Saturday, April 14, 2012

ESL Discussion Questions about Years

Years


What is a year? How long is a year? Why is a year 365 days long? What is a decade? What is a century? What is a Millennium? What is a leap year? When is the next leap year?

What is a light year?

The cat is 95 in human years. What does that mean?

What does "annual" mean? What does "biennial mean? What does "biannual" mean?

What associations can we make with the word "year"?

What is something you do every year?

What is something you do once a year?

What is something you do twice a year?

What is something that happens every four years?


Are years long or short times?

As you grow older, do the years seem longer or shorter?

When you were young, was one year a long time or a short time?

Have you even been engaged in a year-long project?


What is the best part of the year? What are the best parts of the year?


What was the best year of your life? Why?

The worst year?


Name some important years in history or in your life.

What was the greatest year in history? What was the worst? What were the worst?


Have you had a good year so far? Why? Why not?


How was last year for you? Why?

What has changed for you since last year?


Are you looking forward to next year? Why?


What Chinese animal year were you born? What is the best animal year to be born in ?


You see a thing made in the year 1980. What do you think of it?

You see a thing made in the year 1880. What do you think of it?

You see a thing made in the year 880. What do you think of it?


What do these years mean to you? 1980, 1776, 1949, 1644, 1989, 1789, 1492, 1867, 1912, 44 B.C., 206 BC to 220 AD


What year in history would you like to live?


Why do we number the years as we do? Why is 2012 the 2012th year?


Then years ago, I _______.

Last year, I _________.

This year, I _________.

Next year, I _________.


How many years do you expect to live?

How many year do you expect to work at your current job?

How many years do you expect to have your car? Computer? Mobile phone? Shoes? Pants? Shirt?

How many years have you known your best friend?

How many year have you studied English?

How long could you live away from Wuxi?



Expressions using year

All year round

be light years away

getting on in years

Never in a thousand years.

Never in a million years.

Put years on.

Year after year.

Year in, Year out.

Twilight years.

As the years go by.

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