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A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.

Related: Age: Youth & Old Age, Nursing Homes and Retirement Communities Disabilities and Handicaps

What is the age for mandatory retirement in your country?

At this stage of your life, are you beginning to make plans for your retirement years? Why?

What would be a perfect retirement for you?

How would you rate your career in general? (For retired people)

Ranging from 1-10, 10 being the highest, how would you rate your career? Why?

Where would you like to spend your retirement years? Why?

During retirement, where would you like to stay, in the city or in the province?

Do you intend to look for another job after you retire? Why?

In one word, how would describe your career?

Would you like to spend the rest of your life in another country?

Is it common in your country to leave for another one after retirement?

In your culture, do the children have to support their parents financially after they retire?

Would you like to live together with your children even if they are already married? Why?

Do you have a pension plan?

What are your goals before you retire?

Would you consider retiring early if you make it big?

Do you consider spending the rest of your career in your present company? Why?

Five years from now, what do you think would be the improvements in your career?

Do you expect any promotion sometime soon?

Are you going to move to another company if you don't get the promotion you are expecting?

Do you think you would be able to save enough for your retirement years?

What is your major goal before you retire?

If you can still work after your mandatory retirement, will you look for another job?

Are you planning to open your own business when you retire?

What kind of business would it be?

What are the three (3) things you would like to accomplish/have before and after you retire?

How would you spend your daily life after retirement?

Five years from now, what do you think would be the improvements in your career? How about 10 to 20 years?

Are you planning to open your own business when you retire? What kind of business would it be?

What are the three things you would like to accomplish/have before and after you retire?

If you can think of another good question for this list, please Thanks to Marlon N. De Guzman who suggested this topic and contributed the first 17 questions in February 2002. add it.
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A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom. Related: Age: Youth & Old Age, Nursing Homes and Retirement Communities Disabilities and Handicaps What is the age for mandatory retirement in your country? At this stage of your life, are you beginning to make plans for your retirement years? Why?

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STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)

(1)

What comes to mind when you hear the word 'retirement'?

(2)

Are you looking forward to your retirement?

(3)

What do you think you'll do in your retirement?

(4)

Do you think people who retire miss working?

(5)

What's the best age for retirement?

(6)

What do you think of famous people who come out of retirement?

(7)

Would you like to aim for an early retirement?

(8)

What do you think of the idea of living on a retirement home?

(9)

"A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job." (Ella Harris) What do you think?

(10)

Do you think the challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money?

STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)

(1)

In what ways do you think retirement might be stressful?

(2)

Would you move if you lived in a country where natural disasters were common?

(3)

What do you think you'll do more of in your retirement?

(4)

Does retirement scare you?

(5)

Do you think retirement might be the best years of your life?

(6)

What problems does a country have if too many of its citizens are in retirement?

(7)

Are you putting money away for your retirement?

(8)

Is retirement the end of useful life or a new beginning?

(9)

Do you think retirement is when you stop living at work and begin working at living?

(10)

"Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it." (Gene Perret) Do you agree?

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STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.) (1) What comes to mind when you hear the word 'retirement'? (2) Are you looking forward to your retirement? (3) What do you think you'll do in your retirement? (4) Do you think people who retire miss working?

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