Getting to know each other

Pair-work: Getting to Know Each Other

Ask and answer some or most of the questions below in order for you to get to know your classmate(s) better.

1. [Greet your partner]

2. What's your phone number? E-mail?

3. When did you start to study English?

4. Where are you from? Where were you born?

5. Where do you live? How long have you lived there?

6. Are you good at cooking/swimming/etc?

7. Are you married or single? Do you live alone? [Who do you live with?]

8. Do you have brothers and sisters? Are they older or younger than you? Do you get along with them?

9. Do you live in a house or in an apartment?

10. Have you ever lived in another country?

11. Have you ever met a famous person?

12. What do you do on Sundays? What do you like to do in your free time?

13. How long have you been studying English?

14. How old are you? How tall are you?

15. What countries have you visited?

16. What do you do? What's your job?

17. What is your motto? What is your religion? (Perhaps not a good question in some situations.)

18. What kind of people do you like? What kind of people do you not like?

19. What languages do you speak?

20. What two things could you not do when you were a child, but you can do now?

21. What's something you do well?

22. What's your father like? What's your mother like?

23. Who do you respect the most?

24. Who has had the most influence in your life?

25. Why did you decide to take this course [English Language]?

26. Would you like to be famous?

27. What do you think you will be doing five years from now?

28. Where do you think you'll be living five years from now?

29. How many times did you move as a child?

30. Are you a task oriented person or a people oriented person?

31. What is your favorite animal? [And why?] color? country? day of the week? Why? drink in the summer? kind of food? holiday? Why? kind of book? kind of movie? kind of music? magazine? movie? radio station? season? Why? sport? time of day? TV program? Web site? vegetable? smell? word in English? event of your adulthood?

32. Who is your favorite actress/actor? [Explain why] athlete? soccer player? character from literature? musician? singer? superhero? teacher? TV host? politician?

____________________________? [add your questions]

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