A1 Level – Elementary
1. Do you stay at home often?
2. What is a sickness?
3. Do you like being alone?
4. What is a long time?
5. Do you watch TV at home?
6. What is a closed school?
7. Do you talk to friends online?
8. What is a new rule?
9. Do you wash your hands a lot?
10. What is a mask?
11. Do you feel safe at home?
12. What is a home exercise?
13. Do you cook new food?
14. What are three things you did in quarantine?
15. Do you like quarantine?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between a holiday and a quarantine?
2. Why do governments use quarantine rules?
3. What are the good things and bad things about working from home?
4. How can people keep in touch with family when they cannot meet?
5. Should people follow all quarantine rules exactly?
6. Why is it important to go outside or open the window during quarantine?
7. Do you think staying inside for too long is bad for the mind?
8. What is a virtual meeting?
9. How does quarantine change the way people shop for food?
10. What is the difference between a necessary rule and an easy rule?
11. Do you think you learned new skills during quarantine?
12. What are the problems when people cannot travel?
13. When is the best time to start returning to normal life?
14. What are two things that make quarantine boring?
15. How does a long quarantine affect children’s school learning?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for managing your work time when you work from home?
2. How does the internet help people manage long periods of isolation?
3. Should governments give money to businesses that were closed during quarantine?
4. What is the difference between physical health and mental health during quarantine?
5. Do you believe that society will be more prepared for the next quarantine?
6. What are the challenges of celebrating birthdays and special events during a lockdown?
7. How does the use of video calls change communication with friends?
8. What is the idea of “cabin fever”?
9. Is it fair or unfair when some workers have to go to work, but others can stay home?
10. How does a long quarantine affect people’s feeling of time passing?
11. What are the steps for staying physically fit when you cannot go to the gym?
12. What is the value of starting a new, long hobby during isolation?
13. Should public places require proof of health before people can enter after a quarantine?
14. What are the reasons why some people feel depressed after a long period of isolation?
15. How does a quarantine change the relationship between neighbors?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures to be productive or learn something new during a lockdown?
2. What are the moral problems when some people ignore quarantine rules and put others in danger?
3. How does forced isolation affect the balance of power between workers and companies?
4. Should governments be allowed to use mobile phone data to track who is breaking quarantine?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of suddenly losing normal social structures (work, school).
6. Who is responsible for making sure elderly people do not feel completely alone during isolation?
7. What is your view on the practice of wearing masks even after a sickness is gone?
8. Evaluate the role of social media in spreading both good information and fear during a global health event.
9. How does the duration of a quarantine affect the economy and local businesses?
10. Discuss the concept of “quarantine fatigue” and why people stop following rules.
11. What are the problems with having very different quarantine rules in different cities or regions?
12. What are the legal differences between a mandatory quarantine and a voluntary isolation?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of quarantine is more about protecting the system (hospitals) than individual people?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure that children’s education does not suffer greatly from remote learning?
15. How does the need for safety conflict with the basic human desire for freedom of movement?
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the economic cost of a lockdown often falls most heavily on the smallest businesses?
2. What is the right way to think about a government’s responsibility to protect health versus individual freedom?
3. How do the rules of a large-scale quarantine affect the way political power is used in a country?
4. When should governments be allowed to force people to take a vaccine or wear a mask?
5. What are the moral questions when we talk about using medical triage (deciding who gets help first) during a health crisis?
6. How does the large-scale shift to working from home affect the value of commercial real estate?
7. Discuss the impact of long-term social distancing on the human ability to form strong relationships.
8. How should leaders use the public’s fear during a health crisis without becoming too authoritarian?
9. What is the idea of a “digital surveillance state” and how can quarantine measures lead to it?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when collective memory of a quarantine is mixed with strong political division?
11. What are the difficulties when lawyers try to blame a government for bad economic outcomes caused by quarantine rules?
12. How does the search for total safety conflict with the need for normal, risk-accepting human life?
13. Do you agree that the most important lesson from quarantine is the need for stronger local communities?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when they have been exposed to a serious sickness?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the amount of mental health support provided during a major lockdown?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between a person’s physical isolation and the sense of deep social loneliness?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely eliminate all non-essential human travel to prevent future global sickness?
3. How does the invention of mass digital communication change the idea of what “being connected” truly means?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how personal medical status (vaccination, illness) is shared in public life?
5. How do historical views of plagues and sickness affect modern societal trust in science?
6. How can communities maintain their trust in authority when health rules are constantly changing?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to control the movement of sickness and rely on natural immunity.
8. What protection should laws give to a person who is fired because they refused to follow a company’s health rule?
9. How can we stop the problem of using health crises to advance political agendas or personal power?
10. What did old thinkers say about freedom and confinement that is still important today?
11. What will happen to the need for physical interaction if large parts of work and social life stay virtual?
12. How do people use the idea of “personal choice” to avoid discussing the collective responsibility during a health crisis?
13. How does the experience of extreme isolation improve a person’s ability to appreciate small daily interactions?
14. What is the power of international health organizations to set global standards for quarantine procedures?
15. If scientists could create a perfect cure for all sickness, how would that fundamentally change human life?
