A1 Level – Elementary
1. Do you have a morning routine?
2. What is a good habit?
3. Do you want to stop a bad habit?
4. What is a long time?
5. Do you brush your teeth every day?
6. What is a small change?
7. Do you feel organized?
8. What is a clear goal?
9. Do you think habits are powerful?
10. What is a daily action?
11. Do you read before sleeping?
12. What is a strong feeling?
13. Do you think change is hard?
14. What are three good habits?
15. Do you think small habits matter?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between a routine and a habit?
2. Why are habits hard to change once they are established?
3. What are the good things and bad things about relying heavily on routine?
4. How can a person start a new habit successfully?
5. Should all schools teach children about habit formation?
6. Why is consistency (doing it often) important for habits?
7. Do you think habits control your life?
8. What is the purpose of tracking your habits?
9. How does stress affect the way you keep or break habits?
10. What is the difference between a mental habit and a physical habit?
11. Do you think technology helps or hurts habit formation?
12. What are the problems when habits become unconscious and harmful?
13. When is the best time to start changing a habit (e.g., after a holiday)?
14. What are two things that help break a bad habit?
15. How does a single small habit affect long-term success?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for politely discussing a friend’s personal habits?
2. How does the feeling of immediate reward affect the formation of bad habits?
3. Should the government provide resources for people struggling with serious addictions?
4. What is the difference between self-discipline and automated habit?
5. Do you believe that all success is a result of consistent good habits?
6. What are the challenges of maintaining a good habit when your environment changes?
7. How does the focus on quick results affect the appreciation for slow, steady habit change?
8. What is the idea of a “habit loop” (cue, routine, reward)?
9. Is it fair or unfair when some people find it easier to form good habits?
10. How does a lack of clear motivation prevent habit formation?
11. What are the steps for properly replacing a bad habit with a good one?
12. What is the value of celebrating small victories in habit formation?
13. Should public media highlight effective strategies for behavioral change?
14. What are the reasons why some people feel they need flexibility more than routine?
15. How does the culture of a country affect its common daily habits?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures to maintain habits that reflect a successful image?
2. What are the moral problems when companies design products to create addictive habits?
3. How does constant social media showing of “perfect routines” affect people’s self-judgment?
4. Should employers be legally required to provide support for employees struggling with bad work habits?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of confronting the idea that you are a product of your habits.
6. Who is responsible for promoting healthy and sustainable habits globally?
7. What is your view on the practice of using technology to “gamify” habit tracking?
8. Evaluate the role of personal coaching in accelerating habit change.
9. How does the concept of “identity-based habits” relate to long-term change?
10. Discuss the concept of “marginal gains” in personal development.
11. What are the problems with having very different energy levels affecting the ability to stick to a habit?
12. What are the legal differences between general bad habits and clinical addiction?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of habits is mainly to automate life and save mental energy?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure that all advice on habit formation is scientifically sound?
15. How does the understanding of habit psychology change the approach to education?
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the most addictive products are often the cheapest and most accessible?
2. What is the right way to think about a government’s moral duty to protect citizens from habit-forming products?
3. How do the platform’s algorithms influence the type of habit-changing advice that is targeted to specific users?
4. When should the government consider mandatory health checks for people with clearly destructive habits?
5. What are the moral questions when we talk about using advanced neuroscience to implant new habits?
6. How does the focus on quick fixes affect the long-term, necessary investment in a supportive environment?
7. Discuss the impact of major global events on the sudden disruption and creation of mass habits.
8. How should leaders use knowledge about habit formation to promote civic virtues?
9. What is the idea of “system thinking” and its application to personal habits?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when the collective adherence to basic good habits declines?
11. What are the difficulties when courts try to decide if a lack of a good habit caused a significant professional failure?
12. How does the search for total personal optimization conflict with the ethical need for spontaneous action?
13. Do you agree that the most important thing is the equal access to resources for breaking destructive habits?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when they benefit from a co-worker’s poor habits?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the amount of funding dedicated to addiction research?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between a person’s desire for personal freedom and the biological compulsion of a habit?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely eliminate all products designed to be addictive?
3. How does the concept of “willpower” change when the brain mechanisms of habit are fully understood?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how technology platforms use algorithms to exploit people’s bad habits?
5. How do historical views of virtue, vice, and self-mastery affect modern debates about habit?
6. How can communities maintain shared social values when individual habits are highly diverse?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to regulate personal habits and allow the individual total freedom of behavior.
8. What protection should laws give to employees who report corporate practices that create unhealthy habits?
9. How can we stop the problem of using the argument of “personal responsibility” to avoid discussing systemic habit creation?
10. What did old thinkers say about self-control, routine, and the moral life that is still relevant today?
11. What will happen to the need for human effort if AI can perfectly track and correct all personal habits?
12. How do people use the idea of “I’m just being me” to avoid discussing their destructive habits?
13. How does the experience of a major life change improve a person’s understanding of their own habit patterns?
14. What is the power of a collective movement to demand that companies design non-addictive, beneficial products?
15. If scientists could create a perfect, instant habit formation tool, how would that fundamentally change human behavior?
