Talk about technology: 50 conversation prompts for intermediate English learners

Stimulate discussion in English with these conversation prompt cards all about technology!

With this set of 50 conversation prompts, help your students practise language patterns commonly used to form and answer questions.

This set demonstrates 10 key patterns of question formation:

What do you use … for?

e.g. What do you use a computer for?

Do you use … at … ?

e.g. Do you use technology at home?

What kind of technology do you use when you … ?

e.g. What kind of technology do you use when you drive?

What piece of technology do you use … ?

e.g. What piece of technology do you use only at night?

*When do you use … ? *

e.g. When do you use artificial light?

*When do you use … to … ? *

e.g. When do you use technology to study?

Which is more important, … or … ?

e.g. Which is more important, the internet or planes?

Second and third conditionals

e.g. If you could buy a self-driving car, would you buy one?

The Present Perfect

e.g. Has email made work easier or more difficult?

Various forms of how:

e.g. How often do you use your smartphone?
How important is technology to you?

These conversation prompts allow you students to identify and learn common patterns in English grammar in a natural, communicative way, while making the class personal to them and their lives.

Each set comes with prompts colour coded, to clearly demonstrate the forms in isolation. Later, they can be mixed to elicit natural conversation that flows from point to point.

These cards are suitable for intermediate learners and above.

Enliven your language classroom with engaging discussions!