What Do You Think?: 15 Topics for Discussion and Conversation

This easy-to-use discussion and conversation textbook is perfect for intermediate-level students but can also be used with high beginner – low-intermediate students. Each unit in What Do You Think? begins with an introduction reading of the topic followed by a Main Discussion Question where students make a choice or offer an opinion. After engaging with classmates in various pair work and groupwork activities, students are asked to reevaluate their original choice and/or opinion on the topic by completing a short in-class assessment. The in-class assessment gives students a chance to demonstrate their understanding of the topic using new language from the text as well as their own, but also serves to reinforce the idea that opinions often change when we have more information (through discussion and conversation) on a topic.

Unit 1 Working at a Convenience Store or a Restaurant?
Unit 2 Cash vs Credit Card – Advantages & Disadvantages
Unit 3 Doing Volunteer Work
Unit 4 Stay-at-home Dads
Unit 5 Do You Want to be a YouTuber?
Unit 6 I Want a Driverless Car!
Unit 7 Smartphone or Laptop?
Unit 8 Online Dating
Unit 9 Being Famous – Advantages & Disadvantages
Unit 10 Hybrid Classes – The Way of the Future?
Unit 11 Working 4 Days a Week or 5 Days a Week?
Unit 12 Married at 35
Unit 13 Cosmetic Surgery
Unit 14 Good Bye SNS!
Unit 15 Working From Home – Advantages & Disadvantages