Conversation Questions
Health
A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.
- Are you a member of a health spa or gym?
 - Are you afraid of needles?
 - Are you healthy?
 - Are your parents healthy?
 - Do think that you need to lose weight?
 - Do you always eat healthy food?
 - Do you bruise easily?
 - Do you catch a cold more than once a year?
 - Do you consider alcohol a drug?
 - Do you drink a lot?
 - Do you eat a lot of vegetables?
 - Do you eat lots of fruit?
 - Do you eat vegetables every day?
 - Do you ever get headaches?
- Do you know anyone who suffers from migraine headaches?
 
 - Do you ever read magazines or news articles about health? If yes, what subject(s) do you find the most interesting?
 - Do you exercise?
- What kind of exercise do you do?
 - How often do you exercise?
 
 - Do you go for regular medical check-ups?
 - Do you go to the dentist's twice a year?
 - Do you have a lot of stress?
 - Do you normally go one doctor in particular or any available doctor?
 - Do you have any allergies?
 - Do you have any scars?
- Where are they?
 - Would you like to show them to the class?
 
 - Do you know anyone who suffers from backaches?
 - Do you know anyone with false teeth?
 - Do you often eat fast food?
 - Do you smoke?
- If so, do you smoke more than two cigarettes a day?
 - Do you think smoking is not bad for your health?
 
 - Do you take medicine when you are sick?
 - Do you take vitamins or mineral supplements?
 - Do you take vitamins?
 - Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home?
 - Do you think nuclear power is safe?
 - Do you think pets are good for a person's health
 - Do you think that the tobacco companies should be held reasonably responsible for a person's addiction to nicotine?
 - Do you think you are overweight?
 - Do you think you will live until a ripe old age? Why or why not?
 - Do you think you would be a good surgeon? Why or why not?
 - Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
 - Do you usually get enough sleep?
 - Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy?
 - Have you ever been hospitalized?
- (Have you ever been in the hospital?)
 
 - Have you ever been to an acupuncturist? What do you think of acupuncture?
 - Have you ever broken a bone?
 - Have you ever burned yourself with hot water?
 - Have you ever donated blood?
 - Have you ever gotten a black eye?
 - Have you ever had braces on your teeth?
 - Have you ever had stitches?
 - Have you ever sprained your ankle?
 - Have you ever taken a sleeping pill to get to sleep?
 - How can you reduce stress in your life?
 - How have you been feeling lately?
 - How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
 - How many hours of sleep do you usually get?
 - How often do you eat junk food?
- What kinds of junk food do you eat?
 
 - How often do you exercise?
 - How often do you get a cold?
- (How often do you catch a cold?)
 
 - How often do you get sick in one year?
 - How often do you go to the doctor's?
 - How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?
 - How would you recommend treating a cold?
 - If a company sells the public a product they know to be harmful or addictive, should they be held responsible for the use of that product even if the government approves it?
 - If you smoke, how old were you when you started smoking?
 - If you were President of Korea, what would you do to improve Koreans' health?
 - Should smoking in restaurants be banned?
 - What are some things people can do to keep healthy?
 - What are some things that cause stress?
 - What are some ways to deal with stress?
 - What are some ways you know that you can personally keep yourself healthy?
 - What disease frightens you the most? Why?
 - What do you do to stay healthy?
- (What are some things you do to keep healthy?)
 
 - What do you do, if you can't get to sleep?
 - What do you think about abortion? Why do some people support it and others are against it?
 - What do you think about getting old?
 - What do you think is the most serious health problem in Korea?
 - What do you think of cosmetic surgery? Do you know anyone who has had cosmetic surgery? Would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?
 - What drinks to you think are healthy? What drinks do you think are unhealthy?
 - What foods to you think are healthy? What foods do you think are unhealthy?
 - What is the best way to find a doctor, if you're new in the area?
 - What is the best way to stop smoking?
 - What is the most horrible accident you have ever had?
 - What is the average age of people in your country
 - What kind of pollution is the most risky?
 - What time did you go to bed when you were a child?
 - What's the best way to stop smoking?
 - What's the highest temperature you've ever had?
 - What's your blood type?
 - When did you last take a bath?
 - When was the last time you went to a dentist?
 - When was the last time you went to a doctor?
 - When was the last time you went to a hospital?
 - When was the last time you were sick?
 - When you were in high school, how many days of school did you miss each year because of sickness?
 - Who do you think is responsible for the care of your health--you yourself, your parents, or your doctor and medical people?
 - Who is the healthiest person in your family? Who is the least healthy?
 - Why do people smoke?
 - Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
 - What is the health service like in your country?
 - What do you think of the health service in this country?
 - How can the health service be improved?
 - Have you been to hospital since you arrived here?
 - What do you know about the SARS virus?
- What do you know about AIDS?
 - What do you know about the common cold?
 
 - What is alternative medicine?
- Have you ever practiced alternative medicine?
 
 - What treatments or remedies do you follow when you have a cold?
 - which kind of medicine do you prefer to take when you are sick?
 - How often do you clean your bathroom?
 - Do you clean as often as your parent cleaned when you were a child?
 - Which parent did/does most of the cleaning in your household?
 - How old were you when you had start helping with the dishes/laundry/vacuuming/dusting/?
 - Were the chores divided equally between men and women?
 - Do people in your country usually wear deodorant?
 - How often do people in your country shower?
 - Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner cleaned too much or too little?
 - Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner had bad hygiene?
 - Do you enjoy cleaning? Which kind of cleaning do you enjoy most?
 - How often do you brush your teeth?
 - Have you ever swept something under the rug?
 - Do you use strong cleaners like bleach and ammonia?
 - Have you ever bought a miracle cleaner from a TV infomercial?
 - What's the best way to get stains out?
 - What alternative health therapies do you know about?
 - Have you ever tried any alternative health therapies?
 - Do you think traditional medicine is a good alternative to modern medicine?
 - In what circumstances should traditional or alternative medicine be used?
 - Do you think traditional therapies are compatible with modern medicine? Why or why not?
 - What are the advantages or disadvantages of modern medicine?
 - What are the advantages or disadvantages of traditional medicine?
 - What do you complain of?
 - What is wrong with you?
 - Have you any appetite?
 - How long have you been ill?
 - Have you any pain the back of your head?
 - How long has it been since you began to feel bad?
 - Have you a bitter taste in your mouth?
 - Do you feel nauseous?
 - Do you sleep well?
 - Is it hard to swallow?
 - Do we need to eat as much junk food as we do?
 - Have you ever realized during a dream that it is a dream; and have you then been able to change events in that dream?
 - Do you think the government is doing all it can to prevent disease?
 - What do you think of wellness institutions and their programs?
 - How do you deal with stress?
 
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