Wednesday, August 8, 2012

ESL Discussion Questions about Yellow

What is yellow? What color is close to yellow? (gold)


Grammatically, yellow is what kind of word in the English language?


What comes to mind when you hear the word yellow?


What does yellow symbolize?


How does yellow make you feel?


You are in a yellow room? How do you feel?


Your skin is yellow? How do you feel?


Is the Yellow River yellow? Is Yellow Mountain yellow?


What things are yellow? What food is yellow?


What living things are yellow?


What natural phenomenon are yellow?


What things do you have that are yellow?


Do you like the colour yellow?


You like to wear yellow shoes, shirts, pants, hats, socks or belts?


What things should be yellow? What things shouldn't be yellow?


Is yellow the fashion? Could people have worn yellow a hundred years in China? Why? Why not? What about the 1960s in China?


Would you drive a yellow car?


When is yellow good? When is yellow bad?


Compare yellow to other colours.


What superlatives can be made about the colour yellow?


Expressions using the word yellow:


He has a yellow streak.

You are yellow. (ask the students if they are yellow)

He is a yellow belly. Check the yellow pages.

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