Practice your speaking and listening skills in English by discussing the topic of windmills and wind turbines with your partner or small group!
What is a windmill? What does it do?
Have you ever visited a windmill?
Do you prefer windmills or wind turbines? Why?
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Windmills – ESL Discussion Questions
- What is a windmill? What does it do?
- Have you ever visited a windmill? When? Why? What did it look / feel / sound / smell like?
- Would you live in a converted windmill? Would you be happy to have a wind farm near your home?
- What is your favourite windmill? Why do you like it? What is your least favourite windmill? Why?
- Do you prefer windmills or wind turbines? Why? What are their functions? Describe, then compare them.
- Do offshore windfarms spoil the natural landscape?
- Would you rather your home were powered by wind power, gas, or nuclear energy? Why?
- Why are windmills and wind turbines designed as they are? Can you create a completely new windmill design?
- What would we do without windmills and wind turbines? Would the world be better or worse off?
- What does the idiom ‘to have a millstone around your neck’ mean? What about ‘all grist to the mill’?
- If you had to choose between no more windmills or no more turbines, which would you choose? Why?
- What does it mean ‘to be tilting at windmills?’ (Don Quixote) Have you ever done that?
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