EASY TOPICS

1. We should be able to choose our own bed times, even as children.

2. Animals have rights too.

3. We should never be beaten as a punishment.

4. My favorite foods

5. What is the best time of day for you?

6. What do you think you will you do when you grow up?

7. My favourite animal

8. The best time I’ve ever had

9. My most favorite subject at school

10. The funniest thing that has happened to me

11. The most exciting event in my life

12. The person I would most like to meet

13. Something I want to learn

14. The best thing about my neighborhood

15. What we do for fun in my family

16. My favorite film

17. The music I like to listen to

18. What I think about social media

19. My favorite sport

20. The silliest thing I ever saw

21. My three wishes are

22. If you had the power what would you change?

23. The most boring thing in the world

24. Countries I would like to visit

25. My favorite meal when I go out to eat

26. A family tradition

27. The best prank ever

28. Why apologizing when you’re wrong is a good thing to do

29. Words we use that we have to explain to adults

30. Fun games to play with friends

32. What means the most to me

33. What adults do not understand

34. The best season of the year

35. The dumbest thing I did when I was very little

36. The top three things I like most about my best friends

37. The best character in a book I’ve read or a movie I’ve seen

38. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen?

39. Three things I think the US President should do

40. The happiest time I’ve ever had

41. The hardest thing I’ve ever done

42. My favorite place to be in the whole world

43. The scariest thing that has ever happened to me

44. Why friends are important to me

45. Why peer pressure can be damaging.

46. Why being different is OK

47. Why bullying is never OK

48. Who is a hero to you, and why?

49. What is your favourite holiday, and why?

50. The worst tasting food I’ve ever been given to eat.

ADULTS TOPICS

1. The difference between features and benefits of a product.

2. The value of recognizable branding.

3. The wisdom of the maxim to follow your dream

4. The advantage of a college education

5. The traps of advertising

6. The difference between fact and opinion

7. Difference in pay scales due to gender

8. The glass ceiling

9. The difference between having a job and a career

11. What 3 skills do you think are most valuable to an employer?

12. Why is working smarter, better than working harder?

13. Plain English is preferable to jargon.

14. Who do you admire most, and why?

15. What qualities do you want to see in a leader?

16. What skill do you think will help you get to where you want to go faster than any
other?

17. Is it the people you know, or the abilities you have that gives you the opportunities
you want in life?

18. Where does poverty begin?

19. Should all education at all levels be free?

20. What changes would you make to the current levels of state or governmental care?

21. What one social change do you think would alter the way we live for the better?

22. What one important idea has changed the way you think and act in your life?

23. If you could be the best version of yourself you could be, what area would you be
working in now?

24. What does the phrase ‘living for the weekend’ mean to you?

25. What special qualities does a person need to have in order to be successfully self-
employed?

26. What subject areas should schools teach more of?

27. How could practicing impromptu speaking improve your critical thinking skills?

28. What qualities do you notice particularly in good communicators?

29. What advice would you give a young person about choosing a career?

30. How does what you do now for a living, vary from the way your parents worked?

31. What qualities do you admire most in the people who work alongside you – your co-
workers?

32. What habits do you find the most difficult to deal with in a shared work space?

33. Is a 4 day week or ‘working to live’ an unrealistic dream?

34. What is your favorite day of the week, and why?

35. What does it mean to listen well?

36. What book has had the most influence on your life?

37. Three ways to stand up for yourself

39. Is it ever OK to lie?

40. What is the most important lesson you’ve learned so far?

41. If you could have dinner with whoever you chose, who would you choose?

42. What thing did you ever have to do that turned out to be extremely good for you?

43. What my work clothes say about me

44. Is it OK to have private conversations or to handle personal matters while at work?

45. Three skills my employers do not know I have

46. How do you know when you’ve been in a job too long?

47. The notion of job security is no longer safe to hang on to. What should we be doing
instead?

48. What advice would you give someone who is appears to be in the job purely for the
money?

49. How does tone of voice influence how you respond to someone?

50. What makes you think a person is trustworthy?

ABSURD TOPICS

1. The time the joke fell flat

2. What’s funny depends on the individual

3. The biggest laugh I’ve ever had

4. The most successful prank I was part of

5. Why people laugh

6. My most embarrassing moment

7. Two sure-fire ways to get rid of your boss

8. How to talk your way out of having to do the dishes

9. How to appear very intelligent

10. The deepest secrets of your pet cat

11. Why your dog is your best friend

12. If I ruled the world

13. Three words I would ban if I could

14. Why I should have an instant pay rise

15. The significance of World Paper Clip Day

17. How to make your favorite meal last longer

18. How to successfully annoy your brother, sister, mother, father

19. The top three reasons for not handing in homework

20. Why being predictable is boring

21. Three ways to fail successfully

22. How to blame other people and get away with it

23. How to mind read

24. The best seller I am writing

25. The top ways to get people to like you

26. How to lie extremely well

27. The worst chat up line ever

28. Three creative things to do with a brick

29. How to tell if someone loves you

30. What to do when you forget the birthday of someone close to you

31. The worst Christmas present I ever received

32. The most extraordinary thing that ever happened to me

33. How to get other people to pay for you at a bar or restaurant

34. Strategies for avoiding people you don’t want to talk to

35. Idiot things I have done unintentionally

36. Instructions for riding a bicycle

37. How to teach your great grandmother to use a mobile

38. How to avoid being picked out of a group to present a report

39. Designer camouflage for under cover parents at student parties

40. Three excellent reasons to give when you want to call in sick

41. How to get other people to willingly do your work for you

42. Why gossip is always so interesting to hear

43. Why reading another person’s emails is OK

44. How I explained Father Christmas to my children

45. Why my son/daughter thinks I am super man/woman

46. Why being me is so much better than being anyone else

48. How to interpret the shape of your hand and fingers

49. The art of blaming your horoscope for whatever goes wrong in your life

50. How to talk convincingly on subjects you know very little about