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    Do you talk to strangers?

    September 26, 2025 - By lucelmartel

    Do you talk to strangers? Maybe we should.

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    How do you ask for a raise?

    June 21, 2022 - By lucelmartel

    Level: B1, B2, C1 Discussion questions in the post Language focus: personal caracteristics, money, work tasks Media: video Life changes. And more specifically, it gets more expensive. Yet sometimes it can take time for your employer to catch up. So how can you tackle the prickly question of asking for…

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    When you go to someone’s house, what do you look at?

    June 6, 2022 - By lucelmartel

    When you go to someone’s house, what do you look at? Oh yes, we all do it. Maybe you like to check out the kitchen or take a peek in the bedrooms, or maybe you check how clean the toilet is. As humans, we all have a natural curiosity about…

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    How are you feeling?

    December 2, 2020 - By lucelmartel

    Can you describe what emotions you are experiencing right now? This is the question Tiffany Watt Smith asks her TED audience to sensitize them on how easy or how hard it is to put words on our emotions. This is a fantastic presentation to conjure the vocabulary of emotions and…

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    Do you want to climb a mountain?

    November 10, 2020 - By lucelmartel

    I am an amateur rock climber…very amateur. It’s not for everyone, I know. But what is interesting about rock climbing is it puts you smack in the middle of a discussion between your “afraid-self” and your “courageous-self”.  Alex Honnold, famed for climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan without ropes, candidly talks about…

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    What have I learned from soap operas?

    October 30, 2020 - By lucelmartel

    What have I learned from soap operas? Honestly, nothing. Except, there was one particularly boring summer, I was a teenager, no friends close by, and no motivation to get off the basement sofa. I got sucked into the soap opera vortex. There I learnt that I could spend an entire…

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    What matters most in life?

    October 19, 2020 - By lucelmartel

    Level: B1, B2, C1 Handout on TPT 0.99$ (task cards included) Language focus: modal auxiliaries, opinions Media: video What matters most in life? A nice juicy ESL discussion question that is maybe not so easy to answer. Or is it? The main categories We could start by exploring the large…

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    What are the top 5 vacations…just for you?

    January 20, 2020 - By lucelmartel

    Are you ready for a vacation, but don’t know where to go? Have I got a fantastic tool for you. The Washington Post offers this wild vacation planner tool. All you have to do is answer their questions and the computer will generate the top vacation spots based on your…

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