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Black Friday Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom

Published on October 16, 2024

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season.

These are some pretty good questions to have a great conversation about what Black Friday means to you and other people.


Black Friday Conversation Questions

These are the best Black Friday conversation questions for you and your students to go deeper into what this day means to you and them.

This is the first set of Black Friday Conversation Questions

  1. What is Black Friday?
  2. Do you go shopping on Black Friday?
  3. What are Black Friday Sales?
  4. Where did Black Friday start?
  5. What have you bought during Black Friday?
  6. Do you think that Black Friday is helpful for the economy?
  7. How do black Friday sales make people feel?
  8. Do you think Black Friday is a good thing or a bad thing?
  9. Is Black Friday is pure consumerism?
  10. Have you ever bought online during Black Friday?
  11. Is black Friday shopping worth waiting for?
  12. Do you spend more on Black Friday than on other days?
  13. What do you think about Black Friday deals?
  14. Do you think black Friday is being ruined by retailers trying to get ahead of each other in releasing Black Friday deals?
  15. Are you planning to buy something next Black Friday?
  16. Do you feel black Friday is better than Cyber Monday?
  17. Have you been to a black Friday sale with your friends or family members?

This is the second set of Black Friday Conversation Questions

  1. What’s the Cyber Monday?
  2. Do you get excited about sales and discounts? 
  3. Do you shop online? What kinds of things do you buy online?
  4. Are the Black Friday deals really that good?
  5. How much of the stuff bought in the madness gets returned shortly after?
  6. What do you think about the people who have to work Black Friday?
  7. What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘shopping’?
  8. How long would you wait in line for a store to open?
  9. What do you think of going shopping when it’s crowded?
  10. Why does shopping make so many people happy?
  11. Are we all becoming too focused on buying things?
  12. When did Black Friday become a positive thing?
  13. When did Black Friday become a positive thing?
  14. When did Black Friday become a positive thing?
  15. Does anyone celebrate Black Friday outside the U.S.?
  16. How many people have been injured or killed during Black Friday?
  17. Are Black Friday deals any good?

Manuel Campos

Manuel Campos

I am Jose Manuel, English professor and creator of EnglishPost.org, a blog whose mission is to share lessons for those who want to learn and improve their English