Numbers Discussion Questions for ESL

What are they?  What are they used for?  Can you give some examples of numbers being used?

Do you use numbers everyday in your life? Work? School? Play?

Are you good with numbers?  Are you scared of numbers?  Do you like working with numbers?

Do you have a favorite number? Lucky number?  Unlucky number?  Would you live in a number 4 house?

What numbers are important to you?  Why? What numbers are interesting to you?  What numbers are in the news?

What numbers do you see everyday?

Can you easily remember numbers?  e.g. Phone, license, ID

What numbers are you?  What numbers have you been?  What number do you want to be?

Have you heard of prime numbers?  What is the largest prime number you can tell me?

Do numbers have magical qualities?  Do you like Numerology?  e.g. My birthday numbers 12/24/64 add up to 100.  12+24+64=100

Idioms

Taking care of number one.

There is safety in numbers.

He has a sixth sense

I am having second thoughts.

I need to get my forty winks.

You days are numbered.

Number Association

(*Ask the students what these numbers make them think of.  

e.g. 12.  I can drink 12 beers.  These are 12 months in a year.  Yvon Cournyer was #12.*)

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

13

23

32

81

100

666

1000

1949

1776

10,000

1,300,000,000

34,000,000

3.14

9.8

1,000,000

Number Pronunciation

1234

1,234,567,890,123

1001.000009

1/3