Pet Talk: A C2 Speaking Board Game
Teens navigate a 24-cell board answering authentic questions about pets, animal ethics, human-animal bonds, and lifestyle choices. Prompts demand nuanced reasoning, cultural awareness, and persuasive or reflective speech at near-native proficiency.
A free Board Game for Teens at CEFR C2 level. Topic: Pets.
Speaking prompts on the board
- Ask your partner whether they believe pet ownership is an ethical responsibility or a personal luxury, and why.
- Describe the most unusual pet you've encountered and explain why someone might choose that animal.
- Your team must agree: does social media glorification of exotic pets cause real harm to wildlife conservation?
- Act out a pet's perspective during a vet visit—your partner guesses which animal you are portraying.
- Explain how your relationship with a pet has shaped your understanding of responsibility or empathy.
- Ask your partner: if you could engineer the perfect pet for your lifestyle, what traits would it have?
- Compare the emotional labour of pet ownership to other significant life commitments you know about.
- You have 60 seconds to convince your group that one pet species is underrated as a companion animal.
- Stand up and mime a pet's daily routine—the group must identify the animal and its owner's lifestyle.
- Discuss with your group: should pet ownership be regulated more strictly, and if so, how?
- Describe a moment when a pet's behaviour revealed something unexpected about its owner or itself.
- Ask your partner whether they think pets serve humans or whether humans serve pets—defend your position.
- Explain how cultural attitudes toward specific animals differ across regions you know, and why those differences exist.
- You have 30 seconds to present an argument for why a particular pet might be better for mental health than therapy.
- Act out introducing your pet to someone who has a phobia of that animal—show how you'd handle it diplomatically.
- Your team must agree on the single most important factor when choosing whether to adopt a pet.
- Compare your own relationship with pets to that of someone from a very different cultural background.
- Analyze whether the rise of pet influencers on social media reflects genuine animal welfare or commercial exploitation.
- Stand up and mime a conflict between a pet and its owner—your group describes what they observe.
- Ask your partner: if you had to give up your pet, what would that loss mean to you emotionally?
- Discuss with your group whether pet therapy should be integrated into institutional settings like hospitals or prisons.
- You have 60 seconds to propose a policy that balances pet owners' freedom with animal welfare standards.
- Explain how human attachment to pets might reveal deeper truths about loneliness, family, or identity in modern society.
- Describe a scenario where a pet's needs conflict with human convenience, and argue how it should be resolved.