WRITING STICKS PERSONAL QUESTIONS (ACTIVITIES) What would you like to for fun? PERSONAL QUESTIONS (CULTURAL THINGS) WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEK? What did you this week? Do you play sports? Which ones? What is your favourite TV show? What was something fun you did this week? What is your favourite position to play? Why you like it? Does your team have a name? What is your favourite movie? What was sth you had to this week that you didn’t care for? What is your favourite thing to on the weekend? What was the last movie you saw? Do you prefer to send your time inside or outside? What is the best toy that you have? Do you like to draw? What kinds of things you draw? What is your favourite book? Did you like it or not, why? Do you like to read? What you when you get home from school? What is your favourite computer game? Do you like to puzzles? What about word puzzles? number puzzles? Do you like to go out to eat? Does your family go on vacation each year? Where does your vacation go on vacation? Where is the most exciting place you have been in the past year? Do you have a bike? What does it look like? Do you like to play video games? What is your favourite place to eat? What kind of music you like? What is your favourite song? Do you like to dance? Do you know how to play any instruments? Which one (s)? Did you see anyone this week that you haven’t seen for a while? Did you visit anyone this week? Did anyone come to visit your house this week? Do you have any exciting stories to tell from the past week? WRITING STICKS PERSONAL QUESTIONS How old are you? When is/ was your birthday? What did you for last birthday? PERSONAL QUESTIONS What is one thing that you Mum/ Dad makes for dinner that you just can’t stand? What is your favourite kind of ice cream? PERSONAL QUESTIONS (SCHOOL) Where you go to school? What grade are you in? What is your favourite kind of candy? Do you like the grade you are in more or less than last year? What is your favourite color? Do you ride the bus to school? What is your favourite food? What is your favourite zoo animal? What is your teacher´s name? Where does your mum work? What is your favourite time of the year? What is your favourite thing to study at school? What does your dad for a job? Is your bedroom decorated? How is it decorated? What are you studying at school right now in math? language arts? science? Do you have to share your bedroom with anyone? What is your least favourite thing to study? If you could have the perfect birthday party, what would it be? Do you have any pets? What kind of pets? What are the names of your pets? How many brothers and sisters you have? Are your brothers and sisters older or younger? What are their names? How you like being a big/ litter sister/brother? If you could receive one thing in the whole world as a present right now, what would it be? What you want to be when you get older? Why? Do you have lost of homework to each night? Who is your best friend? What you like to play at recess (break)? Do you ever stay home from school sick? When was the last time you stayed home? What are your parent´s names? What is the silliest thing you have ever said or done? What is your favourite thing to as a family? What you like to spend your allowance on? How much homework you get each day? What is your favourite pizza topping? What is one thing you don’t know how to that you wish you did? What did you learn at school today? What is your favourite subject? WRITING STICKS FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS Are you an emotional person? Do you ever cry or get angry? Have you ever been really embarrassed? When was it? What happened? Is there anything you are tired of doing? What is it? Are you jealous of anyone? Who? Why? Talk about a time when you were really scared When you are angry you ever shout, throw things or break things? Talk about a happy memory you have Is there anything that you feel nervous about these days? Talk about a time when you felt tired Are you mad at (angry with) anyone? Who? Why? What are you interested in? What things interest you? SELF-ESTEEM PERSONAL QUESTIONS What you like most about yourself? Describe what your bedroom looks like Who would you like to be more like and why? Describe what your classroom looks like What would you change about the way you look, if you could? Write about your favourite colour Write about your favourite number Do you think you have good or bad selfesteem? Write about your favourite ice cream flavour What person makes you feel good about yourself? Write about your favourite day of the week Write about your favourite food What don’t you like about yourself? Write about your family What you think is your best quality or strength? Write about your favourite cartoon character What does self-esteem mean? What´s your name? What you that gives you confidence? How you go to school? Who makes you feel bad about yourself? What time does school start and finish? What I or say that helps build your selfesteem? Which lessons have you got today? What is your favourite school subject? What you after school? What´s your address? Talk about sth you did that you are proud of Where you live? Do you feel comfortable when you speak English? Why? Why not? Describe your favourite restaurant WRITING STICKS WOULD YOU RATHER… Would you rather have a million dollars or 10 more years of life? Would you rather stay where we are or move to another city? Would you rather learn to play a new sport well or play a new instrument well? Would you rather spend the day at the beach or in the mountains? Would you rather eat Italian food for a week or Mexican food for a week? Would you rather meet a famous athlete or a famous movie star? Would you rather take a family vacation to Hawaii or Italy? Would you rather have an extra hour of sleep or an extra hour of alone time? Would you rather be in high school again or in college again? Would you rather drive four hours or work in the yard four hours? Would you rather have a new wardrobe or a new car? Would you rather have another baby or another pet? WOULD YOU RATHER (KIDS) Would you rather be an eagle or a lion? Would you rather have a pet giraffe or a pet panda bear? Would you rather be able to fly or read minds? Would you rather swim with dolphins or dance with tame bears? Would you rather go fishing or go hiking? Would you rather kiss a frog or hug a porcupine? Would you rather live at the beach or in the mountains? Would you rather be a pre sports player or a professional chef? Would you rather shovel snow for an hour or rake leaves for an hour? Would you rather have lived in the 1880s or the 1980s? Would you rather learn to water ski or snow ski? Would you rather drive a race car or record an album? TEEN If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? What you think is the most dangerous thing for a teenager and why? What qualities you look for in a friend? What would be the best compliment you could receive? If you could have one super-hero quality, what would it be? Who, in the United States, you think has the coolest job? Why? Where would you go and what would you watch if you could be invisible for a day? Which teacher has made the biggest difference in your life? Do you think that you have the qualities that make a good friend? WRITING STICKS WE HELP… What are your jobs around the house? Is there a job that you think you are old enough to handle? What jobs you think dad needs the most help with? How can you help your brother or sister? Who is the most helpful person you know? How can mum help you more? What is your favourite job? WHEN I WAS A KID… What was the name of your first pet and how did you get it? What awards or honors did you receive during your school years, and which one meant the most to you? How did you and your husband meet? How did he ask you to marry him? What was your most embarrassing moment in school? WHO WILL I MARRY What kind of person you want to marry? What´s the most important thing to look for in the person you marry? What you think will be the hardest thing about marriage? What couple that you know looks like they have an unhappy marriage? What is one thing that you would make you not want to marry someone? What jobs you think mum needs the most help with? Who your best friend was throughout school? What did you like about them, and what kind of things did you together? Why is it important to help each other as a family? Were you ever picked on as a child? If so, what did you about it? What couple that you know looks like they have a good marriage? When was the last time you helped someone without being asked? How much did you make per hour at your first job? What are three adjectives that describe your ideal mate? Do you think you have a good attitude when you help around the house? What was your favourite vacation spot and why? How long should you know someone before you marry them? How can dad help you more? How old you were when you got your first cell phone? What makes someone a good wife? What was the worst prank you ever played, and did you get caught? What was the worst or funniest date you ever had? What nicknames have you had and why you have them? What makes someone a good husband? How old you think you should be to date? WRITING STICKS TEEN If you could solve one problem in the World what would it be? TEAM What team is your favourite team to cheer for? TRAGEDY Today we heard some terrible news How does that make you feel? Name two of your strengths and two of your weaknesses If you could be any of these team parts which would you be: a leader, a motivator, a worker or an organizer? If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? Who is the most giving member of your family team? What is the most embarrassing thing that happened to you this year? What member of your family team you want to be most like and why? What´s your favourite family memory and why? Why is it important for team members to respect each other? Have you grown spiritually this year? Why or why not? Name one famous person on a team that you admire and why What you love the most about your parents? Name things a good team needs What you think heaven will be like? In what kind of tasks does your family team well? How can we still be joyful in life when bad things happen? Who would you most like to be and why? What one mistake have you made that you would go back and differently given the chance? What accomplishment are you most proud of? Who is the hardest working member of your family team? When you get mad at a family team member, how you react? How can you react in a better way? What qualities you like in the coaches or teachers that lead you in sports or at school? What is the hardest thing about being on a team and getting along with your teammates? Do you feel safe? What scares you about getting hurt or dying? Is there anything we can for those that are hurting? Do you believe you will go to heaven? Why you think bad things happen to people? What scares you the most about what happened? What can I to make you feel safe?