What essay topics do you recommend to write in a foreign language for beginners? Give me at least one if you’re bored to make a list please ❤️
Hi i think i saw the ask you sent to @nabasynth (thanks for thinking of me ella! <3) and i was going to reply but i’ll just answer here!
So i’ve based most of this on my experience with GCSE languages and the questions and topics we did. i don't know what language you are learning so i’ve tried to keep it relatively general and I've kept all the questions in English. i’ve also tried to put them in a rough order of difficulty so you can progress in complexity.
Ok, so basically I've listed a bunch of questions that you could answer in full sentences that were part of the essays I did. In my experience, they are really good ways to learn vocab and sentence structures. I’ve tried to put different tense in and questions that ask for opinions because it is really important that you learn to do include various tenses and opinions in all essays.
How many people are in your family? What are their names? Where do they live? What do they look like?
Do you get on with your parents? What do you argue about?
Do you have brothers or sisters? Do you get on with them?
Who is your best friend? What does he/she look like? What do like to do together?
What qualities must a good friend have?
What did you do with your friend last weekend?
What will you do with your friend next weekend?
What do you think about marriage? Do you want to get married in the future?
Where do you live? What do you like about where you live? What do you dislike about where you live?
Describe your house. What are the positives and negatives of your house?
What would your dream house be like?
What are the positives and negatives of living in a city?
What are the positives and negatives of living in the countryside?
What did you do last weekend in your town?
Where would you like to live in the future and why?
What would your ideal city be like?
3. Freetime (Sport, Music, Films, TV, Food)
What is your favourite thing to do in your free time?
When you were younger, what was your favourite thing to do in your free time?
Do you enjoy playing sport? What is your favourite sport? What do you do to keep fit/healthy? What is your least favourite sport? What are the benefits of playing sport?
Do you like listening to music? What is your favourite type of music? What is your least favourite type of music? Who is your favourite singer/band? Why do you like them? Have you ever been to a concert? Who would you like to see at a concert? Do you play any instruments?
Do you enjoy watching films? What is your favourite type of film? What is your least favourite type of film? What is your favourite film? What is it about? Why do you like it? Who is your favourite actor/actress? Why do you like them? Do you enjoy going to the cinema?
Do you enjoy watching TV? What is your favourite type of TV programme? What is your least favourite type of TV programme? What is your favourite TV programme? What is it about? Why do you like it? When do you watch TV?
What is your favourite food? What is your least favourite food? Do you like cooking? Do you like going to restaurants? Describe the last time you went to a restaurant?
Where do you go to school? Describe your school? Do you like your school? What are the positives of your school? What are the negatives of your school?
Do you wear a school uniform? If yes, describe it? Do you like it? What are the positives and negatives of school uniforms? What would your ideal school uniform be?
Describe your normal school day. What time do you wake up? What lessons do you have? What do you do at lunch? Do you like your school routine?
What subjects do you learn? What is your favourite subject and why? What is your least favourite subject and why?
Next year, what will you learn/study?
What qualities must a good teacher have?
Do you think that it is important to have school rules? What is the most important rule? What is the least important rule?
What problems do students face?
What would you do to improve your school? What would you do to improve the school day?
5. Future Plans and Career
Do you want to go to university? What would you like to study at university?
What job would you like to do when you are older? What is your dream job? Why do you want to do this job?
Would you like to work abroad? Why or why not?
Would you like to work in an office? Why or why not?
Have you had any work experience or done an internship? What did you have to do? Did you enjoy it? What were the pros and cons? Would you like to do that job in the future? If you haven't, what would you like to do?
6. Social Media and the Internet
Do you have a mobile phone? How often do you use it? What do you use it for? What is your favourite thing to do on your phone? What are the pros and cons of having a phone?
How often do you use the internet? What do you use it for? What did you use it for last night?
What are the positives of the internet?
What are the negatives of the internet?
What should you do in order to stay safe?
Do you think that the internet is a good thing? Why or why not?
Are you on social media? What do you use social media for? What are the positives of social media? What are the negatives of social media? What are the dangers of social media?
Are vacations important to you? Why or why not?
Where do you usually go on vacation? Who do you go with? How do you travel there? What do you do there? Do you like it there?
What is your favourite type of vacation?
Is it better to travel by plane or by car?
Where did you go on your last vacation? Who did you go with? How did you travel there? What did you do on vacation? Did you like it there? Did you buy any souvenirs?
Where will you go on your next vacation? Why are you going to go there? Have you been there before? Who will you go with? What will you do there?
Where would you go on your dream vacation? Why would you go there? Have you been there before? Who would you go with? What would you do there?
8. Social Issues and the Environment
What do you think of vegetarianism?
What do you think of poverty? What are the reasons for poverty? What are some ways you can help people in poverty? Have you ever donated/helped out at a charity?
Is the environment important to you? Why or why not?
What are the problems facing the environment? What is the biggest problem?
What do you do in order to help the environment? What have you recently done?
What could you do in order to be more environmentally friendly?
Is your town environmentally friendly? What could it do better?
I hope this is helpful to you or anyone else who wants to practice to writing in their target language! To put it into an essay format you could choose a few of these questions that go together. Make sure you put opinions and different tenses in your essays.
If anyone else has anything else to add, feel free to comment! <3
