Conversation Questions
Computers
A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.
- Are you computer literate?
- Are you connected to the Internet?
- Do you access the Internet with your computer?
- Can you access the Internet from your home?
- What is your favorite "news" site?
- What Internet sites do you visit regularly?
- Can your mother and father use a computer?
- Do you have a computer?
- Do you have a computer at work and at home?
- Do you have a laptop or a desktop computer? Do you have both?
- Do you use your computer when you do homework for school?
- Have you ever studied English using your computer?
- How many times have you upgraded your computer?
- How powerful is your computer?
- What company made your computer?
- What kind of computer do you have?
- What size is your computer screen?
- What do you think is the best size to have?
- Where do you use your computer?
- Where in your room is your computer?
- Why did you buy your computer?
- Do you have a digital camera?
- Do you send photos by email?
- What kind of pictures do you take with your digital camera?
- Do you have a scanner?
- What kind of scanner do you have?
- Do you have a web page?
- What's the URL?
- When did you start it?
- How much time did it take to make?
- How much time do you spend keeping it updated?
- Do you know any computer programming languages?
- How many computer programming languages do you know?
- Which languages do you know?
- Which language do you use the most often?
- Do you read computer magazines?
- Which computer magazines do you read?
- Do you use a computer?
- Are you good at using a computer?
- Are you still using your first computer?
- Did you learn to use a computer in high school?
- Do you know how to type well?
- How often do you use a computer?
- What are some of your favorite computer games?
- What do you use a computer for?
- What operating system do you use?
- What software do you use the most often?
- When did you first start using a computer?
- Who taught you to use a computer?
- Do you use chat rooms? If so, what chat rooms do you use and who do you talk to?
- Do you use e mail?
- Do you use e mail every day?
- Do you write e mail in English?
- Have you ever sent an e mail to your teacher?
- How many e-mails do you get a day?
- How many e mails do you send a day?
- How many times a day do you access your e mail?
- What's your e mail address?
- How many e mail addresses do you have?
- Do you have a Facebook account?
- How often do you access it?
- How often do you update it.
- How many friends do you have?
- How many hours a day do you spend looking at it?
- Do you want a more powerful computer? If so, what computer do you want?
- Does your family have a computer?
- How fast can you type?
- Have you ever taken a course at school where you used a computer?
- Have you tried Mac-OS, Windows and Linux?
- How do you study English with your computer?
- How does email work?
- How many people in your family can use a computer?
- How much did your first computer cost? How much did you last computer cost?
- How much does it cost by buy a computer?
- What's the least expensive computer?
- What's the most expensive computer?
- How much does your Internet service provider cost?
- Which ISP do you use?
- If you could buy a new computer, what would you like to buy?
- If you had lots of money, what kind of computer system would you like to buy?
- What is the difference between software and hardware?
- Which do you like better, a laptop computer or a desktop computer?
- What is your favorite website?
- Do you ever visit English websites?
- Do you think our lives have been improved by computer technology?
- Think of a few examples of how computers have an educational or an entertainment value.
- Could you do without them?
- What is multimedia?
- What are the components and the element of multimedia?
- When did you first get a computer?
- What kind of computer was it?
- About how much did it cost?
- Do you still have it?
- Do you still use it?
- Do you remember the first time you used a computer or the Internet?
- What did you think about it?
- How long have there been personal computers in your country?
- When did the average person start using a computer?
- Can your parents operate a computer?
- How do they use their computer?
- Do you chat with your parents?
- What kind of computer do they use?
- Do they enjoy using their computer?
- Can your children use a computer?
- Do you think a computer can bring us happiness?
- Do you have a computer?
- Do you know any computer languages like C or C++?
- What is configuration of your PC?
- How often do you perform a backup?
- What kind of backup method do you use?
- What kind of backup media do you use?
- What are some good things about having a computer?
- What are some bad things about having a computer?
- Does having a computer make life more complicated or less complicated?
- What computer games have you played?
- Which are your favorites?
- Which do you think are not so interesting?
- Do you use chat rooms and instant messaging?
- Which ones do you use?
- Why do you use them?
- What are some things to think about when using them?
- Why can these be dangerous for you and your kids?
- What do you do when your computer doesn't work properly?
- Do you have more than one computer?
- Can you do everything you need to do when your computer is broken?
- Do you have a webpage?
- Did you make your own webpage?
- What is on this webpage?
- Why do you think people have webpages?
- What would you like to add to your webpage?
- Do you know what a blog is?
- Do you have one? Why/ why not?
- Why do people have blogs?
- What do you think about file sharing?
- On the Internet, you can say whatever you want. Is that true?
- Is it a good or a bad thing? Why?
- What is artificial intelligence?
If you can think of another good question for this list, please add it.
http://iteslj.org/questions/Thanks to Nancy Noble who suggested this topic and submitted the first 7 questions.
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