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Hypothetical Questions

90 ESL discussion questions with hypothetical, imaginary, “what if” and conditional scenarios for A1–C2 learners.
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A1 Level – Elementary

1. If you could have any pet, what would it be?

2. If you could eat only one food, what would you choose?

3. If you could visit any place, where would you go?

4. If you could fly, where would you fly first?

5. If you were invisible for one day, what would you do?

6. If you had a robot, what would it help you with?

7. If you found a treasure, what would you do?

8. If you could speak any language, which would you choose?

9. If you had a magic lamp, what would you wish for?

10. If you could be any animal, which one?

11. If you could change your name, what name would you pick?

12. If school had no homework, what would you do?

13. If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

14. If you could grow a special plant, what would it be?

15. If you could meet a cartoon character, who would it be?

A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate

1. If you won a free trip, where would you go?

2. If you could change one rule at school or work, what rule?

3. If you had a million dollars, what would you buy?

4. If you could learn one skill instantly, what skill?

5. If you could live anywhere, where would you live?

6. If you met your future self, what would you ask?

7. If you could stop time, what would you do first?

8. If you could speak to animals, what would you ask them?

9. If your favorite celebrity visited you, what would you do?

10. If you could change your job, what would you do?

11. If weekends were three days, what would you do?

12. If you could change one thing about your city, what would it be?

13. If you found a lost wallet, what would you do?

14. If you could go back to yesterday, what would you change?

15. If you could remove one fear, what fear?

B1 Level – Intermediate

1. If you could live in another time period, which one and why?

2. If you could instantly master a profession, what would it be?

3. If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be?

4. If you were the leader of your country, what law would you change first?

5. If you could start your life over, would you?

6. If you could move to another country tomorrow, would you do it?

7. If you could meet one historical figure, who would it be?

8. If you could change your daily routine, what would you change?

9. If you could eliminate one problem in the world, which one?

10. If you could relive one day, which day?

11. If you wrote a book, what would it be about?

12. If you could change one habit, what would it be?

13. If money didn’t matter, what would your life look like?

14. If you could switch lives with someone for a day, who?

15. If you could know the future, would you want to?

B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate

1. If you could change one major world event, which one?

2. If you could redesign the education system, what would you change?

3. If you could start any business, what would it be?

4. If you were guaranteed success, what risk would you take?

5. If you could remove one technology from society, which?

6. If you found out you had one year left to live, what would you do?

7. If you could choose your age forever, what age?

8. If you could redesign your city, what would you change?

9. If you could fix one global problem, what would it be?

10. If you could change human nature, what would you change?

11. If you could travel to the future, what year would you choose?

12. If you could remove one social rule, which one?

13. If you could learn the truth about something, what would it be?

14. If happiness were a skill, how would you learn it?

15. If you could rewrite one moment in history, which?

C1 Level – Advanced

1. How would society change if people lived to 200?

2. What would happen if humans could read minds?

3. How would education change if grades didn’t exist?

4. How would workplaces change if salaries were equal?

5. What would society look like without the internet?

6. What would happen if people didn’t need sleep?

7. What if emotions could be controlled with a button?

8. How would life change if you never aged?

9. What would relationships look like without jealousy?

10. What if everyone had the same level of intelligence?

11. What would governments look like without corruption?

12. How would society function without money?

13. What if every decision had to be made by AI?

14. How would culture change if people could teleport?

15. What if humans could erase memories at will?

C2 Level – Proficiency

1. What would happen if humans had no free will?

2. What if time travel created alternate realities?

3. How would morality change if suffering could be removed?

4. What if humans could upload consciousness to computers?

5. Would society collapse or thrive if everyone lived forever?

6. What if truth had no objective meaning?

7. How would society function without personal identity?

8. What if emotions were scientifically programmable?

9. Could humanity survive without competition?

10. What if art became indistinguishable from AI creations?

11. What if humans evolved beyond physical bodies?

12. Could a world without laws function successfully?

13. What if people remembered every moment of their lives?

14. How would society change if privacy no longer existed?

15. What if humans could shape reality with thoughts alone?

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