SPEAKING GAME · FREE
Spin & Speak
Spin the wheel, get a topic and talk. Questions for B1, B2 and C1 in the style of the Cambridge Speaking test, with useful phrases and a timer – for class or for practising at home.
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How to play
- Choose the level: B1, B2 or C1.
- Spin the wheel (Space). It stops on a topic and shows a question.
- Talk! Not sure what to say? “Show help” (H) gives you four useful words or phrases. Set the clock to 1 or 2 minutes and start it (T).
- Another question (N) on the same topic, or spin again for a new topic.
For teachers
Project the game in Full screen (F): the question is big enough to read from the back of the room. With Teams, give 2 to 4 teams a name and the screen shows whose turn it is each time you spin. In My topics, add your own topics and questions – for the unit you’re teaching – or switch topics off.
More games for your class: Don’t say it!, The Loop and Letter Rush. For exam practice with the real timing, see Speaking for B1, B2 and C1.
All the questions
12 topics with 8 questions each, at every level. Written for Levoop – not taken from any exam.
B1 Preliminary · 96 questions
✈️ Travel
- Where did you go on your last holiday? What did you do there?
- Do you prefer holidays by the sea or in the mountains? Why?
- Tell me about a place in your country that visitors should see.
- How do you usually get to school or work?
- Do you like travelling by train? Why or why not?
- What do you always take with you when you go on a trip?
- Which country would you like to visit one day? Why?
- Do you prefer going on holiday with your family or with friends?
💻 Technology
- How often do you use your phone every day? What do you use it for?
- What’s your favourite app? Why do you like it?
- Do you prefer reading on paper or on a screen?
- Tell me about a gadget you couldn’t live without.
- Who taught you to use a computer?
- Do you play video games? Which ones do you like?
- What kind of photos do you take with your phone?
- What do you like doing when you take a break from your phone?
🌱 Environment
- What do you do to help the environment at home?
- Do you recycle? What kinds of things do you recycle?
- Is there a park or a green space near your home? What do you do there?
- How do you usually get around your town – by car, by bike or on foot?
- Do you prefer hot weather or cold weather? Why?
- What’s the weather usually like where you live?
- Would you like to live in the countryside? Why or why not?
- Tell me about an animal you really like.
💼 Work
- What job would you like to do in the future? Why?
- Tell me about the job of someone in your family.
- Have you ever had a part-time or summer job? What was it like?
- Would you prefer to work indoors or outdoors?
- Would you like to work in an office? Why or why not?
- What do you think is the most interesting job in the world?
- Would you prefer to work alone or in a team?
- What kind of job would you never want to do? Why not?
🎓 Education
- What’s your favourite subject? Why do you like it?
- Tell me about a teacher you remember well.
- How do you usually get ready for an exam?
- Do you prefer studying in the morning or in the evening?
- What do you like most about your school or college?
- Is there anything new you’d like to learn this year?
- Do you prefer studying alone or with friends?
- How long have you been learning English? What do you enjoy about it?
🩺 Health
- What do you do to keep fit?
- Do you play any sports? How often?
- How many hours do you usually sleep? Is it enough?
- What do you do when you feel stressed?
- Do you prefer doing exercise indoors or outdoors?
- What healthy food do you like?
- Do you walk a lot during the day? Where do you go?
- Tell me about a sport you’d like to try.
🍝 Food
- What’s your favourite meal? Who usually cooks it?
- Do you like cooking? What can you make?
- Tell me about a typical dish from your country.
- Do you prefer eating at home or in a restaurant?
- What did you have for breakfast today?
- Is there any food you really don’t like?
- Do you prefer sweet food or savoury food?
- Tell me about a special meal you had with your family or friends.
🎨 Free time
- What do you usually do at the weekend?
- Tell me about a hobby you enjoy.
- Do you prefer spending your free time at home or going out?
- What kind of music do you like listening to?
- What did you do last Saturday?
- Do you prefer watching films at home or at the cinema?
- Is there a hobby you’d like to start? Why?
- Do you like reading? What kind of books do you read?
👪 People
- Tell me about your best friend.
- How many people are there in your family?
- Who do you spend the most time with? What do you do together?
- Do you look like anyone in your family?
- How did you meet your best friend?
- What do you like doing with your family at the weekend?
- Do you prefer having a few close friends or lots of friends?
- Tell me about a person you admire.
💶 Money
- What do you usually spend your money on?
- Do you prefer shopping online or in shops?
- Tell me about something you bought recently.
- Do you save money? What are you saving for?
- Where do you usually buy your clothes?
- Do you like going shopping with friends? Why or why not?
- What would you buy if you had a lot of money?
- Do you think it’s important to save some money every month?
📰 Media
- How do you usually find out what’s happening in the world?
- What’s your favourite TV series? What is it about?
- Do you use social media? Which apps do you use most?
- Do you prefer watching videos or reading articles online?
- Tell me about a film you watched recently.
- Do you listen to the radio or to podcasts? When?
- Do you ever post photos online? What kind?
- Who is your favourite singer or actor? Why?
🏙️ Places
- Tell me about the town or city where you live.
- What do you like most about your neighbourhood?
- Do you live in a house or a flat? What’s it like?
- Is there anything you’d change about your town?
- Where’s your favourite place to meet friends?
- Would you like to live in a big city? Why or why not?
- What’s your favourite room at home? Why?
- Is there a place you go to when you want to relax?
B2 First · 96 questions
✈️ Travel
- Is it better to plan every detail of a trip or to be spontaneous?
- Why do you think some people prefer to travel alone?
- How has cheap air travel changed the way people go on holiday?
- Do you think tourism does more good or harm to a city?
- What can you learn from travelling that you can’t learn at school?
- Some people say a holiday at home is just as good as going abroad. Do you agree?
- How important is it to learn a little of the language before you visit a country?
- How do you think the way we travel will change in the next twenty years?
💻 Technology
- Do you think young people spend too much time online?
- Is it easier to learn something from a video or from a book?
- How has technology changed the way friends keep in touch?
- Should children have their own smartphone? From what age?
- Do you think robots will do most jobs in the future?
- Why do you think people sometimes believe fake news?
- Which invention of the last fifty years has made the biggest difference to people’s lives?
- Would it be a good idea to have one day a week without screens?
🌱 Environment
- What can ordinary people do to protect the environment?
- Are governments or individuals more responsible for looking after the planet?
- If you care about the environment, is it better to live in a city or in the countryside?
- Should plastic bags and bottles be banned completely?
- How has the weather in your country changed in recent years?
- Do you think electric cars will solve the problem of pollution?
- Why do some people find it hard to change their habits to help the planet?
- Should schools teach more about the environment?
💼 Work
- Which is more important in a job: a good salary or interesting work?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of working from home?
- Is it a good idea for students to have a part-time job?
- Is it better to stay in the same job for a long time or to change jobs often?
- What makes someone a good boss?
- How do you think jobs will change in the next twenty years?
- Should people be able to choose how many hours a week they work?
- Why do some people decide to start their own business?
🎓 Education
- Is it better to go to university or to start working straight after school?
- Do you think homework is useful?
- What makes a good teacher?
- Should all students learn two foreign languages at school?
- Are online courses as good as face-to-face classes?
- What should schools teach that they don’t teach now?
- Do exams show what students really know?
- Is it ever too late to learn something new?
🩺 Health
- Why do you think some people find it hard to eat healthily?
- Is it more important to do exercise or to eat well?
- Should junk food be more expensive than healthy food?
- How does stress affect people’s health?
- Do you think people today are healthier than their grandparents were?
- Is playing a team sport better than exercising on your own?
- What can schools do to help young people stay healthy?
- Why do so many people not get enough sleep?
🍝 Food
- Is it better to cook at home or to eat out?
- Why do you think fast food is so popular?
- How has the way people eat changed in your country?
- Should children learn to cook at school?
- Do you think people should eat less meat?
- What are the pros and cons of ordering food online?
- How important is it for families to eat together?
- Why do people enjoy trying food from other countries?
🎨 Free time
- Do people today have more or less free time than in the past?
- Is it better to have one hobby you’re really good at or to try lots of different things?
- Why do you think some hobbies suddenly become popular?
- Should young people spend their free time on activities that will help them in the future?
- How important is it to have a hobby that has nothing to do with screens?
- After a busy week, is it better to relax at home or to go out?
- What are the benefits of joining a club or a team?
- Why do some people find it hard to relax?
👪 People
- What makes someone a good friend?
- Is it easier to make friends now than it was in the past?
- What can older and younger people learn from each other?
- Should children help with the housework? From what age?
- Is it better to grow up in a big family or a small one?
- How important is it to get on with your neighbours?
- Why do people sometimes lose touch with old friends?
- When you’re young, is it better to live with your family or on your own?
💶 Money
- Should young people learn how to manage money at school?
- Is it better to save money or to enjoy it now?
- Why do people sometimes buy things they don’t need?
- Do you think paying by card or by phone makes people spend more?
- Is it a good idea to lend money to friends?
- Can money buy happiness?
- Why do you think second-hand shopping is becoming more popular?
- Is it fair that footballers earn so much more than nurses or teachers?
📰 Media
- Do you think people trust the news less than they used to?
- Is social media a good thing or a bad thing for young people?
- Why do you think some videos go viral?
- Should there be age limits for using social media?
- Is it better to get the news from newspapers, TV or the internet?
- How have streaming services changed the way people watch films and series?
- Do influencers have too much influence on young people?
- Would you rather read a book or watch the film of it? Why?
🏙️ Places
- What makes a town or city a good place to live?
- Is it better to live in the centre of a city or on the outskirts?
- How has your town changed since you were a child?
- Should city centres be closed to cars?
- Why do so many young people move to big cities?
- What could be done to make your neighbourhood a nicer place to live?
- Would you rather live somewhere hot all year or somewhere with four seasons?
- Do you think small villages will disappear in the future?
C1 Advanced · 96 questions
✈️ Travel
- To what extent does travel really broaden the mind?
- Should governments limit the number of tourists who visit popular places?
- Is it possible to be a responsible tourist, or is that a contradiction?
- How far has social media changed the reasons people choose where to go?
- Some argue that flying should cost more to protect the environment. How fair would that be?
- Is mass tourism making different places more and more alike?
- What, if anything, is lost when travel becomes cheap and easy for everyone?
- Is travelling to “find yourself” a meaningful idea or just a cliché?
💻 Technology
- Is technology making us more connected or more isolated?
- Who should be responsible for what people post online: users, companies or governments?
- How far should we trust artificial intelligence to make decisions for us?
- Does having information at our fingertips make us better or worse at thinking?
- To what extent is privacy still possible in the digital age?
- Should there be limits on apps that are designed to keep us scrolling?
- Is it the job of schools to teach children to use technology wisely?
- Will the gap between people with and without access to technology grow or shrink?
🌱 Environment
- To what extent should individuals be held responsible for protecting the environment?
- Can economic growth go hand in hand with tackling climate change?
- Should wealthy countries pay more to deal with environmental problems?
- How effective are protests in changing environmental policy?
- Is it fair to ask ordinary people to change their lifestyles when big companies pollute far more?
- Will technology save us from climate change, or is that wishful thinking?
- Should eating meat be discouraged in the same way as smoking?
- Does the way the media report on climate change help or hinder public understanding?
💼 Work
- Is the idea of a job for life a thing of the past?
- To what extent does the work people do shape who they are?
- Should a four-day working week become the norm?
- Is it reasonable for employers to expect staff to answer emails outside working hours?
- How might artificial intelligence change the value we place on human work?
- Is passion for your job overrated?
- Should jobs be paid according to how useful they are to society?
- What are the risks of measuring success only in terms of career?
🎓 Education
- Is the main purpose of education to prepare people for work or to teach them to think?
- Do exams reward a good memory more than real understanding?
- Should university be free for everyone?
- To what extent can creativity be taught?
- Is the traditional classroom becoming outdated?
- How involved should parents be in their children’s education?
- Should students have more say in what they study?
- Does a degree still guarantee a better future?
🩺 Health
- Should governments tax unhealthy food and drink?
- How far is good health a matter of personal choice?
- Is the growing interest in “wellness” genuinely healthy, or has it simply become an industry?
- Should mental health be given the same priority as physical health at work?
- What are the risks of using apps and devices to track our health?
- Does modern life make it harder to stay healthy than it used to be?
- Should public health campaigns try to shock people?
- Who should pay for healthcare: individuals, employers or the state?
🍝 Food
- Is what we eat a purely personal matter, or does it affect society as a whole?
- Should supermarkets have to give away the food they can’t sell?
- To what extent is a country’s food part of its identity?
- Are food trends driven more by health or by fashion?
- How worried should we be about the amount of processed food we eat?
- Is it inconsistent to care about animals and still eat meat?
- How has globalisation changed the way people eat?
- Will meat grown in a laboratory ever be widely accepted?
🎨 Free time
- Has the line between work and free time become blurred?
- Should we try to be productive in our free time, or simply rest?
- Is turning a hobby into a career a good idea?
- To what extent do people’s leisure activities reflect their background?
- Are we losing the ability to be bored, and does it matter?
- Should governments invest more in free leisure facilities?
- How has technology changed the way people spend their leisure time?
- Is time spent online a genuine way to relax?
👪 People
- Is it possible to have a genuine friendship with someone you’ve only met online?
- How far do our families shape the people we become?
- Are people becoming more isolated even though we’re more connected than ever?
- What responsibilities do adult children have towards their elderly parents?
- Should you always be honest with friends, even if it hurts them?
- How much does a first impression really tell us about someone?
- Why do we tend to make friends with people who are similar to us?
- Should society do more to bring different generations together?
💶 Money
- To what extent does money determine people’s opportunities in life?
- Should there be a maximum salary?
- Is a cashless society something to welcome or to fear?
- How far are advertisers to blame when people get into debt?
- Do the rich have a responsibility to help those with less?
- Does the desire to be rich make people less happy?
- Should learning about money be compulsory at school?
- Why are some of the jobs that society depends on so badly paid?
📰 Media
- Should social media companies be responsible for everything that appears on their platforms?
- How can people tell reliable news from misinformation?
- Has the internet made journalism better or worse?
- To what extent do the media shape public opinion rather than reflect it?
- Do famous people have the right to keep their private lives private?
- Are algorithms narrowing the range of opinions people come across?
- Is it acceptable for the news to be entertaining?
- Will printed newspapers survive in the long term?
🏙️ Places
- Should cities be designed around people rather than cars?
- To what extent does where we live shape who we are?
- How can cities grow without losing their character?
- Is it fair that people are being priced out of the areas they grew up in?
- Should more be done to encourage people to move to rural areas?
- Are “smart cities” a step forward, or do they raise concerns about privacy?
- Why do some cities feel welcoming while others don’t?
- When a city needs new housing, how important is it to protect its old buildings?
Frequent questions
How do you play Spin & Speak?
Choose the level and spin the wheel. It stops on a topic and shows a question to talk about. Answer out loud – on your own, with a partner or in teams. Press “Another question” for a new question on the same topic, or spin again.
What is the difference between the levels?
B1 questions are about you and your everyday life, like Parts 1 and 4 of the B1 Preliminary Speaking test. B2 questions ask for your opinion and comparisons, like Parts 3 and 4 of B2 First. C1 questions are more abstract and open to debate, like Parts 3 and 4 of C1 Advanced.
How long should I speak?
In the exam, answers to these kinds of questions are usually between 20 seconds and a minute. Set the clock to 1 minute to practise a full answer, or 2 minutes for a longer discussion with a partner.
Do the questions repeat?
No. On each topic, a question doesn’t come out again until all the questions on that topic have been used.
Can I add my own topics?
Yes. In “My topics”, add a topic with your own questions, one per line, and switch any topic on or off. If you’re logged in, your topics are saved in your account.
Can I use it in class?
Yes. Use “Full screen” on the projector, and “Teams” to give your teams names: the screen shows whose turn it is. Space spins the wheel, N gives another question, H shows the help and T starts the clock.
Is it free?
Yes. Spin & Speak is free for everyone, with no need to sign up: 12 topics and 288 questions for B1 Preliminary, B2 First and C1 Advanced.
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