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Colours

            What's your favorite colour?
            Has your favorite colour changed as you've grown older - Do favorite colours change throughout life??
            Do you think a person's favorite colour will always be his/her favorite colour?
            Do you have a colour that you hate?          
- If so, what is it?
- Why do you hate it?
            Do you think colours affect your mood?
- How do the following colours make you feel: red / green / blue / purple / black / white  / yellow / brown / grey / orange?
            What colour are you / best friend / mother / father / sibling / boss / lover / .
            Do you think different cultures have different meanings for colours?          
- What do the different colours mean in your culture?
            Do you associate any colours with specific items, numbers, or letters not usually associated with colour?
            Can you think of different idioms or expressions involving colour?          
- What's a "black and white" matter.  
- What does it mean to "see red"?
- What does it mean to "feel blue"?  
- What does it mean to "be yellow"?   
- What's a "black tie affair"?
- What does it mean to be "blacklisted"?
- What does it mean to be "the black sheep in the family"?
            What's the colour for . and why: Passion / hatred / happiness / sadness / anger / death / jealousy / cowardice?
            How many colours are in the rainbow? Why Seven?
            What does it mean when you see the colour of a rainbow in your eyes?


            What's the best colour for a car / house / sunglasses?
            What's the strangest colour for a car / house / clothing / hair?
            Do you know anyone who has dyed their hair a strange colour? (... an unnatural hair colour such as blue or multiple shades?) From blue rinse to black Goth.
            Do you know anyone who is colour blind?         
 - What colours do most colour blind people not see?
            Do you think people who are colour blind can dream in colour?
- What would you think of life without colours?          
- What do you think life would be like without colours?    
- How would life change?  
- What things wouldn't change?       
- Are colour blind people completely blind to all colours?
            Do you dream in colour?
            How would you compare the feeling you get watching a movie in black and white to watching it in colour?
            What colour clothes do you like to wear?       
- What colours do you think look good on you?          
- What colour shoes do you like to wear?
            Have you ever seen a pet dog or cat with dyed fur?
            What colour ink do you like using the most?
- What is the meaning of writing with black / green / red / blue?
            What colour of paper you like most if you want to write a letter to your friends or loved ones?


            What is the colour of the bedspread on your bed? / curtains in your bedroom?
            What colour toothbrush do you have?       
- Does everyone in your family use a different colour toothbrush?
            What colour towels do you use?
            Have you ever tried to invent a new colour?
- Try it right now: try to think of a colour that doesn't exist, one you'd like to see.
- What does it look like? Note: It is physically impossible to conceive of a colour that isn't a shade of a colour that already exists, but students will enjoy trying for a few minutes and the impossibility of it makes for good conversation.)