What is your history and background? What is your experience with the English language and your goal for using it in the future?

What does your culture celebrate? Why? What happens during these celebrations? What can we learn about different cultures based on what they celebrate?

What makes a job or employee good or bad? How important is the quality of the work that you do? What would you sacrifice or not sacrifice for your job?

How does our family affect who we are? What would we keep or change about our families? How have families changed?

How has your view on different cultures changed with age? What are the negative and positive aspects of your own culture? What is the first difference you noticed when visiting a different culture?

What would you change about your past (education, family, location, etc.)? What goals do you have for this year and how will you accomplish them?

How do you determine right from wrong? What do you value most in life? How do you define happiness?

What talents and abilities does the world currently value? How would being a celebrity change your life positively or negatively?

What role does the individual have in protecting the environment? What groups are the most vulnerable in our society and how can we better protect/help them?

Is there more to the universe than just what we see? How have different religions benefited and harmed the people around them?