Teach your CPE students new vocabulary and phrases through conversation:
- Has anything or anyone ever clouded your judgement and if so, would you mind telling me about it?
- Would you agree with me if I said that our country has few natural resources and its economy has been ailing for some time now?
- What do you perceive as the main issues affecting our current situation?
- Do you think that our government is doing all it can to wage war on dangerous driving?
- What or who do you think we should pay tribute to and why?
- Do you know someone who you would describe as a ray of sunshine?
- What do you do in situations when someone’s arguments simply don’t hold water?
- What would you do if you amassed a substantial fortune?
- Sometimes, if we are not careful, silly arguments can drive a wedge between friends which can later lead to losing all closeness amongst them. Do you agree? Has it ever happened to you?
- If someone was charged with perverting the course of justice, what did he or she actually do?
- Can you think of a person whose indefatigable actions led to a major change in the world?
- Have you ever come across people whose interest in their job flagged soon after joining the company?
- Have you ever prefaced your argument with an anecdote whose significance would soon become apparent in one of your workshops?
- Have you ever felt that you have been invited to join a meeting or a committee as a token woman?
- What do you find to be rather overrated in this world?
- What do you think people are blissfully ignorant of?
- Every year small companies get swallowed up by large multinationals. Would you agree?
- Have you ever met a person whom you have widely divergent opinions with on almost every topic under the sun, and yet felt a strange affinity to?
- Is there a writer whom you feel an affinity with and whose descriptions of a world seem to have a great deal in common with your own?