Mind Provoking Questions

Cut these mind provoking questions into small pieces of paper, and give each to every student in your class (intermediate to higher intermediate levels). Give them around five minutes to think and prepare and then invite each one of them to answer the questions in front of the class. Give equal time to everyone ( in my class, I give everyone a two-minute time). You'll be surprised to see your students talk their head off!

1. What is your wildest dream?
Explain your answer.

2. What famous person do you want to meet most? Why?

3. What do you think about pre-marital sex?

4. What is love to you? Explain your answer.

5. Do you want to know the exact time of your death? Why?

6. Do you believe in fortune tellers? Why?

7. Do you believe in superstition? Why?

8. Some people say that politics is dirty. Do you agree? Why?

9. What would you do if you discovered your lover’s unfaithfulness?

10. If there were only one space left in a rescue boat, which would you save: a prostitute or a corrupter? Why?

11. If there were only one space left in a rescue boat, which would you save: a murderer or a rapist? Why?

12. What is the happiest experience of your life?

13. What is the saddest experience of your life?

14. What would you buy if you had to spend one billion rupiahs in half an hour?
Explain your answer.

15. Which one of your belongings that you love most? Explain your answer.

16. Are you afraid of ghost? Explain your answer.

17. What insect scares you most? Explain your answer.

18. Have you had a traumatic experience? Explain your answer.

19. Which do you choose: looks or traits? Why?

20. What country would you visit if you had only one opportunity to go abroad? Why?

21. Which do you prefer for a vacation: a mountain or a beach? Why?

22. What kind of person that you hate most? Explain your answer.

23. What kind of person that you like most? Explain your answer.

24. What do you think about our TV soap operas? Explain your answer.

25. What do you think about polygamy? Explain your answer.

26. What do you think about death penalty? Explain your answer.

27. What do you think about gambling? Explain your answer.

28. What do you think about pornography? Explain your answer.

29. What do you think about inter-religion marriage? Explain your answer.

30. Have you ever cheated on an exam? How do you feel about it? Why?

31. Would it be OK to you if a girl expressed her feelings of love first? Explain your answer.

32. Do you want to be famous? Why?

33. Alone in a cemetery or in the city crime center? Why?

34. Living alone in an island of your own or cramped in a dirty, stinky, noisy, crime-stricken, slum area? Why?

35. If you discovered money lying on the street, what would you do?

36. What should the authority of Jakarta do to prevent the city from flooding?
Explain your answer.