Sunday, November 15, 2015

IELTS Speaking Part 3: Hypothetical Questions for Practicing Language Used for Speculating

(TESOL Worksheets--Speaking, IELTS Speaking, Part 3)
Google Drive Version Here , Google Docs Version Here--Published Here
[This is a classroom mingle activity.  I cannibalized all the questions from a speaking activity I posted last year.
I used this mingle to supplement a lesson in the IELTS Express Upper Intermediate textbook.  After the students had gotten done studying the pages in the textbook that taught language for speculation (for answering Speaking Part 3 questions) I did this mingle with them.  The students have to walk around the room and talk to everyone in the class. They write the name of their classmate next to the question that they asked to them.  Before we did this mingle, I told the students that these questions were NOT IELTS type questions.  (They're much to silly to be on the IELTS).  But that it was still nonetheless a fun way to practice the language for speculation.]


Question
Name
1.
Would you have one of your fingers surgically removed if it somehow guaranteed immunity from all major diseases?

2.
If you could prevent either an earthquake that would kill 40,000 people, a plane crash that would kill 200 people, or a car accident that would kill a friend of yours, which would you choose?


3.
Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 500 years at any physical age you chose?


4.
Would you like to know the precise date of your death?


5.
Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire.  After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item.  What would it be?


6.
If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?

7.
If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?


8.
Someone close to you is in pain, paralyzed and will die within a month.  He begs you to give him poison so that he can die.  Would you?  What if it were your father?


9.
If a crystal ball would tell you the truth about any one thing you wished to know concerning yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?

10.
For $40,000 would you go for three months without washing, brushing your teeth, or using a deodorant?  Assume you could not explain your reasons to anyone.


11
If you could script the basic plot for the dream you will have tonight, what would the story be?


12
Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?


13
You discover your wonderful 2-year-old daughter is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake?


14
Given the ability to project yourself into the past but not return, would you do so?  Where would you go and what would you try to accomplish if you knew you might change the course of history?

15.
In a nice restaurant, after getting the bill for an excellent meal, you notice that you were not charged for one of the items you ate.  Would you tell the waitress?

16
You are given the power to kill people.  They would die a natural death and no one would suspect you.  Are there any situations in which you would use this power?


17.
Would you accept twenty-five years of extraordinary happiness if it meant you would die at the end of the period?

18.
If you were having difficulty on an important test and could safely cheat by looking at someone else’s paper, would you do so?

19
For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would be little chance of ever seeing your family and friends again?

20
Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world?


21
Assuming that you had no children and felt the only way for you to have a family was to marry someone you didn’t love, would you be willing to do so?


22
Would you rather be extremely professionally and have a fairly ordinary private life, or have a very happy private life and only an ordinary professional life?


23
Before you are ten pistols—only one of which is loaded.  For $10 million would you pick one up, point it at your forehead, and press the trigger?  If you survive, you keep the money.


24
Make up your own hypothetical question here:












Update:
It turns out the IELTS Express textbook has another lesson that discusses hypothetical questions on part 3.  Since the students seemed to enjoy this activity the first time around, I designed a second sheet with the same idea, but just different questions.  All the questions for this second worksheet come from this website here, which I've edited slightly.

Google: Drive, Docs, pub


Question
Name
1.
If you could change sex for a week, would you do it? Do you think its easier being male or female?

2.
Would you rather be deaf or blind?


3.
You find a book and begin to read only to discover that it is your life. You get to the point that you are at now, do you turn the page knowing that you will not be able to change the events to come?

4.
If you could really sell your soul to the devil, what would you sell it for?

5.
If you were really a robot, would you want to know?


6.
Would you rather get uglier or dumber?


7.
What would you do if you found out you had 24 hours to live?


8.
If you could learn any one skill in the world without trying (like by magic), which would you pick?

9.
If you got to choose between fifty years of being incredibly happy or to live forever and be unhappy what would you choose?

10.
You are offered a pill that makes you 25% more intelligent but permanently removes your hair including eyebrows. Do you take it?

11
If a genie offered you 3 wishes, what would you wish for?


12
Would you rather have to say everything that comes to your mind or never say anything again?

13
If it had to always be night-time or always day-time, which would you choose? And why?

14
If you could go back and be any age you want for a month, what would you choose?

15.
If you could only eat one type of food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

16
If you had to travel 100 years into the past or 100 years into the future, which would you choose?

17.
Would you rather have 4 legs or 4 arms?

18.
What historic figure would make the worst ghost to be haunted by?

19
Would you rather be rich and a horrible person, or poor but a great person? What about rich and ugly, or poor and good looking?



20
If you had to be stuck in a TV show for a month, what show would you pick? And what character would you be?

21
If you could pick any 3 people in the world to be marooned on an island with, who would you choose and why?

22
If you found out that a close friend murdered someone for a good reason, would you tell the police or would you help them dispose of the body?

23
If you had a week to live and could do any 5 things in the world, what would they be?

24
If you could ask your future self from the year 2050 one question, what would it be?

25
Would you rather end all wars or world hunger?


26
If you could pick a single super power, what would it be and why?

27
What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self?

28
If you could ask any historic figure one question, who would it be and what would you ask?

29
If you were to lose all five of your senses, how would you know if you were truly alive?  (The five senses are hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste.)

30.
If you were a high school teacher, what subject would you teach?

31
You're being held at gunpoint, and the gunman asks you for one reason why he shouldn't pull the trigger, what do you tell him?

32
Would you rather follow your dreams but never fall in love or fall in love but have no ambition or life goals?

33
How will you describe the color blue to a blind man ?


34
If you were planning a party and money was no object, describe what it would be like?

35
Make up your own hypothetical question here:









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