English Conversation Questions

Colors

Questions

1. What is your favorite color and why?
2. Has your favorite color changed as you’ve grown older?
3. Do you have a color that you hate?
4. How does red make you feel?
5. How does blue make you feel?
6. Do colors affect your mood? How?
7. What are some colors associated with love in your culture?
8. What are some colors associated with death in your culture?
9. What do the different colors mean in your culture?
10. What color is money in your country?
11. Have you ever been green with envy?
12. Have you ever caught a thief red-handed?
13. Do you sometimes feel like the black sheep in your family?

Videos

Everything in Elizabeth Sweetheart’s life is green. From her bright green hair, to her self-dyed green overalls, the New York City artist has earned her moniker, “the Green Lady.” Elizabeth was inspired to wear green after an

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emotional trip to Florida with her father. Today, she continues to uphold the tradition because of the joy it brings those around her.

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Category:  Art
Keywords: Colors | Home | New York
Vox

Jennifer Wright explains how the color pink became associated with girls.

Category:  Art
Keywords: Colors | Fashion | Women
Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy “yarn bombs” started small, with stop sign poles

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and fire hydrants in Sayeg’s hometown, but soon people found a connection to the craft and spread it across the world. “We all live in this fast-paced, digital world, but we still crave and desire something that’s relatable,” Sayeg says. “Hidden power can be found in the most unassuming places, and we all possess skills that are just waiting to be discovered.”

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Category:  Art
Keywords: Colors | Hobbies
The materials collection, at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA, houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest. Dragon’s blood, mummy, Indian yellow: these are but a few flashy

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highlights from the museum’s collection.

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Category:  Art
Keywords: Collecting | Colors

Today we’re talking about the blackest material ever created!

Category:  Art
Keywords: Colors | Superlatives

Vocabulary:
cove
secluded
float
shore
anchor
lighthouse
greenhouse
handsaw
hammer
power tool
nail
board (noun)
ton
land sick
biomass
canoe
paddle
real estate
prosper
fulfilled

Expressions:
subsistence living
hon

Vocabulary:
word
word
word
word
word
word
word
word
word

Expressions:
expression
expression
expression
expression

Vocabulary:
prestigious
involuntary
swindler
fraudulence
unwarranted
concern
unfounded
impostor
syndrome
faculty
pervasive
prevalent
disproportionately
underrepresented
downplay
abnormality
self-esteem
spiral
accolade
threshold
susceptible
voice (verb)
peer
dismiss
excel
ease
mentor
competence
banish
frank

Expressions:
nagging doubt
shake a feeling
put something to rest
surefire way

Vocabulary:
filmmaker
principle
handcuff
clown
distill
underdog
aspect
familiar
unfamiliar
chopsticks
keyboard
organic
grounded
clarity
stuntman
steady
gag
perfectionist
rhythm
distinct
continuity
elbow
bunch
flail around
unlike
invincible
impressive
humanize
asset
payoff
relentlessness
finale

Expressions:
kick ass
going above and beyond
get smacked in the face
sell a joke

Vocabulary:
explosion
smoke (noun)
engine
unique
pilot
route
unemotional
terror
instant
reach out (to someone)
postpone
urgency
purpose
regret
humanity
ego
reflect
eliminate
frame (verb)
artistic
talent
bawl
miracle

Expressions:
bucket list
brace for impact
mend fences
make sense
connecting dots