A1 Level – Elementary
1. What is a good time to go to bed?
2. Do you like eating vegetables?
3. What is a common bad habit?
4. Do you brush your teeth every morning?
5. What color are healthy foods?
6. Do you like walking or running?
7. What makes a habit a “good” habit?
8. Do you drink much water every day?
9. What makes you feel relaxed?
10. What is a common way to say “thank you”?
11. Do you wash your hands before eating?
12. Is it important to see the sun?
13. What is a bad habit you want to stop?
14. Do you eat breakfast every day?
15. What is the difference between physical and mental health?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What are the key differences between a habit and a routine?
2. Describe one small healthy habit you try to practice every day.
3. What are the common obstacles that prevent people from starting a healthy routine?
4. What are the pros and cons of making major lifestyle changes suddenly versus slowly?
5. Have you ever successfully quit a bad habit, and what was your strategy?
6. What kind of foods or drinks should people avoid for better sleep?
7. What role does social support (friends/family) play in maintaining good habits?
8. What is the difference between a physical addiction and a mental habit?
9. How does technology (e.g., fitness trackers, apps) help people manage their habits?
10. What are the most common misconceptions people have about living healthily?
11. What is the importance of having a regular schedule for eating and sleeping?
12. Do you think it is more difficult to establish a healthy habit or break a bad one?
13. What are the common signs that someone is not prioritizing their mental health?
14. What are the best ways to incorporate small amounts of exercise into a busy day?
15. What is the difference between a short-term diet and a long-term eating habit?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. Discuss the difficulty of maintaining healthy habits when living in a stressful or fast-paced environment.
2. How can people use psychological tools (like habit stacking) to make good habits stick?
3. What are the ethical issues surrounding companies that profit from the sale of highly addictive products?
4. Do you agree that mental health habits (e.g., mindfulness) are just as important as physical habits?
5. Describe a situation where a friend or family member helped you adopt a valuable habit.
6. To what extent should workplaces be responsible for encouraging or enforcing healthy employee habits?
7. What role does positive reinforcement and reward play in the formation of new behaviors?
8. How do cultural norms around food and socializing complicate the adoption of certain healthy habits?
9. Discuss the psychological phenomenon of “procrastination” and how it prevents healthy action.
10. What are the challenges of finding accurate and reliable health information amidst popular trends?
11. How does the quality of your morning routine set the tone for the rest of your day?
12. Should public service campaigns focus more on preventing bad habits than on promoting good ones?
13. What is the difference between a habit that is automatic and a choice that requires willpower?
14. Discuss the concept of “relapse”—returning to a bad habit—and how to recover from it.
15. What is the long-term impact of consistently ignoring small, seemingly unimportant unhealthy habits?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. How does the constant stimulation of digital devices interfere with healthy habits like focused work and quality sleep?
2. What are the ethical arguments about using financial penalties or rewards to enforce public health habits (e.g., taxes on sugar)?
3. Should all children be required to learn basic principles of nutrition, sleep hygiene, and stress management in school?
4. What are the psychological reasons why people engage in self-sabotaging behavior despite knowing the consequences?
5. How has personalized health data from wearables changed the way people approach behavior modification?
6. Discuss the idea that the pursuit of “perfect” healthy habits can become an unhealthy obsession in itself.
7. What is the role of the subconscious mind in maintaining habits, and how can it be influenced?
8. How do our earliest childhood routines and family habits influence our adult choices?
9. What are the challenges of setting and achieving health goals when a partner or family member resists the change?
10. Discuss the concept of “mindful consumption” and how it applies to both food and digital media.
11. What is the difference between extrinsic motivation (external reward) and intrinsic motivation (internal satisfaction) in habit formation?
12. Should governments regulate the advertising of products (e.g., fast food) that promote unhealthy habits?
13. What is the impact of public transportation and urban design on citizens’ ability to maintain physical activity?
14. How does the history of public hygiene campaigns (e.g., handwashing) reflect the struggle to instill new habits?
15. Discuss the idea that a person’s level of self-control is more important for success than their raw intelligence.
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Analyze the socioeconomic factors that influence which populations have access to the time and resources required for sustained healthy habits.
2. To what degree should public health policy focus on structural changes (e.g., food deserts) rather than individual behavioral change?
3. Discuss the philosophical concept of “willpower” and whether it is a finite resource that can be depleted.
4. Evaluate the ethical questions around using genetic testing to predict susceptibility to addiction and bad habits.
5. How does the strategic design of environments (e.g., kitchen layout, office proximity) influence automatic healthy behavior?
6. Examine the historical shift from moralizing unhealthy habits to viewing them as public health issues requiring systemic intervention.
7. What ethical guidelines should govern the development of AI and psychological tools designed to manipulate human habit formation?
8. Discuss the concept of “behavioral economics” and how “nudges” can be used to promote healthier choices on a large scale.
9. How do different cultural traditions regarding fasting, feasting, and ritual contribute to health and habit maintenance?
10. Analyze the interplay between corporate lobbying and the legislative failure to implement stricter regulations on unhealthy industries.
11. What ethical challenges arise when employers use health data from wearables to incentivize or penalize employee habits?
12. Debate whether total reliance on technology to track habits diminishes the internal motivation and self-awareness required for change.
13. How does the architecture of modern hospitals and clinics reflect or inhibit a focus on preventative habit formation?
14. Discuss the concept of “keystone habits”—small changes that create a ripple effect across a person’s entire life.
15. To what extent does the modern pursuit of optimal performance (biohacking) transform healthy habits into a competitive, exhausting endeavor?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. How do you analyze the idea that the need for formalized “healthy habits” is a consequence of modern societal dysfunction?
2. Formulate a critique of public health campaigns that fail to address the systemic causes of poor health and blame the individual.
3. Analyze the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive dissonance, and the difficulty of aligning behavior with declared values.
4. Discuss the philosophical distinction between “discipline” (self-imposed order) and “compliance” (external obedience) in habit formation.
5. Critically evaluate the effectiveness of mass media interventions versus one-on-one counseling in promoting complex behavioral changes.
6. Propose a system for global public health education that promotes universally applicable, low-cost healthy habits.
7. Examine the psychological function of peer pressure and social comparison in either reinforcing or destroying healthy habits.
8. How does the language of self-help and behavior change reflect deeper cultural anxieties about control and perfection?
9. Discuss the ethical responsibilities of social media platforms in curbing the spread of unverified or harmful health advice.
10. Analyze the historical relationship between the Industrial Revolution and the breakdown of traditional, routine-based healthy life cycles.
11. Articulate the inherent tension between the desire for immediate comfort and the long-term necessity of uncomfortable, healthy effort.
12. Debate whether pharmaceutical advancements will eventually eliminate the need for rigorous dietary and exercise habits.
13. Assess the long-term societal effects of widespread mental health challenges on collective productivity and quality of life.
14. Discuss the philosophical definition of ‘well-being’ and how the pursuit of healthy habits contributes to a meaningful life.
15. How might the themes of habit formation be used to model processes of organizational culture change and institutional reform?
