Let’s get hypothetical! (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is asking hypothetical questions!

Hypothetical questions are questions that ask you what you would do, or what would happen in a certain situation. They are often not realistic, which means they can be fun!

Hypothetical questions are designed to get us thinking about ourselves and about the world in a critical way. It’s a good way to challenge the things we assume are true.

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about hypothetical situations!

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Conversation Questions: Let’s get hypothetical!

1. If you could live in any fictional universe, which would you choose and why?

2. If you had to swap places with anyone in the world for one day, who would you choose and why?

3. If you could experience one moment from history, what would it be?

4. If you had to volunteer for one month, what would you do and who for?

5. If you became the leader of your country, what would be the first thing you change?

6. If you could get a job interview for any job or with any person in the world, what would it be and why?

7. If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

8. If you had a superpower, would you tell anyone or would you keep it a secret?

9. If every decision you make had to be decided by a coin flip, how would your life change?

10. “Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.”

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Hypothetical
  • imagined or suggested but not necessarily real or true
• Fictional
  • imaginary
• Swap places
  • to be in another person’s situation
• Volunteer
  • a person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and without being forced or paid to do it
• Superpower
  • (in fiction) an exceptional or extraordinary power or ability.
• Beyond
  • farther away in the distance or future than something

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