{"id":459,"date":"2026-10-08T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/discussion-and-speaking-activities\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:06","slug":"discussion-and-speaking-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/discussion-and-speaking-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion and Speaking Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get students talking with our free online ESL discussion and speaking activities. Use them as warm-ups, icebreakers or longer debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Available Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/randomq\/\">Random Conversation Questions<\/a> &#8211; A huge deck of random questions and conversation starters for speaking practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/randomq\/topics.php\">Random Topics<\/a> &#8211; Generate random conversation topics to spark free discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/categorise\/activity.php?w=2a677da5\">Fact or Myth?<\/a> &#8211; Categorise activity: decide whether statements like &#8220;bats are blind&#8221; are facts or myths, then discuss the surprises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=c151e571\">Agree or Disagree<\/a> &#8211; Card set of opinion statements. Students say whether they agree and explain why.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=5fa16511\">Controversial Opinions (B1)<\/a> &#8211; Card set of debatable opinions at B1 level to get students arguing their point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=c42af68f\">Controversial Opinions<\/a> &#8211; Card set of debatable opinions for higher levels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=0900b2e5\">Would You Rather&#8230;?<\/a> &#8211; Card set of fun choice questions. Students choose and give reasons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=9cff3bca\">Would You Rather&#8230;? Places to Live<\/a> &#8211; Card set of would you rather questions about where to live.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=0623815a\">Getting to Know Each Other<\/a> &#8211; Card set of icebreaker questions for new classes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=6474e116\">Getting to Know Each Other: First Class<\/a> &#8211; Card set of icebreaker questions for a first lesson.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=topics01\">Random Conversation Topic Generator<\/a> &#8211; Card set that picks a conversation topic at random.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=topics02\">Random Conversation Topics 2<\/a> &#8211; A second set of random conversation topics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/spinthewheel\/game.php?w=27cf4674\">Conversation Topics #1<\/a> &#8211; Spin the wheel to choose a topic to talk about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get students talking with our free online ESL discussion and speaking activities. Use them as warm-ups, icebreakers or longer debates. Available Activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-459","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}