Get students talking with our free online ESL discussion and speaking activities. Use them as warm-ups, icebreakers or longer debates.
Available Activities
- Conversation Cards – 45 ready-made decks of conversation questions on everyday topics, from age and animals to travel and the weather
- Random Conversation Questions – A huge deck of random questions and conversation starters for speaking practice.
- Random Topics – Generate random conversation topics to spark free discussion.
- Fact or Myth? – Categorise activity: decide whether statements like “bats are blind” are facts or myths, then discuss the surprises.
- Agree or Disagree – Card set of opinion statements. Students say whether they agree and explain why.
- Controversial Opinions (B1) – Card set of debatable opinions at B1 level to get students arguing their point.
- Controversial Opinions – Card set of debatable opinions for higher levels.
- Would You Rather…? – Card set of fun choice questions. Students choose and give reasons.
- Would You Rather…? Places to Live – Card set of would you rather questions about where to live.
- Getting to Know Each Other – Card set of icebreaker questions for new classes.
- Getting to Know Each Other: First Class – Card set of icebreaker questions for a first lesson.
- Random Conversation Topic Generator – Card set that picks a conversation topic at random.
- Random Conversation Topics 2 – A second set of random conversation topics.
- Conversation Topics #1 – Spin the wheel to choose a topic to talk about.
- The Most Important Inventions of All Time – Ranking activity: put 10 inventions (the wheel, vaccines, the internet, the smartphone) in order of importance, then discuss with a partner.
- Which Superpower Would You Choose? – Ranking activity: put 10 superpowers (flying, invisibility, time travel, speaking every language) in order, then explain your choices to a partner. Great for practising “If I could…”.
- The Best Ways to Learn a Language – Ranking activity: put 10 ways to learn a language (lessons, apps, films, living in the country) in order, then compare with a partner.
- Getting to Know You Board Game (A2) – Board game of icebreaker questions for a new class. Students roll the dice and answer the question they land on.
- Agree or Disagree? Board Game (B2) – Board game of opinion statements about work, technology and everyday life. Students say whether they agree and explain why.
- Talk for 30 Seconds – Tic tac toe: talk about the topic on the square for 30 seconds without stopping to win it