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28 ESL Conversation Questions About Technology
Everyone has a phone and an opinion about it. Technology questions generate real disagreement — the engine of real conversation.
Warm-up questions A1–A2 · beginner
- How many hours a day do you use your phone?
- What apps do you use every day?
- Do you like video games?
- What technology can you not live without?
- Do you watch more TV or YouTube?
- Who taught you to use a computer?
- Do you talk to voice assistants? What do you ask?
- What was your first phone like?
- Do you read news on paper or on a screen?
- What technology confuses you?
Discussion questions B1–B2 · intermediate
- Is social media good or bad for friendship? Give examples.
- What technology from your childhood do you miss?
- Should children under 14 have smartphones? What rules would you set?
- What app would you invent if you could?
- How has technology changed dating in your country?
- Do you trust online reviews? How do you decide?
- What is something everyone does online that you refuse to do?
- Is it rude to check your phone during dinner? Always?
- How do you protect your privacy — or have you given up?
- What did the internet ruin, and what did it save?
Debate & depth C1–C2 · advanced
- Should AI companions for lonely people be celebrated or feared?
- Is privacy dead — and did we kill it ourselves?
- Who should regulate AI: governments, companies, or nobody?
- Are algorithms making culture more diverse or more identical?
- Would you accept a brain implant that doubled your memory? Terms and conditions?
- Is "digital detox" a real solution or a luxury ritual?
- Does anonymous speech online do more good or harm?
- If you could un-invent one technology, which and why?
Teaching tips
- Instant debate: split the room on "phones should be banned in schools."
- Have students explain an app they love to someone who has never seen it — pure fluency practice.
- Vocabulary seeds: scroll, notification, algorithm, screen time, upload, subscription, device.
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