A1 Level – Elementary
1. What time is it now?
2. Do you like morning?
3. Do you wear a watch?
4. What is a long time?
5. Do you like to be on time?
6. What is a calendar?
7. Do you remember yesterday?
8. What is a minute?
9. Do you like waiting?
10. What is a clock?
11. Do you save time?
12. What is a fast day?
13. Do you have free time?
14. What are three ways to measure time?
15. Do you think time is important?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between clock time and natural time (like seasons)?
2. Why do some days feel very long and others feel very short?
3. What are the good things and bad things about always having a schedule?
4. How can a person become better at managing their time?
5. Should people always try to be early for appointments?
6. Why is it important to learn from the past?
7. Do you think future generations will have more free time?
8. What is daylight saving time?
9. How does technology help you remember dates and times?
10. What is the difference between a deadline and a flexible goal?
11. Do you think people in your country are generally on time?
12. What are the problems when you try to do too many things at once?
13. When is the best time of day for you to do hard work?
14. What are two differences between the past and the present?
15. How does the speed of life affect how we feel about time?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for politely telling someone they are late?
2. How does the culture of a country change the way people feel about time?
3. Should all clocks in a country be exactly the same time?
4. What is the difference between linear time (A to B) and cyclical time (seasons)?
5. Do you believe that wasting time is a moral failing?
6. What are the challenges of planning for the very distant future?
7. How does the feeling of boredom affect your perception of time?
8. What is the idea of “quality time” with family or friends?
9. Is it fair or unfair that some people have much more free time than others?
10. How does a company’s focus on speed affect the quality of its products?
11. What are the steps for setting and achieving a five-year goal?
12. What is the value of spending time on something that has no practical purpose (a hobby)?
13. Should the government decide how much time children spend on schoolwork?
14. What are the reasons why some people are always late?
15. How does the invention of standardized time (time zones) change the world?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures to appear “busy” or always focused on saving time?
2. What are the moral problems when companies track how employees spend their time?
3. How does constant information about the future (news, forecasts) affect the enjoyment of the present?
4. Should every country get rid of Daylight Saving Time?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of living in a world where time seems to be speeding up.
6. Who is responsible for ensuring that public services operate efficiently and on time?
7. What is your view on the practice of setting time limits for meetings?
8. Evaluate the role of the concept of “time is money” in modern capitalism.
9. How does the study of how people feel about time (time perception) help psychologists?
10. Discuss the concept of “present bias” and its effect on making good decisions for the future.
11. What are the problems with having a strict work schedule that does not allow for personal emergencies?
12. What are the legal differences between a contract that specifies time worked and one that specifies output?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of education is more about preparing for the future than understanding the past?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure children learn the value of patience?
15. How does the development of faster technology change the human concept of what “waiting” means?
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the time spent on caring for family members is not counted as “productive” economic time?
2. What is the right way to think about a government’s moral duty to protect citizens’ right to leisure time?
3. How do the platform’s algorithms influence how much time people spend on entertainment?
4. When should governments step in to force companies to reduce the work week (e.g., a four-day week)?
5. What are the moral questions when scientists research ways to extend human lifespan significantly?
6. How does the focus on the immediate present affect long-term planning for climate change?
7. Discuss the impact of automation on the amount of free time available to different economic classes.
8. How should leaders use historical examples to make decisions about current political issues?
9. What is the idea of “time poverty” and how does it affect people’s health and social life?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when fewer people read history and focus only on the future?
11. What are the difficulties when courts try to decide if a crime was caused by a temporary loss of self-control?
12. How does the search for speed and efficiency conflict with the need for careful, thoughtful work?
13. Do you agree that the most important thing is to use time to create memories, not money?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when they have power over another person’s time?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the amount of time children must spend playing outdoors?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between the feeling of time passing (subjective) and the clock’s measurement (objective)?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely stop teaching history in schools, focusing only on skills for the future?
3. How does the concept of time change for a person who is constantly using highly personalized technology?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how personal data is used to track and analyze individual time usage?
5. How do historical views of progress (as linear or cyclical) affect modern political planning?
6. How can communities maintain shared traditions when the speed of life makes old rituals impossible?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to maximize every second and allow for spontaneous waste of time.
8. What protection should laws give to workers who are forced to answer work messages during their free time?
9. How can we stop the problem of using technology to fill every moment of time with work or entertainment?
10. What did old thinkers say about eternity and the value of a finite life that is still important today?
11. What will happen to the need for human judgment if machines and computers can perfectly predict the future?
12. How do people use the idea of “efficiency” to avoid discussing the spiritual cost of constant labor?
13. How does the experience of spending time on difficult, slow work improve personal character?
14. What is the power of a government to control or change the time zone of a region?
15. If scientists could give humans the power to travel through time, how would that fundamentally change society?
