Conversation Questions
Sports
A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.
Related: Baseball, Basketball, Bullfighting
- Do you play any sports?
- Are you a good soccer player? Basketball player? Baseball player? Rugby player? Tennis player?
- Are you a member of any sports team? If not, have you ever been?
- Are you good at sports?
- What sports are you good at?
- Do you often play sports?
- Did your high school have a good baseball team?
- Do you ever listen to baseball games on the radio?
- Do you jog more than once a week?
- Do you know how to play golf?
- Do you like to exercise?
- Do you like playing tennis?
- Do you like to snowboard?
- Do you like to watch sports on TV?
- Do you like watching car races?
- Do you like wrestling?
- Do you think athletes earn enough money, not enough money or too much money?
- Do you think everybody should practice sports?
- Do you think playing sports helps people work better as a team at work?
- Do you think that parents are too involved in their children's sports activities?
- Have you ever been skiing?
- Have you ever been to a soccer game? An America football game? A baseball game?
- Have you ever played golf?
- Have you ever been to watch a professional sporting event?
- Have you ever played tennis with your mother?
- Have you ever tried snow boarding?
- How often do you exercise?
- How often do you go swimming?
- Where do you go?
- Who do you go with?
- How often do you go swimming? Is it good that professional sports are so commercial nowadays?
- Go scuba diving?
- Go surfing?
- Go snokling?
- Is it good that professional sports are so commercial nowadays?
- Were you on any sports teams in high school?
- How about junior high school?
- How about now?
- What do you think is the most popular sport in the world?
- What do you think of pro wrestling? Thai kick boxing? Japanese sumo?
- What do you think of women playing hockey professionally?
- What do you think the top five most watched sports are in the world?
- What is the most dangerous sport?
- What is the most expensive sport?
- What is the most popular sport in your country?
- What is your favorite team sport?
- What is your favorite summer sport?
- What is your favorite winter sport?
- What new sports would you like to try?
- What sport do you think is the most dangerous?
- What sport do you think is the most expensive?
- What sports did you do in junior high school?
- How about high school?
- How about now?
- What sports do you watch?
- What sports do you like to watch?
- What sports do you hate to watch?
- What sports do you like to play?
- What sports do you like to watch live?
- What sports do you like to watch on TV?
- What sports do you think are the best?
- What's a sport that you don't like?
- Why don't you like it?
- What's your favorite baseball team?
- What's your favorite sport?
- Why do you like it?
- How often do you play it?
- How often do you watch it?
- When did you start playing tennis?
- Learn to swimming?
- Learning to snowboard?
- When was the last time you went to a baseball game?
- Where is the nearest stadium to your house?
- Which do you prefer, baseball or volleyball?
- Tennis or golf?
- Soccer?
- American football?
- Which sport would you not let your child play? Why?
- Who do you think is the best all around athlete in the world? In your country?
- Who is your favorite professional athlete? Why?
- Who swims better, your mother or your father?
- Would you like to become a champion at Wimbledon?
- Would you rather go swimming or skiing?
- How do you feel about extreme sports?
- Would you like to try any of these?
- Does it bother you that people gamble on sporting events?
- Is fishing viewed as a sport in your culture or solely a way of making a living?
- If you had the opportunity to do away with any sport, what sport would you do away with? Why?
- Do you think professional athletes earn too much money? Why or why not? Which sport's athletes do you think earn the money money?
- Are people in your country crazy about sports?
- Do professional athletes in your country make millions of dollars a year?
- Sometimes sports teams ask the city to help them build a new stadium. Do you think the city should give money for this? Why or why not?
- When the city helps build a new sports stadium, who benefits the most - the team, the city, the nearby businesses, or the sports fans?
- What do you do to keep fit?
- What are some of the benefits of sports?
- How are sports beneficial to you?
- What is your favorite winter activity?
- Do you like to ski?
- Are you a good skier?
- When did you learn to ski?
- How often do you ski?
- Who taught you to ski?
If you can think of another good question for this list, please add it.
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