What if...?

• If you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do?
• If a classmate asked you for the answer to a question during an exam while the teacher was not looking, what would you do?
• If someone's underwear was showing, would you tell them?
• If the whole world were listening, what would you say?
• If one song were to describe your life, what song would it be?
• If you bumped your car into another car, but nobody saw you do it, would you leave your name and address?
• If you could ask God any one question, what would it be?
• If you could be a bird, what would you choose to be?
• If you could be a plant, what would you choose to be?
• If you could be a super-hero, which one would you be?
• If you could be an animal, any animal, what animal would you be and why?
• If you could be an animal, what would you be?
• If you could be an animal, what would you choose to be?
• If you could be another man or woman for a day, who would you choose?
• If you could be another person for a day, who would you be?
• If you could be invisible for a day what would you do and why?
• If you could change one thing about your spouse or significant other, what would it be?
• If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
• If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
• If you could choose how you were going to die, what would you choose your death to be?
• If you could choose to live on a different planet, which one would you choose?
• If you could commit any crime and get away with it, what would you do?
• If you could date a celebrity, who would you choose?
• If you could have only one food for the rest of your life (assuming that this strange situation would not affect your health), which food would you choose?
• If you could hear what someone is thinking for a day, who would you choose?
• If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
• If you could meet any famous person, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
• If you could speak any other language (besides English) which language would you like to speak?
• If you could spend a day with any celebrity, who would it be and what questions would you ask that person?
• If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world for any length of time, where would you go?
  • if you could go anywhere in the world for a holiday, where would you go?
• If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
• If you didn't have enough money to get the bus home what would you do?
• If you discovered a new island, what would you name it and why?
• If you got arrested for murder, whom would you call with your telephone call from prison? And why?
• If you had an accident and you had to be at home to recover for a long time, what would you do to relieve the boredom?
• What would you do if you were at home at night, alone, and you heard a noise in your flat/house that seemed to be footsteps? Would you stay calm or would you panic?
• What would you do if you found the wallet of your next-door neighbor who you hated?
• If you could have any car you wanted, which car would you choose? Would it be practical or flashy?
• If your car broke down on the motorway, what would you do? Would you try to fix it yourself?
• If you could solve the problem of hunger in the third world or repair the ozone, which would you do?
• If you could stop a bad habit that you have, what would you stop?
• If you could go back to any moment in history, where would you go?
• If you could be famous (a household name), what would you like to be famous for?
• If you were on holiday and you lost your passport, would you know what to do?
• If you were offered a job in another part of the country, would you be willing to take the job, assuming that the pay is very good?
• If your partner were offered a job in another part of the country, which was well paid, would you be willing to change places?
• If you were in the bank and somebody started to hold up the bank, what would you do? How would you react?If you had one wish, what would you wish for?
• If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, which song would you choose?
• If only one book existed, which book would you like it to be?
• If you could do any job, what would you like to do?
• If you could move anywhere, where would you like to live?
• If you found a suitcase full of $1,000,000, what would you do?
• If you found a wallet with £1,000 in it, what would you do?
• If you had 25-hour days (while everyone else continued to have 24-hour days), what would you do with the extra time?
• If you had one wish, what would it be?
• If you had the opportunity to be different, what would you change?
• If you had time machine, where would you go and why?
• If you had to choose between a wonderful romantic relationship that would end after only a year, or a so-so relationship that would last your entire life, which one would you choose?
• If you had to choose between love and no money or money and no love for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
• If you had to choose, would you give up your sight or your hearing?
• If you received lottery tickets as a gift at the office party, and you won $30,000.00, would you share the winnings with the person that gave you the gift?
• If you saw a robbery, would you report it?
• If you saw your zipper was down and people had noticed, what would you do?
• If you speak two languages and your spouse (husband or wife) speaks only one, will you raise your children to be bilingual?
• If you were a candy, what candy would you be?
• If you were a monster, what monster would you be?
• If you were a toy, what toy would you be?
• If you were abducted by aliens, would you tell anybody? Why or why not?
• If you were American/Chinese/Mexican, how would your life be different?
• If you were asked to choose which time you would like to live in, which century would you choose?
• If you were asked to speak to a graduating class, what would you say?
• If you were given a chance to go to the moon, would you go? Why or why not?
• If you were given a choice between being given great wisdom or great wealth, which would you choose?
• If you were given an opportunity to be born again, in which country would you like to be born?
• If you were given an opportunity to be born again, what kind of person would you choose to be?
• If you were given one million dollars, what would you buy?
• If you were given the opportunity to be born again, how would you change how you lived?
• If you were given the opportunity to mold your partner the way you wanted, how would you mold your partner?
• If you were given three wishes, what would you wish for?
• If you were God, how would you transmit or let people know your message?
• If you were going to a deserted island and could only take three things with you, what would you take? Why?
• If you were marooned on a desert island with one other person how would you survive?
• If you were invited to have tea with the Queen of England, what would say?
• if you were the leader of your country, what would you change?
• If you were the President, what problem or concern would you work on first?
• If you were to be stranded on an island, which three things would you bring with you?
• If you were told that you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?
• If you were walking through the forest and you suddenly saw a tiger, what would you do?
• If you woke up suddenly because your house was on fire, which three things would you save as you ran outside?
• If you worked for a store and you saw another employee steal something, would you tell the manager?
• If your friend could not have a child, would you carry her child for her?
• If you saw someone in public with toilet paper stuck to their shoe, would you tell them?
• If you could change one thing that you did that was bad,perhaps a crime or some wrong you did to another person,what would it be?
• What kinds of problems would you have if you had to always tell the truth?
• You were told you had a terminal illness and had six months to live. What three things would be most important for you to do?
• Your doctor has just told you that you have a month to live, what would you do in that stretch of time?
  • If your doctor told you that you had only one month to live, how would you use the time left?
• What if you have to sacrifice yourself for the sake of saving your mother? What would you do?
• If you could live perfectly well without sleeping, if you had no need to sleep at all, how would you spend all your nights?
• If you could be married with a foreign (man/woman), how do you think your life would change?
• If you had a chance to choose a poor (man/woman) as a (husband/wife) from your culture or a rich (man/woman) from another culture, which would you choose?
• If you got into traffic accident, what would you do at first?
• If you could be God, what would you do for humanity?
• If you could receive praise from a person, what person would it be?
  • What kind of praise would you like to receive?
• If you were a color, what color would you be and why?
• If you could be a crayon, What color and Why?
• If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be and why?
• If you had time machine and you could be transported to any time, the past or the future. What time would you choose?
• If you could ask an All-Knowing Being one question about life, what would it be?
• If you could have dinner with anyone (dead OR alive), who would you choose, and why?
• If you could live forever on earth as it is now, would you? Why or why not?
• If you could have a free chip put in your brain so that you would automatically be able to speak and understand another language besides English, which language would it be and why?
• If you were the Queen or King of Britain for a day, what would you do?
• If you were the President of the USA for a day, what would you do?
• If you had to spend 100 days on a desert island, what five things would you take with you and why?
• If you were down on your luck, would you seek the advice of a palm reader,
• You can ask current event questions using this pattern. However, depending on the class, you need to be careful about what kind of questions you ask.
• Imagine you woke up one morning to find you had switched bodies with someone you know. What would you do?
• If you could have any one supernatural power (flying, being invisible), which would you choose and why?
• If you could say a sentence which the whole world could hear, what would you say?
• If you were a loin would you like to eat a man?
• If you could choose to live anywhere in the world where would you prefer to live?
• If your spouse cheated on you, what would you do?
• If you were given a choice to live as long as you want, how long would you like to live? If we could live for 300 years, what would the life be like?