20. Is your food bill big?

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Smoking 

Students face each other in pairs and engage in the following (for-fun) 2-minute debates. Students A are assigned the first argument, students B the second. Rotate pairs to ensure a lively pace and noise level is kept:

•  Smoking should not be banned in public places.  It should.
•  Smokers have rights. They don’t.
•  Passive smoking doesn’t kill people.  It does.
•  Smoking doesn’t kill you.  It does.
•  You can’t ban smoking in pubs and bars.  You can. This treaty will not work. It will.
•  Smoking will completely disappear one day.  It won’t.

   Addiction   

1. What are some things that people are addicted to? Brainstorm.
2. Are you addicted to anything? Talk about it. Is it dangerous?
3. Is TV important to you? How many hours do you watch every week?
4. Which addictions are dangerous? Which aren't?
5. How can you stop being addicted to something? Are there cures for addictions?
6. Do you know anyone who is addicted? Talk about it. (don't use real names)
7. Do you have a game console? (e.g. Playstation. Gameboy) How often do you play?
8. Have you ever played cards (or any other game) for money? Talk about it.
9. How often do you eat fast food like pizza or hamburgers?
10. How often do you buy lottery tickets or play the lotto? Have you ever won?
11. How often do you drink coffee? Could you live without it?
12. Are you a workaholic? How many hours a week do you work? Do you take work home?
13. Do you have a mobile phone? How often do you use it? What do you use it for?
14. Do you smoke? If not, why not? If so, could you stop if you wanted to?
15. Are you a shopaholic? How often do you go shopping? Is it dongerous? Explain. Do you ever buy things on the Internet or from a catalogue? How often do you do this?
16. Is gambling popular in your country? Is it legal? What do people gamble on?

   Smoking  

1. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘smoking’?
2. Smoking kills. Why don’t people understand this?
3. Is smoking a problem in your country?
4. Why do people start smoking?
5. Why do you think it is so difficult for people to give up and quit smoking?
6. Do you get angry about passive smoking – breathing in second-hand smoke?
7. Do you think smokers should pay higher health costs?
8. Should Hollywood, Bollywood, etc. show smoking in movies?
9. Do you know any chain smoking? How could you get them to stop?
10. Which is worse for your health, smoking every day or drinking every day?
11. Do you think smoking is cool?
12. Why don’t governments ban smoking if it causes so many health problems?
13. Where are the no-smoking areas in your town?
14. What can we do to stop children smoking?
15. What does smoking do to your health?
16. Why do tobacco company ads always have healthy-looking young people smoking in beautiful places?
17. How would the world be different if smoking was suddenly banned?
18. What do you think when you see a pregnant woman smoking?
19. Someone once said: “I'd rather kiss a mad cow on the muzzle than a smoker on the mouth.” What do you think about this?
20. Do you think smoking will ever disappear?

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   Fast Food  

1. What springs to mind when you hear the term ‘junk food’?
2. How often do you eat junk food?
3. What is it about junk food that is so bad for us?
4. Do you think there should be a junk food tax to help pay for people who go to hospital with heart and weight problems?
5. Why is junk food so delicious?
6. Are parents who feed junk food to their children irresponsible?
7. Do you think there’ll be more or less junk food in the future?
8. What junk food do you really, really like?
9. Is the junk food from your country tastier than the junk food from other countries?
10. How can you change your lifestyle to eat less junk food?
11. Do lots of people eat junk food in your country?
12. Does your government educate people about the dangers of junk food?
13. Do you think junk food makers are immoral and should think more about people’s health?
14. What do you think of people who eat mostly junk food?
15. Does junk food or good quality healthy food make you happier?
16. If you had to choose between a strict vegetarian diet forever or a junk food diet forever, which would you choose?
17. Why does junk food cost so much?
18. What is the definition of junk food?
19. Is chocolate the most addictive junk food?
20. Do you think people ate junk food hundreds of years ago?

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