Question of the day
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One question at the start of the lesson, the same for the whole class and answered by everyone: it switches heads into English and gives every child a turn before anything else happens. This page picks the question for you each day, for three age groups. Under it sits a sentence starter for the child who needs the first words, and two follow-ups for the one who stopped after a single word.
- Age
- Ages 3–11
- Format
- Online tool
💬 Question of the day · Ages 6–8
Monday, 19 October
If you invented a new ice cream, what would be in it?
✏️ Sentence starter
For the child who needs the first words
My ice cream would have ….
➕ Follow-up questions
For the child who answered in one word
- What would it be called?
- Who would get the first one?
A new question every midnight, for every age group — same address, nothing to set up.
Every question in the rotation
The tool goes through these in this order, one a day for each age group, and starts again at the top after the last — so tomorrow's question is always the one after today's. How to run the question-of-the-day ritual →
Ages 3–5
- What is your favourite colour?
- What is your favourite song to dance to?
- What is your favourite number?
- What colour are your socks today?
- What day is it today?
- Which toy do you play with the most?
- Where is your favourite place to play?
- What is the weather like today?
- What would you like to eat right now?
- Which fruit do you like best?
- What cartoon do you love watching?
- What is your favourite holiday?
- What can you see out of the window right now?
- Which animal do you love the most?
- Which season do you like best?
- What is your favourite breakfast?
- What is in your bag today?
- What did you dream about last night?
- What is your favourite game to play?
- What clothes do you love wearing?
- What did you have for breakfast?
- What are you wearing today?
- What do you love to drink?
- What is your favourite sport?
- How are you today?
- What can you hear right now?
- What is your favourite food?
- What is your favourite ice cream flavour?
- Which bird do you like the most?
- What made you smile today?
From the card decks: Favourites · Warm-up
Ages 6–8
- What word do you love saying?
- If you could fly, where would you go?
- If your toys came alive at night, what would they play?
- What makes you laugh?
- What do you do on Saturdays?
- What cheers you up when you are sad?
- What would you do if it rained chocolate?
- What are you good at?
- What do you like to draw?
- What do you want to learn to do?
- What superpower would you choose?
- If you found a secret door, where would it lead?
- What is hard for you?
- What do you help with at home?
- If you were an animal, which one would you be?
- If you invented a new ice cream, what would be in it?
- What do you do when you are bored?
- What do you always do before bed?
- What are you learning right now?
- If you had a dragon, what would you name it?
- What do you like to do after school?
- What song do you like to sing?
- What do you like to eat for dinner?
- If you had a robot, what would it do for you?
- If you were a bird for a day, what would you do?
- What are you proud of?
- What makes you happy?
- What would you do with a magic wand?
- If you could talk to a tree, what would you ask it?
- What is easy for you?
From the card decks: All about me · Imagine
Ages 9–11
- What helps you feel calm?
- What is the best thing about being your age?
- What have you never tried but want to?
- What is a good way to say sorry?
- What are you curious about?
- If you could eat one food forever, what would it be?
- What is a rule you think is a good one?
- What is the funniest thing that has happened to you?
- Which job do you think is important?
- If you made a new holiday, what would people do on it?
- What would you change about your school?
- Where would you love to travel?
- What do you want to get better at?
- What would you like to invent one day?
- What makes a good friend?
- What is the hardest thing about learning English?
- What have you changed your mind about?
- How can we help a new student feel welcome?
- What would you take with you to the moon?
- What advice would you give a younger child?
- What do you do when something is difficult?
- What is the best day you can remember?
- If you could jump into a story, which one would you choose?
- What is the kindest thing someone did for you?
- What could you teach someone else?
- What makes a lesson interesting?
- If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?
- What have you learned this year?
- What do you think is the best age to be?
- What is the best present you have given someone?
How teachers use it
- Morning circle: read the question aloud, give thirty seconds of thinking time, then go round the class.
- Online lessons: share the screen as the call opens, so early arrivals already have something to answer.
- Mixed ages: switch the age group for each child, and one ritual works for the whole group.
Questions teachers ask
Is it the same question for everyone?
Yes: on any given day, everyone who opens the page with the same age group sees the same question. It is picked from the date on your device, so it changes at your midnight, not the server's.
How many questions are there?
Thirty for each age group, ninety in all, taken from the site's speaking card decks. The order is fixed, and a question only comes back after all thirty in its group have had their day.
What are the sentence starter and the follow-ups for?
The starter (“My favourite colour is ___.”) lets a shy or beginner child answer in a full sentence by filling one gap. The follow-ups keep the talk going when a child answers in one word: ask one, listen, then ask the other.
All of them on one screen
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